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Verna Swaser
Apr 26, 2005
Verna Mae Swaser, 82 of Port Orchard, Washington died on April 26, 2005. She was born May 7, 1922 in Osseo, Minnesota to Vernon Arthur & Mary Elizabeth (Hamilton) Lennartson. She attended Osseo High School in Osseo, Minnesota. Verna married Al Swaser on June 20, 1947. He preceded her in death. Verna retired after 30 years as a Food Service...
Eleanor Lyden
Apr 20, 2005
Ellie was born and raised in Odessa, Nebraska. In 1957 she moved to Tacoma, where she married Carl Lyden. Their son Chris was born in 1964. Ellie lived life to the fullest and was always on the go. She loved the ocean, Hood Canal, and Alaska, where she enjoyed fishing, clam digging and shrimp fishing. Garage sales and reupholstering furniture...
John Shoemaker
Apr 16, 2005
John Anthony Schoemaker, 56 of Port Orchard, died of leukemia on April 16, 2005 in Bremerton, Washington. He was born in Seattle, Washington on April 25, 1948 to Delmer & Antoinette (Meek) Shoemaker. He graduated from South Kitsap High School in 1966. On November 15, 1980, John married Maria Moffit in Port Orchard. John worked for 34 years for the...
Robert Boscola
Apr 15, 2005
Robert Michael "Bob" Boscola Sr., 74 of Poulsbo, Washington died Friday April 15, 2005 due to cancer. He died at his home with family by his side. He was born January 19, 1931 in Chester, Pennsylvania to Felix Joseph & Alma Florence (Bertolini) Boscola. Robert married Doris P. Amato on January 29, 1955 in Portland, Oregon. Bob graduated from St....
Wallace Wood
Apr 11, 2005
Wallace L. "Wally" Wood, 70 of Port Orchard, Washington died on April 11, 2005 at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Bremerton, Washington surrounded by his family. He was born in Sidney, Nebraska on March 17, 1935 to Earl R. & Vera E.(Hand)Wood. He graduated from Sidney High School in 1953 and from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska in 1961...
Harold Smith
Apr 10, 2005
Harold Lee Smith, 68, of Bremerton, WA, died April 10, 2005, at his home of esophageal cancer with metastasis to the stomach, liver and lymph system. Hal was born November 28, 1936, in Pleasant Hill, Pike County, IL, to John Turner Bradley and Virgie Ellen (Quaite) Bradley. He was adopted by his Aunt Mary Hazel (Quaite) Smith in 1953. Hal...
Betty Smith
Apr 9, 2005
Betty M. Smith, 88, died at her home in Bremerton, Washington on April 9, 2005. She was born on January 29, 1917 in Clovis, New Mexico to Jack & Maimee (Haynes) Butler. Betty married Spurgeon G. Smith on February 18, 1933 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He preceded her in death in 1975. Betty worked for 25 years as a...
Jeremy Bethel
Apr 8, 2005
Jeremy Thomas Bethel, 29 of Port Orchard, Washington, died on April 8, 2005 at Blake Island, Washington. He was born on September 24, 1975 in Tampa, Florida to Michael & Sandra (Wescott) Bethel. Jeremy graduated from South Kitsap HIgh School in 1993 and attended ITT Technical School in Seattle, Washington. He worked for 2 years as a Pipefitter in Shop...
Pope Paul
Apr 2, 2005
His Holiness Pope John Paul II May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 Karol Jozef Wojtyla, also known as Pope John Paul II, was born May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, a small city near Krakow, Poland. He was the second of two sons born to Karol Wojtyla Sr., a retired army officer and tailor, and Emilia Kaczorowska Wojtyla, a schoolteacher....
Justin Koch-Brigham
Mar 30, 2005
Justin Ross Koch-Brigham of Port Orchard, Washington died March 30, 2005 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington due to injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. He was 19. He was born May 14, 1985 in Bremerton, Washington to Kimberly D. Koch and Larry D. Brigham, Jr. Justin never married. He attended South Kitsap High School in Port Orchard,...
Earl Dagnie
Mar 24, 2005
Earl L. Dagnie March 27, 1910 - March 24, 2005 Earl L. Dagnie, 94, of Manchester died Thursday at Harrison Hospital in Bremerton. He was born in St. Louis to Peter and Anna (Cory) Dagnie, attended school in Marysville and received a GED diploma from South Kitsap High School in Port Orchard. He worked as an industrial electrician foreman and...
Bette Keefe
Mar 23, 2005
Bette J. Keefe, 70 of Port Orchard, Washington died on March 23, 2005 in Bremerton, Washington. She was born March 26, 1934 in Alley, Missouri to Charles & Velma (Dyer) Mahaney. Bette graduated from Prineville High School in Prineville, Oregon in 1952. She married James K. Keefe on September 25, 1954 in Portland, Oregon. She was a homemaker and a...
Alfred Ignacio
Mar 23, 2005
Alfred C. Ignacio of Bremerton, Washington died March 23, 2005 at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Bremerton. He was 57. He was born March 8, 1948 in Agana, Guam to Juan and Louisa (Cruz) Ignacio. He married Julita (Leon-Guerrero) Ignacio December 3,1993 in Port Orchard, Washington. He graduated from high school. Alfred served in the U.S. Army during the Viet Nam...
Donald Donoho
Mar 22, 2005
Donald Frank Donoho, 76, died in Port Orchard, Washington on March 22, 2005. He was born on February 20, 1929 in Seattle, Washington to Frank & Charlotte (Wheeler) Donoho. Donald attdended West Seattle High School in Seattle, Washington. He was preceded in death by his wife, Alberta. Donald worked as a Machinist for the Los Angeles Times for 41 years...
Douglas Hewitt
Mar 20, 2005
Douglas P. Hewitt, 58 of Lynnwood, Washington died on March 20, 2005 in Seattle, Washington. He was born on August 16, 1946 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to Robert & Arlys (Setran) Hewitt. Douglas graduated from South Kitsap High School in Port Orchard, Washington in 1962. He worked as a Laborer with Sheltered Work Shop of Seattle. He was active with Special...
Stanley Moen
Mar 17, 2005
Stanley L. "Bompa" Moen of Port Orchard, Washington died of a heart attack on March 17, 2005 in Port Orchard. He was 78. He was born September 29, 1926 in Lignite, North Dakota to John A. and Thea (Solseth) Moen. Stanley married Ardell Gifford in Port Orchard, Washington November 17, 1956. He attended high school in Port Orchard. He served...
Cornell Janes
Mar 17, 2005
Cornell M. Janes LCDR, USN, Ret. October 6 1930 --- March 17, 2005 Cornell M. Janes, of Port Orchard, died on March 17, 2005 at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Bremerton of complications following a prolonged illness. He was 74. He was born in Pomona, California on October 6, 1930 to Milton Cornell and Mattie E.(Genung) Janes. He attended Monrovia Arcadia...
Joseph Kennedy
Mar 16, 2005
Joe Kennedy passed away peacefully of natural causes just before sunrise on Wednesday, March 16, 2005. Joseph Clair Kennedy was born in a farmhouse near Mendon, Ohio on April 15, 1918 to John and Cora Kennedy, the second of two boys. Growing up on the Kennedy farm, he attended school in Mendon and then on to College at Ohio's Bowling...
Marlene Stratton
Mar 14, 2005
Marlene M.(Marty) Stratton of Belfair, Washington died March 14, 2005 at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Bremerton, Washington due to kidney failure. She was 66. She was born May 11, 1938 in Oakland, California to Alfred J. and Mabel C. (Soares) Perry. She married Bobby L. Stratton in Fremont, California September 21, 1957. Marlene graduated from Washington Union High School in...
Gary Cole
Mar 14, 2005
Gary Kieth Cole, 59, of Port Orchard died March 14, 2005, of a heart attack at his home. Born in Northwood, N.D., on August 4, 1945, to Richard and Doris (Nash) Cole, he graduated from Central Kitsap High School in 1964. On Dec. 6, 1969, he married Shirley Collins in Bremerton, WA. Mr. Cole served in the U.S. Army for...
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