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Joe (Joel) Enrico Guariz
Jan 23, 2022
Joel (Joe) E. Guariz (76) passed away unexpectedly on January 23, 2022. Living all his life in Washington State, Joe attended school in Seattle from elementary through high school, graduating from Rainier Beach High School. Joe continued his education at Yakima Valley College and Central Washington University, earning his teaching degree and starting his career in education in the Seattle...
Leah U'Ihokulani Iaea Pronovost
Jan 21, 2022
Leah U’ihokulani Iaea Pronovost, 59, went home to our Lord on January 21, 2022 in Port Orchard, Washington. Leah was born in San Bernardino, California to Helen and the late Walter Iaea Jr. She is the oldest of four children. Raised on the island of O’ahu, she graduated from Mililani High School with honors and was a finalist in the...
Colin Carson Mcinnes
Jan 18, 2022
Colin Carson McInnes, 73, passed away January 18th 2022. We are all heartbroken and will miss him terribly but comforted knowing he is at peace and his body is healed. He was born July 9, 1948 in Kalispell Montana to Herschal and Eleanor McInnes and spent his first 5 years there until moving with his family to Bremerton. He spent...
Frances Ann Taylor
Jan 17, 2022
Frances “Fran” Ann (Redding) Taylor, 66, of Bremerton, died unexpectedly in her home on Monday, January 17, 2022. Born in Carson City, Nevada on March 8th, 1955 to William & Marie Redding, Fran was raised by her birth mom until her mother’s untimely death. After her father remarried, Fran was raised by her father and step-mother, Elizabeth. Fran graduated from...
Zula Mae Bedell
Jan 12, 2022
Zula M. Bedell (b. Deering) was born February 19, 1932 at home in Rock Port, Missouri. She was the youngest of five children and the only girl. Two younger sisters died shortly after birth. She was raised on a farm near Tarkio, Missouri, and graduated from Tarkio High School in 1950. She was widowed at age 39 when her husband...
Thomas H Farrell
Jan 11, 2022
Thomas H. Farrell, 78, of Port Orchard, WA passed away on January 11, 2022 in Bremerton, WA. Thomas was born June 16, 1943 in Vallejo, CA to Thomas and Harriet Farrell. He graduated from Vallejo High School in 1961. On July 25, 1964, he married Diane Millerick in Reno, NV. He started his career in 1961 at Mare Island Naval...
Kerri Anne Rivers
Jan 8, 2022
Kerri Anne Rivers was born May 29, 1990 in Riverside, CA, and went to be with her Heavenly Father in January 2022. She spent her early years in Kailua, HI, and 29 Palms, CA. She came to Port Orchard in 1993 where she attended local schools. In 2008 Kerri graduated high school in Port Orchard, WA, and took college classes...
Diane Marie Martell-Beyerle
Jan 7, 2022
Diane Marie Martell-Beyerle left this world on January 7, 2022 and will be dearly missed by all who loved her. Diane was born to Betty and John (Wally) Martell on July 28, 1955 in Tonawanda, New York. She moved with her family to Bremerton, Washington when she was 6 years old. Diane served in the United States Air Force and...
Roger James Starkel
Dec 31, 2021
Roger James Starkel was born February 6, 1955, at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Bremerton, to James Eldon and Lorna Marie (Hatfield) Starkel. He attended elementary school in Bremerton at Manette Elementary and moved to Southworth in 1964 where his father built their family home. He attended Marcus Whitman Junior High and later South Kitsap High School. He received his G.E.D....
Jennifer Lynn Winchester
Dec 31, 2021
Jennifer Lynn Winchester, days after a warm 50th birthday and Christmas with her family, died New Year's Eve when a drunk made a series of stupid decisions that irrevocably changed the course of all of our lives. She was the center of our family, she was our home, our Momma. She put all of her energy - her frantic, hilariously...
Shirley Elaine Hecker
Dec 23, 2021
Shirley Elaine (Smith) Hecker, 74, of Kingston, WA passed away on December 23, 2021, at Saint Michaels Hospital in Silverdale, WA. Shirley was born on September 3, 1947, in Los Angeles, CA to Harold & Iris Smith. She spent most of her childhood in California and graduated from Mar Vista High School in Imperial Beach, CA in 1966. As a...
Mark Huff
Dec 23, 2021
Mark Donavan Huff, 24, of Bremerton, WA, passed away unexpectedly on December 23, 2021, at his home. He was born July 15, 1997, in Bremerton, WA, son of Robert J. Huff Jr. and Lorie Coyne (Huff). He primarily grew-up in South Kitsap but spent his adolescent years in Gig Harbor where he attended Peninsula High School. Mark primarily worked in...
Raygen Lyn Lipp
Dec 22, 2021
Raygen Lyn Lipp Devoted Wife, Mother, and Friend to Many. Raygen Lyn Lipp, age 46, passed away in her sleep on December 22nd, 2021. She was born and raised in Kitsap County, WA by her Father Gerald Pringle and Mother Frankye Pringle. Raygen loved the outdoors more than anyone and would often go hunting or fishing with her Father or...
Michelle Freeman
Dec 22, 2021
M. Michelle Freeman was born on May 10, 1925 as Mabel Michelle Reiker in Mobridge, South Dakota. Her parents were German people living in Russia. They had emigrated from Russia in a wave of others like them to the Dakotas in search of a new life as farmers and skilled tradesmen. She grew up as the youngest in a 2...
Virginia Ellen Vanunen
Dec 17, 2021
It is with a sad heart that I have to inform you that my Mom Virginia Ellen VanDrunen (Virgie, Sammy & Mama Sam) went home to be with Jesus on 17 December 2021. She is in heaven with Grandma Rose, her dad Leonard, mom Alice and my older brother Blaine. She is a tremendous loss to my family and myself,...
Judi Leanne Carlson-Mcferran
Dec 15, 2021
Judi Leanne Carlson McFerran was born October 20, 1959, in Bremerton, Washington to her father William and Mother Maryln. She grew up between the San Juan Islands, Port Orchard and Simi, California. She graduated from Simi Valley High School and went to get her Civil Engineering degree. After working in her respective career, she found her passion in being the...
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