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Edwin Butler
May 26, 2008
Edwin Russell Butler, 80 of Bremerton went home to be with the Lord May 26, 2008. He was born January 26, 1928 in Modesto, California to Leslie & Flora Butler. He married Dottie Watland November 17, 1992 in Reno, Nevada. Edwin worked as a Journeyman Plumber/Pipefitter for 44 years in California and Washington, retiring in 1990. He served in the...
Eleanor Whisler
May 22, 2008
Eleanor C. Madsen (Vetter) Whisler  On May 22, 2008 Eleanor, 89, having lived a full and active life, passed peacefully (from a stroke) in her home of 36 years in Port Orchard, WA with her family present. She was born September 6, 1918 in San Francisco, CA to Fred and Freddie Madsen. At a young age she moved to Tacoma...
Shirley Barkhurst
May 22, 2008
Shirley V. Barkhurst, 87, of Port Orchard died Thursday, May 22, 2008 at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton. Shirley was born WA July 25, 1920 in Grandview, WA to Farrell and Mary (Allyn) Lymburner. She attend business college in the Seattle area for two years. She resided in Tacoma before moving to Port Orchard in 1954. She had since lived...
Donald Porter
May 22, 2008
Mr. Donald L. Porter died of natural causes on July 28, 2001 at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Bremerton, Washington.Mr. Porter was born on June 2, 1950 to Bernadine Aretta (Lowery) and John Russell Porter in Christopher, Illinois. He graduated in 1968 from Springfield High School in Springfield, Illinois. He attended Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. He...
George Okabe
May 22, 2008
George Okabe, 67, of Port Orchard, Washington died on July 6, 2003 at his Port Orchard, Washington home.He was born October 20, 1935 in Hanapepe, Kauai, Hawaii to Henry Yozo and Jean (Yasutake) Okabe.George married Reiko Arima October 9, 1956 in Okinawa, Japan.He graduated from Waimea High School in Kauai, Hawaii in 1954.George served in the U.S. Army as a...
Paul Moreira
May 21, 2008
Paul M. Moreira, 60, of Bremerton, Washington died on May 21 2008. He was born July 26, 1947, in Azores, Portugal. Paul came from Portugal at the age of 14, only knowing Portuguese. He then learned English and continued to graduate from Benicia High School in 1965. Paul married his wife, Mary J. Moreira, on April 19 1969. Then he...
Chauncey Arnold
May 21, 2008
Chauncey F. Arnold died May 11, 2003 at his Bremerton, Washington residence. He was 91.He was born January 30, 1912 in Great Falls, Montana to Roy L. and Lila (Victor) Arnold.He married Edith (Saunders) Arnold - his high school sweetheart - August 31, 1932 in Port Orchard, Washington.He graduated from South Kitsap Sr. High School in Port Orchard, Washington in...
Kenneth Mclean
May 19, 2008
Kenneth Benjamin McLean, 78 of Port Orchard, died on Monday, May 19, 2008 at Harrison Hospital in Bremerton, Washington. He was born in Mineral, Washington on July 25, 1929 to Hiram and Cloetta McLean. The family lived in Sedro Wooley and he spent his teenage years working with his family and grandfather, Benjamin McLean, who owned the Skagit Talc Mine....
John Jack Pykonen
May 19, 2008
We all loved you very much and you will be greatly missed. John Allen ?Jack? Pykonen, 80 of Port Orchard died at home on May 19, 2008. He was born August 10, 1927 in Tillamook, OR to William Erick & Mary Elta (Sheets) Pykonen. He graduated from South Kitsap HS in 1945 and later received an Associate Degree through work...
Brianna Carlson
May 19, 2008
Brianna (Brock) Carlson died June 8, 2003 in Port Orchard, Washington. She was 24.She was born in Mt.Home, Idaho May 17, 1979 to Jack and Terry (Walberg) Brock.She graduated from South Kitsap High School in Port Orchard, Washington in 1997.Brianna married Nathan J. Carlson July 10, 1999 in Port Orchard, Washington.She was manager of Olympic Coffee in Port Orchard for...
Larry Hudson
May 19, 2008
Larry Hudson died of heart failure August 28, 2003 at the University of Washington Hospital in Seattle, Washington. He was 67.He was born September 6, 1935 in Absarokee, Montana to Clarence and Phyllis (Gourley) Hudson.Larry married Delores Payseno-Ahl July 5, 1984 in Reno, Nevada.He served the in U.S. Army from 1955 to 1957.Larry retired from Local 26 Plumbers and Pipe...
Lorraine Macpherson
May 18, 2008
Lorraine Agnes (Allgaier) MacPherson passed from this life on May 18, 2008, with her older son at her side. Lorraine was born September 25, 1925, in Spokane, WA, to Leonard and Lyda (Sanger) Allgaier. Lorraine met Francis ("Mac"), her husband of 62 years, in Port Townsend. After they married in 1945, Lorraine and Mac moved to Port Orchard, WA, to...
James Millard
May 18, 2008
James S. "Jim" Millard died peacefully of natural causes October 10, 2003 in Port Orchard, Washington. He was 90.He was born October 5, 1913 in Sparta, Wisconsin to Charles and Belle (Lanham) Millard.Jim married Roseann (Fischer) Millard in Boardman, Iowa on September 11, 1937.He graduated from high school in 1931 in Sparta, Wisconsin.Jim worked 25 years - until 1975 -...
Doris Caldwell
May 15, 2008
Doris Loraine Caldwell, 87 of Port Orchard, died May 15 of congestive heart failure. She was born November 24, 1920 at home in Webster, SD to William and Ethel (Schliesman) Davis. She graduated from Thomas Acquinos Academy in Tacoma WA in 1938 and received a BA in Education from Central WA University in Ellensberg in 1944. Doris married Lee Caldwell...
Austin Skillman
May 14, 2008
Austin John Skillman, 7, of Port Orchard died May 14th, 2007. He was born August 29th, 2000, to Jeff and Sandy Skillman. Surviving are parents; Jeff and Sandy Skillman of Port Orchard; sisters; Misty Case, Pam Case, both of New Orleans, LA, Tasha Drath of Yelm, WA; brothers; Jamie Case of New Orleans, LA, and Jeffrey Skillman Jr. of Port...
Linda Butterfield
May 14, 2008
Linda M. Butterfield died October 14, 2003 peacefully at her home surrounded by family after an extended battle with cancer. She was 51.She graduated in 1970 from Sunset High School in Hayward, California; and attended Bates Vocational College in Tacoma, Washington.Linda married Michael "Mick" Butterfield in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 20, 1995.Linda was a nurse for 7 years; and,...
Rocky Rushing
May 11, 2008
Rocky L. Rushing, 50 of Port Orchard, died in Bremerton on May 11, 2008. He was born September 5, 1957 in Bremerton to Jack & Betty (Buckendorf) Rushing. He graduated from South Kitsap High School in 1976 & married Judy L. Nixon May 24, 1986 in Port Orchard. Rocky owned his own business for more than 23 years as a...
Arlene Helm
May 10, 2008
Arlene Hazel Helm, 88 of Port Orchard, WA died May 12, 2008. She was born January 20, 1920 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Edgehill Lee & Emma Rose (Cooper) Persinger. She graduated from Yakima HS in 1937 and married Kenneth Helm on February 3, 1975 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Arlene was a restaurant owner and chef for 50 years, retiring in 1979....
Beverly Burns
May 10, 2008
Beverly C. Burns, 69 of Port Orchard, WA died May 10, 2008. She was born November 3, 1938 in Creston, Iowa to Jerald & Marjorie (Smith) Gustin. She graduated from Butte High School in Butte, Montana in 1956 and married Robert D. Burns on May 29, 1961 in Deer Lodge, Montana. Beverly retired as a Retail Supervisor for K-Mart. She...
Richard Way
May 4, 2008
Richard "Rich" Frederick Way, 61, a resident of Port Orchard died peacefully in the hospital surrounded by family on May 4th, 2008 after a courageous battle with cancer. Rich was born in Bournemouth, England on July 16, 1946 and moved to Seattle when he was 9 years old. Rich grew up in North Seattle and attended Lincoln H.S. After H.S....
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