Rosalie Lorraine Atkinson
Jan 4, 2020
Rosalie Lorraine Atkinson, Port Orchard, died January 4, 2020 at the age of 89. She was a loving and beloved wife, mother, sister, grandmother, aunt and friend to many. Rosalie, called Rosie by her family and friends, is survived by her six children, Nancy Doyle (Bill), Phyllis Counts (Dennis), Susan Mullins (Alvin), Richard Atkinson, Teri Girard, and Tom Atkinson (Sharon),...
Margie T Myers
Jan 4, 2020
Margie T. Myers, 88, residing in Port Angles, WA - passed away peacefully Saturday January 4th, in 2020. She was born August 27th, 1931 in Tacoma, WA to her parents Theodore and Winifred Prengel. Named after her father Ted as Theodora she was given the nic-name "Teddy" as a child which stayed with her all her life. Teddy grew up...
Mary Cecilia Haney
Jan 2, 2020
Mary Cecilia Finlay was born May 20, 1928 in Big Wells, Texas to Wallace and Cecilia (Zimmerman) Finlay. The fourth of five children, Henry, Ray and following Bonney and preceding Wallace. She was born in an area that was greatly affected by the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s ravaging prairie and farmlands throughout the United States and Canada. Because of...
Myrtle Lorraine Cooper
Dec 30, 2019
Myrtle Lorraine Cooper was born near Hazen, North Dakota, on July 15, 1929, to Andrew Oster and Florence Conrath Oster. She was baptized September 22, 1929, in the German Evangelical Lutheran Church. They spoke German until Gerald, her older brother, started school. Then Florence decided that only English would be spoken at home. The family lived with her Grandpa Conrath...
Ileana Harriett Sooter
Dec 30, 2019
Ileana Harriett Miller was born in Huston, Idaho on February 28, 1929, the second of two children, both girls to Archie and Thelma (Jones) Miller. She was named after Romanian princess Ileana. Though our Ileana was raised on a farm, she yet carried the dignity, finesse and elegance of her namesake. She overcame a great deal of sickness early in...
Oville August Jacobson
Dec 27, 2019
Reverend Orville August Jacobson, 80, passed at home in Indianola December 27, 2019. Born May 24, 1939 in Bemidji, MN to Reverend Oscar A and Olga Jacobson, Orv joined siblings Pearl Darlene and James Frederick. The family lived and ministered in Fertile, MN until Orv was eight years old, when they moved to Bellingham, WA. Upon high school graduation, Orville...
Milo G. Wright
Dec 25, 2019
Milo G. Wright died on December 25, 2019 at Washington Veterans Home (Retsil) in Port Orchard, WA surrounded by those that loved and respected him fiercely. Milo died from complications of cancer found in his neck, he was 74 years old. Milo was born on September 12, 1945 in Bremerton, WA to his parents Florence (Caswell) Wright (born 1910 Minnesota)...
Berdine Vlasta Johnson
Dec 20, 2019
Berdine Vlasta Johnson, 87, of Port Orchard, passed away on December 20, 2019 after a short illness. Berdine was born on October 6, 1932 in Lincoln, NE, to Rudolph and Vlasta Srb. She graduated from Lincoln Northeast High School in 1950. After her marriage in 1951 to Ken Johnson, the couple moved to several cities and towns in Nebraska, Iowa,...
Mabel Elizabeth Beck
Dec 19, 2019
Mabel Elizabeth (Betty) James Thompson Beck 1926 ~ 2019 On Thursday, December 19, 2019 Mabel Elizabeth (Betty) James Thompson Beck was reunited with her loved ones in Heaven at the age of 93. Born September 1, 1926 to Robert (Bob) E. James and Mabel E. Harris James of Bethel, North Carolina. She was the middle of three children with an...
Marsha Anne Warrington
Dec 17, 2019
Marsha Anne Warrington, 76, of Port Orchard, WA passed away December 17, 2019. She was born April 2, 1943 in Seattle to Frank and Lydia Watson. Eventually the family moved to Bremerton where she graduated from Central Kitsap High School in 1961. Soon after graduation met her beloved husband George Warrington whom she married in June of 1963. Marsha and...
Nancy Mae Wilder
Dec 15, 2019
Nancy Mae Tuck was born on October 10, 1947 in Seattle, WA to Marvin Allen Tuck and Maxine Marie Shallow. Her father was a warrant officer in the Army and died during the Korean War, when she was only three years old. Her mother, who died of breast cancer in April 1989, was determined to raise Nancy and sister Eileen...
Dale Richard Morrison
Dec 14, 2019
Dale Richard Morrison was called home to heaven by his Lord on December 14, 2019 in Bremerton, Washington. Born to Wendell "Jack" and Pearl Morrison on September 9, 1928 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, his family moved to Port Orchard in 1944. He attended South Kitsap High School and met Dorothy at True Value Grocery, where they both worked. Dale enlisted...
Joseph Francis Shirley
Dec 12, 2019
Joseph Francis Shirley was born November 18, 1936 in Fall River, Massachusetts to Joseph and Esther May Shirley. Joe married Miriam Pacheco on August 22, 1959 at St. Joseph’s Church in Fairhaven, Mass. They had two children, daughters Lynne and Joanne. Joe received a Registered Professional license in engineering after graduating from Durfee Tech, which is now the University of...
Karol Elizabeth Galyean
Dec 9, 2019
Karol Elizabeth Galyean, 69 passed away on December 9th. Karol was born on July 26th 1950 in Portland Oregon to Harlan and Mary Galyean. Karol was raised in Port Angeles, WA. Karol is survived by her two daughters, Marila Powell and her husband Bob, Debra Uland and her husband Craig, Grandchildren, Steve Stewart, Christian Johnson, Emileigh Kershaw Black, Jeremy Johnson,...
Lawrence "Larry" Michael Hembd
Dec 7, 2019
Lawrence “Larry” Michael Hembd, b. June 11, 1968 Stuttgart, Germany - d. December 7, 2019 Port Orchard, WA. 51 years old. Larry’s early years saw him moving around the United States and Germany as the first born of an Army family. Each time he moved he made friends that became life long companions, people he would run into wherever he...
Cecilia Ruby Tate
Dec 6, 2019
Cecilia Ruby Tate, 97, died December 6, 2019. She was born November 18, 1922 in Piniele, Montana to Peter and May (Phelps) Kruse. The family then moved to Hibbing, Minnesota where Cecilia spent most of her childhood. She later as a young adult moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a telephone operator. She met and married her beloved...
Riley Thomas Gibson
Dec 5, 2019
Riley Gibson was born June 6, 1969 at Travis Air Force Hospital in California, to parents Rick & Dee Gibson. Riley lived in Virginia & California before moving with his family to Port Orchard in 1977 where he attended Star of the Sea school and later Marcus Whitman Jr. High where he met his best friend Sean Lemley and other...
Madelyn Leilani Brown
Dec 5, 2019
Madelyn Leilani Brown was born July 26th, 2019, at Tacoma General Hospital to parents Anthony and Kim Brown. She was survived by her sisters Lydia and Naomi and brother Matthew. She rocked an extra chromosome (had Down syndrome). Life was looking up and she was making progress. She went to be with Jesus suddenly and unexpectedly on December 5th, 2019....
Earl Suman
Dec 3, 2019
Earl Suman age 87 passed away peacefully in his sleep at Retsil Veterans Home on December 3rd, 2019. He was born June 28th 1932 in National City California. To Earl and Mary (Hunt) Suman. Earl Grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He served in the Navy from 1951 – 1955. Earl was a fire fighter for 38 years. 4 years...