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James Willis
June 14, 1933 -- Nov. 1, 2004
James Willis died in Port Angeles at the age of 71.
Drennan-Ford Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Louis O. Norberg
July 7, 1910 -- Oct. 29, 2004
Port Angeles resident Louis O. Norberg died of pneumonia at age 94.
He was born in Woodinville to Olaf and Aadele Norberg.
He married
Lillian Lowdon on July 5, 1935. She died Sept. 8, 1987.
On Nov. 9, 1989, he married
Edith Osborne in the Clallam County Courthouse.
Mr. Norberg worked at a Ford assembly plant in Seattle, then in logging camps in Port Angeles and on the boom for Crown Zellerbach. He retired Aug. 1, 1972.
He was an outdoorsman, enjoying fishing and hunting.
Mr. Norberg was a member of the Lutheran Church and Mount Pleasant Grange.
Survivors include his wife; stepsons Kent Osborne of Redmond and Randy Osborne of Mukilteo; and stepdaughter Olive Deal of Santa Rosa, Calif.
Services: Tuesday, Nov. 2, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., visitation at Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel, 105 W. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
Graveside service Wednesday, Nov. 3, 11 a.m., at Mount Angeles cemetery, U.S. Highway 101 and Monroe Road, Port Angeles.
Memorials: Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Eugene W. Born
March 30, 1909 -- Oct. 29, 2004
Sequim resident Eugene W. Born died at age 95.
Drennan-Ford Funeral Home, Port Angeles, is in charge of arrangements.
Marianne Mathews
Dec. 16, 1937 -- Oct. 28, 2004
Marianne Mathews died in Port Townsend from pneumonia caused by complications of diabetes. She was 67.
Mrs. Mathews was born to Ernst and Anna (Kafenda) Kubleck in Taos, Czechoslovakia.
She married
Bud Mathews in Frankfurt, Germany, on Oct. 24, 1956.
Mrs. Mathews was a refugee to West Germany in 1945, went to Holland to attend school for more than a year, and then returned to Germany. S
he raised her children in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Washington. She retired after 20 years, working at Sea Breeze.
Mrs. Mathews became an American citizen in 1994. She enjoyed cooking, handwork and bingo.
She worked for the food bank for eight years, was a member of children's orthopedics for 25 years, and a member of Homemakers of America for 25 years.
Survivors include her husband of Port Townsend; sons and daughters-in-law John and Julie Mathews of Chimacum and Butch and Pam Mathews of Farmington, N.M.; daughters Monika Marriotte of Port Townsend and Anita Mathews of Seattle; daughters and sons-in-law Lisa and Eric Dalby of Tacoma and Linda and Martin Henley of Port Townsend; brother Ernst Kafenda of Frankfurt, Germany; 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by son-in-law Mac Marriotte.
Services: Memorial Mass was Saturday at St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church. Inurnment at Laurel Grove cemetery.
Kosec Funeral Home & Crematory, Port Townsend, was in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 2680, North Canton, OH 44720; or Kah Tai Care Center, 751 Kearney St., Port Townsend, WA 98368.
Louis O. Norberg
July 7, 1910 -- Oct. 29, 2004
Port Angeles resident Louis O. Norberg died at age 94.
Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Home, Port Angeles, is in charge of arrangements.
RICHARD E. BUTTON
Longtime Port Angeles resident Richard Edwards Button died Thursday, Oct. 22, 2004, at Olympic Medical Center due to complications from a fall.
Dick was born in Sheldon, Iowa, on August 28, 1912, to Carl Orson and Ada (Heath) Button.
At age 7, his family moved to Koshkonong, Missouri, returning two years later. That same year the family moved to the UW district in Seattle for another two years.
Back to Iowa short term, then on to Outlook, Saskatchewan, where his father worked for the Sheldon Farm Co.
Shortly after arriving, Dick was made deputy sheriff to oversee a seized crop of wheat. No weapons needed back then . . . just a tall strong lad.
Dick enrolled in the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon with a major in Arts and Science. In 1934, before graduating, he went to work at the Prince Albert Herald where he met Grace Campbell. After a year with the Winnipeg Free Press, he and Grace were married
, on September 17, 1937.
In 1939, they moved to Clinton, Iowa, where Dick worked at the Clinton Herald, and in 1940 they moved to Borger, Texas, where he was Advertising Editor for the Borger Daily Herald.
In September 1942, he joined the U.S. Army. In April of `43 he was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps, and in December of '43 was sent to England as 1st Lieutenant.
He landed at Normandy, Day 12, and in July of 1945 was sent to Germany where he was promoted to Captain. Grace traveled to Germany to live with him for another two years.
While in France, Dick became friends with a wine merchant, Paul Chanson, who taught him about Burgundy Wine. Apparently, Dick had the nose for it. Mr. Chanson wanted Dick to be his merchant in the USA, but Dick had other plans.
He returned to the states in 1947, moving to Terra Haute, Indiana, with the Army. In 1948, Dick was released from active duty and put in the reserves.
He went into the household appliance business with his brother, Bob, in Marshalltown, Iowa.
In 1949, he was recalled to active duty as Captain and assigned to the Pentagon as Chief of Ordnance for two years.
In 1951, Dick was a participant/observer 7 miles from a 30-kiloton atomic bomb. He was then trucked up to 75 feet of ground zero. His health was followed until 1989, when he was notified he was no longer needed in the study.
In 1952, he moved to Detroit with the Army, then to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1953. While there, Dick was promoted to Major.
In 1955, he separated from the Army and moved to Renton, Washington, where he worked for the Renton Chronicle for one year before moving to Port Angeles and working for the Port Angeles Evening News.
He remained in the reserves and was asked to be the commanding officer of the National Guard on the Olympic Peninsula from 1960-63.
Dick worked for the Evening News for a couple of years, then went to Prudential Insurance for 8 years, then back to the Daily News, from which he retired in 1977 at age 65.
Dick was an avid tennis player in youth as well as golf all his life. He had a beautiful voice and sang in the church choir as well as during daily activities.
He enjoyed photography and most of his life had a darkroom going . . . even in Europe. He loved to fly-fish and garden.
His favorite club was Kiwanis, which he joined in 1968, was President in '76 and Lieutenant Governor in '79.
He was responsible for starting up two new clubs -- the Juan de Fuca Club and the Kiwanis Club of Forks. Dick was able to amass 35 years of perfect attendance.
He was very interested in history and geography, and had one of those life fantasies of being an archeologist.
He enjoyed the concerts and plays, reading for the Senior Minutes on KONP, was on the Board of Community Concerts, served on the Salvation Army Advisory Board, sold advertising for Fifty Something for a period, played in swing bands during the Depression, and was the first Ordained Lay Reader at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
He then became the first Lay Eucharistic Minister, driving to Forks and Neah Bay to help with Communion or Evening Prayer. Eventually, he did many of these services on his own, including Crestwood and Port Angeles Care Center.
He valued very much the camaraderie he felt at the Senior Center, Kiwanis and St. Andrew's.
He loved the outdoors so much, with strong feelings of awe and respect for it. He always wanted to go, go, go . . . and he never said ``no" to anyone who asked.
He is survived by son Richard Campbell Button, Anchorage, Alaska; daughter Linda Button, Port Angeles; and sister Barbara Patterson, Ontario, Canada.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Grace; his parents; and his brother, Bob.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to St. Andrew's Episcopal Memorial Fund, 510 E. Park Ave., Port Angeles, WA 98362; Kiwanis International, c/o Kiwanis Port Angeles Noon Club, 939 W. Fifth St., Port Angeles, WA 98362; or Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
A memorial service will be held at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Michael Carr officiating.
Drennan-Ford Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Marianne Mathews
Dec. 16, 1937 -- Oct. 28, 2004
Marianne Mathews, 66, died in Kah Tai Care Center, Port Townsend, following a lengthy illness.
Services: Saturday, Oct. 30, at 10:40 a.m., rosary in St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church, 1335 Blaine St., Port Townsend; 11 a.m. funeral Mass, celebrated by the Rev. Gary Sumpter; then a gathering in the church hall. Kosec Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Leonard A. McDaniel
Dec. 13, 1914 -- Oct. 26, 2004
Chimacum resident Leonard A. McDaniel, 89, died of a heart attack in Port Townsend.
He was born to Alfred and Sarah (Wiseman) McDaniel in Auburn, where he was raised on the family's dairy farm and where he graduated from high school.
In 1937, he moved to Chimacum to work at Auburn Dairy Products, located at the Glendale and Bishop Farm.
He also was a truck driver for Peninsula Foods; a farmer; a logger with his brother-in-law, Bud Ammeter, and Wally Westergaard; and truck driver at the Mats Mats quarry from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1974.
In his spare time, Mr. McDaniel liked to raise beef cattle and tend a vegetable garden that fed many Chimacum residents. He also enjoyed traveling.
Mr. McDaniel was a member of Community United Methodist Church, Hadlock Masonic Lodge, Past Worthy Patron of Jefferson Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, past member of Rainbow advisory board, and former Rainbow Dad for Port Townsend Assembly, Order of Rainbow for Girls.
In the 1960s, he helped organize efforts to get street lights for Chimacum.
In addition to being a volunteer fireman for nearly 40 years, he was a founder of Jefferson County Fire Protection District No. 1, of which he was a former fire commissioner.
He married
Aileen Louise Ammeter in Auburn on May 11, 1941.
Survivors include his wife, daughter and son-in-law Nancy L. and Glenn L. Davis, all of Chimacum, and sister and brother-in-law Ruth and Howard Ehle of Auburn.
He was preceded in death by sister and brother-in-law Bonnie and Jerry Nelson, and brothers and sisters-in-law Harold and Billie McDaniel and Ralph and Laurie McDaniel.
Services: Saturday, Oct. 30, 3:30 p.m., funeral at Community United Methodist Church, 130 Church Lane, Port Hadlock. Graveside committal will follow in Greenwood cemetery, Chimacum, followed by a reception in the Chimacum fire hall. The Rev. Phil Harrington will officiate.
Kosec Funeral Home, Port Townsend, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Jefferson County Fire Protection District No. 1, P.O. Box 537, Chimacum, WA 98325.
Sean Niswonger
May 6, 1961 -- Oct. 24, 2004
Port Townsend resident Sean Niswonger died at age 43.
He was born in Madison, Tenn., to Charles Alenzo and Glenna Ruth (Rogers-Knobel) Niswonger.
He married
Zoe Ann Lamp in Port Orchard on Sept. 1, 1992.
After living in various parts of the country, Mr. Niswonger moved from Dallas, Texas, to Port Townsend and was a machinist in Port Townsend and Sequim for the past 10 years.
In addition to being a Master Mason, he was a member of the Northwest Stream Society and Port Townsend Rock Club.
Other interests included flint knapping, making arrowheads, lapidary, jewelry making and shaping opals, as well as woodworking and wooden boats, restoring motorcycles, cooking, and providing foster care for dogs.
Survivors include his wife; mother and stepfather Glenna and Art Liang of Texas; his father of Marshall, Texas; sister Heather Kleiner of Marshall, Texas; and brother Patrick Niswonger of Plano, Texas.
Services: Sunday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., potluck celebration of life in the Kitchen Shelter at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend. Kosec Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Rescue Every Dog (RED), P.O. Box 1741, Kingston, WA 98346.
Viola Doshie Baskett
Feb. 21, 1902 -- Oct. 23, 2004
Viola Doshie Baskett died in Jefferson Healthcare at age 102.
Services: Saturday, Oct. 30, visitation at 11 a.m. in Kosec Funeral Home, 1615 Parkside Drive, Port Townsend, immediately preceding 1 p.m. service.
