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JOSHUA BOWDEN
July 21st, 2003
Survived by his loving parents, Lance and Marcia Bowden, and brothers Nicholas and Michael, all of Sequim, Washington.
Gone from our sight but never from our hearts.
Bettie B. Bishop
Oct. 16, 1917 -- July 23, 2003
Joyce resident Bettie B. Bishop died of cancer at age 85.
She was born in Doddsville, Miss., to Gwin Hallowell and Weltha Roe (Pepple) Powell.
She moved to Joyce in 1939 with her aunt, uncle and cousins.
Mrs. Bishop lived in Joyce in 1945-57, Port Angeles in 1957-72, then back in Joyce from 1972 until death.
She studied at a business college and joined the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, from which she left under a reorganization option when it became the Women's Army Corps in 1943.
Also in 1943, she married Virgil G. Bishop in Port Angeles.
She was employed at numerous jobs in the Puget Sound area as well as at Angeles Creamery, Darigold and Ruddell Auto in Port Angeles.
Mrs. Bishop enjoyed hiking and dancing as well as solving crossword puzzles and reading.
She was a member of Joyce Bible Church. She also belonged to the Eagle's Auxiliary and Teamsters.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Bishop's survivors include daughter Cheryl L. Nicpon of Port Angeles, two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Services: Monday, July 28, 2 p.m., graveside service at Port Crescent Pioneer Memorial Cemetery
at Crescent Beach. The Rev. Mel Wilson of Joyce Bible Church will officiate. A reception will follow at Joyce Bible Church. Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Mae Violet Carlson
July 23, 1907 -- July 24, 2003
Mae Violet Carlson of Sequim died at age 96.
She was born in Overbrook, Kan., to Frank and Laura (Rhoads) Burdette and graduated from Lost Springs (Kan.) High School in 1925.
She married Walter C. Carlson in Lost Springs on Sept. 5, 1929. The Carlsons owned and operated a restaurant in Lost Springs.
Mrs. Carlson was a riveter on B-29 bombers for the Boeing Co., in 1941-43 in Wichita, Kan.
Her husband died in 1965.
In 1988, Mrs. Carlson moved to Sequim, where she was a member of Sequim Presbyterian Church.
In addition to son and daughter-in-law Gerald and Elaine Carlson of Sequim, she is survived by sisters Alma McCool and Alene Engle, both of Hillsboro, Kan.; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services: Friday, Aug. 1, 3 p.m., Celebration of Life in Sequim Presbyterian Church. Inurnment will be in Lost Springs, Kan. Sequim Valley Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Deacons Fund, Sequim Presbyterian Church, 950 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim, WA 98382.
Walter Adam Glessing
Oct. 10, 1902 -- July 22, 2003
Port Townsend resident Walter Adam Glessing died at the Kah Tai Care Center at the age of 100.
He was born in St. Paul, Minn., to Henry Gottlieb and Anna (Bocke) Glessing.
On Feb. 15, 1928, he married Helen M. Ferguson. She died on Oct. 27, 2000.
The couple lived in Iowa, where they operated a grain farm until 1941. They then moved to Minnesota to farm cattle and grain.
After retirement in 1975, they moved to Port Townsend to be near family. Mr. Glessing worked at the clam cannery.
He belonged to Irondale Free Church.
Survivors include sons and daughters-in-law LeRoy and Carol Glessing of Port Townsend, Delbert and Marti Glessing of Richfield, Minn., Donald and Karyl Glessing of Sebring, Fla., and Charles and Beryl Glessing of Conroe, Texas; daughter and son-in-law Della and Jim Doughton of Eden Prairie, Minn.; and 18 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Services: Monday, July 28, 10 a.m. graveside service at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Old Discovery Road. Pastor George Avis will officiate. Kosec Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
David Ray Quackenbush
Jan. 31, 1960 -- July 23, 2003
Port Hadlock resident David Ray Quackenbush died of an aortic aneurysm while in Port Angeles. He was 43.
Services: Wednesday, July 30, visitation from 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. in the Relief Society room at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with service following at 4 p.m., 10104 Rhody Drive, Chimacum. Interment at Greenwood Cemetery in Chimacum. Bishop Brad Flickinger will officiate. Kosec Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Gary Lynn Jones
Aug. 13, 1945 -- July 24, 2003
Sequim resident Gary Lynn Jones died from complications of diabetes-related kidney disease. He was 57.
Mr. Jones was Sequim correspondent for the Peninsula Daily News until illness forced him to resign in 2001.
He was born to Gerald H. and Beatrice G. (Varner) Jones in Winfield, Kan. He was age 1 when the family moved to southern California, where his father was a trainer of thoroughbred race and show horses.
Mr. Jones relocated to Oregon and Washington with his father and brother, James Jones, in 1950, following the separation and divorced of his parents.
He attended schools in Centralia, Grand Mound, Tenino, Evaline, Port Townsend and Winlock.
When Mr. Jones graduated from Winlock High School in 1963, he was already a sports reporter for two weekly newspapers, Winlock News and Lewis County News, and worked as an intern at the Longview Daily News.
Mr. Jones attended Centralia Community College and performed as a lead singer with Northwest rock 'n' roll groups before enlisting in the Air Force in 1966.
Following basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, he was assigned to the 68th Bomb Wing of the Strategic Air Command at Seymour-Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C.
He served one year as a clerk-typist but became an information specialist in his second year and was honored as Airman of the Month twice and Airman of the Quarter for his efforts in the wing's information office.
Mr. Jones was one of 10 people selected from the Air Force in fall 1967 to attend radio and television broadcasting school at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Ind. Following graduation, he was assigned as a broadcast specialist with the American Forces Radio and Television Service outlet at Cigli Air Base in Izmir, Turkey, for 1½ years.
Following honorable discharge from the Air Force in December 1969, Mr. Jones was a sports writer for the Daily Olympian in Olympia. He remained there until 1975.
He worked one year as assistant sports information director at Oregon State University, and was sports editor of the Herald-Journal in Logan, Utah.
In 1978, Mr. Jones moved to Las Vegas and worked one year as a sports reporter and desk editor with the Las Vegas Sun before moving back to southern California to be a sports reporter for the Daily News of Los Angeles.
For 10½ years, he covered University of Southern California football, USC, Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount basketball, all major track and field events, motor sports, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Pan American Games, World University Games and five U.S. Olympic Festivals.
He served as president of the Southern California Track and Field Writers Association for four years and was president of Track and Field Writers of America in 1983-84.
After leaving the Daily News, Mr. Jones worked five months at the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick before becoming editor of The Morton Journal in Morton in March 1991.
Under his leadership, the Journal won several Washington Newspaper Publisher Association awards and swept first and second for top story of the year in 1992 for nondaily newspapers in the Society of Professional Journalists' Excellence in Journalism Awards for the six-state region.
A series on brain cancer affecting four young girls in Onalaska was officially accepted by Columbia University as an entry in the 1992 Pulitzer Prize competition.
In 1994, Mr. Jones became the crime and fire beat reporter for the Mercury-Register in Oroville, Calif., where he also covered the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta for 55 newspapers of the Donrey Media Group.
The day after he returned from Atlanta, Mr. Jones witnessed an Air Force U-2 spy plane crash into the Mercury-Register parking lot, destroying the building and killing a customer and the pilot.
In March 1997, Mr. Jones moved to Merced, Calif., to cover city government, the reuse of Castle Air Force Base and night public safety. He remained there until moving to Sequim in 2000.
Mr. Jones was among the team of PDN reporters covering the shooting death of Clallam County Sheriff's Deputy Wally Davis and subsequent 25-hour standoff by Davis' killer in August 2000.
Mr. Jones' journalistic tenacity and professionalism were exemplified by his volunteering to spend the night in his car near the command center -- just in case the 25-hour siege at the killer's house required news and photo coverage.
Mr. Jones' contributions to the PDN's coverage of the Davis shooting were a major contribution toward the newspaper receiving the 2001 C.B. Blethen Memorial Award for deadline reporting.
He was preceded in death by his father in 1963, his mother in 1994 and a sister, Diane Lewis, in 1998. His brother also is believed to be dead.
Mr. Jones is survived by two nieces and their families in Minnesota; and his aunt, uncle and cousins in Oklahoma.
Services: At his request, no religious service will be held. However, Thursday, July 31, at 3 p.m., Celebration of Life will be held at Winlock Cemetery, 407 SE Cowlitz Road, Winlock.
Cattermore Funeral Home, Winlock, is in charge of arrangements.
David Ray Quackenbush
Jan. 31, 1960 -- July 24, 2003
Port Hadlock resident David Ray Quackenbush died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm. He was 43.
Born in Corvallis, Ore., to Cecil Everett and Jean Caroline (Stevens) Quackenbush, he spent most of his adult life in or near Port Hadlock.
He graduated from Chimacum High School in 1978; filled a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France; then attended Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho.
He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brigham Young University, Provo Utah.
He married Tamera Jean Fisher in Cardston, Alberta, on July 14, 1983.
For the next 20 years, the Quackenbushes resided in Provo, Bellevue, Renton and Port Hadlock while he was employed in computer-related positions.
He enjoyed working with computers, electronics or mechanics, and also maintained a menagerie of rooster, hens, ducks and geese near his garden.
Mr. Quackenbush was active in his church, most recently serving as clerk of the Port Angeles Stake. He was on church business at the time of his death.
Survivors include his wife and daughters Lorrina Jo, Lisa Marie and Susan Chantelle of Port Hadlock; his parents, also of Port Hadlock; parents-in-law, Don and Rose Fisher of Alberta; and brothers and sisters-in-law Dan and Sherri Quackenbush of Tooele, Utah, Roy and Sue Quackenbush of Medford, Ore., and Neil and Taeyeon Quackenbush of Tacoma.
Services: Wednesday, July 30, 3 to 3:45 p.m., visitation, then 4 p.m. funeral at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 10104 Rhody Drive, Chimacum. Bishop Brad Flickinger will officiate. Interment will follow in Greenwood Cemetery. Kosec Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Quackenbush Memorial Fund, Bank of America, any branch.
The family requests no flowers.
Dr. Arthur Oakley
July 21, 1926 -- July 24, 2003
Dr. Arthur Oakley, 77, of Sequim died in Island Health Care Center on Bainbridge Island.
Drennan-Ford Funeral Home and Crematory, Port Angeles, is in charge of arrangements.
Frederick Byles Rosmond
Oct. 2, 1915 -- July 15, 2003
Forks resident Frederick Byles Rosmond died in Olympia at age 87. He had Parkinson's disease.
The son of Fred and Martha Belle (Byles) Rosmond was born in Oakville.
He married Mary Virginia Berger in Mount Vernon on Oct. 12, 1941.
Mr. Rosmond earned his degree in civil engineering from the University of Washington School of Forestry. While at the university, he lettered in boxing.
He served as a captain in the Army with World War II duty in Hawaii.
The Rosmonds lived in Forks from 1945 until a few days before his death. He and his brothers owned and operated Rosmond Brothers Lumber Co. until they sold the business in the early 1980s.
His lifelong passion was trees, and his yard in Forks included trees he started from seeds collected in his travels. His favorite, a redwood, is now 125 feet tall.
He enjoyed reading, singing and listening to others sing.
Mr. Rosmond, who was a member of Forks Congregational Church, was on the board of Peninsula College for many years. He also served on the Clallam County Board of Education in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
He was also active in the American Legion and the Society of American Foresters.
Survivors include his wife; daughters and sons-in-law Marti and Rod Rainey, of Chetwynd, British Columbia, Julie Rosmond and Mike Colleran of Olympia, and Polly Rosmond and Phil Smith of Olympia; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by brothers John and Robert Rosmond and sisters Margaret Swart, Isabel Collins and Jane Nordstrom.
Services: Aug. 9, 1 p.m., memorial, with reception following, in Forks Congregational Church, 280 S. Spartan Ave., Forks. The Rev. David Weddington will officiate. Mills and Mills Funeral Home, Olympia, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Peninsula College Foundation, 1502 E. Lauridsen Boulevard, Port Angeles, WA 98362; First Congregational Church, 280 S. Spartan Ave., Forks, WA 98331; Forks Community Hospital Long Term Care, 530 Bogachiel Way, Forks, WA 98331; or Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
DAVID GEORGE GRASSER
Dec. 14, 1942-July 25, 2003
Sequim resident David G. Grasser passed away in his home at age 60 from colon cancer complications.
He was born in Seattle, Wash., to Elmer George Grasser and Violet Virginia (Keister) Grasser. He was raised in Poulsbo, Wash., and graduated from North Kitsap High School in 1961.
He met Kathleen Anne Kiesel in Seattle and they later married in September 1966.David began working for Blackball Transport, Inc. as an ordinary seaman at age 16 aboard the Iroquois. He then worked aboard the M.V. Coho, where he advanced to AB seaman and began his climb up the ranks. In 1975, at the age of 32, he became master of the Coho and held the position until his passing.
The family moved to Sequim in the summer of 1982.
During his time away from work, he enjoyed raising cows, pigs, and working around the farm, but his greatest enjoyment came from family time spent around the home with his wife and children and commercial fishing in Bristol Bay with his two sons.
He will be remembered for his sense of values and taking pride in his work as well as his kindness and generosity. He will truly be missed.
David is survived by his wife of 37 years, Kathleen, son Elmer and daughter-in-law Kristy, daughter Kristi and fianc^me Jason, son Steven and daughter-in-law Jana. He is also survived by six grandchildren, Mackenzie, Alisha, Joseph, Christopher, Cortland and Scott.
In addition, he is survived by sister Laura Jean Noyd of Wenatchee, brother Steve Grasser and brother Paul Grasser of Poulsbo, stepmother Marjorie Grasser of Mesa, Ariz., and aunt Connie Arnold of Coupeville, Wash.
David requested no funeral or services, but donations can be made to the Children's Hospital Foundation (PO Box 50020, MS 200, Seattle, WA 98145-5020) or Hospice of Clallam County (PO Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362).
