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Roger James Starkel
Dec 31, 2021
Roger James Starkel was born February 6, 1955, at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Bremerton, to James Eldon and Lorna Marie (Hatfield) Starkel. He attended elementary school in Bremerton at Manette Elementary and moved to Southworth in 1964 where his father built their family home. He attended Marcus Whitman Junior High and later South Kitsap High School. He received his G.E.D....
Jennifer Lynn Winchester
Dec 31, 2021
Jennifer Lynn Winchester, days after a warm 50th birthday and Christmas with her family, died New Year's Eve when a drunk made a series of stupid decisions that irrevocably changed the course of all of our lives. She was the center of our family, she was our home, our Momma. She put all of her energy - her frantic, hilariously...
Shirley Elaine Hecker
Dec 23, 2021
Shirley Elaine (Smith) Hecker, 74, of Kingston, WA passed away on December 23, 2021, at Saint Michaels Hospital in Silverdale, WA. Shirley was born on September 3, 1947, in Los Angeles, CA to Harold & Iris Smith. She spent most of her childhood in California and graduated from Mar Vista High School in Imperial Beach, CA in 1966. As a...
Mark Huff
Dec 23, 2021
Mark Donavan Huff, 24, of Bremerton, WA, passed away unexpectedly on December 23, 2021, at his home. He was born July 15, 1997, in Bremerton, WA, son of Robert J. Huff Jr. and Lorie Coyne (Huff). He primarily grew-up in South Kitsap but spent his adolescent years in Gig Harbor where he attended Peninsula High School. Mark primarily worked in...
Raygen Lyn Lipp
Dec 22, 2021
Raygen Lyn Lipp Devoted Wife, Mother, and Friend to Many. Raygen Lyn Lipp, age 46, passed away in her sleep on December 22nd, 2021. She was born and raised in Kitsap County, WA by her Father Gerald Pringle and Mother Frankye Pringle. Raygen loved the outdoors more than anyone and would often go hunting or fishing with her Father or...
Michelle Freeman
Dec 22, 2021
M. Michelle Freeman was born on May 10, 1925 as Mabel Michelle Reiker in Mobridge, South Dakota. Her parents were German people living in Russia. They had emigrated from Russia in a wave of others like them to the Dakotas in search of a new life as farmers and skilled tradesmen. She grew up as the youngest in a 2...
Virginia Ellen Vanunen
Dec 17, 2021
It is with a sad heart that I have to inform you that my Mom Virginia Ellen VanDrunen (Virgie, Sammy & Mama Sam) went home to be with Jesus on 17 December 2021. She is in heaven with Grandma Rose, her dad Leonard, mom Alice and my older brother Blaine. She is a tremendous loss to my family and myself,...
Judi Leanne Carlson-Mcferran
Dec 15, 2021
Judi Leanne Carlson McFerran was born October 20, 1959, in Bremerton, Washington to her father William and Mother Maryln. She grew up between the San Juan Islands, Port Orchard and Simi, California. She graduated from Simi Valley High School and went to get her Civil Engineering degree. After working in her respective career, she found her passion in being the...
Emmet Hoynes
Dec 2, 2021
Emmet Hoynes was born sixth of eight children to Raymond and Mildred Hoynes on October 24, 1930 in Malta, Montana and passed away on December 2, 2021 at the age of 91. Emmet grew up in Malta and attended the local elementary and high schools. Besides all his siblings, he grew up with numerous cousins. He spent many happy times...
Ernest August Hahn
Dec 1, 2021
Ernest August Hahn (Ernie) passed away at his home on December 1, 2021. Ernie was the youngest of three children born to Ernest and Myrtle Hahn in Seattle, Washington, on September 23, 1932. Ernie, or Coach Hahn, is survived by his wife, Barbara, two daughters and son-in-law, Cheri and Gary Lyman, and Patti Richards (all of Port Orchard). He had...
Robert Gary Hanley
Nov 26, 2021
Robert Gary Hanley was born June 3, 1948 in Kellogg, Idaho to Daniel P. and Emma L. (Rowe) Hanley, Sr. The family later moved to Butte, Montana, but eventually landed in the Puget Sound area where Robert graduated from Evergreen HS in Burien, just south of Seattle, WA. He later took a Job as a crane operator at SWPAC as...
Jill Beebe Ondracek
Nov 23, 2021
Jill Beebe Ondracek, born August 4th, 1931, to Harry and Lucile Beebe in Los Angeles California passed peacefully at home surrounded by her family, November 23rd, 2021, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was ninety years old. Jill was raised in California and Nebraska with her two siblings. An inquisitive child who loved to learn and play with...
Sheryl G Hunkin
Nov 22, 2021
Sheryl G. Hunkin passed into the arms of Jesus November 22,2021 after a 11-yr battle with several stages of cancer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Tuiloua Joe Ilaoa Hunkin August 8,2003, her parents Leonard & Edith Britton, and her sister Joan. Sheryl is survived by her sister Sherry Gilbert (Leroy) her brother Dean Britton, her children &...
Charles Allen Beaird
Nov 22, 2021
Charles Allen Beaird, 83, passed away at home in Port Orchard on November 22, 2021, surrounded by his family. Whether you called him “Charlie”, “Allen”, or “Big Al” depended on when and where you met him – you could call him anything so long as you didn’t call him late for dinner. Charlie was born in Lindale, Texas, to Harold...
Delbert Ray Wheat
Nov 21, 2021
Delbert Ray Wheat passed peacefully in his sleep on the morning of November 21st, 2021 at the Brookdale Harbor Bay Memory Care Facility in Gig Harbor, WA. He was born on July 14th, 1937 in Bakersfield, CA to Hubert Eugene and Hettie Ina (Hartline) Wheat. The family moved back to Oklahoma when he was seven months old. He started school...
Faye P Reynolds
Nov 21, 2021
Faye Palacios Reynolds went home to our Lord early Sunday morning November 21, 2021 at St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor surrounded by family and in the arms of husband Steve. Faye was born Filomena Rabago Palacios on Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands on August 4, 1946 and was the daughter of Silvestre Santos and Rosalia Rabago (Salas) Palacios. When Faye...
Violet Fay George
Nov 20, 2021
Violet Fay George was born on April 2, 1939 in Bremerton, Washington to Frederick John Schardt and Dorothy Evangeline Toliver. She passed away at home on November 20, 2021 surrounded by her family. Fay spent her childhood in Port Orchard, attending grade school at Olalla Elementary, and moving on to Orchard Heights Middle School. She graduated from South Kitsap High...
Victor Alfred Siegel
Nov 20, 2021
GONE FISHING... Victor Alfred Siegel passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 20, 2021, at the age of 92. He was born on June 24, 1929, in Kalispell, Montana to Alfred Arthur Siegel and Johanna Eleanore (Krause) Siegel. Years earlier, his father, a baker by trade, had emigrated to the US from Germany. His mother, a teacher, was the daughter of...
William "Bill" Alan Swope
Nov 18, 2021
William “Bill” Swope passed away Thursday, Nov. 18th, 2021, in Silverdale, WA. He was a resident at The Ridge Memory Care when he passed. Born November 22nd, 1929, in Syracuse, NY, to William and Emma (Ludwig) Swope, Bill began his life-long passion for flying at an early age. His first flight in a plane was as a young boy, which...
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