LA GRANDE — Surrounded by friends, employees, neighbors and customers, Mark Goss and the five generations of the Goss family are celebrating a century of success.
Theodore âTedâ Bailey passed away Wednesday, May 5, 2021.
He was born June 13, 1933, in Colton, the youngest of four. He attended elementary school in Colton, but then went on to graduate early from Pullman High School and entered the Navy with nine fellow classmates. He was only 17 years old. These men became lifelong friends.
After serving in the Navy, he was honorably discharged and returned to the Pullman area where he worked as a mechanic. While working at Pullman Tractor, he married Norma Druffel in Colton on April 14, 1956. He then went to work driving truck for Inland Motor Freight. They had a daughter, Christie, and a son, Doug, while living in Pullman. Ted and Norma bought a milk route in 1959 and moved to Moscow. Their third child, Greg, was born soon after. The milk route grew to a dairy distribution business that covered northern Idaho and eastern Washington before selling to Darigold in 1991.