Obituaries
Recent Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Bainbridge Island, WA, Kitsap County and Surrounding Cities
Richard Keith Roberts
Jan 30, 2014
passed away on January 30, 2014. He was born on April 2, 1962 and was 51 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.
Glen Michael Fitch
Jan 26, 2014
passed away on Sunday, January 26th in Seattle, Washington. He was 56 years of age. He was born in Queens, New York, at St. Albans Naval Hospital on July 18th, 1957. As the oldest child of a Navy family he spent his earlier years living in San Diego, CA, Dutch Harbor, AK, and finally settling on Bainbridge Island, WA.Glen was...
David Zary Janich
Jan 26, 2014
passed away on January 26, 2014 at his residence on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was born on April 26, 1938 and was 75 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.
Ruth M. Hart
Jan 26, 2014
passed away on January 26, 2014 at The Messenger House on Bainbridge Island, Washington. She was born on September 14, 1930 and was 83 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.
John Paul Denardo
Jan 25, 2014
passed away on January 25, 2014 at Island Health and Rehabilitation on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was born on February 25, 1932 and was 81 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.
James Polk Nieukirk Ii
Jan 18, 2014
passed away on Saturday, January 18, 2014 at his home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was born on June 27, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was 94 years of age.James was trained in flying by the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Navy as soon as WWII broke out.. He was trained for frontline fighter planes and flew almost every...
Jerome Lofgren
Jan 16, 2014
passed away on January 16, 2014 at his home in Poulsbo, Washington. He was born on November 29, 1933 and was 80 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.
Russell David Johnson
Jan 16, 2014
passed away at his residence on Bainbridge Island, Washington on Thursday, January 16, 2014. He was born on November 10, 1924 in Ashley, Pennsylvania to Russell Kennedy and Marinne Winona Johnson.Russell was an American television and film actor best known as "The Professor" on the CBS television sitcom Gilligan's Island.He became a close friend of Audie Murphy and later appeared...
Benjamin F. Jennings
Jan 13, 2014
Retired Navy Lieutenant Commander, died January 13, 2014 at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, WA. Better known to his friends as Frank, he was born September 9, 1926 in Hunters, WA to the late Benjamin Franklin Jennings and Mabel Minnie Friske Jennings. While attending West Seattle High School, he enlisted in the US Navy in 1943. Rising in rank, Frank...
Richard Dunbar
Jan 10, 2014
passed away on Friday, January 10, 2014 at his home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was born on September 16, 1937 and was 76 years of age. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.
William Baker Richards
Jan 9, 2014
passed away on Thursday, January 9, 2014. He was born on July 29, 1941 in Yonkers, New York. he was 72 years of age.Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend the memorial service on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 5 PM at the Indianola clubhouse in Indianola, Washington.
Susan Wilcke Margo Pyfer
Jan 5, 2014
passed peacefully on Jan. 5, 2014 at the University of Washington Hospital. She was born in New York, N.Y. on Feb. 23, 1941 to Jane and Adalbert Wilcke.Susan moved to Portland, Ore. in 1971, then to Seattle in 2001. She is survived by her two daughters, Susan Grace and Kathleen Birum.Susan began each day with a smile and her positivity...
Dr. George J. Carr
Dec 30, 2013
passed away on Dec. 30 at the age of 81. He was born in Seattle in 1932 to George Carr Sr. and Dorothy Wilcox Carr.He grew up in Lake Forest Park and attended Roosevelt High School before moving with his family to Covina, California. In 1954, he graduated from Pomona College where he met his future wife, Lind. Three years...
John Francis Watte
Dec 30, 2013
quietly passed away December 30, 2013 with his family at his side. He was born in Manhattan, New York on February 4, 1922 to his parents Weldon Watte and Alunda Bourquez Watte and siblings Moccodan Watte (Madeline) and Wetona Watte Podszus (Carl).He leaves behind his beloved wife of 60 years Joan Russell Watte, son Michael Watte, daughter Cynthia Watte Connell...
Melvin Judd (Pat) Patterson
Dec 30, 2013
passed away on Monday, December 30, 2013 at his home in Poulsbo, Washington. He was born on November 22, 1930 in Tacoma, WA to Windfield D. and Nettie (Judd) Patterson. He was 83 years of age.Melvin was the youngest of six children and was preceded in death by his sister Bessie, and brothers Thomas, Grant, Harvey and Jackie. At age...
Mary Margaret Buchmeier
Dec 28, 2013
was born in Indianapolis on October 31, 1913, the first child of John J Flaherty and Margaret F Landers. She graduated cum laude from St. Agnes Academy (Indianapolis)in 1932. Helping to support her parents during the Depression and WWII, she worked for Diamond Chain Co. before she married Maj. George T. Buchmeier in 1946. As an Air Force Officer's Wife,...
Elizabeth Hamlin
Dec 27, 2013
passed away on Friday, December 27, 2013 at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Washington. She was born on May 14, 1930 and was 83 years of age.Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend the Memorial Service on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 11:00 AM at The Suquamish House of Awakened Culture.
Edward Martin Elvejord
Dec 27, 2013
Edward Martin Elvejord of Poulsbo, Wash., passed away Dec. 27, 2013. Born Oct. 19, 1925, in Brooklyn, N.Y., "Ed" grew up on Staten Island. He served in the U.S. Navy, Pacific Theater, during the last year of World War II. He then attended Houghton College and graduated from Valparaiso University in 1950 with a degree in physics and minor in...
Surkara Brown Austin
Dec 20, 2013
passed away on Friday, December 20, 2013 at Harrison Hospital in Bremerton, Washington. She was born on November 1, 1956 and was 57 years of age.Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend the graveside service on Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 1:15 PM at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Washington. Arrangements entrusted to Cook Family Funeral Home.
Marie M. Kirchner
Dec 20, 2013
passed away on Friday, December 20, 2013 at Montclair Park Care Center in Poulsbo, Washington. She was born on March 13, 1918 in Plain, Wisconsin. She was 95 years of age.Marie was a spunky, independent woman. And she came by it honestly, because she was a member of a big family. She was, in fact, the seventh of seven children....


