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James Brownlee Dick
July 17, 1925 -- Jan. 11, 2003
Former Port of Port Angeles Commissioner James Brownlee Dick died in his Sequim home. He was 77.
He was born in Seattle to James and Emily Beryl (Kerschner) Dick.
Mr. Dick entered the Marine Corps as a private in 1943.
After World War II, he was discharged from active duty. He later entered the Army and advanced to the rank of lieutenant colonel before retiring in 1972. His duty stations spanned the continental United States in addition to Okinawa and Puerto Rico.
Mr. Dick was decorated four times, with the Legion of Merit his highest honor. He also received three Arrowheads and seven Battle Stars.
He married Pearl Catherine Hardnock in St. Charles, Mo., on June 29, 1946. She died Dec. 23, 2000.
Mr. Dick, who loved history, was an avid reader.
While living in Sequim and serving as a Port commissioner for nine years, his major project was establishment of John Wayne Marina.
Survivors include daughters Kim Gilman of Sequim and Eloise Ware of Diamond Point; sister Georgia Herried; and two grandchildren.
Services: Inurnment at Dungeness Cemetery
was under direction of Sequim Valley Chapel.
Bessie Markuson
Dec. 20, 1917 -- Jan. 13, 2003
Bessie Markuson of Port Angeles died of respiratory failure at age 85.
She was born in Roslyn to Anton and Frances (Tomatich) Pasquan.
She graduated from high school in Renton. During World War II, she worked for Boeing Co. and as a telephone operator for the Bell Telephone Co., before becoming a full-time wife and mother.
She married John Clyde Markuson in Renton on Feb. 21, 1948. He died in 1989.
Her interests included gardening and antiques.
Mrs. Markuson is survived by son Dave of Port Angeles; daughter Jayne Markuson of Kingston; and sister Fanny McCaffrey of Anacortes.
Her son, Dick, died in 1974. She was also preceded in death by brother Charles Pasquan.
Services: Friday, Jan. 17, at 10 a.m., graveside service in Ocean View Cemetery, 3127 W. 18th St., Port Angeles. The Rev. Kurt Nagel will officiate. Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Olympic Memorial Hospital, 939 Caroline St., Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Harry R. Pearson
May 5, 1921 -- Jan. 11, 2003
Harry R. Pearson died of cancer in his Port Angeles home at age 81.
He was born in Tama, Iowa, to Sexton and Clara (Fielder) Pearson and graduated from high school in Grinnell, Iowa.
During World War II, he served in the Pacific Theater with the Navy from 1942 to 1945, rising to electrician's mate first class.
After the war, he worked in electrical repair and rebuilding in Seattle for 2½ years, at Dobson's in Port Angeles for 22 years, then as co-owner of Angeles Auto Alectric for eight years. Mr. Pearson retired in 1983.
He was a member of Washington State Auto Dealers Local and Port Angeles Naval Elks Lodge. He was a hunter, fisherman and RV traveler.
Mr. Pearson's survivors include his wife of 62 years, the former Earleen Iosbaker, whom he married in Lancaster, Mo.
He is also survived by son Lance L. Rogers Sr.; daughter Judi S. Hollinger of Centralia; daughters Cynthia Jill Pearson and Cheryl V. Pearson, both of Port Angeles; sister Muriel Rank of Tama, Iowa; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by son Ronald Russell Pearson, USMC, who was killed in Vietnam; brothers Ballard and John Pearson; sisters Neva, Irene, Bessie, Adra, Doris and Phyllis; one grandson, two great-grandsons and one great-granddaughter.
Services: Friday, Jan. 17, at 3 p.m., memorial in Drennan-Ford Funeral Home, 260 Monroe Road, Port Angeles. Mike Thorsteinson, Jan Demmon and Della Shaw will officiate.
Memorials: Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Virgil Donald Powers
May 22, 1923 -- Jan. 13, 2003
Sequim resident Virgil Donald Powers died in hospice care at age 79.
He was born in Mabton to Edward Donald and Mabel Delusia (Smith) Powers.
He graduated from Analy High School in 1941 and attended Santa Rosa (Calif.) Junior College.
In 1942 he worked as a policeman at Mare Island Navy Yard in California, before entering the Army on Feb. 23, 1943. Mr. Powers was a second lieutenant in the Medical Corps when he was discharged June 18, 1946.
In 1946-68, he was a cattle and sheep rancher in Modesto and Dixon, Calif., and New Plymouth, Idaho. In 1971-75, he was director of the Museum of Mining and Industry in Colorado Springs, Colo..
In 1975-76, Mr. Powers was construction superintendent for Alaska Gas Co. in Anchorage, Alaska; and in 1977, moved to Sequim.
Mr. Powers was a member of the board of the Solano County Reclamation District in Dixon, Calif., Milnes School District in Modesto, Calif., and vestry member of several Episcopal churches, serving as treasurer and senior warden in Payette, Idaho, and as junior warden in Sequim.
He enjoyed fishing, hunting, reading and vacationing with his family.
Mr. Powers married Thelma June Lee at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Modesto on Feb. 17, 1951.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by son and daughter-in-law Brian Donald and Leann Powers of Tainan, Taiwan; daughter and son-in-law Nancy Lee and Roger Green of Modesto, Calif.; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
He was preceded in death by brother Norman Dallas Powers.
Services: Saturday, Jan. 18, at 10 a.m., memorial followed by a reception in St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim. The Rev. Robert Rhoads will officiate. Inurnment will be in Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home, Port Angeles, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: St. Luke's Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 896, Sequim, WA 98382; or Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362. Please, no flowers.
Phyllis Bertha Whitman
Feb. 15, 1916 -- Jan. 13, 2003
Former Port Angeles resident Phyllis Bertha Whitman of Everett died in Overlake Hospital, Bellevue, from heart failure. She was 86.
She was born in Lewistown, Mont., to Frederick and Bertha (Priess) Syverson.
She married Mark Whitman on June 18, 1938.
The Whitmans lived in Port Angeles during the 1960s.
In her earlier years, Mrs. Whitman hiked Peninsula trails and climbed Mount Olympus.
She belonged to Chapter IM of PEO in Port Angeles and was an active member of First United Methodist Church, where she sang in the choir and participated in United Methodist Women.
Mrs. Whitman was also a member of Entre Nous Study Club and Antique Club, as well as a collector and gardener.
Survivors include sons Franklin Mark Whitman of Bainbridge Island and Ralph Dele Whitman of Lake Stevens; daughters Janice Carol Hurworth of Port Angeles and Laurie Beth Leaverton of Bellevue; brothers Howard Syverson of Tacoma, Ralph Syverson of Shoreline, and Robert Syverson of Las Vegas; eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Whitman's husband died Dec. 16, 1991. She was also preceded in death by brother Ken Syverson.
Services: Monday, Jan. 20, at 2 p.m., memorial in First United Methodist Church, 36th and Colby, Everett. Bleitz Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Cottey College, c/o Iris Broad, 4805 West View Drive, Everett, WA 98203; and Holt International Children's Services, P.O. Box 2880, Eugene, OR 97402.
Kathleen Grace Boyce
Jan. 2, 1920 -- Jan. 12, 2003
Kathleen Grace Boyce died in Olympic Memorial Hospital, Port Angeles, of pneumonia. She was 83.
She was born in Jackson, Mich., to Leonard T. and Gertrude (Murdock) Brayton.
She married Vincent M. Boyce on Sept. 9, 1937. He died in 1987.
Before retiring to Port Angeles to be with her daughter, Mrs. Boyce taught kindergarten in Washington D.C., and Fort Knox, Ky., and was a farmer in Michigan, where she also belonged to Eagles Club and the Methodist Church.
At age 65, she completed high school with a grade-point average of 4.0, then completed one year of college.
Mrs. Boyce is survived by son Jimmie E. Boyce of Arizona; daughter Janet E. Boyce of Port Angeles; six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Services: Private family memorial held Wednesday, Jan. 15, with Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel, Port Angeles, in charge of arrangements. Interment will be in Jackson, Mich.
Memorials: American Lung Association of Washington, 2625 Third Ave., Seattle, WA 98121; and Peninsula Friends of Animals, P.O. Box 404, Sequim, WA 98382.
Clara Louise Carman
Feb. 13, 1917 -- Jan. 7, 2003
Clara Louise Carman of Port Townsend died of pneumonia at age 85.
The youngest of 13 children, she was born in Oxford, Mich., to Frederick Christian and Hulda May (Van Horn) Beaviner.
When she was 3 years old, her mother died of influenza, after which Clara was raised on a small farm by her father and aunt.
At 12, Clara taught herself to play the piano, prelude to decades of her playing at Grange and community events, as well as in dance bands and accompanying a brother and sister.
At age 15, she won a regional Charleston dance championship, She later managed a restaurant featuring specialty hamburgers.
She married Gerald Lyle Carman in Pontiac, Mich. on Sept. 27, 1941.
In 1942, Mrs. Carman moved to Port Townsend with her husband, who was stationed at Fort Flagler at the time.
She first worked as a drugstore waitress, hardware store salesclerk and cleaners bookkeeper before retiring to be a full-time mother.
In addition to music and dancing, Mrs. Carman enjoyed traveling, river camping, fishing in Admiralty Inlet with her husband, cooking with garden-fresh vegetables, sewing and reading.
Although a member of First Presbyterian Church, in later years she favored ``nature's cathedral" along the Duckabush River at Collins Camp.
Survivors include son Alan Scott Carman of Port Angeles; brother-in-law and sister-in-law John and Lois Carman of Chico, Calif.; sisters-in-law Gerry Carman of Pontiac, Mich., Betty Sutton of Mesa, Ariz., and Janet Paajenen of St. Claire, Mich.; and two grandchildren.
Mrs. Carman was preceded in death by 12 siblings and, on April 20, 1998, her husband.
Services: Celebration of Life to be announced. Cremains will be scattered in a favorite Puget Sound area. Kosec Funeral Home, Port Townsend, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Children's Hospital Foundation, P.O. Box 5371 MS CH-23, Seattle, WA 98105-0371.
Howard Shane Maumasi Jr.
April 26, 1983 -- Jan. 11, 2003
Howard Shane Maumasi Jr. died from injuries received in a car crash on U.S. Highway 101 east of Port Angeles. He was 19.
He was born in Vancouver, Wash., to Howard Shane and Joanne (Cowles) Maumasi Sr.
He graduated from Charter High School in San Diego before enlisting with the Coast Guard.
Seaman Maumasi was a graduate of the Coast Guard schools for storekeepers at Petaluma, Calif., and Centralized Supply Systems, Yorktown, Va.
In Port Angeles, he was an inventory control purchasing agent for the Coast Guard cutter Active.
He was a creative person known as an excellent graphic artist.
In addition to his father of Western Samoa and mother and stepfather Joanne and Todd Hall of Vancouver, Wash., Seaman Maumasi's survivors include sisters Valarie Cowles, Pearl Maumasi, and Paisley Poirier of Vancouver, Wash.; brother Anthony Martinez of Vancouver, Wash.; grandparents Dewain and Enid Mecham of Vancouver, Wash., Carl and Gail Hall of South Dakota, and Sau Maumasi of California.
Services: Friday, Jan. 17, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday, Jan. 18, until 3 p.m., visitation in Memorial Gardens Funeral Chapel, 1101 NE 112th Ave., Vancouver, Wash., preceding the 3 p.m. funeral, which will be followed by cremation.
Memorials: Coast Guard Mutual Assistance, 4200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 610, Arlington, VA 22203 -- in memory of SKSN Howard S. Maumasi, USCGC Active, deceased.
Hal Wells
Sept. 9, 1931 -- Jan. 14, 2003
Former Sequim resident Hal Wells died in his sleep of a heart attack at his La Paz, Mexico, residence. He was 71.
The eldest of eight children, he was born in Prescott, Wis., to Harold Byron and Mary Clare (Goeswisch) Wells.
After two years of active duty with the Army, Mr. Wells attended the University of Texas School of Architecture for two years and Southern Methodist University School of Engineering. for one year.
He married the former Jeanne Witherspoon on Sept. 25, 1954.
In Port Angeles, Mr. Wells worked for Tim Haley Architects and Lindberg Architects.
Mr. Wells was a member of St. Luke's and Faith Lutheran churches in Sequim, before he and his wife retired to Mexico's Baja California Peninsula in November 2001.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Wells' survivors include son Larry Wells of Sequim; daughter Pam Fries of Port Angeles; numerous siblings and three grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents and son, John.
Services: A local memorial service will be announced. There was cremation in Mexico.
Memorials: Constant Hope Fellowship, 51 O'Brien Road, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
