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Richard Alan Hargrave
Jun 24, 2018
Richard Alan Hargrave, 84, of Port Orchard, Wash., passed away peacefully June 24, 2018 at Harrison Hospital in Bremerton, Wash. Mr. Hargrave is a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars, where he earned several medals, including the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. He was born in Yuba City, Calif., to William and Jean (Anderson) Hargrave. They moved to...
William Carey Balyeat
Jun 24, 2018
William C. Balyeat Sr. (Bill) 89, Passed Away on June 24, 2018. He battled a Heart Condition but still lived a full life of travel, family activity and boating. He was born on in Port Angeles, Washington to Earl and Vannie Balyeat. Bill is survived by his beloved wife Mary Ann. He is also survived by 2 sons, William Jr....
Denise Winnifred Lynn Mcgaughey
Jun 23, 2018
Denise went to be with the lord June 23, 2018 surrounded by her loving family. Denise was born April 17, 1954 in Stonewall, Manitoba. She married in June 1976 to Gary McGaughey. Denise was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. She loved to spend time with her family, especially her children and grandchildren. Denise spent her working career as a...
Joseph Lloyd Sherk
Jun 23, 2018
Joseph Lloyd Sherk, 75, of Bremerton, died June 23 from complications of Alzheimer’s. Joe was born to Lloyd and Evelyn Sherk on June 6, 1943 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. When a childhood bout of rheumatic fever derailed his early athletic aspirations, he decided if he couldn’t play sports, he’d write about them. After graduating from South Kitsap High School in 1961,...
Donna Harty
Jun 22, 2018
Donna Fay Harty was born August 3, 1938 to her parents Hewitt Oliver “Hoop” and Mamie Lucile (Graham) Robinson, in Missoula, Montana. They moved to Port Orchard Washington in 1941, where she grew up. She graduated from South Kitsap High School in 1956. After graduation she found a lifelong love for boating and the water with her future husband. In...
Terry Richard Hale
Jun 18, 2018
Terry Richard Hale Age 72, passed away unexpectedly from natural causes on Monday, June 18th, doing what he loved. He was riding his mountain bicycle in Port Townsend with grade-school buddies, doing a 15-mile ride. Born and raised in Tacoma, he leaves behind his loving family and wife of 50 years, Ragnhild (Roni) Hale. Terry retired as the Director of...
Jack H. Mcgee
Jun 17, 2018
McGee, Jack H. ~ Of Port Orchard, WA age 92 died Sunday June 17, Father's Day 2018 at Harrison Memorial Hospital Bremerton. Jack was born at home in Flint Michigan April 19, 1926, the son or Arile and Doris (nee Hackett) McGee . Jack lived in Flint and on a beautiful farm in Linden MI , retiring in Port Orchard...
Charla Miles
Jun 12, 2018
My mother, Charla Miles was born on September 14th 1929 to Fredrick Rudolph Bauer and Mary Rose Webb in Lead, South Dakota. She was born with a twin sister who passed away at an early age. She also had an older sister, Darlene and an older brother, Kenneth. Every time we would complain about our food my mother would remind...
James Roger Jones
Jun 12, 2018
James Roger Jones passed away the morning of June 12, 2018 of a heart attack. He was born March 14, 1933 in Tacoma, Washington to Wallace B. Jones and Veronica Ruth(La Plante) Jones. Jim attended Clover Park High School. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in January of 1951. As soon as he turned 18, he was sent over to...
Russell Otis Barringer
Jun 12, 2018
Russell O. Barringer, 95, of Port Orchard, passed away on June 12, 2018. Russell was born in Ruthven, Iowa on May 14th, 1923. He was the fifth of five children born to Leroy and Hallie Barringer. He quit school at a young age to work on the family farm and joined the Army during WW#2. After the Army he discovered...
Jana Lou Strotz
Jun 11, 2018
Beloved: Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Sister, Daughter and Friend. Jana Lou Strotz, 75, of Bremerton, WA, went home to be with Jesus on June 11th 2018. She lived at Stafford Belmont, Bremerton, WA. She was born August 24, 1942 in Blackwell, OK, to Alvin Charles and Laura Evelyn (Dirham) Steele. She is preceded in death by her parents, two brothers,...
Andrew Loch
Jun 11, 2018
Andrew Loch, 92, of Port Orchard, went to be with his Lord and Savior, June 11, 2018. Andrew was born June 6, 1926 in Bemidji, Minnesota, the son of Peter Loch and Katherine Smitch. He married Colette Loch, June 26, 1963 in Port Orchard. They are the parents of six children, Thomas Andrew (Geni) Loch of Tacoma, Peter David (Pam...
Madison Meredith Saling
Jun 11, 2018
Madison Meredith Saling Beautiful 16 year old girl Sweet 16 Madison was on the school honor role at South Kitsap High School and Cedar Heights Middle School. Madison was a peer mediator at Burley Glenwood Elementary. She was member of AVID at South Kitsap and really still is. She has always been a good student and her teachers respected and...
James Thomas Hasslinger
Jun 10, 2018
James ‘Jim’ Thomas Hasslinger died on June 10, 2018 at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, WA at 3:10pm. At 76 years of age, he died following the somewhat sudden onset of an, as of yet, unexplained illness. He was surrounded by family at the time of death. Jim was the second of three children born to Bernard Lawrence Hasslinger (deceased)...
Aalijah Grace Neujahr
Jun 10, 2018
Aalijah Grace Neujahr was born on Friday, June 8, at 7:55 a.m. to parents Paul and Christina Neujahr at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Tacoma. She weighed 3 pounds and was 16.5 inches long. Aalijah’s name means Yahweh is God. Shortly after Aalijah was born it was discovered that she was born with a rare fatal chromosomal disorder called Triploidy....
Gary Leigh Wernet
Jun 10, 2018
Gary Leigh Wernet age 75, passed away on June 10, 2018. Gary called Kitsap County home for most of his life. He was born in Mason City, Iowa May 30, 1943 to Leonard and Leona Wernet. Gary moved his young family from Iowa to Washington in 1967. He worked for Boeing until starting his career in public service as a...
David A. Kalamar
Jun 7, 2018
David passed away at St. Anthony’s Hospital. He is preceded in death in his wife Jonell. David is survived by a brother Jerald, sons Rick and Kirk, grandsons Denis and Sean.
James Lee Shepard
Jun 6, 2018
James Shepard, 75 of Port Orchard, went to be with his Lord and Saviour on June 6, 2018. Jim was born on 22 April 1943 in Norfolk, Virginia to Harry Shepard and Thulla Thomas. He married Lynn Hershelman on 16 January 1982 after meeting in the Navy at Hospital Corpsman School in Great Lakes, IL. They travelled with the Navy...
Bonnie Lee Grable
Jun 1, 2018
Bonnie Lee Grable died in the early morning hours of June 1, 2018 in Bremerton, Washington. Bonnie was born in Portland, Oregon to Jack and Betty Grable. She moved to Port Orchard at the age of 12 with her twin sister Betty and siblings Jackie, Billie, Gary, Lary, and Lori. She graduated from South Kitsap High School in 1966 and...
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