OBITUARIES

Stacy Sidener Lee is survived by the love of her life, her husband of 28 years Norman (Scotty) Lee . Also surviving Stacy are her son Josh Purden, grandson Trenton Purden, sisters Candace Brush and Toni Rehmer, brother Russel Houghton, and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Thru out her life, Stacy was always referred to as a free spirit...

Lawrence ‘Larry’ Gross Jr. was born in Detroit, MI, on August 18, 1952. He was the eldest of Lawrence Sr. and Shirley Gross’ five children: Larry, Grace, Valeria, Andre and Pamela.

Larry spent his adolescence in Detroit, graduating in 1970 from Cass Technical High School. Being from Detroit, of course he loved Motown music and had a...

Mary grew up in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale, IL. She attended Mundelein College and the University of Illinois. At various times she lived in New York, Virginia, Los Angeles, and Ashland, OR, where she loved the theater and took classes at Southern Oregon University. Finally in 1980, she arrived in Seattle.

Once here she quickly embraced...

Paul Charles Soper was a kind man. A man of unmeasured humor, creativity and gentleness. He moved through the world with a sense of childlike wonder and amazement that would stop him in his tracks to admire a leaf with the same intensity that one might examine fine art. Anyone who had the privilege to know him, even in...

Commander Robert Emmet Trotter (ret.) was born in Seattle in 1943 to Guy and Helen Trotter. Though he spent his early years in Seattle, along with brother Tom arriving in 1947, the Trotters headed to San Diego in 1952 and again in 1957, where Bob eventually graduated from Point Loma High School.

After high school Bob attended...

Levin M. Lynch was a family man, a sailor, a commercial real estate agent, a loyal fan of Seattle sports teams and a champion of the Pacific Northwest, particularly Puget Sound and the San Juan's, which he considered the world’s finest sailing haven.

For decades, Lev looked and exercised like a much younger man. He rowed a...

Brian Killgore was born July 22, 1959, in Vancouver, Washington.  He grew up in Bellevue, WA and graduated Sammamish High School in 1977.  He went on to earn a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Washington in midlife.  As a young adult, Brian worked in the mortgage markets and later opened his own court reporting business...

Donna Durgan Weller passed just shy of her 95th birthday, from dementia at Horizon House (HH), Seattle, surrounded by her three children, family and holding her husband Jim’s hand. They were married 73 years.

Raised in Vancouver, WA she was the eldest daughter of three. Donna often shared memories of riding the bus into Portland where she...

Sheila FitzGerald Umlauf was born March 2, 1925 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska---the second daughter of attorney Joseph M and Gretchen Easterling FitzGerald.  She was very close to her family, especially her only sibling, Mary Jo FitzGerald Prudhomme (deceased).  The family moved to Denver, Colorado in 1935.  Sheila Graduated East High in 1943 and won a scholarship to the University of...

Sadly, our beloved Philipp Trinkl died on Palm Sunday, March 24th. A dedicated member of the Austria Club since its inception in 1976, Phil served the Club in several positions including Editor of the newsletter “Kronen Zeitung” which was required to be in German in those early days.

Phil was born in 1928 in the...

Shortly before passing Jeff found this in one of his old notebooks and got a big kick out of it that day. In my mind, this small portrait sums him up better than recounting his many achievements as a sailor, skier, gear-head/jack of all trades ever could. BR

“Christmas 1996 will be… It will be a cold...

Bruce was born on June 25, 1929  in Los Angeles California. His parents were Len and Bernice Edney. He grew up in Glendale California, and graduated from Hoover High school in 1947 where he competed in football and track. This was during the period of the Army draft but he was granted an educational draft deferment to pursue an...

Adeline was born in Karlstad, Minnesota on December 2, 1921, to her parents Ernest and Lena Johnson. Her mother was a homemaker and her father was the local barber. Adeline had three brothers: Floyd, Maynard, and Ray. She graduated from Greenbush High School and attended business college in Fargo, North Dakota. After college, she moved to Tacoma with her...

Adel Hauck died peacefully of cancer at her home of more than 30 years in Seattle, WA this past week.

Those who knew Adel knew her hard work and professionalism, good judgment, exceptional organizational skill, impeccable discretion, poise and sense of humor as an aide to top executives at WCLV, WTMJ, KVOS, KCPQ, PacificCare of Washington/Oregon, Palazzo...

Rita was born in 1930 during the start of the depression to Isidore Roth and Mary Klein, orthodox Jews who had settled in New York City.  Her father, a furrier, was able to sell his custom made items to the wealthy and provide a good living for the family.  Growing up as an only child, her brother Max being...

Steve sadly lost his battle, after 12 years, with Lewy Body Dementia on August 14th. He was born in Denver, CO, but lived in many places due to his father's work. He spent High School in Newport Beach, CA, where he was a competitive swimmer, surfer & lifeguard. He graduated from the UW in Seattle and was a skier,...

Wayne R. Cottingham was born Oct. 19, 1931, in Oak Park Illinois during the depths of the Great Depression. His parents, Edward and Helen Cottingham, had moved to Chicago from Montana in the late 1920s. Due to the depression, searching for work took the young family to Portland Oregon when Wayne was around 4 years old.  Several years later,...

Sandra C. Julin Lindgren was born on Feb. 26, 1943 in Everett, WA to Eric and Elinor Julin, joining older brother

Robert. Sandi...

My Obituary by Patricia Doheny

I grew up on a fifty-acre farm outside of Laurel, Montana where my sister Rose, and brother Frank, and I named most of our chickens and all the calves.  None of us wanted the extremely long hours farm work required and all left after high school.

I found...

Maryann’s wish was not to be a burden in her old age and she greatly succeeded by being a joy to all.  Maryann came from the small town of Polo, Illinois having been born eighty-six years ago and never lost her Midwestern sense of humor and witty Irish tongue.  Always a lady, she wouldn’t leave the house without impeccable...