Obituary Anton Karlich born October 15, 1914 in Kukljicia, Croatia, died March 12, 2007 in Federal Way. He was a WWII veteran. Anton moved to Tacoma from New York where he had worked the docks as a longshoreman and in Tacoma he became a Commercial Fisherman. He was a member of the Slavonian American Benevolent Society, the Tacoma Elks Lodge and a longtime member of St. Patrick Catholic Church.