November 19, 1925 - April 01, 2010
Edward Russell Short Obituary
Russell Short was born on November 19, 1925 in Moscow, Idaho to "H.R." and Margaret Short. He graduated from Moscow High School in 1944 and enlisted in the US Navy. He was sent to the South Pacific for WWII and spent the remainder of the war on the island of Munda traveling through the Solomon Islands, New Guinea and finally to Japan to serve the remainder of his term in the navy on a hospital ship. He returned to Moscow to continue his education at the University of Idaho and began traveling the country with a friend ending up at Oklahoma City University where he enrolled on the G.I. bill. He took a job driving ambulance to the hospital in Oklahoma City where his future wife, Jewella Chadwick, was training while finishing courses at Wesley School of Nursing. She was due to graduate in May of 1948. On leap day that year Jewella asked Russell for a date. They knew they were destined to marry and did so on June 27, 1948. They returned to Moscow in 1949. Russell was a funeral director, mortician and partner in Short's Chapel after receiving an associate degree in Mortuary Science from a college in San Francisco. He was active in the American Legion and acted as the state commander. After the loss of his wife in 1967 Russell moved to Arizona where he retired in 1995 from Arizona State University hospital where he was employed as a teaching mortician. He was preceded in death by his older sister, Camille Henderson, his twin sister Reta Tate and an infant son who died in 1953. He is survived by his younger sister, Norma Lee Kayler of Spokane, his daughter, Barbara Ann Lambrecht and her husband, Tom of Chattaroy, WA., his son, Howard Short and Howard's wife Janet of Aurora, CO., one granddaughter, Vanessa Short, a student at Northern Colorado State in Greeley and one grandson, Weston Short, a student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. A graveside military service is scheduled for Friday, April 9, 2010 at Moscow Cemetery at 1 p.m. The family welcomes friends of Russell to attend the service. A reception will follow the service in the Idaho room at the University Inn from 2:00-4:00. Viewing will be at Heritage Funeral Home in Spokane from 12-5 p.m. on Thursday, April 8. A celebration of life will be planned for sometime in the summer in Moscow.
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