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Robert Allen Mygatt
Feb 18, 2020
Robert Allen Mygatt was born in Everett, WA on February 27, 1935 to Robert K. and Maude (Savage) Mygatt. He grew up in the family’s cabinet making shop in Stanwood and worked in the shop and at Twin City Foods in his younger days. He graduated from Stanwood High School and shortly afterward enlisted in the United States Air Force...
Ronald William Bradshaw
Feb 13, 2020
Ronald William Bradshaw, affectionately known as Ron, was the only child of William and Ethel (Christensen) Bradshaw born on July 25, 1939 in Alameda, CA. The family moved within a year to Oakland, where they remained during the build up to and beginning of WWII in September of 1939 and long afterwards. His dad served in the US Navy out...
Shirley Joyce Goninan
Feb 9, 2020
Shirley was born January 8, 1939 in Moorehead, MN to Frank and Marie Payseno. Her family moved to Olalla, WA to build a better life when her dad went to work in the shipyard. She married Roy Bunnell in 1955 and they had 5 children. Mom was the best cook. We kids would love coming home from school and walking...
Samuel Jackson Bolling
Feb 8, 2020
Samuel “Sam” Jackson Bolling was born April 17,1927 to Peter and Ruth (nee Hatcher) Bolling in Steilacoom, Washington. He grew up and attended school in Shelton joining the U.S. Navy in 1944 which he proudly served until his honorable discharge in 1946. Ever an entrepreneur he worked as a Ford body and fender man until establishing his first business in...
Ann Theresa Leyh
Feb 5, 2020
Life story coming soon. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Gabriel's St. Anthonys Guild (1150 Mitchell Avenue, Port Orchard, WA 98366) or Salesian Missions https://www.imis-salesianmissions.org/imis/SALdonate
Josefina G Pulley
Jan 30, 2020
Josefina was born on May 26, 1944 to Angel and Alicia (Gustilo) Maduramente in Leganes, Iloilo, Philippine Islands during World War II and the Japanese occupation. Life in those days had many challenges. Her mother’s family, the Gustilo family was influential in Leganes. Early in her life the family moved to Olongapo, which was adjacent to the US Navy Base,...
Barbara Jo Griffey
Jan 21, 2020
Barbara Jo Masten was born in Tacoma, to Gene and Dorothy Masten on February 9th, 1944. She was second of three children; older brother Bob and younger brother Gene (Butch). She attended Stadium High School. Shortly after graduation, she met and married Delmer Griffey. The two were inseparable for over 57 years and became active members of their community; volunteering...
Shirley Mae Young
Jan 16, 2020
Shirley M. Young, 84, passed away in the early morning of January 16, 2020 with her loving husband by her side. Shirley died of complications from pancreatic cancer. An extremely strong lady, Shirley fought hard to make every moment she had on this earth count and she fought hard until the end. Shirley resided in Port Orchard with her husband...
Donald James Roberts
Jan 12, 2020
Donald “Jim” James Roberts passed away January 12, 2020, in the loving arms of his family. He died of complications from multifocal glioblastoma. His fight with cancer was mercifully and mercilessly short. A memorial will be held Monday, January 20, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. at Rill Chapel’s Life Tribute Center in Port Orchard, Washington. A reception will follow at the...
Kenneth Dwight Kliewer
Jan 12, 2020
Kenneth Dwight Kliewer was born January 26, 1930, in Newport, Washington. He was the youngest of nine children born to Frank and Katherine Kliewer. He was raised on a small farm in Spring Valley, a community of General Conference Mennonites during the depression. Life was difficult, but Ken had all the adventures of a boy growing up on a farm...
James Francis Smith
Jan 10, 2020
James F. Smith, 90, passed away January 10, 2020 in Melbourne, Florida. He was born January 3, 1930 in Saint Catharines Ontario, Canada to James P. Smith and Mary (Huke) Smith Donnelly. Shortly after his birth his mother moved back with family where he was raised in Brooklyn, New York. His childhood home in Brooklyn was situated above a butcher...
Kathleen A. Wood
Jan 9, 2020
Kathy was born in Plymouth, Michigan March 2, 1940 to Carl and Dorcas Ellen (Burnap) Keig. She was the youngest of three having one sister and one brother. She met the love of her life, Wallace Lee, ‘Wally’ Wood, in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. They married on June 10, 1960 and they moved from Nebraska to Port Orchard in 1965. Kathy...
Elaine Martinez Tebo
Jan 7, 2020
In Loving Memory Elaine Martinez Tebo November 10, 1964 – January 7, 2020 Elaine Martinez Tebo of Bremerton, Washington passed away on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at the age of 55. In her passing, she now joins her father: Manuel N. Martinez; Maternal Grandparents: Thomas M. and Alminda T. Paulino; Paternal Grandparents: Jose and Elena Martinez. She is survived by...
Dorothy Maxine Hess
Jan 6, 2020
We are gathered here to remember Dorothy Hess, a loving mother and grandmother, a friend and a servant of the Lord. We should be here not to mourn her passing, but to celebrate her joyous arrival into heaven. She was a simple woman and a true pioneer. She often remembers teaching grades 1-6 in a one room school during frigid...
Linda J Tweit
Jan 6, 2020
Linda J Tweit was born March 5, 1948 in Valley City, ND to Edna and Johnny Twidt. She spent her childhood on a farm near Kathryn, ND, attended school in Hastings, ND and then attended Litchville, ND after the school in Hastings closed. Linda was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran church. Linda worked as custodian in multiple schools with...
Rosalie Lorraine Atkinson
Jan 4, 2020
Rosalie Lorraine Atkinson, Port Orchard, died January 4, 2020 at the age of 89. She was a loving and beloved wife, mother, sister, grandmother, aunt and friend to many. Rosalie, called Rosie by her family and friends, is survived by her six children, Nancy Doyle (Bill), Phyllis Counts (Dennis), Susan Mullins (Alvin), Richard Atkinson, Teri Girard, and Tom Atkinson (Sharon),...
Margie T Myers
Jan 4, 2020
Margie T. Myers, 88, residing in Port Angles, WA - passed away peacefully Saturday January 4th, in 2020. She was born August 27th, 1931 in Tacoma, WA to her parents Theodore and Winifred Prengel. Named after her father Ted as Theodora she was given the nic-name "Teddy" as a child which stayed with her all her life. Teddy grew up...
Mary Cecilia Haney
Jan 2, 2020
Mary Cecilia Finlay was born May 20, 1928 in Big Wells, Texas to Wallace and Cecilia (Zimmerman) Finlay. The fourth of five children, Henry, Ray and following Bonney and preceding Wallace. She was born in an area that was greatly affected by the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s ravaging prairie and farmlands throughout the United States and Canada. Because of...
Myrtle Lorraine Cooper
Dec 30, 2019
Myrtle Lorraine Cooper was born near Hazen, North Dakota, on July 15, 1929, to Andrew Oster and Florence Conrath Oster. She was baptized September 22, 1929, in the German Evangelical Lutheran Church. They spoke German until Gerald, her older brother, started school. Then Florence decided that only English would be spoken at home. The family lived with her Grandpa Conrath...
Ileana Harriett Sooter
Dec 30, 2019
Ileana Harriett Miller was born in Huston, Idaho on February 28, 1929, the second of two children, both girls to Archie and Thelma (Jones) Miller. She was named after Romanian princess Ileana. Though our Ileana was raised on a farm, she yet carried the dignity, finesse and elegance of her namesake. She overcame a great deal of sickness early in...
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