Truxtun Craven died peacefully in his sleep June 27, 2015 at the age of 88. He was born April 8, 1927 in Baltimore, Maryland to Catharine Ewing and Francis Sanderson Craven. Truxtun moved with his parents and three younger siblings to Bellevue, Washington in the early 1940s and attended Bellevue High School where he met his future wife, Janet Dickinson.

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After high school Truxtun served in the Navy and then attended Central Washington College in Ellensburg, where he and Janet married in 1948. Truxtun worked at the Boeing Company for 20 years and then went to work at Olympic Instruments on Vashon Island, learning the business and eventually taking over when Chris Crecelius retired. He also served on the board of the Sunrise Ridge Clinic and was active in the Kiwanis Club.

He was a man of many talents, able to design and construct buildings and boats, both scale model RC vessels and a fifty-foot fiberglass trawler taking shape in his back yard. He understood and could repair all things mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic. More recently he enjoyed watching ships and birds and the towering weeping willow outside his dining room windows.

Truxtun and Janet always loved traveling. In the early days of their marriage his annual two-week vacation meant piling the kids into the station wagon and camping across country to visit grandparents in California and on the East Coast. Later when retirement gave them more time, the couple enjoyed motor home trips around the US and into Mexico, barefoot cruises to warm climates, and winters in the Southwest.

Truxtun leaves Janet, his wife of 67 years, his four children: Christine Craven (Rik Dalvit), Catherine (Tom) Mix, Thomas Craven, and Dorothy McCoy, nine grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. He will be remembered as a loving husband and father, and an upright and honest man who did his duty as he saw it.

There are no plans for a memorial service.

Please visit our online guestbook at www.islandfuneral.com.

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