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LINDA MAE COLEMAN
August 7, 1947-July 18, 2003
Port Angeles resident Linda Mae Coleman, 55, died July 18, 2003, at Olympic Medical Center.
Linda was born in Everett, Wash., to Allen L. Sr. and Violet Mae (Daughtry) Cowles on August 7, 1947.
Linda married Bobby O. Coleman on May 1, 1967.
Linda was a very talented person who enjoyed crafts, sewing, as well as decorating her beautiful home. She also loved the outdoors and enjoyed gardening and camping.
Linda loved her family and friends and loved to make each of them feel special. She was a very devoted wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend.
Linda had grown so deeply in the Lord and loved to share what she had learned about him with others. She will be greatly missed.
Linda was a member of Bethany Pentecostal Church and Aglow Women's Fellowship.
In addition to her husband and father, Linda is survived by sons Allen O. Coleman and Warren A. Coleman, and son-in-law Steven B. Hoyt, all of Port Angeles. Daughters Donna M. Hoyt of Port Angeles. Step-parents Doreen E. Kure and Carol Cowles of Port Angeles. Brothers Allen L Cowles Jr. of Silverdale, Wash. Sisters Tena M. Robison of Vancouver, Wash., Elizabeth R. Trowbridge and Robin L. Jacobs both of Port Angeles and Barbara J. Cates of Port Townsend, Wash.; 7 grandchildren, and several adopted-by-love grandchildren.
Linda was preceded in death by her mother, grandparents Ancil L. Cowles and Jessie Evelyn B. Cowles, James Daughtry and Bessie Daughtry; daughter Deanise S. Coleman; and stepfather Leroy R. Walker.
A very special thanks from the family to Dr. Mark Fischer from Virginia Mason Clinic for the care and loving way you had with our mom and wife. You truly are an angel. We also would love to thank Dr. Mark Redlin from Virginia Mason Clinic and Kay Case of Olympic Medical Home Health as well as the staff for the awesome care and support they gave to Linda Coleman and family in her home.
Thank you also to the respiratory staff and nurses at Bel-Air Rehabilitation Center for the care and training they gave to all of us. Thank you to Olympic Medical Center CCU and the ER nurses and doctors. We would have never been able to care for my mom alone or without all your help. Thank you from our hearts.
The Coleman and Hoyt family.
Services: Saturday, August 2nd, 2003 at 3 p.m. at Bethany Pentecostal Church, 508 South Francis in Port Angeles. Pastor Omer R. Vigoren is officiating. Reception immediately following.
Elizabeth A. `Beth' Kautz
Jan. 25, 1921 -- July 20, 2003
Joyce leader and retired postmaster and business woman Elizabeth A. ``Beth" Kautz died in a private care home at Freshwater Bay, near Joyce, from the long-term effects of Alzheimer's disease. She was 82
She was born in Olympia, to Francis Peter and Mary Henrietta (Richards) Schmitt, who were Joyce pioneers. She and her three siblings were raised on the family dairy farm at Joyce, where, from an early age, she honed her skills at hand-milking, cream-separating, hay-making, and other farm chores.
She graduated from Crescent High School in 1938, and remained an active supporter of the school and its students, including serving on the Crescent School Board for several years.
She married Leonard K. Kautz on May 26, 1940, at her parents' home in Joyce in a double wedding with her sister, Doris, and brother-in-law Leonard Pfaff. Mr. Kautz died in 1995.
During World War II, she worked for the Civil Defense Board in Port Angeles mapping and reporting the movements of airplanes over the Olympic Peninsula.
In 1957, Mrs. Kautz was appointed by President Eisenhower as postmaster of the Joyce Post Office, which was located in the Joyce General Store building. She and her sister, Tessie Hodgdon, bought the Joyce General Store business that same year and operated it together until Mrs. Hodgdon's death in 1981.
During their years in business, the two sisters became the unofficial town greeters, tourist information specialists and historians, and the store developed as the community information center.
Mrs. Kautz and her brother-in-law Quinn Hodgdon sold the store to their nephew in 1982, and she retired as postmaster in 1985 after nearly 29 years of service.
She served as president of the Joyce Daze committee for eight years until ill health forced her retirement; was a member of the Crescent Grange for over 50 years and chaired the Port Crescent Cemetery
Board for many years. She also helped found and chaired the Joyce Museum Society.
She was well known for her sense of humor, knowledge of Joyce area history, her skill at spinning a good yarn, and her acting ability.
She enjoyed working in her manicured yard, reading, crocheting, traveling, and sharing time with her family.
Survivors include her son, Gary L. Kautz, and daughter, Mary L. Findley, both of Joyce; sister Doris Pfaff and sister-in-law Aurea Schmitt, both of Joyce; three grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her brother Francis J. ``Bud" Schmitt, and sister Theresa ``Tessie" Hodgdon.
Services: Saturday, Aug. 23, at 1 p.m., memorial at Crescent Grange in Joyce. Cremains will be interred at the Port Crescent Cemetery. Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel, Port Angeles, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Joyce Community Scholarship Foundation or Joyce Community Education Foundation, c/o Crescent School, P.O. Box 20, Joyce, WA 98343 or to the Crescent Grange Scholarship Fund, c/o Mrs. John Singhose 57584 Highway 112, Port Angeles, WA 98363
Helen A. Nelson
Aug. 9, 1911 -- July 28, 2003
Port Angeles resident Helen A. Nelson died of pneumonia at age 91.
She was born to William Harrison and Annie (Nord) Cornwall in Sycamore, Ill., where she graduated from high school in 1929, the same year she married Gilbert Grahn Nelson.
During the years of the Great Depression, she helped her family by running a small restaurant, baking pies for other restaurants and working in a coat factory sweat shop.
In the 1940s, she and her husband bought a neighborhood grocery and started a catering business. After selling the store, they continued the catering business and she opened a doll shop in her home.
The Nelsons bought a mobile home, and began to relocate to California. En route, they stopped to visit their daughter and son-in-law in Port Angeles. They stayed.
Aside from a time in Bremerton, where her husband died in 1964, Mrs. Nelson made her home in Port Angeles, where she was employed at the Singer shop and Tuck N' Tack as well as selling Tupperware and owning a doll repair shop.
Mrs. Nelson was a member of Eden Valley Homemakers, T.O.P.S. and Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.
Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law David and Judy Nelson of Edmonds and sons William Nelson of Charlotte, N.C., and John Nelson of Port Angeles; daughter Arliss Frederick of Port Angeles; 10 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
Services: Today, July 31, at 2 p.m., memorial in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Chase and Lopez streets, Port Angeles. The Rev. Charles Mays will officiate. Drennan-Ford Funeral home, Port Angeles, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Children's Hospital, P.O. Box C-5371, Seattle, WA 98105.
Diane Richards
Dec. 23, 1936 -- July 28, 2003
Surrounded by family and friends, former Port Angeles resident Diane Richards of Renton died at age 66. She had struggled with cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure.
She was born in Noonan, N.D., and, at an early age, moved with her family to Port Angeles, where she attended Roosevelt High School.
In 1954, she married Cleve Richards, a Coast Guardsman, then accompanied her husband to various duty stations before they returned to the Pacific Northwest in 1971.
Mrs. Richards was active in Veterans of Foreign Wars Women's Auxiliary before she became ill.
Survivors include her son Timothy Richards of Puyallup; daughters Deana Mellinger and Kimberly Pederson, both of Kent; three grandsons, two step-grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband and son Everett.
Services: Friday, Aug. 1, at 1 p.m., memorial in Faull-Stokes Mortuary, 300 S. Third St., Renton. A reception will follow at the Renton post of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Memorials: American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 861, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Gayle A. Whattam
Dec. 4, 1919 -- July 28, 2003
Port Angeles resident Gayle A. Whattam died of cancer at age 83.
She was born in Seattle to Thomas R.E. and Edna Loraine (Williamson) Sanderson and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1937.
In 1938, she married Ralph Roderick in Port Angeles. He died in 1973.
She married Elbert R. Whattam at Reno, Nev., in 1973.
Mrs. Whattam was secretary at First National Bank in Port Angeles and in Las Vegas.
She enjoyed playing piano and organ.
In addition to her husband, survivors are sons Michael Roderick and Gerald Roderick, and brother Richard Thomas Sanderson, all of Port Angeles; seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by son Richard E. Roderick and daughter Patti Pennington.
Services: At her request, none. Olympic Cremation Association is in charge of arrangements.
MARGARET HENDRICKS STONE
July 18, 1914 -- August 25, 2003
Margaret was born in Ness City, Kansas, July 18, 1918, to Otto J. Hendricks and May Venard Hendricks.
Margaret, her sister, Mildred, and parents moved out to Washington in 1921. Her parents bought a chicken farm just out of Chehalis.
They would travel every summer by train for seven years to Kansas to visit relatives. Her grandfather was a doctor for the railroad, so they had a free train pass.
Mother told of not wanting to use the bathroom as the bathroom consisted of a hole in the flooring in which you could see the rails as the train was moving along.
Margaret and family then moved to Sequim in 1930 where her father taught school at the Old Dungeness Schoolhouse.
She graduated from Sequim High School in 1931 and attended Bellingham Normal School, now Western Washington University.
On June 15, 1933, she married Stacy Stone. The wedding was performed in the house where Stacy and Margaret lived all their married life.
Stacy died in May of 1995.
Margaret remained in that house on Port Williams Road until her death.
Margaret was involved with 4-H, PTA and Girl Scout Council. She was a charter member of Grange and Eastern Star.
In 1989, Margaret was Sequim Irrigation Festival Honored Grand Pioneer. Stacy and Margaret were very instrumental in building the first tennis court at Sequim School.
Margaret, with her family, made many ski trips to the Deer Park Ski Lodge, loading up in the old 1949 pickup as many kids as they could.
In 1969, Stacy and Margaret purchased a boat, which was aptly named Margetal. They made many trips to the San Juan's for many years.
Margaret was an avid fisherwoman and holds the family record of a 50-pound king caught off Sekiu. She also won the Discovery Bay Derby in 1976.
Margaret played bridge with her group of ladies, Sarah, Suzi, Mildred and Bette.
Stacy was a board member of Western Farmers, and with the Agricultural Cooperative Development Institute they were able to travel to Africa, Israel, Korea and the Philippines.
Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, Stacy, and nephew, Jeffrey Godfrey.
Her three children survive her, Margie Elliott of Seattle, Gail DeLorm of Sequim and Gregg Stone of Sequim; two grandchildren, Tracy DeLorm Venegas (Ron), of Fort Sill, Okla.; and Robert G. DeLorm (Lori) of Sequim; great grandchildren Logan Schmidt Thomas, Whitney Blue DeLorm, Christopher Robert Venegas, Matthew David Venegas and Riley Emerson DeLorm; sister Mildred Godfrey Fox; and nephews Richard, David and James Godfrey.
Services: None at her request. Sequim Valley Chapel in charge.
Remembrances may be made to the Washington Talking Book Library, 2021 Ninth Ave., Seattle, WA 98129, or to the Sequim Museum and Arts Center.
Mother, we will miss you so greatly. You were the best mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and aunt anyone could ask for; a friend to so many; a lady who always could change with the times; a great mind to the end.
We know you are with Father now, and hopefully he is taking you fishing for ``a big one."
Robert Henry Lampert
May 19, 1921 -- Aug. 27, 2003
Robert Henry Lampert died of complications from cancer in Port Angeles at age 82.
He was born to Walter and Eva (Cohen) Lampert in Spokane.
Services: Wednesday, Sept. 3, at 1 p.m., memorial in Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1714 N St., Port Angeles. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Kim G. Spaw
July 12, 1947 -- Aug. 26, 2003
Sequim resident Kim G. Spaw died at age 56.
He was born in Ketchikan, Alaska, to William E. and Dorothy Ann (Hunt) Spaw.
He graduated from the University of British Columbia, where he later taught literature.
After moving to Spokane, he worked for the Spokane City Library for many years.
He moved to Sequim earlier this year.
Mr. Spaw was an avid reader and was known for his writing and his sense of humor.
Mr. Spaw is survived by his sister and brother-in-law, Susan and Gary Mortimore of Sequim.
Services: A private memorial service will be held. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home, Port Angeles, is in charge.
Memorials: Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Zilla M. Ward
July 22, 1921 -- Aug. 27, 2003
Zilla M. Ward, 82, died of congestive heart failure in her Sequim home.
She was born in Buffalo, N.Y., to Arthur E. and Emma (Montressor) Kitchen and lived in Oneida, N.Y., Pennsylvania and New Jersey before completing high school in Daytona Beach, Fla.
During World War II, she worked for Sperry Gyroscope in Brooklyn, N.Y. Later, she worked for Northwest Airlines, first as a reservations agent then as a supervisor.
Following her 1956 marriage to Woodrow Ward, in New York City, she lived on Long Island, N.Y., and Clinton, N.J.
Mrs. Ward moved to Sequim in 1984.
She was a member of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church and Sunbonnet Sue and Compass clubs, as well as being a former president of Sequim Prairie Garden Club.
In addition to gardening, she did needlework and played cards socially.
Mrs. Ward is survived by her husband and her brother, Edward Kitchen of Owasso, Mich.
Services: None. Inurnment was in Sequim View Cemetery. Sequim Valley Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
