Obituaries

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Local Obituaries for Bainbridge Island, WA, Kitsap County and Surrounding Cities

Max Howard Gano

Max Howard Gano

Feb 21, 2014

passed away on Friday, February 21, 2014 at his home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was born on December 29, 1955 and was 58 years of age. There will be a private Celebration of Life. In lieu of flowers the family has requested donations to Arms Around Bainbridge, a local nonprofit who helped greatly during Max's illness [Click Here].Arrangements entrusted...

Lillian Blanche Jay

Lillian Blanche Jay

Feb 17, 2014

102, passed away peacefully on the morning of February 17, 2014. She was born in Ellensburg, Washington on April 10, 1911 and was raised in Western Washington.Blanche was the oldest of nine siblings, five sisters and three brothers. She is survived by three of her sisters, Lois Dodd, Virginia Teague and Delores (Doll) Jones, her son John Jay, five grandchildren,...

Belle Abrams

Belle Abrams

Feb 14, 2014

passed away on Friday, February 14, 2014 at Bailey Manor on Bainbridge Island, Washington. She was born on January 18, 1923 in Seattle, WA and was 91 years of age. Belle liked to think of herself as a character. She liked to talk attending the University of Washington when tuition was only per quarter, her days as a shop...

Arthur Smaaladen

Arthur Smaaladen

Feb 13, 2014

passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 13, 2014 at Montclair Park in Poulsbo Washington surrounded by his family. He was born September 26, 1914 in Petersburg, North Dakota to Even and Gustava (Tverberg) Smaaladen. He attended school in Petersburg, North Dakota.Arthur married Edna Knutson August 19, 1934 in Shelby Montana. They worked their way to Poulsbo where they lived and...

Patricia Brown Holman

Patricia Brown Holman

Feb 10, 2014

passed away on Monday, February 10, 2014 at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Washington. She was born on May 25, 1952 in Colorado and was 60 years of age.She worked as a nurse throughout her life and concluded her career at Kitsap Mental Health. Patricia was a compassionate person about life and all it's aspects. She was a loving force...

Dorothy Tickler Nylund Meyer

Dorothy Tickler Nylund Meyer

Feb 8, 2014

on February 8, 2014, aged ninety-eight, joined her many family members and friends who proceeded her in her transition to heaven. She was born in Stephenson, Michigan on May 25, 1915 to William and Ursline TIckler. She spent her childhood years in Daggett, Michigan. She married Theodore Nylund and lived on a dairy farm in Daggett, Michigan while raising a...

Bradley Michael Trevathan

Bradley Michael Trevathan

Jan 31, 2014

of Safford, returned to his Father in Heaven January 31, 2014, at the age of 18. Born in Sierra Vista on July 26, 1995, to Jamie Cuffee and Thomas Trevathan, Brad spent his early life in Benson. He moved to Safford with his family at the age of 10 where he attended Thatcher and later Safford schools. Brad was very...

Richard Keith Roberts

Richard Keith Roberts

Jan 30, 2014

passed away on January 30, 2014. He was born on April 2, 1962 and was 51 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.

Glen Michael Fitch

Glen Michael Fitch

Jan 26, 2014

passed away on Sunday, January 26th in Seattle, Washington. He was 56 years of age. He was born in Queens, New York, at St. Albans Naval Hospital on July 18th, 1957. As the oldest child of a Navy family he spent his earlier years living in San Diego, CA, Dutch Harbor, AK, and finally settling on Bainbridge Island, WA.Glen was...

David Zary Janich

David Zary Janich

Jan 26, 2014

passed away on January 26, 2014 at his residence on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was born on April 26, 1938 and was 75 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.

Ruth M. Hart

Ruth M. Hart

Jan 26, 2014

passed away on January 26, 2014 at The Messenger House on Bainbridge Island, Washington. She was born on September 14, 1930 and was 83 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.

John Paul Denardo

John Paul Denardo

Jan 25, 2014

passed away on January 25, 2014 at Island Health and Rehabilitation on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was born on February 25, 1932 and was 81 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.

James Polk Nieukirk Ii

James Polk Nieukirk Ii

Jan 18, 2014

passed away on Saturday, January 18, 2014 at his home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was born on June 27, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was 94 years of age.James was trained in flying by the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Navy as soon as WWII broke out.. He was trained for frontline fighter planes and flew almost every...

Jerome Lofgren

Jerome Lofgren

Jan 16, 2014

passed away on January 16, 2014 at his home in Poulsbo, Washington. He was born on November 29, 1933 and was 80 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.

Russell David Johnson

Russell David Johnson

Jan 16, 2014

passed away at his residence on Bainbridge Island, Washington on Thursday, January 16, 2014. He was born on November 10, 1924 in Ashley, Pennsylvania to Russell Kennedy and Marinne Winona Johnson.Russell was an American television and film actor best known as "The Professor" on the CBS television sitcom Gilligan's Island.He became a close friend of Audie Murphy and later appeared...

Benjamin F. Jennings

Benjamin F. Jennings

Jan 13, 2014

Retired Navy Lieutenant Commander, died January 13, 2014 at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, WA. Better known to his friends as Frank, he was born September 9, 1926 in Hunters, WA to the late Benjamin Franklin Jennings and Mabel Minnie Friske Jennings. While attending West Seattle High School, he enlisted in the US Navy in 1943. Rising in rank, Frank...

Richard Dunbar

Richard Dunbar

Jan 10, 2014

passed away on Friday, January 10, 2014 at his home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was born on September 16, 1937 and was 76 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.

William Baker Richards

William Baker Richards

Jan 9, 2014

passed away on Thursday, January 9, 2014. He was born on July 29, 1941 in Yonkers, New York. he was 72 years of age.Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend the memorial service on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 5 PM at the Indianola clubhouse in Indianola, Washington.

Susan Wilcke Margo Pyfer

Susan Wilcke Margo Pyfer

Jan 5, 2014

passed peacefully on Jan. 5, 2014 at the University of Washington Hospital. She was born in New York, N.Y. on Feb. 23, 1941 to Jane and Adalbert Wilcke.Susan moved to Portland, Ore. in 1971, then to Seattle in 2001. She is survived by her two daughters, Susan Grace and Kathleen Birum.Susan began each day with a smile and her positivity...

Dr. George J. Carr

Dr. George J. Carr

Dec 30, 2013

passed away on Dec. 30 at the age of 81. He was born in Seattle in 1932 to George Carr Sr. and Dorothy Wilcox Carr.He grew up in Lake Forest Park and attended Roosevelt High School before moving with his family to Covina, California. In 1954, he graduated from Pomona College where he met his future wife, Lind. Three years...