After what seemed like a much too short of a battle with lung cancer, it seems cancer was the victor and took Doug to his next journey on May 6th 2018.

Doug wrote his own obituary two weeks before losing his battle to cancer:

I was born in Ritzville Washington as Douglas Norman Kagele. Which sometimes would make my mother mad if anyone called me Doug. "His name is DOUGLAS" She would inform! I was the middle of 6 kids growing up on a wheat and cattle farm perched high on a hill in Adams County. On clear days we could see Mt Rainer. What great times my siblings and I had goofing around on the farm until we were old enough to get put to work. I managed to graduate from high school in 1973 and enrolled in Yakima Valley Community College, it was there where I met Shannon Zink, who turned out to be the love of my life for 42 years. We were married in 1976 and had many good times together enjoying the same activities. We were truly blessed with two wonderful children during those years. Dustin was born in 1980 and Shayla was born in 1982. I taught them cool things around the farm and gave them rides on farm equipment, it was fun!

In 1988 we moved to Ephrata and I started working as the only mechanic for Consolidated Disposal. A garbage truck shouldn't be much different than a combine right? They are a privately owned company who treated me well, and I worked there for 29 years. We started with about 8 pieces of equipment and have over 40 pieces of equipment and 3 mechanics now.

Please try not to be sad for long. Hopefully I gave each of you a smile at some point in our lives and you will think of that moment and move on smiling. I feel I had a pretty good life I am ready for whatever God has in his plan for me.
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Doug is survived by wife Shannon; son Dustin and his wife Betsy; daughter Shayla and her husband Matt Millen; four grandchildren; sisters Madeline, Alice, Julie, and Faye; mother-in-law Gloria Moxley, and many nieces and nephews.

ref: Kayser's Chapel, Moses Lake, Washington

After what seemed like a much too short of a battle with lung cancer, it seems cancer was the victor and took Doug to his next journey on May 6th 2018.

Doug wrote his own obituary two weeks before losing his battle to cancer:

I was born in Ritzville Washington as Douglas Norman Kagele. Which sometimes would make my mother mad if anyone called me Doug. "His name is DOUGLAS" She would inform! I was the middle of 6 kids growing up on a wheat and cattle farm perched high on a hill in Adams County. On clear days we could see Mt Rainer. What great times my siblings and I had goofing around on the farm until we were old enough to get put to work. I managed to graduate from high school in 1973 and enrolled in Yakima Valley Community College, it was there where I met Shannon Zink, who turned out to be the love of my life for 42 years. We were married in 1976 and had many good times together enjoying the same activities. We were truly blessed with two wonderful children during those years. Dustin was born in 1980 and Shayla was born in 1982. I taught them cool things around the farm and gave them rides on farm equipment, it was fun!

In 1988 we moved to Ephrata and I started working as the only mechanic for Consolidated Disposal. A garbage truck shouldn't be much different than a combine right? They are a privately owned company who treated me well, and I worked there for 29 years. We started with about 8 pieces of equipment and have over 40 pieces of equipment and 3 mechanics now.

Please try not to be sad for long. Hopefully I gave each of you a smile at some point in our lives and you will think of that moment and move on smiling. I feel I had a pretty good life I am ready for whatever God has in his plan for me.
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Doug is survived by wife Shannon; son Dustin and his wife Betsy; daughter Shayla and her husband Matt Millen; four grandchildren; sisters Madeline, Alice, Julie, and Faye; mother-in-law Gloria Moxley, and many nieces and nephews.

ref: Kayser's Chapel, Moses Lake, Washington