OBITUARIES

Oct 11, 2020

A friend of JoAnne’s writes, “I found her to be a remarkable person, with an equanimity and spirit of acceptance and simplicity and patience that I never before encountered. JoAnne was something of a revelation. I am very grateful to have known her. I shall miss her, and I believe that I will carry the memory of her with...

Oct 7, 2020

Ruthanna (Fam) Bayless died peacefully in her sleep Oct. 7, 2020, in Seattle. She was 97.

Fam was born Aug. 31, 1923, in the Quaker farming village of Lincoln, in Loudon County, Va., the youngest of five children of William Thomas Smith and Bertha Pancoast Smith. They were members of the Goose Creek Friends Meetinghouse in Lincoln....

Oct 3, 2020

Wendell Verner Tangborn, 93, died peacefully on October 3, 2020 at the Mirabella Retirement Community in Seattle. He was admired by all who knew him for his genuine modesty, his intellect, kindness, and generosity. Wendell was born in Sioux City IA to Vaner and Jennie (Oase) Tangborn and grew up with four brothers and one sister on a farm...

Oct 3, 2020

Jane Elizabeth (Darrah) Gates, age 78, passed on peacefully, surrounded by her family, on October 3, 2020. Jane was known for her dry Midwestern one-liners and her ability to make every moment a teaching moment. Her red-headed spirit and quick, constant laugh made Jane the center of every party.

Jane was born on March 6, 1942, in...

Oct 3, 2020

Our beautiful, amazing mother, Helen Comport Olson, passed away peacefully on October 3, 2020 at 101 1/2 years of age, still smiling until the end. Her life was book ended by two major pandemics: the Spanish Flu and the novel coronavirus.

Born in 1919 in Glasgow, Montana, and raised in Minnesota, Helen attended Hamline University, where she...

Oct 1, 2020

September 27, 1937 – October 1, 2020

Russell Gordon Edwards, Jr. of Bellevue, Washington passed away peacefully on Thursday, October 1, 2020 at the age of 83.

Gord was born in Brockton, Massachusetts to Russell Gordon Edwards, Sr. and Virginia Edwards on September 27, 1937. He was raised in Quincy, Massachusetts with his younger brother...

Sep 27, 2020

Horace Henry (Tom) Sawyer August 08, 1923-September 27, 2020

Tom age 97, a devoted Christain was preceded in death by his parents Francis Marion and Laura E. (Orton) Sawyer of Sawyer, Iowa and beloved wife Rowena A.(Pierce)Sawyer, sisters Catherine Jackson, Clara Horst, brothers Edward and Frank Sawyer. He is survived by his sister Edith Junk, his loving...

Sep 25, 2020

Evelyn Harnett (née Trumbull) passed away on the morning of September 25, 2020, at Valley Medical Hospital after having spent her entire life in the greater Seattle area. Evelyn was born in Seattle, in December 1938. She and her 3 brothers (Harold (deceased), Leonard and Dennis) and 2 sisters (Sandy (deceased) and Lynne) grew up in rural Renton, Washington....

Sep 21, 2020

George, husband of Judi Miller, died at the age of 86, following several years of kidney and heart failure. He was a native of Seattle, born to Gertrude and George Miller, and lived in the Seattle area.

George was a 1st LT. in the USAF and was stationed at the Boron Air Force Station in Boron, California,...

Sep 21, 2020

Bobby passed away in her home at sunset on September 21, 2020 after a 2 ½ year battle with cancer.

She was born on May 4, 1933 in Seattle to Ben and Eleanor Welch. She is a true “Ballard girl”, even marrying her Ballard High School sweetheart, Roland Halle.

Bobby was a lover of people...

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

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 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...