On January 27th, a school bus slid off the road and down an embankment near Springdale, Washington. Deer Park Volunteer Ambulance (DPA) responded with three ambulances; a DPA Paramedic and Paramedic Officer also came to help, and fortunately, only minor injuries were sustained.
Shirley McRae Passes Away at 91
January 23, 2026
Shirley Eleanor (Kintschi) McRae, 91, of Spokane and formerly Deer Park, passed away on December 3, 2025, surrounded by her loving family.
Shirley was born to Morris Kintschi and Anna (Tanner) Kintschi on April 29, 1934, in Edwall, Washington. She graduated from Edwall High School in 1952, where she met her husband-to-be, John McRae. John and Shirley were married in 1954, and they lived in Redondo Beach, California, while John served in the U.S. Navy. They returned to Spokane in 1955, living on Five Mile Prairie, then at Dartford, and finally in the house that John designed and built in Deer Park in 1976, where the family lived for over 42 years.
