OBITUARIES

Apr 30, 2021

Ken passed away in May 2021 from pneumonia at the age of 75. Born in Virginia, Minnesota to Norma Jane Warner and Kenneth Edward Slack in February 1946, he lived a unique childhood as the stepson of a road construction worker in the 1950’s and 60s. The family traveled through the Western US states and he had many stories...

Apr 29, 2021

Jean Mills, age 91, passed away peacefully at her home in Seattle, Washington, on April 29, 2021. She and her sister Charlene were raised in Los Angeles, California, and Jean finished her last two years of college at Marylhurst after the family moved to Portland, Oregon. Post-graduation, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she interned as a medical technologist...

Apr 28, 2021

Margaret D. McCool (Peggy), 80, died after a battle with ALS, in Seattle, Washington on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. She was born to Frances and William Bullwinkel in Seattle on February 2, 1941. Peggy was the third of six children and she grew up in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.

She attended Holy Names Academy from...

Apr 23, 2021

Alfred Loring Skinner Jr., MD, long-time Mercer Island resident and pediatrician to many Eastside families, died on April 23, 2021, at home, aged nearly 97 years. Al grew up in Needham, Massachusetts, and was the valedictorian of his high school class. He served as a Naval officer during World War II aboard a minesweeper, then on a PT boat...

Apr 22, 2021

On Monday, July 5th, Frank Pierre Jolly, loving husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather passed away with family at his side.  Known to all as Pierre from a young age, was born August 15, 1937, in Saranac Lake, NY to John and Marie Jolly.   The family moved to Seattle when he was a young boy and settled on Capital...

Apr 22, 2021

On Thursday April 22nd, Gretchen S. Jolly, loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother passed away at her home in Shoreline, WA at the age of 83. She was born October 7, 1937, in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of Ford and Chata (Elsa Osborne) Smith. She spent her early years in Spokane until the family moved to Seattle where...

Apr 14, 2021

Timothy H. Harn Jr.  passed away on April 14, 2021, at St. Anne Hospital, Burien, WA.  Tim was born January 18, 1924, in Kent, WA.  He was a U.S. Navy veteran serving in the South Pacific during World War II as a corpsman and later as an Ensign.  After his military service he attended Seattle University, St. Louis University...

Mar 30, 2021

Joel Godston, distinguished engineer, avid aviator and beloved husband, brother and father, has passed away in Seattle, WA, on March 30, 2021, at age 86. He is survived by his wife, Annemarie, of 62 years, brother Arjay, sister Ruth, his sons Peter and Gregory, daughter Christa and grandchildren Jaclyn, Anna, Trevor, Ashlee, James and Annika.

Joel was...

Mar 23, 2021

Annette Rose Normann, died of natural causes at age 84 on March 23, 2021. Annette brought her artistic talents to everything she touched. She was strong minded, meticulous in her work, creative, playful, feisty, clever, generous and kind. More than anything, she was a pillar of strength for all those around her. Annette was born and raised in West...

Mar 12, 2021

Janet Livingstone, writer and music critic, died March 12, 2021 in Seattle, Washington. She was 94. Born in Fargo, North Dakota on April 29th, 1926, she attended the University of Iowa, moving to San Francisco in the late 1950s, where she reported for the San Francisco Chronicle, and worked at Freeman, Mander & Gossage, an advertising agency.

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Mar 9, 2021

Jan. 8, 1928 ~ March 9, 2021

Mahlon (“Nick”) Nichols passed away peacefully at the age of 93 after a long, full life filled with friendships and family memories. Born in Owensboro, Kentucky, Nick was the oldest child of Mahlon & Ellura Nichols. After growing up in small towns in Kentucky, Nick joined the Navy in 1946. While at...

Mar 6, 2021

Judith Ann Gorrell was born on October 30, 1941, in Holton, Kansas. She died in the family home on March 6, 2021, from complications related to Lewy body disease. Her parents were Wilbur and Frances Gorrell. She attended public schools in Topeka, Kansas, graduating from Topeka High School in 1959. While in high school she was honored as the...

Mar 2, 2021

Carl Kayui Lim (1970 - 2021)

After a long, valiant battle against advanced metastatic cancer, Carl Lim passed away on March 2 at age 50. The third of three children, Carl was born in Hong Kong and moved to Oklahoma at the age of 12 where he resided for one year. He and his family...

Feb 27, 2021

July 6, 1962 - February 27, 2021

Mark Orme was born on July 6th, 1962 to Myrna and William (Bill) Orme in Tacoma, Washington. He spent the early years of his childhood in Bellingham before he and his family eventually moved to Leone, American Samoa and later to Anchorage, Alaska. After graduating from Dimond High School in 1980, he...

Feb 23, 2021

Beverly (Bendiksen) LaVictoire was born on June 15, 1930 in South Bend, Washington, the third of four children of Kjerskov Zahl Bendik Bendiksen and Anna Gudvei (Hansen) Bendiksen. Beverly died in Seattle on February 23, 2021.

Beverly’s father was a Norwegian immigrant and her mother was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants. There were many Norwegian immigrants from...

Feb 21, 2021

Zachary Leo Sutthoff Zappone was born February 26, 1979 in Seattle, Washington and left us on February 21, 2021. He died doing the work he loved on a crabbing boat in an accident at the Garibaldi Bar in Tillamook Bay, Oregon.

Zach grew up in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood and the St. Mary’s Church community. He attended...

Feb 19, 2021

The youngest of seven children, Alec was born & raised in Seattle.  He graduated from Garfield High School and shortly afterward went to work for Pacific Northwest Bell.  Alec was the first black phone installer in Washington State.  He worked for the phone company for nearly thirty years before taking early retirement.  Then he went on to work for...

Feb 17, 2021

On February 17, 2021, Yao Lun Cheng, 89, of Seattle, WA rested from his labor on Earth after a sustained and valiant battle with COVID-19.

Yao Lun was born in China to C-wei and Shunguan Cheng.   Throughout much of his adult life he was a hardworking man and a relentless perfectionist.  Besides work and intellectual pursuits, he...

Feb 13, 2021

Lowell Allan Rasmussen died February 13, 2021, in Seattle, Washington, at age 83.

Al was born in 1937 in Enumclaw, Washington, to Mae Lorraine Wark and Lowell Einer Rasmussen. He spent most of his childhood in the Seattle area, with time in Albuquerque and Anchorage, and returned to the Seattle area in the 1950s, where he graduated...

Feb 10, 2021

Merrily Applewhite passed away peacefully with her family nearby on February 10th, 2021.  She was born in Queens, NY Jan 3, 1943 to Gustave and Thelma Waide.

Merrily graduated from The State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook in 1964 with a BA in Mathematics in the first class to graduate from the new Stony...