Barney and Katherine Gabriel founded the first Yellow Cab company in the United States owned by a Black family in Oroville in 1942, launching the business with the money Barney Gabriel saved from his shoe shine business.
Barney and Katherine Gabriel founded the first Yellow Cab company in the United States owned by a Black family in Oroville in 1942, launching the business with the money Barney Gabriel saved from his shoe shine business.
Born and raised in Oroville, Gordon Andoe’s prevailing ambition has always been to make his hometown a better place for his family and friends to live and, throughout his life, he has done just that.
Centenarian and 1940 Oroville High School graduate, Richard “Dick” Fry has received many honors including induction into the Island Northwest Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, the WSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Pullman Walk of Fame in 2017.
Oroville native and 1931 Oroville High School graduate, Fred Huntington Sr. (1912-1998) is being posthumously honored as a 2023 Oroville Union High School District Hall of Fame inductee on Oct. 21.