Viola Mae Tharp "Tink" Viola Mae Tharp was born August 2, 1931 in Whitman County, 5 miles from Garfield, Washington, which is known as the Silver Creek District. Tink was the oldest of 4 children born to C.T. Ted Middleton and Gertrude Irene Davis Middleton. She was raised on a farm in Latah County, Idaho, 9 miles from Garfield, WA and 5 miles from Farmington, WA. She attended school at Garfield, WA, graduating in 1949. Viola married her high school sweetheart Gilbert Allan Tharp on August 2, 1949 in Garfield. She made her first home in Potlatch, Idaho, then moving to Umatilla, Oregon in 1952, when Gilbert joined the Labor Union Local 348 at Pasco, and went to work in construction- working at McNary Dam. In 1953 they moved to Richland, WA, then to Pasco in 1955, where she made her home since. She worked at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital from 1968 t0 1976 in the laundry department. She also worked for AAA Auto Club, and for two chiropractors in Pasco. She had been a homemaker since 1983. Tink and Gilbert loved to RV and had done a lot of fishing. And they also went to Vegas every year for National Rodeo Finales. Viola is survived by her husband Gilbert, at home in Pasco; one daughter, Teresa Mae Carden of Pasco; one son, Larry Earl Tharp of Pasco; two grandsons; two granddaughters; two great granddaughters; two sisters, Carol Layne of Belfair, WA and Betty Mann of Centralia, WA; one brother, James Middleton of Deer Park, WA. Her mother preceded her in death in 1979, and her father in 1986 and one great granddaughter.