OBITUARIES
Local obituaries for Seattle, Washington, King County and Surrounding Areas
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Vernon Fremont Smith
Jun 6, 2021
February 23, 1930 - June 6, 2021
Vernon Fremont Smith passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 6, 2021. Vernon was born in Seattle on February 23, 1930 to George S. Smith and Lucy M. Shelton (Smith). Sadly his mother passed away 8 days later. He grew up in the Ravenna neighborhood with his father and beloved (step) mother, Jennie...
Lanny Remme
Jun 5, 2021
July 11, 1946 – June 5, 2021
Lanny “Lan” Remme was born in the small town of Huron, South Dakota to parents Elaine and Ronald Remme. He grew up with his younger brother Joel on a farm with chickens and cows in Southwest Washington. Lan moved to the city of Seattle to attend the University...
Mary Anna Johansen
May 26, 2021
Mary Anna Johansen peacefully went to her Lord on May 26, 2021 surrounded by her family at her home in Mill Creek, WA. Born in Seattle on May 16, 1937 to Charles Clark Bowen and Susan Jane Bowen. She lived most of her life in the greater Seattle area. Mary had the opportunity to live overseas in Vietnam for...
Carolyn “Carol” Lee Connors
May 20, 2021
Carolyn “Carol” Lee Connors, 73, passed away on May 20th, 2021, while in hospital in Seattle Washington.
She was the wife of James Patrick “Pat” Connors. They shared 55 years of marriage.
Carol was born in Fresno, California, in 1948 to Robert Lee Turner and Virginia Smith Turner.
Carol fondly remembered her family’s...
Margaret Elisabeth Peden
May 15, 2021
November 15, 1929 to May 15, 2021
Margaret Elisabeth Peden was youngest of 3 sisters. Born in College Station, Texas November 15th, 1929 to David McCaw and Liddy Melissa Little. She was a very kind, loving, and gentle Christian woman. She spent her life caring for others. Caring for her children and caring for her in-laws until the end...
Julia Waduda-Majid Goforth
May 14, 2021
Julia Waduda-Majid Goforth, of Seattle, died peacefully in her sleep at home during the wee hours of the morning on May 14, 2021. She is deeply missed by countless people whose lives she touched.
Born Julia Anne Cox on November 23, 1949 in Danville, IL, to Dale and Betty Lee Cox, she grew up in Ashland, OR,...
Christa Burgess
May 7, 2021
January 24, 1938 -May 7, 2021
Our wonderful mother, Christa Burgess, passed away May 7, 2021 in Seattle WA at the age of 83. Christa was born January 24, 1938 in Berlin, Germany. Mom grew up an only child during WWII witnessing the ravages that war brings. Despite illnesses, times of hunger and no heat, loss of school friends...
Frank Sewall Coburn, Jr.
May 7, 2021
1935 - 2021
“Only the shadow knows...tippecanoe and tyler too.” A frequent phrase of Frank Coburn’s that will be missed but not forgotten. Frank died in Shoreline, WA, Friday, May 7, 2021 after battling several health challenges for the past year.
Frank Sewall Coburn, Jr. was born on July 8, 1935 in Melrose, Massachusetts. It was there...
Sherrell L. (Lou) Osborne
May 6, 2021
Sherrell L. (Lou) Osborne was born in Birmingham, Alabama on July 16, 1938, and passed away May 6th, 2021 after a 13-year battle with melanoma. Adopted by relatives, Lou made his way to Seattle at age 10. He graduated West Seattle High School, class of 1956, and University of Washington in 1961. Lou met his wife Florence (Flo) at...
Eric Gladsjo
May 6, 2021
Eric Gladsjo, 56, of Seattle, WA, passed away unexpectedly on May 6, 2021 at his home. He was born in Seattle on March 23, 1965, son of the late Ted and Jessie Gladsjo. He is survived by his sister Gail Amole and Gail’s grown children. Eric attended Roosevelt High School and graduated from Western Washington University in Bellingham, having...
Thomas John Cullen
May 6, 2021
OLD TOM IS DEAD
“Fun for all at a later date”
J. Joyce
March 30, 1938 – May 6, 2021 Ní fheicfimid a leithéid arís There will never be the likes of him again
When Tom died our family, and indeed the world, lost a kind and...
Ronald J. Keeshan
May 3, 2021
Ronald J. Keeshan, 88, of Seattle died May 3, 2021, in his home with his family around him, following a lengthy illness. Ron was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 29, 1933. Following graduation from Norwood High School he served as a medic in the US Navy for five years. He utilized the G.I. Bill of Rights to earn...
Kenneth Alan Slack
Apr 30, 2021
Ken passed away in May 2021 from pneumonia at the age of 75. Born in Virginia, Minnesota to Norma Jane Warner and Kenneth Edward Slack in February 1946, he lived a unique childhood as the stepson of a road construction worker in the 1950’s and 60s. The family traveled through the Western US states and he had many stories...
Jean Mills
Apr 29, 2021
Jean Mills, age 91, passed away peacefully at her home in Seattle, Washington, on April 29, 2021. She and her sister Charlene were raised in Los Angeles, California, and Jean finished her last two years of college at Marylhurst after the family moved to Portland, Oregon. Post-graduation, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she interned as a medical technologist...
Margaret D. Mccool
Apr 28, 2021
Margaret D. McCool (Peggy), 80, died after a battle with ALS, in Seattle, Washington on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. She was born to Frances and William Bullwinkel in Seattle on February 2, 1941. Peggy was the third of six children and she grew up in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
She attended Holy Names Academy from...
Alfred Loring Skinner Jr., Md
Apr 23, 2021
Alfred Loring Skinner Jr., MD, long-time Mercer Island resident and pediatrician to many Eastside families, died on April 23, 2021, at home, aged nearly 97 years. Al grew up in Needham, Massachusetts, and was the valedictorian of his high school class. He served as a Naval officer during World War II aboard a minesweeper, then on a PT boat...
Frank Pierre Jolly
Apr 22, 2021
On Monday, July 5th, Frank Pierre Jolly, loving husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather passed away with family at his side. Known to all as Pierre from a young age, was born August 15, 1937, in Saranac Lake, NY to John and Marie Jolly. The family moved to Seattle when he was a young boy and settled on Capital...
Gretchen Smith Jolly
Apr 22, 2021
On Thursday April 22nd, Gretchen S. Jolly, loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother passed away at her home in Shoreline, WA at the age of 83. She was born October 7, 1937, in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of Ford and Chata (Elsa Osborne) Smith. She spent her early years in Spokane until the family moved to Seattle where...
Timothy H. Harn Jr.
Apr 14, 2021
Timothy H. Harn Jr. passed away on April 14, 2021, at St. Anne Hospital, Burien, WA. Tim was born January 18, 1924, in Kent, WA. He was a U.S. Navy veteran serving in the South Pacific during World War II as a corpsman and later as an Ensign. After his military service he attended Seattle University, St. Louis University...
Joel Godston
Mar 30, 2021
Joel Godston, distinguished engineer, avid aviator and beloved husband, brother and father, has passed away in Seattle, WA, on March 30, 2021, at age 86. He is survived by his wife, Annemarie, of 62 years, brother Arjay, sister Ruth, his sons Peter and Gregory, daughter Christa and grandchildren Jaclyn, Anna, Trevor, Ashlee, James and Annika.
Joel was...
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