Fontelle J. “Mickey” Ponzoha, 86, died June 1, 2008, surrounded by her family at Samaritan Albany General Hospital, from complications from a stroke.
She was born April 10, 1922 in Raymond Wash., the third child of four born to Gordon and Delma King. It was her father, the superintendent of Willapa Harbor Lumber Company, who started calling her “my little Mick” because of her red hair. In those days “Mick” was the slang word for…