OBITUARIES

Apr 17, 2019

Hellmut Paul Oscar Golde was born in Berlin, Germany on February 6, 1930. He passed away in his home surrounded by his family on April 17, 2019 after a brief illness. He graduated from the Technical University in Munich and came to the United States in 1952 as one of the first German Fulbright Scholars at Stanford University. After...

Apr 12, 2019

Robert Freeman passed way suddenly on April 12, 2019 in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 79. He was born and raised in Jackson, Tennessee, and lived in Seattle for the past ten years.

He is survived by his wife Catherine, and was a loving father to Wyjuana, James, Daronda, Curtis and Ashley. Robert was also grandfather...

Apr 12, 2019

Donald Jack McGowan was born on January 17, 1919. Think of all the events he has seen.  Woodrow Wilson was president.  World War I, the war to end all wars, had finally come to a close two months before.  Prohibition began the day before he was born.  This event comes into play later. He was born to Arthur and...

Apr 11, 2019

November 13, 1930 – April 11, 2019

Jack passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning of April 11th. Born and raised in Seattle, he graduated from Garfield High School and the University of Washington, where he was president of Sigma Chi Fraternity. It was there that he met his wife, Anne. They shared many laughs...

Apr 11, 2019

Age 89 (ret. maj.), passed away after a long illness on April 11, 2019 at the Evergreen Hospice Care Center, Kirkland, WA surrounded by the love of his family. Born in Shelby, NC,  June 12, 1929, to Joe and Lillian Turner, and raised in Ft Lauderdale by his Great Aunt Lil and other caring relatives, he began his career...

Apr 3, 2019

William “Bill” Wallace Kuss was born in Seattle, WA on September 24, 1924. He died peacefully at home in Sequim, WA on April 3, 2019. He was 94. Dad is survived by his sister, Virginia Gunby and 3 of his 4 children; Nancy Klotz, Cindy Kuss and Jeffery Kuss, 3 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild and various nieces and nephews. Dad...

Mar 29, 2019

Roy passed away peacefully on Friday morning March 29th 2019 at Mount St. Vincent’s in West Seattle. Roy was born in Pe Ell WA on December 1st 1925 and lived in Washington State most of his life, except for his time spent in the Army Air Corp during WWII in France as a B17 and B29 rear gunner. Roy...

Mar 26, 2019

David Brooke White, 78, passed away on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 in Seattle, WA after a long illness.  David was born August 16, 1940 in Portland, OR to Madeline Kriskie and David Brooke White.  He attended school at North Thurston High School in Olympia, WA and was in the 1st graduating class of 1959.  He also attended Green River...

Mar 25, 2019

September 8, 1958 - March 25, 2019

Mar 19, 2019

Age 84. Born Jocelyne Angele Marie Denis on October 2, 1934 in Fontan, France passed gently Tuesday March 19, 2019 in Seattle, WA at Swedish Cherry Hill Hospital, following a brain aneurysm. Jocelyne grew up in Lille, France and her independent spirit took her many places. She traveled as a young woman and came to the United States in...

Mar 19, 2019

Beloved mother, grandmother, sister, cousin, aunt, and friend, Patricia Linda “Patty” Ulibarri Arcorace succumbed to heart failure while fighting pneumonia in the early hours of March 19, 2019. She had a history of kidney disease, spending almost two years on dialysis and undergoing a successful transplant on January 7, 2019.

She is now reunited with her mother,...

Mar 18, 2019

June 6, 1952 – March 18, 2019

Rebecca read the obituaries, observing life and death with her wry sense of humor and her compassion.  It is with a great appreciation of this practice that the family writes:

Starting with the important things, the vital statistics, it would have to be said that her hands were long, thin,...

Mar 12, 2019

Aino was born in Türi, Estonia, August 14, 1921. Her father, Karl Käsper, a traditional trader, died when she was just five and her mother never remarried, raising her three children on her own and with the help of her older daughter and son.

As a teen her mother Olga sent Aino to school in Tallinn at...

Mar 10, 2019

Gail W. Burk died March 10, 2019. Gail Carolyn Kramer Williams Gloyd Burk was born June 13, 1931 and was raised in Enumclaw, Washington. Her parents were Les and Helen Kramer. She moved to Seattle, met and married Richard G. Williams, when she was 21.  They lived in Seattle and had four children Glenn 1953, Ron 1955, Nancy 1956...

Mar 5, 2019

May 15, 1922 - March 5, 2019

Born and raised in Seattle, he was an avid skier and mountain climber.  He climbed both Mt. Rainer and Mt. Baker and among many peaks in the Cascades and the Olympics. As a boy scout he achieved the top honor of Eagle Scout.  Pierre graduated from Lincoln High School as...

Feb 26, 2019

Thomas L. Hill, 68, of Seattle, Washington, passed away peacefully at home on February 26, 2019, after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer. Tom was born in Richwood, West Virginia to the late Albert and Dolores (Hill) Welch on March 13, 1950. At 13 months old his mother passed away from complications during the birth of his younger...

Feb 24, 2019

Donald Conrad Lopp passed away peacefully at home on February 24, 2019. He was 91, and is survived by his wife Joan, daughters Annette Mumford (Gordon) and Dianne Watters (Mike), grandchildren Matthew Watters, Candace Watters, Rachael Watters, and Kathryn Watters, sister Ann Stemwell (Dick), as well as nephews and nieces. He was preceded by his daughter Eileen, his parents...

Feb 23, 2019

Vi was born at home in Chicago, IL, in 1919 to Alexander “Mike” and Lily Cecilia (nee Arvidson) Ziccarelli and died in Seattle, WA, 2/23/2019.  She married John McShea in 1941, and they had two daughters, Maureen Frances (1948 - 2007) and Patricia Ann (born 1950) McShea. After they divorced Vi married Risley McNamee (died 1970).  Vi then had...

Feb 22, 2019

Clay A. Robertson was born in Bellingham, WA April 20, 1960 to Orval and Mary Ellen Robertson. He had one brother and one sister. He graduated from Sehome High school. He was a caring person, he would help someone else, even before his own self. Clay died February 22, 2019.

Feb 14, 2019

12-18-40 - 2-14-19

Photographer, painter, ceramic sculptor, boilermaker, bon vivant, iconoclast, Larry Larsen passed away peacefully on Valentine’s Day in Seattle.  Born in Billings, Mt., to Oscar Larsen and Ethelyn Hines, the family moved to Powell, Wy. in 1947.   After high school graduation, Larry left for Minneapolis and then San Francisco.

Larry married Sharon Backstrom in 1960...