Leah Odegard

Leah Ann Odegard, 51, of Port Orchard died Saturday at her home from complications of breast cancer. Born in Kalispell, Montana to Ken and Pat (Bellmore) Odegard, she graduated from Flathead High School in Kalispell in 1971 and earned a bachelor's degree in business from Montana State University in 1976. In 1977, she married David Deems Lewis in Kalispell. She worked as an accountant for the certified public accounting firm of Knutson, Trolson and Fargher in Lakwood and was self-employed as an accountant. She had been actively involved in the Children's Hospital Guild in Seattle for more than 20 years and volunteered at Mullenix Ridge Elementary and Just For Kicks Dance School, both attended by her daughter. She also participated in South Kitsap Citizens for Quality Education and the Strawberry Hill Homeowners Association. In May 2001, when she learned that she had breast cancer, she volunteered at the Breast Cancer Research Center in Tacoma. She will be remembered as a devoted mother, wife, daughter, sister and friend who was "always singing and laughing." Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Adrienne Renee Lewis, a student at Eastern Washington University, and Allison Rachel Lewis, a student at the University of Idaho; two sisters, Carol Jean Waugh of Arapahoe, Colorado, and Susan Marie Odegard-Fellows of Las Vegas; two brothers, Kenneth Eugene Odegard of Las Vegas and Thomas Allan Odegard of Albuquerque, New Mexico; her parents and her grandmother, Jewell Bellmore, all of Kalispell. A memorial service will be at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Bible Baptist Church in Port Orchard with a reception following. Arrangements are under the direction of Rill Chapel's Life Tribute Center in Port Orchard. Memorial donations may be made to Breast Cancer Resource Center, 3502 S. 12th St., Tacoma, WA a 98405, or to Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, c/o Marlene Barber, 10086 Misery Point Road, Seabeck, WA 98380 (make checks payable to Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center).