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Jessie E Bell
Dec 2, 2014
Jessie Eleanor (Wilton) Bell, 87 died December 2, 2014 in Port Orchard. Born January 20, 1927 to John Wesley Wilton & Gertrude Emelia Moniger in Sioux City, IA. She married Richard Truman Bell on September 6, 1944. She was a loving mother and friend to all she encountered. The family would like to thank her doctor Allan Weissman and his...
Roy Edwin Clifton
Dec 1, 2014
Roy Edwin Clifton, 82, of Port Orchard, died December 1, 2014 in Tacoma. Born, March 6, 1932, in Hazel Hill Township, MO. U.S. Navy retiree. Service 9 am, Monday, December 8, 2014 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1550 Hoover Ave., Port Orchard. Committal, 1:30 pm Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent, WA.
Jason Ray Smith
Dec 1, 2014
Jason Ray Smith passed away on December 1, 2014 after a hard-fought battle with pneumonia at 31 years old. He was born in Redmond, Washington to Mike and Wanda Smith on July 27th, 1983. He is survived by his parents, Sister Jessica and Brother-in-law Darence Shine, Foster Brother Christian Whetstone, and Nephew Tyus Shine, along with many Aunts, Uncles, Cousins,...
Nicole Mary Janssen
Nov 30, 2014
Nicole Janssen, 46, of Port Orchard was granted her angel’s wings and halo on Sunday, November 30th in her home. Her life was far too short but how she affected people was memorable. If you spent anytime with her at all you were graced with her amazing personality, warm sense of humor, candor speech, love of animals, large heart, and...
Jerry Brent King
Nov 26, 2014
Jerry B. King of Port Orchard passed away quietly on November 26 at his home following a more than 20 year battle with cancer. He was 81. He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Sharron, of the family home. Jerry was born November 13, 1933 to James Brent King and Frances Louise King in Brownfield, Texas. He attended...
Donald Aaron Thrall
Nov 24, 2014
Donald (Donny) Thrall, 56, of Olalla, WA died November 24, 2014. He was born November 30, 1957 in Tacoma to Jean and Rocky Thrall. He worked briefly at PSNS before running his own floor covering business. Donny was well known through the community for his sense of humor, he was sure to bring laughter to any occasion. He had a...
Leona Michelle Phillips
Nov 20, 2014
Leona M. Phillips, age 56, born in Seattle to Al and Emmi Phillips, peacefully passed on to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus on November 20, 2014 at Harrison Hospital. She is survived by her brothers Mike, Eric and Joe and her sisters Alicia, Colleen, Jeanine and sister/caregiver of 37 years Joan. Leona suffered with medical issues from the...
William "Bill" Doumit Bloomquist
Nov 19, 2014
Dr. William Doumit "Bill" Bloomquist, longtime Port Orchard resident and local icon, native Washingtonian, died on Wednesday, November 19th, 2014, hours short of his 73rd birthday, following a traumatic brain injury sustained 12 years ago. Bill was born at Fort Lewis on November 20, 1941 to Dr. Ernest Bloomquist, a local veterinarian and Sally Bloomquist, a nurse. They moved to...
Thomas Osborne
Nov 17, 2014
Born in Lewis Creek, Virginia to Lillie Stallard Osborne and Thomas David Osborne, Jack was the 9th of 13th children. His family worked on the railroad as well as, owned the general store and supported the community through the challenges of the Great Depression. He joined the navy at the age of 17, stationed in Cuba. He served bravely as...
Kristin Bilodeau
Nov 14, 2014
Kristin Bilodeau, 64, of Belfair, passed away November 14, 2014 surrounded by her loving family. Kristin was born September 19, 1950 in Kalispell, Montana to Robert & Marjorie Christiansen. She graduated from West Bremerton H.S. in 1968. Her first job was working at the Bremerton Dairy Queen with her sister and later as a beatician at Village Vaniety. On June...
Finnace "Slim" Willis
Nov 12, 2014
Slim passed away peacefully November 12, 2014 at Harrison Hospital. He was born to Joseph and Minnie Willis in Louisville, Illinois on February 28, 1926, where he grew up on a farm. He was the youngest son of 11 siblings. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on February 26, 1944 and served during WWII. He was Honorably Discharged May 21,...
Rosa Leon-Guerrero Sablan
Nov 11, 2014
Rosa Leon Guerrero Sablan, 74, departed her earthly home to join the Lord on November 11, 2014...2 Corinthians 5:1 "For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." and Isaiah 41:10 "Fear not, for I am with you; Be...
Kimberly Elizabeth Cohen
Nov 10, 2014
Kimberly Cohen, 29, of Port Orchard was granted her angels wings on Monday, November 10th in her home. Kim's life may have seemed too short for many, but for those who were touched by her presence understood that the quality of her existence far exceeded the quantity of time in which she lived. Words that describe her life: Kind Hearted,...
John Samuel Jackson
Nov 9, 2014
John S. Jackson, 78, of Port Orchard, WA died November 9, 2014 at Harrison Hospital in Bremerton, WA. He was born May 21, 1936 in Clarksville, TN and joined the Navy out of high school in 1953. He became a Physician Assistant, Flight-Surgeon Assistance and went to Flight Marine’s in Vietnam. While in the U. S. Navy he was the...
Lonni Diane Zwan
Nov 7, 2014
Lonni Diane Zwan, 50, of Belfair, WA was tragically taken from us on November 7, 2014. She passed away in the arms of her loved ones at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA from injuries sustained in an automobile accident on November 5, 2014. She was born on May 18, 1964 in Galion, OH to her loving parents Lanny &...
Emma Geier Cookus
Nov 6, 2014
Emma Geier Cookus (97) was born in Worden, Montana in 1917, to emigrant Germans from Russia parents (George Geier and Catherine Younger Geier). Youngest of eight siblings, her family settled in Lincoln, Nebraska after many seasons of migrant work throughout the middle west. She attended Lincoln public schools and graduated from Lincoln High School. Emma married Jake Weisgerber and they...
William "Bill" Peter Carragher
Nov 1, 2014
William "Bill" Peter Carragher, 81, of Port Orchard died at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma on November 1, 2014. He was born June 30, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, to William and Margaret (Braun) Carragher. He married Fusako on November 5, 1957, in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka, Japan. Bill served briefly in the United States Navy from 1951 to 1954,...
Patricia Lee Wells
Nov 1, 2014
Born in Richmond, VA, to William (Bill) and Gladys Upton. She grew up with a brother, Charles. From there the family moved to Annapolis Station, Port Orchard in 1954. She met her future husband, Robert N Wells USN, on Sept 23, 1954 and they were married on Jan 15, 1955 in the Annapolis Church (now a child day care center)....
"Sam" Lieseke Lefave-Basic
Oct 22, 2014
Cynthia Jeanne LeFave-Basic of Port Orchard was born in Bremerton on March 30, 1955. She departed this world for a better one on October 22, 2014 at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle after a 3-week hospitalization. Sam, as she was known for most of her life, was preceded in death by her parents Jeanne and Al Lieseke. She is survived...
Bernice Emily Lundberg
Oct 22, 2014
In the house of love she; graced the world with blackberry pies, nurtured and honored family and friends, rescued and advocated for animals wild & domestic, proudly engaged as a democrat for social justice. She was born to Walter and Gladys in Port Orchard, married twice, birthed a son and retired from a career at the city of Tacoma. She...
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