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Lester Von Campbell Jr
Mar 7, 2017
Lester V. Campbell Jr. passed away at Saint Anthony’s Hospital in Gig Harbor on March 7, 2017 with his wife Sherry of 58 years and his four children Lester 3rd, Victor, Scott, Tracey and six of his twelve grandchildren were present at his passing. Lester has a younger sister Judith who lives in the Denver Colorado area. Lester was born...
Earl Stanley Hines Jr
Mar 5, 2017
Earl (Stan) Hines Jr., 72 of Port Orchard passed away on March 5, 2017 at his home in Port Orchard. He was born June 24, 1944 in Omaha, Nebraska. Stan served his Country honorably in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Prior to serving his Country in Vietnam, Stan worked at PSNS as a welder/weld inspector. After...
Raymond L. Connick
Mar 3, 2017
Raymond L. Connick passed away at home on March 3, 2017. Ray was born January 12, 1936 in Chadron, Nebraska to Howard and Jennie Connick. At five years of age Ray’s parents moved to Taft, California. Ray said that after arriving in Taft at night, he woke up the next morning and looked out at the desert and said “What...
Edward L. Bushnell
Mar 2, 2017
Beloved husband, father & grandfather, Edward L. Bushnell passed on into the arms of our Heavenly Father on March 2, 2017. Ed put up a valiant fight against acute leukemia (AML) for the past ten months. He was born February 17, 1942, in Aberdeen, Washington, and was the son of a commercial fisherman who fished out of Tokeland on Willapa...
Gerald "Jerry" Dale Brummond
Feb 25, 2017
Gerald (Jerry) Dale Brummond was born to Wayne and Phyllis (Powell) Brummond on June 29, 1941 in Gig Harbor, Washington. He was about one month early and weighed around 4 pounds when they took him home where he slept in a shoebox. He joined his sisters, Beryl and Charlotte. Bruce, his baby brother, joined the family a couple of years...
Oscola Heath
Feb 23, 2017
Oscola Heath was born April 13, 1938 in El Paso Texas. He came to live in Port Orchard in 1984. Passing at the age of 78 from cancer on February 23, 2017. He enjoyed seeing his children and grandchildren growing up. Barbeques, football, watching television, and hanging out with his buddies drinking coffee. Leaving behind three daughters Cindy, Loretta, and...
Joan Lorraine Devine
Feb 23, 2017
Joan Devine, age 81, passed away at her home in Port Orchard, surrounded by her family on Thursday, February 23, 2017. She was born Oct. 28, 1935 in Bemidji MN and the last of ten children to Sydney and Ruth Strassburg. Joanie lived in Alaska and went to school in Bremerton. She married Leroy Seymour and together they had 2...
Thomas Joseph Victory Jr.
Feb 21, 2017
Thomas J. Victory, 90 entered into eternal life on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at Park Vista Assisted Living Center in Port Orchard, Washington. He was born at Holy Name Hospital, in Teaneck, New Jersey to Thomas J. Victory and Grace M. (Osborne) Victory. He was predeceased by his parents and two sisters, Grace M. Cleary and Jane (Sister M Emmanuel...
Lisa Gale Burgess
Feb 20, 2017
Lisa Gale Burgess, age 53, passed away on February 20, 2017 in Chesapeake, Virginia. She was born at Madigan Army Hospital in Tacoma, Washington on May 8, 1963 to Captain Jack and Patricia Coleman. After moving around the US while in the USAF, Lisa’s family returned to Washington where she attended South Kitsap High school in Port Orchard and graduated...
John D Smith
Feb 18, 2017
John Dewayne Smith was born on May 13, 1980 in Salem, Oregon He received his Angel Wings for Heaven on February 18, 2017 at 3:22PM in Tacoma, Washington. John has always been a very important person in our family , He was the most Amazing Son, Wonderful, Loving Brother and Outgoing, Fun Uncle. He will be missed forever . John...
Elvin Forsman
Feb 15, 2017
Born to John Victor Forsman & Maggie Scott Forsman. Elvin was 1 of 10 children. He is survived by his daughter Carol Armstrong, his son, Steve & wife Sue. Brothers, Edwin, Ellis, Evart, and Elmer, sisters Ellen & Edith. He has 8 living grandchildren. Several great grandchildren. And many many friends. He was a retired Major in the USAF, as...
Edward M Peterson
Feb 14, 2017
Edward (“Pete”) Peterson (92) passed away on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2017, after a lengthy illness, at his home in Port Orchard, Washington, surrounded by family who had been lovingly caring for him. He has gone to join his family on the other side of the veil. We will miss him greatly, but are relieved that he is at peace...
Joyce Brown-Woods
Feb 11, 2017
Joyce was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 6, 1947 to Carl and Lillian (Ahlstrom) Malmfeldt. She met Jerry Woods in Spokane in the mid-80’s and they married in Port Orchard on December 5, 1987. They were together for just over thirty years. Joyce worked as an accountant in Kitsap County for the City of Bremerton at Public Works from...
Mieko Leary
Feb 10, 2017
Mieko Leary (age 83), a former long term resident of Port Orchard, passed away at her home in Norton Shores Michigan on February 10th 2017. Mieko was born on January 13, 1934 in Kagoshima Prefecture Japan to Toshi and Sanebumi Okamura. She had two older brothers; Masafumi Okamura and Masatori Okamura (both deceased), two older sisters; Tomiko Kawahara and Satsuki...
Dorothy Elizabeth Culley
Feb 9, 2017
Dorothy Elizabeth Culley passed away peacefully on February 9, 2017 in Poulsbo, WA. Dorothy was born on January 10, 1927 in Seattle to Ruth June Parker and Leslie Ross Smith. She had 5 brothers; Kenneth Smith, Earl Smith, Robert Smith, Jack Earhart and Michael Earhart. Most of Dorothy’s childhood years were during the height of the great depression. As a...
Eddie Dwight Siegfried
Feb 8, 2017
Eddie Dwight Siegfried, AKA Old Man, was born in Seattle Washington May 04, 1947. He passed away at home suddenly on the early morning of February 08, 2017. Ed was preceded in death by his parents, Edward H. Siegfried and Virginia P. Siegfried. Survived by his Wife, Dolly V. Siegfried, his sister Joanna, his daughters Shawna and Kirsten and sons...
Arthur Tokin
Feb 3, 2017
Arthur Charles Tokin was born June 3, 1918 to in Tacoma, Washington. The first-born son of Louis and Bertha Tokin, both of whom emigrated from Europe, Art grew up in Enumclaw with is brothers Albert and Lewis. He graduated from Enumclaw High School in 1936 with several classmates who would soon become in-laws. Art married his best friend Pete Capponi’s...
Bobbie Jean Kruse
Jan 30, 2017
Bobbie Kruse, a devoted wife and the most wonderful mother/grandmother passed away peacefully on January 30 with her family. She is preceded in death by her husband, Vern, her parents and brothers Claud and Lewis. She is survived by her 3 sons, Neil (Greg), Charles (Patricia), Eric (Melissa), six grandchildren, Andrew (Rachel), Michael (Nicole), Bryce (Sarah), David (Hannah), Colin and...
Harland Alden Grotem
Jan 28, 2017
Harland Alden Grotem went to be with his Heavenly Father on January 28th 2017. He was born on May 6th 1932 in Whitehall Wisconsin to Alvin and Selma Grotem. Harland and Bonnie moved to Washington in 1957. Harland worked in PSNS as Sheetmetal Journeyman for 15 years, and then for the Sheetmetal Union until he retired. Also he built and...
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