OBITUARIES

Mar 18, 2019

June 6, 1952 – March 18, 2019

Rebecca read the obituaries, observing life and death with her wry sense of humor and her compassion.  It is with a great appreciation of this practice that the family writes:

Starting with the important things, the vital statistics, it would have to be said that her hands were long, thin,...

Mar 12, 2019

Aino was born in Türi, Estonia, August 14, 1921. Her father, Karl Käsper, a traditional trader, died when she was just five and her mother never remarried, raising her three children on her own and with the help of her older daughter and son.

As a teen her mother Olga sent Aino to school in Tallinn at...

Mar 10, 2019

Gail W. Burk died March 10, 2019. Gail Carolyn Kramer Williams Gloyd Burk was born June 13, 1931 and was raised in Enumclaw, Washington. Her parents were Les and Helen Kramer. She moved to Seattle, met and married Richard G. Williams, when she was 21.  They lived in Seattle and had four children Glenn 1953, Ron 1955, Nancy 1956...

Mar 5, 2019

May 15, 1922 - March 5, 2019

Born and raised in Seattle, he was an avid skier and mountain climber.  He climbed both Mt. Rainer and Mt. Baker and among many peaks in the Cascades and the Olympics. As a boy scout he achieved the top honor of Eagle Scout.  Pierre graduated from Lincoln High School as...

Feb 26, 2019

Thomas L. Hill, 68, of Seattle, Washington, passed away peacefully at home on February 26, 2019, after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer. Tom was born in Richwood, West Virginia to the late Albert and Dolores (Hill) Welch on March 13, 1950. At 13 months old his mother passed away from complications during the birth of his younger...

Feb 24, 2019

Donald Conrad Lopp passed away peacefully at home on February 24, 2019. He was 91, and is survived by his wife Joan, daughters Annette Mumford (Gordon) and Dianne Watters (Mike), grandchildren Matthew Watters, Candace Watters, Rachael Watters, and Kathryn Watters, sister Ann Stemwell (Dick), as well as nephews and nieces. He was preceded by his daughter Eileen, his parents...

Feb 23, 2019

Vi was born at home in Chicago, IL, in 1919 to Alexander “Mike” and Lily Cecilia (nee Arvidson) Ziccarelli and died in Seattle, WA, 2/23/2019.  She married John McShea in 1941, and they had two daughters, Maureen Frances (1948 - 2007) and Patricia Ann (born 1950) McShea. After they divorced Vi married Risley McNamee (died 1970).  Vi then had...

Feb 22, 2019

Clay A. Robertson was born in Bellingham, WA April 20, 1960 to Orval and Mary Ellen Robertson. He had one brother and one sister. He graduated from Sehome High school. He was a caring person, he would help someone else, even before his own self. Clay died February 22, 2019.

Feb 14, 2019

12-18-40 - 2-14-19

Photographer, painter, ceramic sculptor, boilermaker, bon vivant, iconoclast, Larry Larsen passed away peacefully on Valentine’s Day in Seattle.  Born in Billings, Mt., to Oscar Larsen and Ethelyn Hines, the family moved to Powell, Wy. in 1947.   After high school graduation, Larry left for Minneapolis and then San Francisco.

Larry married Sharon Backstrom in 1960...

Feb 6, 2019

Edward Martin Hynes died Feb 6, 2019 at Northwest Hospital, Seattle, after a long battle with cancer. Born Sept 10, 1932 in Kent, WA, he was the son of the late Martin and Ellen Warren Hynes. He married Unni Lindberg in 1956 after meeting her at the Norway Center in Ballard, WA and had 4 children - Linda (James...

Feb 2, 2019

A brilliant and kind man, Gillis (Gil) Edward Reavis, age 62, is finally at peace. Gil passed away on Saturday, February 2nd, 2019, after an eight-year battle with Posterior Cortical Atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease brought on by a traumatic brain injury he suffered in a bicycle accident in 2008.

Gil was born December 21,...

Jan 31, 2019

David C. Teller, Ph.D.  Beloved father, husband, brother, uncle, mentor, naturalist, outdoorsman, University of Washington Emeritus Professor, died peacefully in early February 2019.  He was 80. He lived a full life. We miss him.

He was a long-standing member of the Department of Biochemistry, who started as an Assistant Professor in 1965 and worked for the next...

Jan 31, 2019

July 2, 1966 – January 31, 2019

After a short illness, surrounded by family and friends, 52 year old Doug Middleton passed peacefully into the waiting arms of his late mother, Patricia.

Born in Seattle, Doug spent most of his life in the Edmonds area, graduating from Meadowdale High.

He was passionate about anything with...

Jan 25, 2019

Mike Blackwell died early on the morning of January 25, 2019, at Queen Anne Retirement Community, in Seattle. He was a beloved and steadfast husband, partner, father, and friend. At the time of his death, he was planning to stay in Seattle while recovering from several months of health problems, complicated by a fall and a fractured vertebra. In...

Jan 25, 2019

Sylvia Nussbaum, age 100, died on Friday January 25, 2019 in Seattle.

Sylvia was born in New York City April 10, 1918, the second child of Sol and Sarah Robbins, who had emigrated from Eastern Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. She grew up in Brooklyn and the Bronx, with a large extended family in...

Jan 24, 2019

May 4, 1941 - January 24,2019

Born in Clinton, Arkansas to Bessie and Dell Reeves, Jer was raised in Tieton, Washington. He attended Whitworth College and after graduation moved to Seattle where he began a long career as a cinematographer/videographer.  He loved this work because it satisfied his curiosity of the world and his sense of adventure....

Jan 21, 2019

Nancy Phillips Perkins, 98, died at her home in University House in Seattle, Washington on January 21, 2019 - Martin Luther King Day. This was fitting, as her civil rights activity in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 50's and early 60's was one of the things she was most proud of. She is survived by her five children, 13...

Jan 16, 2019

James G. Bond, PhD, former University President, Carter appointee, and Mayor, passed away after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease, on January 16, 2019. He died peacefully in his sleep, at 94, in Seattle, Washington, with family members by his side. Jim was the third of five children of Silas G. Monroe Bond, a truck driver, and Coloma Russell...

Jan 15, 2019

Marsha Ann Wiecks Wright died in her Seattle home on 01.15.19. She was born 09.06.1946, and grew up in Southern Minnesota where she attended Macalester College in St. Paul and Minnesota State University in Mankato. Nearly 35 years ago she relocated to Seattle where she has been a classical pianist as well as a piano teacher. As a board...

Jan 15, 2019

2/11/1929 – 1/15/2019

Born in Victoria, BC but called Seattle home.

Garfield High School 1947

President of the Boys Club, Assistant Editor of the Arrow:  Sophomore Class President; Track: Advisory Board; Quill and Scroll; Honor Roll; Honor Society; Senior Picnic Committee.

His desire to become an Eagle Scout was thwarted when...