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Robert "Bob" Cairns
Jul 27, 2020
MANCHESTER, 74 years of age, passed on July 27, 2020, peacefully at home. Bob was born to Alfred and Leona Cairns on Dec 22, 1945, and raised in Richland Center, WI. He graduated from the U. of Wisconsin in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in Geology. He was commissioned as a USAF Officer and served 5 years on active...
Elizabeth June Recknagle Sorenson
Jul 24, 2020
Elizabeth June Gormley Recknagle Sorenson (Betty) was born December 30, 1926, and passed away July 24, 2020. Betty was one of 13 siblings. Her father had 9 children from his first wife and after she passed away Emmett Gormley married Lucy Tax. Betty was the first of 4 children from this marriage. She was very close to all of her...
Dewitt Alson Vanderstaay
Jul 19, 2020
DeWitt Alson “Nick” VanderStaay, 85, died peacefully in his home on July 19th. Family and friends are invited to share memories and to celebrate Nick’s life Monday August 3rd at 1 p.m. via a virtual memorial tribute. Details to follow. Nick was born October 4, 1934 to Arie Jan VanderStaay, a Dutch immigrant, and Celeste (Weber) VanderStaay, in Plainfield, New...
Craig Jarvis Haugen
Jul 19, 2020
Craig “Cragar” Haugen, 65, of Port Orchard passed away July 19, 2020 in Quilcene, WA. He was born at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Bremerton, WA on October 7, 1954. He grew up in Manette and graduated from East High in 1972. He began his firefighting career with DNR and was also a volunteer firefighter with Mason County fire department before...
Janet Loraine Lind
Jul 19, 2020
Janet Loraine Lind (Monzani), age 79, of Port Orchard, WA, passed away on July 19, 2020, with her loving husband by her side; at home as she wished, after fighting a 15 month battle with cancer. During her illness, her husband did everything humanly possible to provide for her care, maintain her dignity, and most of all, show her his...
Rebecca Ann Ferguson
Jul 9, 2020
Rebecca A. Ferguson, 67, peacefully passed away on July 09, 2020 at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Washington with her family members at her side. Rebecca was born on February 19, 1953 in Spokane, Washington, to Darrell A. Bogar and Janet B. Braden. Rebecca met the love of her life, Richard W. Ferguson, while living with her family as they...
Mary Lou Nelson
Jul 7, 2020
Mary Lou Nelson, age 83, passed away peacefully on July 7, 2020, in Bremerton, Washington. She was born on February 28, 1937 in Seattle, Washington. She is survived by her husband, Herman of 63 years and her four children-Kathy, Mark, Edward, and Kristine, who all live locally. Mary Lou had sixteen grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren. Her family has lived...
Ana Martinez Cruz
Jul 6, 2020
Ana passed away peacefully at her home in Port Orchard, where she lived for 30 years. Due to the current pandemic, the family held private services.
Trevor David Sauers
Jul 3, 2020
It is with immense sorrow we announce the passing of Trevor David Sauers born July 26, 1990 in Dallas, TX. He departed this world on July 3, 2020 in Silverdale, WA. He grew up in Dallas and Garland, TX where he forged hundreds of lifelong friendships , where his home had an open door policy, “the refrigerator open door policy,”...
Nancy Rice Waggoner
Jul 1, 2020
Nancy Waggoner passed unexpectedly on July 1st, 2020. She was born on March 14th, 1950 in New York where she grew up and attended school. After high school she attended and graduated from college, enlisted in the Army, became a school teacher and eventually went to work for the WA Department of Corrections where she retired after a distinguished 35-year...
Terry Roy Fowler
Jun 29, 2020
Terry Roy Fowler was born on March 18, 1943 to Donald and Betty Fowler in Watertown, New York. He had an older brother Bruce and younger brother Ric and younger sister Linda. They spent their summers at the family cabin at Knobby Knoll on Lake Ontario. Knobby Knoll is where so many memories were made over the years. Upon graduating...
Norman Charles Cook
Jun 28, 2020
Norman Charles Cook was born in Annapolis, Washington July of 1934. Norman loved the water, on a boat, with his brother Roger or shucking oysters. He joined the marines and went to Korea. He was a very proud marine! Once a marine, always a marine! Norman retired from the steel industry in 1991. We became members of “The Des Moines...
Elizabeth Anne Ew
Jun 26, 2020
Elizabeth Anne (Scott) Drew, May 29, 1935-June 26, 2020 Our Mom recently journaled, “I often marvel at the goodness that surrounds my life…the ease of piloting my course. How I ended up in a place and time of comfort when millions of human beings are suffering untold miseries is incomprehensible. I am so grateful. I will continue to try and...
Russell L Sweany Jr
Jun 25, 2020
Russell L. Sweany, Jr. 02/17/1942 – 06/25/2020 Russell L. Sweany, Jr., 78, died peacefully at home in Longbranch, WA on June 25, 2020, just one month after he was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. He was born on February 17, 1942 to Russell and Katherine Sweany of Port Orchard, WA. He was a graduate of South Kitsap High School, Class of...
Ket Allan Wilkins
Jun 25, 2020
In Remembrance of Ket Wilkins – July 11, 1963 – June 25, 2020 Ket Allan Wilkins was a beloved Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Uncle, Grandpa and Friend. He passed away in his home in Port Orchard, WA, with his family by his side. Ket was born July 11, 1963 in Newport News, Virginia to Allan and Leila Wilkins. Ket moved...
Richard Jesse Haney
Jun 24, 2020
Richard “Dick” Jesse Haney, was born at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tacoma, Washington to Jesse and Betty (Novack) Haney on December 5, 1927, one of three children. The era in which he grew up was very different from many of our experiences. In 1927 Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic. He flew from NYC to Paris...
Fred Michael Mihelich
Jun 21, 2020
Fred Michael Mihelich died June 21, 2020 in his Port Orchard home. He was 73. Fred was born in 1946 in Seattle, Washington to Fred Mihelich and Glenna Egbert Mihelich Gould. He graduated from Chief Sealth High School in 1964. He was drafted into the Army in 1967 and served in Vietnam with C Company 2nd Battalion 27th Infantry Wolfhounds,...
Mitchell Justin Hereld
Jun 20, 2020
With deepest sorrow we announce the unexpected passing of our beloved son, Mitchell Justin Hereld, age 29, on Saturday, June 20, 2020, in Bremerton at his home. He was born on January 4th, 1991 in Tacoma to Sheila R Hansen and Elden Peter Hereld. He attended school in Port Orchard and Graduated from Discovery Alternative Highschool. He worked as a...
Frances Geneva Hewson
Jun 17, 2020
Frances Geneva, affectionately know as Geneva, was born in Watsonville, California on November 11, 1941 to Claude M. and Lorena M. (Bogges) Cooper. She attended schools in California and later in life moved to the Northwest. She was a full-time mom and having raised nine children and loved to help with her numerous grandchildren as they came into and brightened...
Ted Zink
Jun 17, 2020
Theodore Leland Zink, age 85, passed away at his home in Tonasket, WA with family by his side. He was born October 21, 1934 in Jamestown, North Dakota. Ted came with his parents and sibling to Port Orchard in October 1937, moving with his family to Junction City, Oregon for his father’s work logging, then moving back to the Kitsap...
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