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Leonella Portmann
Apr 5, 2011
Obituary Leonella Portmann Leonella "Bunny" Portmann, died at home on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, after a two month illness. She was born in Tacoma on April 16, 1920, the second of five children to William and Olive McCaffrey. She was named after Sister Leonella, a nurse at St. Joseph Hospital where she was born. She was nicknamed Bunny due to...
Wallace G. Sundquist
Apr 5, 2011
Obituary Beloved husband, father, grandpa, and friend, your kind soul will be missed. Growing up on the Columbia River in Rainier, OR, he left to serve the army for 23 years then settled in Tacoma in 1968. He worked as a charter boat skipper in Westport before he landed at Pacific Coast Oil. He quickly worked his way up to...
Mary Ann J. Burtchett
Apr 5, 2011
Obituary Mary Ann (Karpack) Burtchett Mary Ann, 77 died April 5, 2011 in Tacoma. Mary Ann was a loving mother and a kind, caring friend of many. Mary Ann was happy as a housewife supporting her husband and raising her family, camping and enjoying her home and the outdoors. She was preceded in death by her husband of fifty years,...
Lois Jean Bradley
Apr 1, 2011
Obituary Lois Jean Bradley Age 81, was born Sept. 25th, 1929 in Tacoma, and died peacefully with family April 1st, 2011 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup after a 4-month struggle with declining health. Lois is survived by her daughter Maggie Law, granddaughter Kerri Seabold and husband Eddie, great-granddaughter Kendall Layne, and brothers Gerald Morris, Fr. John Morris, and Tom...
Kathleen Skrinar
Apr 1, 2011
Obituary Kathleen Skrinar, M.D. 2/1/28 - 4/1/11 Kathleen was born Feb. 1, 1928 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the second of four children, to Honor Higgins Gallagher and Patrick Thomas Gallagher. She died April 1, 2011 at home at the age of 83. She graduated from elementary school and from Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She married Thomas...
Sandra Jean Pavolka
Mar 30, 2011
Obituary Sandra Jean Pavolka Sandra passed away peacefully, with her husband Mark by her side on March 30, 2011 at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. She is dearly loved and will be greatly missed by her family and the many people she knew throughout the world. Sandra was born to Raymond and...
Marilou Baillargeon Tainer
Mar 28, 2011
Obituary Marilou B. Tainer born 10/23/1931 to Thomas and Margaret Baillargeon in Tacoma Washington passed away 3/28/2011 at Tacoma Lutheran Home. She was preceded in death by her loving husband Albert E. Tainer of Cle Elum in 1988. She is survived by her sons Carey and Tom, daughter Betsy, 4 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. Marilou is a retired employee...
Dorothy Isabella Kiely Healy
Mar 6, 2011
Obituary DOROTHY KIELY HEALY Dorothy Isabella Kiely Healy passed away at home in Seattle on March 6, 2011 in the loving company of her family. She was born in Richmond, California to John Roach Kiely and Isabella MacLean Kiely. With her family, Dorothy moved to Tacoma, WA as a girl. She attended St. Patrick's Elementary School and Aquinas Academy High...
Rose C. Aversa
Mar 1, 2011
Obituary Rose Aversa, loving wife and mother, passed away on March 1, 2011, at the age of 87. One of five children, Rose was born August 16, 1923, to Alfonse and Marie Cirillo in Brooklyn, NY, and moved to Baltimore, MD, at the age of nine. Rose met her husband, Joe, in a 5 and 10-cent store and they were...
Rowland Vincent
Feb 25, 2011
Obituary Rowland Charles "Vince" Vincent Was born in Mondovi, Wisconsin on December 24, 1922 to Alice and Charles Vincent, and died February 24, 2011 after a long illness. He attended Mondovi public schools and the University of Wisconsin, where he studied law and economics, before enlisting in the U.S. Air Corps in 1942. During World War II he flew 35...
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