OBITUARIES

Sep 9, 2020

12/22/44 ~ 9/9/20

Al Johnston, 75, a social studies teacher in the Shoreline School District from 1972 through January, 2000, died recently from complications of ALS. Al spent his happy and formative youth in small-town, ID, where he and his 3 siblings lived with their parents in a small house with 3 bedrooms and one bathroom.  Living in a...

Sep 3, 2020

Karen Schoeld was born January 12, 1965, to Rachel and James Schoeld in Circle, Montana, where Jim was pastor at First Lutheran Church.  She joined an older sister Kristi.

When she was two, the family moved to Carrington, North Dakota, after her father accepted a call to Trinity Lutheran Church there.  Two more children were born to...

Aug 17, 2020

Joel W. Hall, age 74, passed away peacefully on August 17, 2020 after a short battle with non-COVID-related pneumonia.

Born in Seattle, WA, the son of Kal and Margaret Hall, he grew up in Wedgwood and graduated from Ingraham High School in 1964. He then began a long and prosperous career in insurance and, later on, real...

Aug 6, 2020

Debra Leanne Phillips was born in Seattle on August 30, 1954 and died in Seattle on August 6, 2020, the first of two daughters born to Beverly Bendiksen (Phillips) LaVictoire and Charles Bud Phillips. She spent most of her childhood in Edmonds and graduated from Woodway High School in 1972. While growing up in Edmonds, Debra was a member...

Aug 5, 2020

Virginia Naomi Parrish (maiden name King) passed away on August 5, 2020 in Seattle, Wa at the age of 87. Born July 8, 1933 in Rusk, Tx, she is survived by her children Charles (Marie), Stan (Mia) and Vicki. Our father, Allen Larue Parrish, passed away in 2001. Virginia is also survived by seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and many...

Jul 30, 2020

Ruth Anne Hillinger passed peacefully on July 30, 2020. Born to Merle and George Bordewick in Vancouver, BC, February 27, 1949. She was their third child of four. In 1960, the family moved to Bellevue, Washington, where she graduated from Bellevue High School. After graduation, she attended the University of Washington, where she met her husband, Ellis Hillinger. They...

Jul 23, 2020

July 24, 1931 – July 23, 2020

Jane Marie Keitges 88, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away peacefully Thursday, July 23, 2020 from Alzheimer’s a Disease she had struggled with for many years. Jane was born July 24, 1931 to Clarence and Laverne Murray in Boston MA. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from West Seattle...

Jul 17, 2020

Silas Livingstone Morse IV, 82, died at his home in Seattle, WA on July 17, 2020. Born January 28, 1938 in Bayonne, NJ, Si was the first-born son of Silas Livingstone Morse III and Marjorie Painter Morse. He graduated from Radnor High School in Wayne, PA, having acted in several school plays.  He graduated from Lehigh University in engineering,...

Jul 12, 2020

Dr. Thomas B. Sanford, loving husband and father of three children and three grandchildren, passed away in Seattle, WA, on July 12, 2020, at the age of 80, due to heart failure. Tom lived life to the fullest. He was an experienced man of the sea, as a lifelong oceanographer and sailor whose “business trips” were often spent on...

Jul 12, 2020

James Harold Weber was born October 11, 1971 in Nausori, Suva, Fiji. He was the firstborn grandson of Semesi and Garisau Samuela of Rotuma (South Pacific Islands) and Harold and Lorraine Weber of Missoula, Montana. On July 12, 2020, James passed on to the house of the Lord in the arms of his youngest brother, Paul Weber, surrounded by...

Jul 8, 2020

January 30, 1935 - July 8, 2020

Chen-Ming (William) Wang of Shoreline, Washington passed away peacefully at home on July 8, 2020 of natural causes. Chen-Ming was born in Taiwan on January 30, 1935, the first son of father Po-Chen Wang and mother Ming-Shia Wang. Taiwan (then Formosa) was under Japanese rule during the first ten years of his...

Jul 5, 2020

Lila Darlene Scholz Sutton, known by her loved ones as Darlene, passed away peacefully on July 5, 2020 in Seattle Washington from Dementia.  Darlene was 86 years old.  Darlene and her husband Merle were married for 66 years and lived a lifetime of adventure, travel, and everlasting love. In addition to her beloved husband Merle, she leaves behind a...

Jul 3, 2020

Barbara Ann Ratcliff was born June 16, 1940 in Everett, Washington and died July 3, 2020 at her home in Seattle. She was predeceased by her parents, Earl Dennis Ratcliff and Mary Alice Ratcliff, and by her brother, Richard Earl Ratcliff.

In the course of her life she worked a number of jobs: a case worker for...

Jul 1, 2020

Beverly Ann Kendall born 12 October 1931 in Portland, Oregon. died 1 July 2020 in Bellevue, Washington.

She was the only child of Guy Kendall and Clara Ahrens. Growing up on a Turner, Oregon farm surrounded by her mother’s siblings and a few cousins, she also lived in Portland while in junior high and high school. She...

Jun 23, 2020

30 January 1949 - 23 June 2020

Douglas Walter, age 71, of Seattle and Mazama, Washington, died in Seattle of cancer Tuesday with his sons at his side. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, he was the oldest of four sons of William I. and Jessica (Allen) Walter. His family moved to Needham, Massachusetts when Dave was...

Jun 23, 2020

At the age of 89, born September 2, 1930 in Seattle, Washington, Jim passed on June 23, 2020 in Renton, Washington. Raised in Seattle and part of the Pioneer Association of the State of Washington, he graduated from Franklin High School in 1948. He worked at the Washington Title Insurance Company for 3 years before joining the U.S. Navy...

Jun 19, 2020

Early on Friday, June 19th, 2020, Ian Donald MacLean-Blevins, loving husband, son, brother, uncle, and Corgdad, succumbed to a rare illness at the young age of 34.  Born to Mark and Kimberley MacLean-Blevins of Westminster, Maryland, Ian married Kristin Crane in July of 2015, in Seattle, Washington.

Ian grew up in Westminster, Maryland with his five sisters...

Jun 18, 2020

Virginia Claire Mears went home to be with the Lord on June 18th, 2020 at age 93. She was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Robert, in 2003. She is survived by her three children, Raymond (Janice), Karen, and Sandra (Tom), her grandchildren Colleen (Mike), Chris (Kathryn), and Jonathan (Natasha), and five great-grandchildren. Virginia is also...

Jun 17, 2020

Virginia Beamer Nielsen, age 92, left this world to go Home on June 17, 2020.

Born in Seattle to Trudy Wagner and Rudy Beamer, she was a graduate of Lincoln High School. In 1946, she married Bill Nielsen at Fremont Baptist Church, where they had met.  She studied Home Economics at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, and...

Jun 16, 2020

Irene Haddow passed away peacefully on June 16, 2020.  She was born in Scotland on December 15, 1947 to James and Janet (McKinnon) Haddow and lived and travelled all over the world before landing in Seattle.  She is preceded in death by her parents and two older brothers.  She is survived by her beloved son, Andrew Haddow Courtney, relatives...