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McCombs, Stewart 'Stu' William Sunday, 24 Nov 2002
Stewart “Stu” William McCombs, Jr., died Nov. 24 at his Bainbridge Island home after a long illness.
He was born Oct. 3, 1930 in Minneapolis, Minn., the son of Stewart William McCombs, Sr. and Alice Mason Douglas.
He grew up and attended college in Phoenix, Ariz. He was an Air Force pilot during the Korean conflict.
He settled in Honolulu and during his 38 years there worked primarily with Starr Seigle McCombs Advertising Agency. He was Man of the Year in 1982 for the Advertising Federation of Hawaii and the Silver Medal winner in 1984 as honored by the Advertising Agency Association of America.
He was involved in many charitable works. He served on the board of directors for the Pacific Foundation for Cancer Research, Goodwill Industries of Honolulu, Children’s Advocacy of Honolulu, Easter Seal Society of Hawaii; as president of AAAA of Hawaii, and as president of Economic Development Corporation of Hawaii.
For nine years, he was the first tee announcer for the Lady’s Hawaiian Open and he was an accomplished golfer himself, USGA Senior Champion of Hawaii twice and enjoyed playing at Wing Point Golf and Country Club when he moved to Bainbridge Island.
His his survived by wife Keiki, Bainbridge Island; one son, Douglas Stewart McCombs, Bainbridge Island; one daughter, Sally McCombs Wilburn, Volcano, Hawaii; one sister, Joanne Hayward, Phoenix, Ariz.; and four grandchildren.
A family gathering and celebration of life will be held at a later date. Contributions may be made to Hospice of Kitsap County, Box 3416, Silverdale, WA 98383.
Arrangements are under the direction of Kass Funeral Home, Bainbridge Island.
Jackson, David Larry Wednesday, 20 Nov 2002
Lifelong island resident David Larry Jackson, 56, died Nov. 20 of heart failure on Bainbridge Island while playing volleyball.
He was born Sept. 2, 1946 in Seattle to Erik and Eva (Ubel) Jackson. He graduated from Bainbridge Island High School in 1964, served in the Air Force in Guam and the Philippines and returned to the Island in 1969.
He worked for two years as a mechanic at Goodfellow Chrysler Plymouth in the University District.
In 1972, with his brother-in-law Jesse McFarlane, he opened Mac-N-Jack Island Service in Eagledale which is still in operation.
He loved to play volleyball and work with his Lionel train collection. He recently restored a ‘55 Chevy pickup and enjoyed attending car shows with it.
He and Ora built their log cabin home and he was an avid gardener and wine maker.
He is survived by his wife of 30 years, Ora, of Bainbridge; his son Larry of Oakland, Calif.; his daughter Erika Lahtela of Bainbridge; one brother, Arnold Jackson of Bainbridge; and one sister, Dianne McFarlane of Bainbridge.
Visitation will be at 1-4 p.m. Nov. 23 at Kass Funeral Home. Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Nov. 24 at Bainbridge Island Alliance Church, 9624 Sportsman Club Road. Burial will be at Port Blakely cemetery.
Remembrances may be made to Port Blakely cemetery, P.O. Box 10001, Bainbridge. Arrangements are under the direction of Kass Funeral Home, Bainbridge Island.
Luedicke, Marian Nicholson Wednesday, 20 Nov 2002
Former island resident Marian Nicholson Luedicke, age 83, died Nov. 20 in Olympic Care and Rehabilitation Center in Sequim.
She was born Oct. 9, 1919 in Milwaukee, Wis. to Ruth Morgan Nicholson and Joseph W. Nicholson. She graduated from Hartford Avenue School before entering Milwaukee University in 1934, where she was captain of the White Team and was voted Best All-Around Girl.
She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., majoring in piano in the School of Music. She then studied at Prospect Hall Secretarial School in Milwaukee.
Durring World War II she was a stenographer at the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. She resigned when she married
Lynn C. Surles and moved to Texas to join him at the Air Force Base in Austin. The couple had three children, two of whom survive: Mark Surles of Bonny Doon, Calif., and Laurie Bendon of LaQuinta, Calif.
She divorced and was employed as executive secretary at Astronautics Corp. of America and subsequently at First Wisconsin Trust Co.
In August of 1976 she married
Alex H. Luedicke, Jr. and moved to Bainbridge. Upon his retirement from Boeing Co. the couple moved to Sequim.
She was a member of Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Fraternity, an active parishioner of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church of Sequim, and a member of the Daughters of the King and of the Sequim Senior Center.
Graveside services will be held noon Nov. 25 at the Kane cemetery on Bainbridge.
In recognition of her love for animals, remembrances may be made to any humane organization. Arrangements are under the direction of Sequim Valley Chapel.
Norma Taylor (Calhoun)
Long-time Bainbridge Island resident Norma Taylor (Calhoun), age 73, died June 8 at Messenger House after a lengthy illness.
She was born Mar. 12, 1929 to Erick and Anna Skjoldli at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. She graduated from the Auburn Adventist Academy in 1947.
She met Bruce Calhoun in 1948 and they were married
later that year.
They moved to Bainbridge Island in 1949 and built their dream home on the waterfront in West Port Madison, where they raised their three children.
She worked for Dr. Walter Studerus as a dental assistant and office manager for many years, before taking up the commute to Seattle to work with Dr. Harry Nyhus until her retirement in 1994.
Bruce Calhoun preceded her in death in 1980. She had a second home built in Meadowmeer, where she lived with her second husband, Glen, until 1995.
She was active in the Bainbridge Chorale for many years, as well as the Christ Memorial Church choir in Poulsbo. Her favorite piece was Handel’s “Messiah.”
She also enjoyed gardening, traveling and entertaining at her home.
She is survived by her husband, Glen Taylor of Sequim; her three children: Dave Calhoun of Steilacoom, Valerie Megargel of Bellevue and Eddie Calhoun of Bainbridge Island; and six grandchildren: Alison, Jonathon, Lindsey, Nick, Sam and Charlie.
A private memorial service will be held. Remembrances in her name can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.
Cummings, Evelyn Mrowzinski Saturday, 08 Jun 2002
Evelyn Mrowzinski Cummings, age 89, died June 8 in Port Angeles.
She was born Mar. 29, 1913 in Seattle, the first child of Bertha Evansen and Robert Mrowzinski.
Her father was a professional singer on the Barbary Coast (stage name Robert Moore).
She was raised by her maternal grandparents in Milltown, Wash. She graduated from high school in Cle Elum and attended business college at Edison Technical School in Seattle.
In 1937, she married
Ira E. Cummings III. The couple moved to Bainbridge Island in 1943. Later, she also lived and worked in Seattle, Spokane, Wenatchee, Soap Lake, Euphrata and Sequim.
She was an accomplished pianist and singer, and also had experience as a dancer and artist. She performed in numerous music and art productions.
In her retirement, she moved to Port Angeles, where she spent twenty active years near her children and grandchildren.
She is survived by four children, Suzanne and Mary Christine of Port Angeles, and Diane Terry and Gary of Seattle; seven grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. June 15 at Ocean View cemetery in Port Angeles, with a viewing 10-11:30 a.m. at Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel, 105 W. 4th Street in Port Angeles.
Remembrances may be made to the Port Angeles Symphony, 216 N. Laurel St, Port Angeles.
Arrangements are under the direction of Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel.
Adams, John Wallace Saturday, 08 Jun 2002
John Wallace Adams, 82, architect and sailor, died June 8 at his Bainbridge Island home following a long illness.
Adams was born Nov. 11, 1919 in Seattle, son of a prolific Seattle architect, Harold and Elizabeth Adams of Rolling Bay. His dad designed Dr. Frank Shepard’s home-clinic in Winslow (across from today’s city hall) and grew ginseng commercially here. John’s grandparents lived across from the Manitou Beach dock.
John attended Rolling Bay School before his family moved to Seattle. During the Depression, they lived on Portage Bay aboard the 50-foot powerboat Margaret, named for his sister.
In sixth grade at Montlake School, Adams met Bill Garden, who would become a lifetime friend and famous naval architect. Garden recalls, “We were both boat crazy!”
Adams, Garden and Jack Kutz spent summers “in Port Madison messing around in boats. In 1934, we sailed every day, all summer long, ” says Kutz. “We knew who all the old sailors were who jumped ship in Port Madison during the lumber mill days. We loved listening to their stories.”
Adams made his first sailboat from a 20-foot lifeboat bought for $20 from Alaska towboat pioneer, Boyer Halvorsen. His second craft was a 26-foot schooner called Directions.
Adams drew sailboats on homework assignments and still graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1937. Like his father, he studied architecture at the UW. Before WWII, he and Kutz worked for the Winslow Shipyard, where they met a legendary builder of wooden ships, Charlie Taylor.
Adams served as a U.S. Navy lieutenant during the war, aboard infantry landing crafts in North Africa, Europe and the South Pacific.
After the war, he sailed around Vancouver Island with friends on Garden’s schooner, Gleam; passed his state architecture exams “with flying colors”; moved back to the island, and married
Sara Jane Atkinson. It was time, too, for a new boat a Garden 26-foot cutter, Africa.
Adams’ career followed the sea. He was a career 5:45 a.m. commuter to offices atop the Smith Tower where with binoculars overlooking Puget Sound he specialized in shoreline architecture. He designed Sagstad’s Marina; the marine railway and dock system for Vic Franck’s Boat Yard on Lake Union; and was architect for his friend, Ivar Haglund, receiving a special award for Ivar’s Salmon House. He left his imprint on the Northwest waterfront everywhere.
He was a founder and second commodore (1956) of Port Madison Yacht Club. Dedicated to family sailing, they enlisted Garden to design the inexpensive 14-foot “Port Madison Pram” for sail training, racing, camp cruising and gunkholing. Charlie Taylor built the first of the fleet in his Hawley shipyard east of the ferry dock.
Garden designed Adams a 35-foot sloop in 1963. The Westri’s wheelhouse enabled him to venture out in all kinds of weather. While locals jigged for cod in Agate Passage, he sailed north to jig on Hein Bank in the middle of the Strait of Juan De Fuca.
Adam’s gentle temperament was tested only once, when a power boater tried to become a member of the PMYC. “It was the maddest I ever saw my uncle!” recalls his nephew, Andy Goodwin.
One of his sailboat memories was from a 1940s cruise aboard the 1898 100-foot, two-masted pilot schooner Gracie S. He’d come off watch in the dark before dawn in strong, powerful westerlies in the middle of the straits off Neah Bay.
As the ship blasted through towering seas beneath the stars, he worked his way forward to one of the ship’s dories lashed to the shrouds. Huddled behind it and with waves crashing, spray flying, rig singing and hull crooning, he gazed astern where the full moon was setting into towering seas and ahead where, on wave crests, he could watch the sun rising over the Cascades.
Adams was preceded in death by his wife, Jane, in 1967, and his sister Margaret in 1996. He is survived by his longtime companion, Betty Hall; his daughter, Laurie Adams Phillips and husband, Bob; his son Tom and wife Holly of Hansville; his nephew, Andy Goodwin and wife Sue; four granddaughters, and a great granddaughter.
A wake and celebration of Adams’ life will be held 4 p.m. June 15 at Port Madison Yacht Club Remembrances can be made to a charity of the donor’s choice.
Tatterson, Jr., Townsend A. “Tat” Tuesday, 04 Jun 2002
Townsend A. “Tat” Tatterson, Jr. died June 4 on Bainbridge Island.
He was born Dec. 17, 1908 in Norfolk Va. He spent his early years in Virginia and Florida, and attended the Carlyle Military Academy in North Carolina.
He graduated from Seminole High School in Sanford, Fla., where he was the quarterback on the football team.
On a trip to China through the Panama Canal, he and his parents stopped in Hawaii for an extended visit. That is where he met and married
Harriett Ekstedt of Brownsville, Wash.
They were married
Jan. 26, 1935 at Pearl Harbor and lived on Kauai and Oahu for the next 20 years, where their three children were born and raised.
He was working for the Navy on Ford Island in the center of Pearl Harbor when the war began in the Pacific.
He attempted to join the Sea-Bees, but couldn’t be released from his position on Ford Island, where he supervised 700 men in the reconstruction of Pearl.
Later during the war he was transferred to NAS Barbers Point on Oahu, where he was the public works foreman. During the war, he received commendations from the Secretary of the Navy for his outstanding contributions.
He and his wife moved to Seattle in 1950, where they resided for nearly 50 years.
They belonged to Sand Point Methodist Church, Sand Point Country Club and the Farthest North Bridge Clubâ which they formed while spending two years in Barrow, Alaska.
He was the superintendent of construction for the Navy in the building of the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory and considered the expert for building on permafrost.
He retired from his naval position in 1972, and later moved to the Madison Avenue Retirement Center on Bainbridge Island in 1998.
He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Harriett; daughters Gail (Emmet) Marshall and Anne (Max) Wisner of Bainbridge Island, son Tat III of Phoenix, Ariz.; grandchildren Tat Tatterson IV of Poulsbo, Todd (Kelee) Tatterson of Seattle, Gary Tatterson of Seattle, Heidi (Dave) Kaster of Hansville, Dan Wisner of Seattle, Hunter (Anna) Marshall of Seattle, Emmet (Kelly) Marshall II of Seattle and Christina Marshall of Auburn; and three great-grandchildren: Brittany Wisner of Bainbridge and Alex and Katelyn Sue Tatterson of Seattle. He is also survived by his sister, Ethelda Kiernan, of Chicago, Ill.
There will be a memorial at a later date.
Remembrances can be made to the Bainbridge Island Fire Department or the Diabetes Foundation.
Arrangements were under the direction of Kass Funeral Home, Bainbridge Island.
Henshaw, Capt. William Woodward Tuesday, 28 May 2002
Lifelong Bainbridge Island resident, Capt. William Woodward “Bill” Henshaw, age 91, died May 28 at his home in Winslow.
He was born in Winslow on June 11, 1910 to Capt. Ward and Margie Henshaw. He attended Winslow School and was a member of Bainbridge High School’s first graduating class in 1928. He lettered in track and basketball.
He worked summers for his father on the steamer “Winslow” and after graduation decided to attend navigation school in Seattle, where he earned his mates licenses and later his masters license.
He sailed as captain with the Alaska Steamship Company before being commissioned during World War II as an officer in the United States Coast Guard.
After the war, in 1945, he became a member of the Puget Sound Pilots where he worked until his retirement in 1980.
He was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite mason, a member of the Shriners and a 68-year member of Bainbridge’s Renton Lodge. He belonged to Seattle’s Propeller Club and was a longtime member of the Wing Point Gold Club, as well as a supporter of the Bainbridge Island Historical Society.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Mary; his daughter Kay (John) of Bainbridge Island; son Ward (Polly) of Poulsbo; granddaughters Jennifer and katie; stepgrandaughter Kristine and step great granddaughter Emily. He is also survived by his brother Jim (Mickey) and their children Dan, Ron, Patti, Brian, Bill, Pamela and Paula.
He was preceded in death by his brother Jack and sister Margaret Ann Potter.
A memorial service will be held 1 p.m. June 4 at Eagle Harbor Congregational Church.
Arrangements are under the direction of Kass Funeral Home, Bainbridge Island.
