OBITUARIES

Jun 12, 2021

Loving and beloved, Michael Furtado, age 65, passed away peacefully the evening of June 12, 2021 at his home in Bellingham WA, with his family by side. Born in New York in 1955, Michael lived in six different states and from coast to coast. He and Kathy married in Israel after meeting just 10 days earlier and shared...

Jun 11, 2021

Mary Alice Kell (Molly) born July 18, 1960 in Warren, Ohio, died of breast cancer on June 11, 2021 at Madison House in Kirkland, WA. in the company of her close friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Richard A. and Mary Louise Farrell Kell, her brother Glenn H. Kell, sister Melinda L. Kell, and...

Jun 6, 2021

February 23, 1930 - June 6, 2021

Vernon Fremont Smith passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 6, 2021.  Vernon was born in Seattle on February 23, 1930 to George S. Smith and Lucy M. Shelton (Smith).  Sadly his mother passed away 8 days later.  He grew up in the Ravenna neighborhood with his father and beloved (step) mother, Jennie...

Jun 5, 2021

July 11, 1946 – June 5, 2021

Lanny “Lan” Remme was born in the small town of Huron, South Dakota to parents Elaine and Ronald Remme. He grew up with his younger brother Joel on a farm with chickens and cows in Southwest Washington. Lan moved to the city of Seattle to attend the University...

May 26, 2021

Mary Anna Johansen peacefully went to her Lord on May 26, 2021 surrounded by her family at her home in Mill Creek, WA. Born in Seattle on May 16, 1937 to Charles Clark Bowen and Susan Jane Bowen. She lived most of her life in the greater Seattle area. Mary had the opportunity to live overseas in Vietnam for...

May 20, 2021

Carolyn “Carol” Lee Connors, 73, passed away on May 20th, 2021, while in hospital in Seattle Washington.

She was the wife of James Patrick “Pat” Connors. They shared 55 years of marriage.

Carol was born in Fresno, California, in 1948 to Robert Lee Turner and Virginia Smith Turner.

Carol fondly remembered her family’s...

May 15, 2021

November 15, 1929 to May 15, 2021

Margaret Elisabeth Peden was youngest of 3 sisters. Born in College Station, Texas November 15th, 1929 to David McCaw and Liddy Melissa Little. She was a very kind, loving, and gentle Christian woman. She spent her life caring for others. Caring for her children and caring for her in-laws until the end...

May 14, 2021

Julia Waduda-Majid Goforth, of Seattle, died peacefully in her sleep at home during the wee hours of the morning on May 14, 2021. She is deeply missed by countless people whose lives she touched.

Born Julia Anne Cox on November 23, 1949 in Danville, IL, to Dale and Betty Lee Cox, she grew up in Ashland, OR,...

May 7, 2021

January 24, 1938 -May 7, 2021

Our wonderful mother, Christa Burgess, passed away May 7, 2021 in Seattle WA at the age of 83. Christa was born January 24, 1938 in Berlin, Germany. Mom grew up an only child during WWII witnessing the ravages that war brings. Despite illnesses, times of hunger and no heat, loss of school friends...

May 7, 2021

1935 - 2021

“Only the shadow knows...tippecanoe and tyler too.”  A frequent phrase of Frank Coburn’s that will be missed but not forgotten.  Frank died in Shoreline, WA, Friday, May 7, 2021 after battling several health challenges for the past year.

Frank Sewall Coburn, Jr. was born on July 8, 1935 in Melrose, Massachusetts. It was there...

May 6, 2021

Sherrell L. (Lou) Osborne was born in Birmingham, Alabama on July 16, 1938, and passed away May 6th, 2021 after a 13-year battle with melanoma. Adopted by relatives, Lou made his way to Seattle at age 10. He graduated West Seattle High School, class of 1956, and University of Washington in 1961. Lou met his wife Florence (Flo) at...

May 6, 2021

Eric Gladsjo, 56, of Seattle, WA, passed away unexpectedly on May 6, 2021 at his home. He was born in Seattle on March 23, 1965, son of the late Ted and Jessie Gladsjo. He is survived by his sister Gail Amole and Gail’s grown children. Eric attended Roosevelt High School and graduated from Western Washington University in Bellingham, having...

May 6, 2021

OLD TOM IS DEAD

“Fun for all at a later date”

J. Joyce

March 30, 1938 – May 6, 2021 Ní fheicfimid a leithéid arís There will never be the likes of him again

When Tom died our family, and indeed the world, lost a kind and...

May 3, 2021

Ronald J. Keeshan, 88, of Seattle died May 3, 2021, in his home with his family around him, following a lengthy illness. Ron was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 29, 1933. Following graduation from Norwood High School he served as a medic in the US Navy for five years. He utilized the G.I. Bill of Rights to earn...

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...