Surnames: Ringer, Olsen, Town, Lytle, Blackburn, Duncan Marilyn "Kay" Ringer, 58, a resident of The Dalles, died at a local hospital on Friday, February 15, 2002. She was born August 3, 1943, in Moscow, Idaho, to Sherman Duane "Bud" and Ellen Josephine (Olsen) Town. She grew up in Moscow and Baker and graduated from Baker High School in 1961. She attended University of Oregon for a year before transferring to Eastern Oregon College. She married Robert Allen Ringer on June 23, 1962 and they attended EOC (Eastern Oregon College) until Bob transferred to Blue Mountain College in Pendleton in 1963. She worked at the Oregon Bank and after Bob's graduation, he started with the First National Bank and they moved to The Dalles in 1975. She became a full time homemaker, and then in 1977, she and Bob started Ringer's Texaco. She served as a partner and bookkeeper. In 1987, she returned to Eastern Oregon University and graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education and a minor in Bi-lingual Education. In 1990, she started teaching at Colonel Wright Grade School and was currently teaching second grade. She was a member of the United Church of Christ Congregational, the Teacher's Association and was actively involved in the New Baldridge Education Reform Program. She enjoyed gardening, traveling, her family and grandchildren and her teaching. She is survived by her husband, Robert "Bob" A. Ringer, her sons and their wives, Jeffrey and Roxanne Ringer and Jai and Kristen Ringer, all of The Dalles; grandchildren, Kayla, Fallon, Nevada; Jacob, Avery, Clayton and Autumn, all of The Dalles; her father and his wife, Sherman "Bud" and Ellen Town, Vale (Oregon); her siblings, Sandy Lytle, Moscow, Idaho; Doug Town, Beaverton (Oregon); Duane Town, Eagle, Idaho and Betty Duncan, Unity; numerous nieces and nephews and a great niece. She was preceded in death by her mother, Ellen Josephine. Viewing visitation will be held at Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, February 17 and from 9 to 11 a.m. on Monday. The Dalles Chronicle February 17, 2002 Written permission to reprint obituary given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon. Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser.