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Elinor Ingeborg Bailey

Elinor Ingeborg Bailey

Sep 1, 2016

Elinor Ingeborg Johnson Bailey, 97, of Ferndale passed away September 1, 2016.  Born February 22, 1919 in Seattle to Bror Otto Johnson and Lean Naslund Johnson.  Elinor was the consoler for her father, younger siblings, Raymond and Marie, after her mother’s death when she was 9.  She was a proud graduate of Queen Ann High School in Seattle and attended...

Arthur Jay Miller

Arthur Jay Miller

Aug 31, 2016

Arthur Jay Miller, age 84, passed away peacefully at 3:45 a.m. on August 31 at Whatcom Hospice House. Arthur and his beloved wife Sandra Miller recently moved to The Willows in Bellingham, WA, from Sun Lakes, Az. He was born on September 13, 1931 in Bronx, NY to Jack and Rebecca Miller. He served in the U.S. Navy as a...

Richard Kenneth Kramer

Richard Kenneth Kramer

Aug 29, 2016

"Richard K. Kramer, 69, of Birch Bay, went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, on August 29th, 2016 in Bellingham, Washington.

 

Richard was born on September 19th, 1946 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was the son of Kenneth and Harda Kramer and beloved brother to his two sisters, Patty and Kay. He served in the United...

Carl Roger Steiner

Carl Roger Steiner

Aug 25, 2016

Carl Roger Steiner was received into the healing arms of Jesus on August 25th, 2016 at the University of Washington Medical Center. Carl was born to Jake and Laura Steiner on December 25th 1942 in Bellingham Washington. He grew up in Glacier Washington and graduated from Mt. Baker High School in 1961. He is survived by his wife Susanne, three...

Rosalie Mae Jurden

Rosalie Mae Jurden

Aug 22, 2016

Rosalie M. Jurden was born November 8, 1927 to William and Leola Webster in Vona, Colorado.  At a young age she had many surgeries to correct bilateral hip dysplasia or as she would say “congenital dislocation of both hips”.  She spent a year in a hospital in Denver away from her family.  After graduating from Stratton High School in 1946...

Thomas Brewster Craft

Thomas Brewster Craft

Aug 19, 2016

Thomas Brewster Craft, age 72 of Everson, Washington, passed away peacefully at his home on Friday, August 19, 2016 after along and heroic battle with cancer.  Tom was born to George and Edla (Olson) Craft on May 3, 1944.  Tom grew up and spent most of his life in Everson, Washington where he married his wife and the love of...

Tom Harold Wallace

Tom Harold Wallace

Aug 12, 2016

Tom Wallace of Bellingham, WA passed away peacefully at home on August 12, 2016.  He is survived two sons, Chris and Connor Wallace, their mom, Shannon Wallace and his dog, Pika.

 Born in Columbus, Ohio, he was the son of Arthur and Donna Wallace.  He was raised in Miami, Florida, lived in Santa Barbara, Ca and moved to Bellingham in...

Erwin "Buddy" Karl Vaughan, III.

Erwin "Buddy" Karl Vaughan, III.

Aug 12, 2016

Erwin Karl Vaughan, III or best known as “Buddy” passed away on Friday, August 12, 2016, in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado.  Who he is survived by is a long list, much longer than we can publish, but here’s a start.  He is survived by his parents, Bud and Sue Vaughan; sister & brother in law Randi Vaughan and Tim Coffelt...

Marcia Denise Kendall

Marcia Denise Kendall

Aug 10, 2016

Marcia Denise Kendall, age 65, of Everett, Washington passed away on Wednesday August 10, 2016. She was born on November 23, 1950, to parents Fred and Margaret Dether. Marcia was the second of five children. She was creative, curious and could find four leaf clovers everywhere she went. Marcia loved to crochet and knit blankets, and when her children were...

Joanne M. Barnes

Joanne M. Barnes

Jul 27, 2016

Joanne began her wonderful life in the Whitehorn area of Whatcom County with her parents and older brothers Ronald and Richard.  The Whitehorn  area was occupied mainly by Norwegian immigrants who were mostly related.  She enjoyed her early years playing with cousins and other children in the area.  She attended the single room Whitehorn School through the sixth grade where...

Mary Jean Bradley

Mary Jean Bradley

Jul 25, 2016

Mary Jean Bradley, age 66, of Bellingham passed away on Monday July 25th at the Whatcom County Hospice House after a long battle with heart disease. She was born in Seattle on October 1st, 1949. She was preceded in death by her husband of 46 years, John Bradley in February of this year. She is survived by her three children...

Roy Walter Morgan

Roy Walter Morgan

Jul 25, 2016

Roy W. Morgan, age 79, of Blaine passed away Monday,  July 25, 2016 at home surrounded by family after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born April 27, 1937 in Seattle to parents Paul and Viola Morgan (Sundae). Roy graduated from Queen Anne High School in Seattle with the class of 1956 and enlisted in the United States...

Norma Jean Wight

Norma Jean Wight

Jul 24, 2016

Norma Jean Wight, age 93, of Bellingham passed away at her home Sunday, July 24, 2016.  Jean grew up as a farm girl in rural Indiana, helping her father in the barn and fields and her mother in the home. As a young woman she became very independent, loving her working career in Fort Wayne and Chicago. She met and...

Leslie Ralph Garcia

Leslie Ralph Garcia

Jul 23, 2016

Les passed peacefully into the presence of our Lord, July 23, 2016, surrounded by loving family at the age of 97. He was predeceased by his parents, brothers and sisters, his wives' Xaneth (1967) and Marguerite (2011), both of Wenatchee, and granddaughter, Deborah (Smith) Mosset (2010) of North Dakota.  His life-long passion was art, which he mostly expressed through painting. This passion emerged...

Roland Dale Signett

Roland Dale Signett

Jul 23, 2016

Dr. Roland Dale Signett, age 72, of Ferndale passed away Saturday, July 23, 2016, at the Whatcom Hospice House in Bellingham. He was born Dec. 14, 1943, in Susanville, CA, to parents Norman Maze and Wanda May (Cook) Doss. Roland graduated from high school with the class of 1961 in Anderson, CA.  He received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in History from California State University,...

Clayton Charles Vargo

Clayton Charles Vargo

Jul 22, 2016

Clayton Charles Vargo, age 27, of Seattle formerly of Bellingham, passed away Friday, July 22, 2016 in Seattle.  Clayton was born October 13, 1988 in Bellingham, Washington.  He survived by his mother, Tina and her husband Israel Mahathy; father, Kelly Vargo and his wife Sherri; brothers, Blake and Christian; grandparents, Nancy Mullen and Lynda Langston and numerous aunts, uncles and...

Leonard David Unruh

Leonard David Unruh

Jul 16, 2016

Leonard was born in Dalhart Texas and soon moved to Oklahoma where he was surrounded by many aunts, uncles and cousins. At age 7 he moved north to Birch Bay Washington. He, along with his family pioneered a plot of land.  They logged their property, had a sawmill and started a farm, which Leonard eventually purchased and ran until 1986. 

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Rolland "Rollie" Holterman

Rolland "Rollie" Holterman

Jul 15, 2016

Rolland “Rollie” Holterman, 73, of Lynden, WA passed away at home on Friday, July 15, 2016 from Pancreatic Cancer.  His body was broken but his relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ has taken him to heaven. Throughout his life, Rolland was known for his sense of humor, his ability to tell a story and his love for knowledge, teaching and...

Rita Catherine McGarrity

Rita Catherine McGarrity

Jul 12, 2016

Rita Catherine McGarrity died Tuesday, July 12, 2016, in her 100th year of life, surrounded by her children, in Bellingham, WA, where she has lived since 1977. Rita was born in Amsterdam, NY, of an Irish Roman Catholic mother, Julia Alice Farrell, and an English Presbyterian father, John Jasper Horton. At the age of 14 she began working at the...

Beverly "Bev" J. Sund

Beverly "Bev" J. Sund

Jul 8, 2016

Beverly "Bev" J. Sund, age 84, of Ferndale passed away peacefully at her home Friday, July 8, 2016. Bev was born October 26, 1931 in Burlington, Washington to parents George Theodore and Fannie Jane (Archer, Brewster) Fredrickson.   She is survived by her husband, Leonard of 65 years, they were married October 4, 1950 at Zion Lutheran Church in Ferndale;  their...

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