BISHOP, Calif. – Nancy Jane Tuttle, 78, formerly of Auburn, died Jan. 5, at her home in Bishop, Calif.

The daughter of Ralph and Florine (Maher) Tuttle, she was born in Lewiston on April 28, 1926 and attended Auburn schools, graduating from Edward Little High School in 1943.

Employed by the telephone company, she transferred to Washington, D.C., at the end of World War II, where she met and married Milo Radulovich, then an officer with the Army Air Corps, on Sept. 27, 1947.

After residing in Michigan and Rhode Island, they relocated to California in 1962 and raised a family of three girls.

Later, she lived and worked in Roseville, Calif., where she was employed in a Farmers Insurance Agency. Eventually, she moved to Bishop in the Eastern Sierras, where a daughter operated a pack station camp at Pinecreek.

After cremation, her ashes will be scattered into the high desert that she grew to love.

Survivors include her brother, Ralph Tuttle, of Auburn; daughters, Diane and husband, Brian Berner, of Bishop, Janet Sweeney of Sacramento, and Kathy Radulovich and husband, Richard Ostrander, of Sacramento; a grandson, Scott Ostrander of Sacramento; her former husband, Milo Radulovich of Lodi, Calif.; a nephew, Jonathan Tuttle, and family, of Minot; and cousins, Kathleen “Kim” Ryder of Lewiston, and Ted Maher of Marlborough, Conn.

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