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Walters, Robert Tuesday, 31 May 2005
Robert Dale Walters, a resident of Federal Way and Burien, died May 18.
He was 45.
He was born Dec. 11, 1959 to William and Iola Walters.
Survivors include his mother, Iola; sisters, Sharon, Sue and Kim; brothers, Mike, Steve, Dave and John; and nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be conducted at 11 a.m. June 1 at Steel Lake Presbyterian Church, 1829 S. 308th St.
Pangan, Felliciano Tuesday, 31 May 2005
Feliciano Fallstick Pangan Jr. of Federal Way died May 22 at the University of Washington Hospital in Seattle. He was 69.
He was born Feb. 4, 1936 in Rizal, Phillipines, and was a 35-year resident of Federal Way. He was a business machine technician for H.D. Baker Co. in Tacoma.
He was a member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church and a former member of Knights of Columbus.
Survivors include his wife, Erlinda; a son, Bud Pangan; daughters Lindy Light, Maria Larson and Jo Ann Pangan; brothers Thomas Pangan, Victor Pangan, Emilio Pangan and Renaldo Pangan; sisters June Bracken, Bonnie Hock, Josephine Reed, Ampy Cariola and Purita Fallstick; and seven grandchildren.
A funeral Mass will be conducted at 11 a.m. May 28 at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. Burial will be at Gethsemane cemetery in Federal Way.
Arrangements are by Yahn and Son Funeral Home in Auburn.
Margaret, McMullin Thursday, 07 Apr 2005
Margaret Ann McMullin died April 7 at her home in Federal Way. She was 67.
She was born Oct. 6, 1937 in Seattle. In 1967, she married
Ray McMullin in Santa Barbara, Calif.
She was a graduate of Green River Community College and had been a florist at Randy’s Flowers.
Survivors include her daughter, Kathe Butler of Federal Way; a brother, Tom Jensen; sisters Sally Hudson, Carol Miller, Petie Coatney and Shirley Ingersoll; and three grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband and parents Jeannie and Ernest Jensen.
A memorial service was held April 23 at Price Helton Funeral Home in Auburn. The family suggests memorials be made to Franciscan Hospice or American Cancer Society.
Monroe, Jim Tuesday, 19 Apr 2005
Jim Monroe died April 19 in Federal Way. He was 79.
He was born Jan. 16, 1926, in Omak. He was a West Seattle High School graduate of 1944.
After serving in the Merchant Marines and Korea, he graduated from Western Washington University in 1956.
He taught in the Auburn School District for 27 years, retiring in 1983.
Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Betty; daughters Julie and Kathy; and two grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Dick.
A memorial service will be conducted at 1 p.m. April 30 at Grace Lutheran Church in Des Moines.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that memorials be made to Franciscan Hospice or Grace Lutheran Church.
VanderHoeven, Jenny Saturday, 16 Apr 2005
Jenny VanderHoeven of Federal Way died April 5 at her home.
She was born in 1937 in The Hague, Netherlands. She immigrated to America in 1956, soon after she and her husband, Adrian, married
. Her family moved to Federal Way in 1975, after living in Utah, California, Ohio and Kansas.
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and her husband served two years as missionaries in Europe with the church’s genealogy program. They also served in the Seattle Temple.
Survivors include her husband, Adrian; daughters Judy Walsh and Pam Sirrine, both of Federal Way, Diana Toves of Guam and Karen Lutz of Redmond; sons Adrian VanderHoeven and Jeff VanderHoeven, both of Tacoma; and 29 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held April 11 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Federal Way. Interment was at Washington Memorial cemetery in SeaTac.
Carlson, Wallace Sunday, 03 Apr 2005
Wallace John Carlson died April 3 in Federal Way. He was 87.
He was born Dec. 11, 1917 in Theif River Falls, Minn. After retirement, he enjoyed traveling with his wife in their motorhome, and residing at Palisades at Dash Point.
Survivors include his wife, Alice; son, Richard Carlson; daughter Susan Horan; and four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A memorial Mass will be conducted at 1 p.m. April 14 at St. Philomena Catholic Church, 1790 S. 222nd St., Des Moines.
The family suggests that charitable donations can be made to St. Francis Hospital.
Chambers, Anna Sunday, 03 Apr 2005
Anna M. “Sis” Chambers died April 3 in Federal Way, where she lived for the past 17 years. She was 93.
She was born March 17, 1912 on a farm in Iowa, and graduated in 1930 from Immaculate Conception High School in Elma, Iowa. She married
in 1940, and the couple moved to a farm, and eventually to Minnesota.
She settled with her children and parents in Elma in 1945. She moved to Federal Way in 1987 to be closer to her youngest grandchildren.
She is survived by her children, Tom Chambers of Federal Way, MaryAnn Bennett of Rochester, Minn., Betty Palmer of Slayton, Minn., and John Chambers of Wausaukee, Wis.; 10 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Ella Palmersheim, and brothers, Matt and Joe.
A funeral service will be conducted April 9 in Elma, Iowa.
Arrangements were by Bonney-Watson Washington Memorial, SeaTac.
Schaeffer, Russell "Moe" Friday, 17 Sep 2004
Russell “Moe” Schaeffer” modestly called his adventuresome life “nothing outrageous, ” but to his family and friends here on Orcas Island, he was nothing less than colorfully wonderful and special! With his passing on the morning of Sept. 11, heaven received its precious saint and we were suddenly without our cheerful and heavenly-minded friend. Through his music and down home stories he touched the lives of many. A more generous and loving man you could never meet.
According to his book, “God’s Hillbilly, ” he was born and raised in a deep “holler” of the Ozark hill country in southwestern Missouri. Moe was the fourth child in a family of 15. His formal education was cut short by the Great Depression, and his family’s need to have him stay at home to help them. He learned to farm, shoot (rabbits and squirrels for dinner-time staples), and build, along with the invaluable art of making do with what you had when you couldn’t afford what you needed.
Moe later boxed and won the Missouri Golden Gloves, served in the Civilian Conservation Corps, won more boxing championships in the U.S. Army and during World War II, saw combat throughout the central Pacific, including the battles on Okinawa, Leyte, the Marshall Islands and the Philippines.
Settling in the Pacific Northwest after the war, he became a radio entertainer while working in the pulp and timber industry before taking five years out to serve as a missionary in a remote corner of Africa.
Moe learned to sing and love music at a tender age. He got his first 35-cent “French harp” (mouth organ) when he was seven, graduating to a one-dollar Hohner Marine Band harmonica two years later, and still later gaining proficiency on the “left-handed” or steel guitar. While his repertoire came to include many mountain music standards, his forte was folk gospel -- songs that reflected his deep faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Many folks in the islands have enjoyed Moe’s music when he entertained at the county fair, local park concerts and churches.
Central to Moe’s book was the remarkable testimony of God’s faithfulness, along with his desire to share the deep spiritual insights he had gained from a lifetime of Bible study and quiet dependence on him.
Every Friday afternoon a group of men and women met in Moe’s modest home to play and sing God’s praise, using all sorts of instruments. They were not as accomplished as the Olga Symphony, but the joy and fellowship of those gathering will not long be forgotten, nor will the hospitality of Rose, his beloved wife. Moe’s “outrageous” songs, Rose’s delicious desserts, hot coffee and great story telling abounded. All of it fell under the heading: Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord.
Moe is survived by his wife, Rose; children Paul Schaeffer, who lives in Bakersfield, Calif., Carol Smith, of Kirkland, and Jacqueline Kunkel, of Missouri. He also has eight grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, and seven great-great grandchildren.
There will be a service for Moe at the Orcas Island Community Church. Please contact the church office at 376-6422 for date and time. There will also be a notice posted on the front door of the church.
Many people have been impacted by Moe’s wonderful down-home spirit, music and humor, and will miss the “don’t you knows” and “yoowser.”
Gott, Ralph Tuesday, 10 Aug 2004
“Ralph Gott Road” in Deer Harbor was named in his honor.
Ralph Guido Gott, 84, beloved husband, loving dad and brother, and compassionate friend, died Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004, at his home in Bellingham.
Ralph was born on Columbus Day, Oct. 12, 1919, in Orange County, Ind., to Lod Talman and Mabel Ellen (Mathers) Gott. His family lived in Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado. In Pueblo, he was an Eagle Scout, member of the ROTC and National Guard.
He grew up with automobiles, electricity and indoor plumbing. As a result, he could fix just about anything. If there was a problem, he developed a solution. This became the foundation for his careers in automotive and marine motors, WWU science research projects and machinery specifically designed to assist handicapped employees.
He married
Gladys Roberta Hadwiger on Jan. 15, 1940, in Raton, New Mexico, and moved to Los Angeles. He recalls changing the prop on Jimmy Doolittle’s B-29 Superfortress Bomber at North American Aviation.
During World War II, he served as a senior aircraft mechanic, and he told stories about taxiing P-38 planes on the flight line. After the war, he was Aircraft Flight Test Mechanic at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, Calif.
Ralph and Gladys paid $1100 for a 5-acre, pre-1905 Deer Harbor homestead and productive apple orchard with apple packing house and cider press. They bought the property from Walter and Ereen Hilmer on April 19, 1943. Ralph moved his family there in September 1946.
In pioneering days, Orcas was called the Fruit Bowl of the Northwest because of its apples, pears, plums, cherries, strawberries and rhubarb. Orcas was the originator of its unique Red Gravenstein apple.
Orcas Island was a Shangri-La. Remote. Isolated. Inaccessible, except by ferry or boat. Relatively free from big-city influence, it was nearly 20-years behind the mainland. Men labored mostly by brawn, not machinery. A woman was a man’s “missus” and stayed at home, bore children, raised and preserved food, and tended to chores and her family.
Folks were a hearty lot. Poor but honest. Hard working, hard playing. Happy. Neighbors used these times to look to and after each other, especially when fierce Northeasters threatened winter tranquility and isolated island inhabitants.
Gott’s original house consisted of two rooms plus an add-on. Conservation and recycling were the way of life. Electricity was for lights. The hand-dug well nearly dried up every summer. Every homestead had its outhouse.
Ralph owned a successful motor repair business in Deer Harbor.
He was also chief of the Deer Harbor Volunteer Fire Department. The department’s antiquated truck and equipment were the source of many happy laughs.
Ralph loved to retell the story about a boathouse fire up the hill from Norton’s Store (now the Deer Harbor Inn). Firemen and wives left the Saturday night Deer Harbor Dance to fight this fire. Volunteers put one end of the fire hose into the bay, others held the nozzle, and someone started the pump. The old cloth hose squirted water out everywhere, except the nozzle. Women in high heels and men in Sunday’s best grabbed a hose. It became a comic-strip experience, a line of people holding a hole. The building was a total loss. A new hose was immediately appropriated.
In January 1950, international industrialist Edgar F. Kaiser hired Ralph full-time at his summer estate in Deer Harbor.
Ralph contributed much to the place called “The Carousel”. He was in charge of boats, cars, generators and whatever else that needed his expertise and magic touch, including an antique steam circus calliope with keyboard and wooden pipes. He was given the privilege and responsibility of designing several of Kaiser’s luxury cruiser yachts. His favorite was the Calliope II. Ralph also enjoyed working with the crew on Mr. Kaiser’s Gold Cup winning hydroplane, the Hawaii Kai.
Ralph recalled the 7.1 earthquake that cracked the new school floor on April 13, 1949. Thereafter, regular 5.0 quakes shook the islands until December 1959.
Ralph bought the island’s second television in 1951. In those days, KING-TV operated a few hours per day. Gott's home became a hub for TV viewing and Gladys’ famous sticky cinnamon rolls and hot cocoa.
Ralph and Richard Norton went into partnership to use the Deer Harbor Dance Hall for dances in the summer and a roller rink in the winter.
He was a deacon of the Orcas Island Community Church, drove the old and contrary Sunday School bus, and served on the Fund Raising Committee for the new property and church building on Madrona Street in Eastsound.
Gott’s fishing parties consisted of a World War II surplus flat-bottom rectangular boat, 5-HP motor, several happy families and picnic baskets of food. Jigging for cod was done with a line wrapped around a notched board and Ralph’s custom cod jiggers (lead-filled pipe painted in bright colors and designs). Filets were nailed to a piece of driftwood and basted with butter and salt water.
In those days, orcas were “Black Fish” and sharks were “Dog Fish”.
On May 30, 1956, the family took a spin in their new 12-ft boat with 15-HP Evenrude. Just west of Pole Pass, a purse seiner wake capsized the boat. Its captain spotted the victims after nearly 30-minutes. Otherwise, hypothermia and roiling whirlpools at Pole Pass would have proved fatal.
In the mid-1950s, Norton Clapp purchased acreage and beach property from Mr. Shangle and became Gott’s new summer neighbor. Up the hill lived William Brown. Three property owners discussed a sign for the end of the unnamed county road. Should it read – CLAPP GOTT BROWN? Or GOTT BROWN CLAPP? Or BROWN GOTT CLAPP? The sign never happened.
Ralph sold the 5-acres to Clapp and moved his family to Mt. Vernon, in 1961. He served the automotive community until WWU hired him in 1968. By the time Ralph retired from WWU in 1985, his talent for innovative inventions was widely known. He and his colleagues designed and engineered several useful devices which assisted handicapped employees at NW Industries.
He married
Jean Verna (Dongoski) Budd in Bellingham on May 18, 1973.
He was preceded in death by his parents, oldest sister Margie A. (Gott) Seldon, and brothers-in-law William Seldon and Leon Drews.
Survivors include his wife and x-wife; children Suzanne P. Gott of Hillsboro, Ore., and Dorothy P. (Gott) Toddy of Norfolk, Virg.; step-sons Randall O. Budd of Bellingham and Timothy Budd (Ph.D.) of Corvallis, Ore.; brother Leo R. Gott of Calif., and sister Dorothy V. (Gott) Drews of Ore.; sister-in-law Mary (Keef) Gott; son-in-law Donald J. Toddy; daughter-in-law Elizabeth Budd; three grandchildren, one great-grandson and many nieces and nephews.
Suzanne Gott is the daughter of Ralph Gott. She lives in Hillsboro, Ore.
