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Linda Sperber
May 30, 2010
Linda Sperber suddenly passed Sunday, May 30, 2010, at young age of 70. She kept herself very healthy but had unexpected pulmonary embolism complications from recent simple knee surgery. She has been a proud resident of Port Orchard since 1974 and has been happily married to John Sperber, the love of her life, since 1960. She also left behind her...
Carol West
May 30, 2010
Carol Ann West, 52 of Lake Tapps, WA died in Auburn on May 30, 2010. She was born March 17, 1958 in Montevallo, AL to Joe & Frances (Wood) Clark. She graduated from Montevallo HS in 1976. Carol married in 1978. Her daughter Heather was born January 1979. Carol entered the U.S. Air force in 1982 where she became a...
Juanita Talmadge
May 30, 2010
Juanita passed away quietly at home with her family attending on May 30, 2010. Juanita was preceded in death by her husband Henry Talmadge, her son Timothy Talmadge and her grandchild Lane Talmadge. She is survived by her sister Barbara Peterson of Selah, WA, Jerry Rystrom of Westport, SD, her three children Catherine Pourtau of Port Orchard, Tobias Talmadge of...
Jo Porter
May 28, 2010
Jo Ella Porter, 71, a resident of Port Orchard died on May 28, 2010 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, surrounded by her family. She was born June 24, 1938 in Port Townsend to Marvin and Irma (Martinson) Morris. Jo attended Port Townsend HS and married Gordon Alan Porter on December 10, 1955 in Port Townsend. He preceded her in death...
Thoedore Tripp
May 27, 2010
Theodore ‘Jack’ Tripp, 81, a resident of Port Orchard, died May 27th of natural causes. He was born July 4, 1928 in Nashville, Georgia to Theodore E. and Margaret L. (Estes) Tripp. He married Madeleine Brown October 16, 1949 in Jacksonville, FA; she preceded him in death in 2002. Jack served 20 years in the United States Air Force working...
Betty Arbogast
May 25, 2010
The matriarch of our family has passed. Betty Arbogast, born Eleanor Elizabeth Porter, passed away peacefully in her sleep at the age of 89, on Tuesday night the 25th of May. Born in 1920, Betty grew up in Spokane, Umatilla, and Wenatchee. She played the trumpet so well she paid her way through college with big band swing gigs in...
Danny Mason
May 22, 2010
Danny James Mason joined Our Lord in Heaven May 22, 2010. He was born November 15th, 1945 in Seattle, Washington to James and Mary (Morse) Mason. He is survived by his wife, Jody K. Mason, his 6 children; Travis Mason, Rachael Mason, John Filler, Heather Morgan, James Filler and WO1 Ian Mason; his 17 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild, his father,...
Miles Brainard
May 19, 2010
Miles Brainard, 69, a resident of Belfair, died May 19, 2010. He was born on July 3, 1940 in Kinzua, Oregon to Benjamin and ‘Babs’ (Crawford) Brainard. He graduated from Prairie City High School in Priarie City, Oregon in 1958 and later that year, married his high school sweetheart, Barbara Davis in Winnemucca, Nevada that summer on August 16, 1958....
Paul Kennedy
May 16, 2010
Paul Richard Kennedy, 90, of Port Orchard, went to be with his Lord and Savior on May 16, 2010. He was born in Dayton, Ohio on Nov. 27th, 1919 to Clarence and Ruth Kennedy. After graduating from Mad River Township High School, he married Doris Compton on August 27, 1938. Their honeymoon was spent driving across the United States to...
Neal Saffer
May 15, 2010
Neal passed away peacefully at home due to heart failure on May 15th, with his wife, Margaret,by his side. Neal was born in Muncie, Indiana on Feb. 11, 1924. He is preceded in death by his father, Matthew, his mother Crystal and his brother Derald. He is also preceded in death by his daughter’s husband, Gary. As a young person,...
Judi Casey
May 11, 2010
Judi Carole Main Casey, daughter of John and Frances Main, twin sister Jeri Lynn Main, wife of Robert Casey, aunt to Shawn Main, and friend to many. Judi was born New Year's Eve 1956 and died suddenly in her sleep May 11, 2010, 2 weeks after the death of her twin April 24, 2010. Judi graduated SKHS 1974 and worked...
Margaret Miller
May 8, 2010
Margaret Jane Miller-Petersen was born in Union City, Ind. on July 20, 1929 and died in Bremerton, WA, on May 8, 2010 after a long illness. She was a long time resident of Kitsap County. She was 80 years old. She was preceded in death by her parents Clarence Murray and Martha Burnett; her brother, Donald D. Murray Sr. and...
James Lillybridge
May 7, 2010
James Lloyd Lillybridge, 78, died at his home in Olalla, WA on May 7, 2010. He was born October 12, 1931 in Colville, WA to Edward & Dora Belle (Bonney) Lillybridge. He married Marilyn Vennes on August 15, 1953 in Bremerton. Jim owned Jim's Mobile Service in Gorst, WA for 28 years, retiring in 1980. He also did logging in...
Caroline Kuresman
May 6, 2010
of Port Orchard May 27, 1924 to May 6, 2010 Caroline “Pat” Kuresman, 85, was a beloved mother, aunt, grandmother, great-grandmother, and cherished friend. She was born May 27, 1924, in West Australia, the fourth of five children of James and Caroline O'Dea. Growing up near the city of Perth, Pat was a precocious girl, gifted with a perceptiveness, comedic...
Marjorie Kelley
May 6, 2010
Marjorie Flood Logue Kelley, 83, was born in Pittsburgh, PA, on March 11, 1927, the second of two daughters of Harold Lester and Evelyn (Flood) Logue. She left this life on May 6, 20l0, in Bremerton, WA. Her mother drove herself and daughters across country to Los Angeles in 1935. Marjorie graduated from Los Angeles High School, Los Angeles City...
Lawrence Worland
Apr 30, 2010
Lawrence (Larry) Dayton Worland of Port Orchard passed on April 30, 2010 in Yuma, AZ. He was born April 19, 1920 in Silverdale, WA. to George Thomas Worland and Teckla Euphemia Orne. On March 22, 1941 he married Geraldine (Gerry) Elizabeth Reeser in Shelton, WA. Larry served in the U.S. Navy during WWII as a Metalsmith 3rd class. After the...
Daryl Masche
Apr 26, 2010
Daryl John Hau-Nani Au-Kanai’i Masche, 3 weeks old, died at Mary Bridge Childrens Hospital in Tacoma, Washington on April 26, 2010. He was born April 3, 2010 in Silverdale, Washington to Richard Masche and Ashley Marie Richardson. Surviving are his parents; paternal grandparents Ruth (Curtis) Trigg, David (Joy) Masche, Sherwood Masche, Sharon Ewald and great-gramma Mary A. Meigs; maternal grandparents...
Elizabeth Smith
Apr 26, 2010
Elizabeth A. Smith, 88, a resident of Port Orchard died April 26, 2010 in Port Orchard. She was born August 15, 1921 in Ringsted, Iowa to Armand and Anna (Andersen) Madsen. She married John F. ‘Jack’ Smith in Las Vegas, Nevada. He preceded her in death in 1998. She worked s a book keeper for the Olympian, retiring after 20...
Reginald Curtiss
Apr 24, 2010
Live Life with NO Regrets Silverdale - Reginald "Keith" Curtiss died Saturday April 24, 2010 at the Hospice of Kitsap County, following a long, aggressive and valiant struggle with cancer. Born in Portland, OR, June 10, 1927, to Royal Haskell and Nellie Brown Curtiss, Keith attended Rogers High School and then Gonzaga University. A veteran of WWII and decorated veteran...
A Borchers
Apr 24, 2010
Reva A. Borchers, of Port Orchard passed into the next life on April 24, 2010, peacefully at her home. She was born on January 25, 1930 in Childress, Texas, to Taft and Geneva (McWethy) Jones. In 1947, Reva was married to Theodore R. (Ted) Borchers. Over the years, they have shared their love with 12 children, 27 grandchildren, and 13...
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