Jack Adolph Hakala died on July 6, 2003, at his home in Port Orchard, Wash., with his family around him. He was 71 years old.Jack… Continue reading
Harvey Ward Smith, a former islander, died June 28, 2003, at his son’s home in Port Townsend, Wash., of heart failure. He was 92 years… Continue reading
Andrew Owen Katsirubas of Vashon Island, died on May 28, 2003, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 37 years old.Mr. Katsirubas was born on… Continue reading
Robert Charles Covert of Vashon died Sunday, May 11, 2003, at his home. He was 73 years old.Mr. Covert was born on Coldspring Farm in… Continue reading
Betty DeHope died May 8, 2003, after a brief illness at the Weatherly Inn in Tacoma. She was 82 years old.Born Christmas day 1920 in… Continue reading
Richard Kuchenbecker died May 8, 2003.He attended Vashon Island Community Church which is where his memorial will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 24.Mr.… Continue reading
Patricia W. Gordon died May 10, 2003. She was 89 years old.She was born on May 6, 1914, in Seattle to Winifred and Harry Shaw.She… Continue reading
Lianne Shepherd died Saturday, May 3, 2003, after a third cerebral bleed in 12 years. She was 40 years old.Ms. Shepherd was born in 1962… Continue reading
Earl Emmett Larsen of Vashon Island died April 30, 2003, at his home on Vashon after a brief battle with cancer. He was 73 years… Continue reading
Elaine Jensen, a former resident of Vashon Island, died April 29, 2003, at Swedish Hospital in Ballard. She was 93 years old.She was born April… Continue reading
Francis Dean, a pioneer modernist of California landscape architecture, died April 29, 2003, surrounding by friends and family at his home on Vashon Island following… Continue reading
Hazel Sophia Carlander Carleton, a resident of Vashon Island for 51 years, died April 16, 2003, at the Vashon Community Care Center. She was 100… Continue reading
Ruby Arnesen died April 15, 2003, on Vashon Island. She was 90 years old.Ruby was born Feb. 25, 1913, in Arlington, Wash. She came to… Continue reading
Adelaide Mary Bowen, formerly of Burton, died April 13 in Concord, Calif. She was 91.Adelaide was born in Cassville, Wis., and grew up in Montana.… Continue reading
Mark James Devlin, 48, resident of Vashon, died on Tuesday, April 8, 2003, after a 9-year long illness with Sarcoma cancer. He died at home… Continue reading
Jeanne Bryant died on April 6, 2003, after an extended illness.She was born in Columbus Ohio of a New England Family. She came to Seattle… Continue reading
Della Lucille Kvisvik, formerly of Vashon Island, died March 30, 2003, in Tacoma, Wash. She was 83 years old.Born May 7, 1919, in Council Bluffs,… Continue reading
Dennis Donohue of Vashon died in Seattle March 30, 2003. Services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 5, at the Episcopal church of the… Continue reading
Ruth O. Eggleston, a long-time Vashon elementary school teacher, died March 14, 2003, as a result of complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was 81 years… Continue reading
Jane Stoltz died March 27, 2003, after a short illness in Bellevue. She was 86 years old.Mrs. Stoltz was born Oct. 4, 1916, in West… Continue reading