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Sharron Lee Russell Rhodes
Sep 13, 2023
Sharron Lee Russell Rhodes 1931-2023 On July 7, 1931, in Billings, Montana, Sharron Lee Russell was born into the height of the Great Depression. Life was hard for their family, but they got by. During World War II, her family moved to Renton, WA to participate in the war effort. Her father joined the Navy and her mother took a...
Stacy Elizabeth White
Sep 12, 2023
Stacy Elizabeth White was born on August 9, 1972 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, WA. She passed away on September 12, 2023 at St. Anthony Hospital, Gig Harbor, WA. Stacy attended schools in Spokane and graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in History and a minor in Art History. For a time she worked at the...
Alan Stanley Paja
Sep 11, 2023
After a long recovery from a double lung transplant in Arizona, Alan Paja unexpectedly, peacefully, died in the hospital back home in Washington state. Even in this health struggle, Alan was always an extrovert and his glass was always half-full. He remained an active father to his three children: Alexander (Alex), Ian (Carlie) and Katharine. He was their counselor, mediator,...
Pamela Joy Reinhardt
Sep 10, 2023
Pamela Joy Reinhardt was born to Gerald (Buck) and Joyce Lay August 4, 1958 in Bremerton, WA. She lived her entire life in South Kitsap and graduated from South Kitsap High School. Pam was active serving in various roles, in her church as worship team member, secretary, women’s ministry leader, and deaconess, as a homeschooling parent, as a 4H club...
Raymond Leonard Macpherson
Sep 9, 2023
Raymond Leonard MacPherson Age 77, Tacoma, WA Ray MacPherson of Tacoma, Washington passed away on September 9, 2023, with his son Ian by his side. Ray was born on February 22, 1946, in Seattle, WA to Francis (Mac) and Lorraine MacPherson. He was the oldest of four children. Ray attended school in Port Orchard, graduating from South Kitsap High in...
Daniel O'Dell Neville
Sep 8, 2023
Daniel Neville, 76, of Port Orchard, WA, peacefully passed away after a long illness on September 8, 2023, at home surrounded by his family. Daniel was born on May 10, 1947, to Catherine Fern Brady and Bert O'Dell Neville in Seattle, WA. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1970 and served in Vietnam. Upon returning home, he joined "the...
Kathy Arlene Kimble
Sep 4, 2023
Kathy Arlene Kimble, born June 4, 1952 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She passed after a short illness on September 4, 2023 at St. Michaels Medical Center in Silverdale, WA. Kathy lived in Kent, WA. most of her adult life finishing her last two years of high school in South Kitsap graduating in 1969. Kathy became a professional and licensed hairdresser...
Barbara Jean Derda
Sep 3, 2023
Barbara Jean (Wagner) Derda passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on September 3, 2023, at the age of 81. She was born on November 14, 1941, in Springfield, MO, the fourth of six children born to Ruby (Gray) and John Wagner. She married Jeffrey Derda in 1966. In March of 1968 they welcomed their daughter Regina. In 1973, Jeff, Barbara...
Lynn Adair Woods
Sep 2, 2023
Lynn Adair Woods passed peacefully with his family on September 2nd, 2023. Lynn was known to his parents and sister as Lynn or Lynnie. To the rest of his family and friends his nickname was Woody or Woods and to a few Woodward. Some lucky people called him dad, grandpa and Great Grandpa, which he liked very much. Woody was...
Noella Harris
Aug 25, 2023
Born Nibitanga Noella in Bujumbura Burundi, Noella was the eldest of six children. She was the first in her family to find the Lord, at age 14. She went to church and tried to help in any capacity she could. As a young adult she would work and provide for her family, while also attending secondary school. She met her...
H.H. Dick Vlist
Aug 22, 2023
Dick was born to Dutch immigrants Harry and Jennie Vlist in Lewiston, Idaho on April 3, 1926 and passed away on August 22, 2023. He spent most of his youth in Long Beach, California where he honed his salesmanship skills selling newspapers on the pike. With the Pacific Ocean in view his love of the sea was born. At the...
Lynae Joann Goodwin
Aug 20, 2023
Lynae Goodwin was born in Alameda, California in 1974. She was the second daughter to Theresa and Arlond Goodwin. She was raised in Port Orchard, Washington and attended East Port Orchard Elementary, Marcus Whitman Middle School and graduated from South Kitsap High School in 1992. She married Christopher Jackson on August 11th, 1996. They divorced in 2008, but always respected...
Masako Kalina
Aug 19, 2023
Masako was born on December 5, 1928 in Isahya, Japan on the southern island of Kyushu. She and her younger sister grew up on a small rural farm owned by her family tucked between two mountains within a river valley. Her father was a country doctor and her mother was in charge of the farm. She lost her mother at...
Ronald Eugene Langford
Aug 13, 2023
Ron was born August 24, 1936 in Flora, Illinois to Lyman and Nadine Langford. He was one of four children with two brothers and a sister. He married Carolyn Wheeler in 1957 and they had two children, Kim (Langford) Petersen now living in Bremerton, Washington and Kirk Langford who lives in Castine, Maine. Ron earned a BS in Industrial Education...
Kathleen Troyer Cooper
Aug 13, 2023
Kathleen Troyer Cooper passed away after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. Kathleen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana where she spent the first half of her life before she moved to Washington and met the love of her life, Dean Cooper. They were married on August 17 ,1996 and spent 27 happy years together. Anyone Kathleen met could see...
Alfred Mario Ardon
Aug 11, 2023
Alfred Mario Ardon, known to many as "Al", passed away peacefully in his sleep. Al was born on October 1934, to Margarita and Rodolfo Ardon in New York City. He was the third child for the couple, he had two sisters. Even though he was born in the States and raised in Costa Rica, sometimes as a boy he would...
Kurt Allen Corey
Aug 7, 2023
Kurt Allen Corey joined his bride in eternity on Monday, August 7, 2023. Kurt was born to Al and Hilda Corey, nee Snyder, on August 21, 1936 in Alaska. Although the young family rejoined the extended Corey & Snyder clans in Tacoma as a response to the onset of WWII, he was forever marked by and a proud native son...
William Dennis Franklin
Aug 6, 2023
William Dennis Franklin, affectionately known as Bill, was born to William Arthur and Gertrude Marie (Lewis) Franklin in Aberdeen, WA on December 22, 1944. He was the third of three children having two sisters. His father died when he was just six weeks old but his dad’s best friend, Edgar Johnson, slowly began to woo his mom for three years...
Leonard Glen Eckroth
Aug 4, 2023
On the morning of August 4, 2023, Leonard G. Eckroth passed away peacefully at the age of 90. Leonard was born in Tacoma, Washington on November 6, 1932, to George and Cecilia Eckroth. Leonard had three brothers, George, Robert and Roger, all who preceded him in death. Following high school, Leonard entered the Air Force in 1951, serving for four...
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