The Enterprise - 5 Mar 1992 - White Salmon, Klickatat Co Washington, USA

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VERNE CIMMIYOTTI

Radio technician Verne Cimmiyotti, formerly of Lyle, died Friday in Tucson, Ariz. He was 81.

Mr. Cimmiyotti and his family moved to Lyle in 1915 and settled on a farm in Klickitat Heights. He graduated from Columbia Union High School in White Salmon in 1929. His first interest was radio and built the first family radio through a correspondence course he took while helping on the farm. He also studied radio at the Institute of Technology in Portland.

In the early 1940s, Mr. Cimmiyotti was employed at KODL Radio in The Dalles and set up the first radio station in Astoria, Ore. He moved to Arizona to take a radio broadcasting job in Tucson, where he worked as radio and television technician for KOLD, a Columbia Broadcasting station owned by Gene Autry, until his retirement.

He is survived by his wife, Phyllis; two sons, Ronald of San Diego, Calif., and Jeffrey of Tucson, Ariz.; daughter, Kathy Sevet of Tucson, Ariz.; five grandchildren and one great grandchild; brother, Robert Cimmiyotti of The Dalles; sisters, Leila Crapper of Hood River, Vesta Leis of Lyle, Maryal Schultz of Yuma, Ariz.; and many nieces and nephews.

Disposition will be cremation and the ashes will be interned in the family plot at the Lyle-Balch Cemetery.

The family requests remembrances be contributions to the Neurology Parkinson Research, Div. of Neurology, RG-27, University of Wash., Seattle, Wash., 98195.

Vernard O Cimmiyotti