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SANDRA KAY BAILEY
August 6, 1946-January 4, 2006
Longtime Clallam County resident and Fair Manager Sandra Kay Bailey passed away Wednesday morning at Olympic Medical Center after a long illness. She was surrounded by members of her family.
Sandy was born 59 years ago in Laramie, Wyoming, the first daughter and child of Annalee A. Struble and Ward Pennington Ball Jr.
She moved to Clallam County with her parents in 1947. The family settled on five acres on Atterberry Road, where sisters and brothers joined Sandy.
She graduated from Sequim High School in 1964 and attended Peninsula College.
Working in the Seattle area, she met Jim R. Bailey of Port Angeles. She and Jim married
on September 2, 1967, in Sequim, and in 1972 purchased their home on South Bagley Creek Road.
She loved their home and property very much, raising livestock, vegetable gardens and her children.
She lived and breathed the County Fair for 30 years. She started her work at the fairgrounds as a volunteer, moving on as Superintendent of the Home Arts Building, Treasurer and then Fair Manager. She held this position for 22 years, spending countless hours working with Fair royalty, rodeo and logging show committees.
She attended the Washington State Fair Convention every year, where she enjoyed booking entertainment for the upcoming fair.
In 2002, she was awarded Clallam County Employee of the Year.
For 29 years, she also delivered newspapers, rain or shine, for the Peninsula Daily News.
Sandy's activities also included membership in the Mountain View Homemakers, and PEO.
She loved to go camping with her family and traveling, with Hawaii being one of her favorite destinations.
She also loved bowling and enjoyed many different leagues throughout the years with her family.
In addition to her husband, Jim, she is survived by daughter and son-in-law Teresa and J.J. Beckstrom, daughter and son-in-law, Jaymie and Bill VanGordon, son Coy Bailey, and two grandsons, Colby and Broden Beckstrom, all of Port Angeles.
Mother, Annalee Hermann of Sequim; sisters, Julie Grattan of Port Angeles and Gayle Waldrep of Walnut Grove, Missouri; brothers, R.T. Ball of Sequim and Gary Ball of Ferndale.
Plus many nieces, nephews and friends throughout the county and community.
In lieu of flowers, the Bailey family suggests that donations be made at any First Federal Savings & Loan branch to the Sandra Kay Bailey Memorial Scholarship fund in hopes to present a Scholarship each year in her memory.
Services: ``A Celebration of Life" will be held January 21st at 1 p.m. at Clallam County Fairgrounds, Home Arts Building, 1608 W. 16th St., Port Angeles.
Everyone is welcome to come, remember and celebrate the life of this wonderful person who touched so many of us in so many ways. She will be greatly missed!
Violet Marie Dunlap
Oct. 31, 1922 -- Jan. 3, 2006
Violet Marie Dunlap died in her Sequim home of congestive heart failure. She was 83.
She was born in Woodrow, Minn., to George V. and Annabelle (Petrie) Hislop.
She married
Zella (Sie) Dunlap in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1941. He died in 1975.
She married
Patrick L. Dunlap in Sequim in 1982. He died in 2001.
Mrs. Dunlap, a longtime Peninsula resident, lived in Forks, Clallam Bay and Port Angeles as well as Sequim.
In her younger days, she enjoyed the outdoors -- camping, clam digging and hunting.
She enjoyed preserving the fruits and vegetable from her gardens. As a crafter, she enjoyed crocheting and bead work. Reading, playing cards and solving crossword puzzles were also among her pastimes.
Mrs. Dunlap, who was a member of Sequim Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4760 Auxiliary, was a past president of the VFW honor degree Military Order Of Cooties Auxiliary.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law Dean and Diana Dunlap of Sequim; daughters and sons-in-law Sharon and Ronald Peterson of Port Angeles and Jeanne and Bill Wheeler of Sequim; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by brother Frank Hislop and sisters Elinore, Rosalie and Verna.
Services: At her request, none. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home, Port Angeles, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362. The family requests no flowers.
Margaret Ann Fuller
Sept. 12, 1927 -- Jan. 2, 2006
Port Townsend resident Margaret Ann Fuller died of congestive heart failure at age 78.
She was born in Bemidji, Minn., to William and Rose (Boulduc) Wagner and moved to Sequim at age 16.
After her marriage to Ralph Lyle Fuller in Sequim on Nov. 26, 1949, she and her husband ran a small farm and had a family of three children. She also worked in the woods with her husband -- hauling pulp wood and driving heavy equipment.
In the late 1950s, when a neighbor couldn't get to the hospital in time, Mrs. Fuller assisted with birth of the woman's baby. Later, she worked as a nursing home aide.
The Fullers moved to Port Townsend in 1986.
A noted cook and baker, Mrs. Fuller had recipes printed in two restaurant cookbooks during the six years she was a prep cook at Bayview.
During the past 12 years, she and her husband delivered newspapers in the Sequim area.
Mrs. Fuller crocheted afghans, painted ceramics and enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, poodle and cockatiel.
In addition to her husband of 56 years, Mrs. Fuller's survivors include sons Richard W. Fuller of Monroe and William L. Fuller of Snohomish; daughter Linda M. Jackson of Port Townsend; sister and brother-in-law Rose M. and William Sukert of Sequim; one grandchild and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by brothers Edward C. Wagner, Henry A. Wagner and 9-month-old Richard Wagner; and sisters Gertrude L. Sukert and 1-month-old Rosemary M. Wagner.
Services: Held Jan. 7 with Kosec Funeral Home, Port Townsend, in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Jefferson Healthcare Hospice, 834 Sheridan St., Port Townsend, WA 98368; American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 861, Port Angeles, WA 98362; or charity of choice.
Chevy Allen Jay
July 30, 2005 -- Dec. 31, 2005
Infant Chevy Allen Jay died in Jefferson Healthcare hospital at age 5 months from injuries received in his Port Townsend home.
He was born to Crystal Lomker and James Jay Jr., who said their son ``brought many smiles to all, every day, in the short time he was with us."
In addition to his parents, survivors include sisters Anna and Tiara; and grandparents Rick and Tracy Lomker of Port Hadlock, Rose Angler of Coulee City, and James Jay Sr. of Everett.
Also surviving are great-grandparents Alvin and Frances Herschel and Phillip Lomker, all of Port Hadlock; Lorraine Lewis of Spanaway; Leo Bowers of Coulee City and Barb Jay of Everett.
Chevy Allen was preceded in death by aunt Clover Lomker, uncle Jeff Herschel and great-great-grandfather Ed Minnihan.
Services: Held Jan. 6. Kosec Funeral Home, Port Townsend, was in charge of arrangements.
C. Gene Nelson
June 4, 1951 -- Dec. 27, 2005
Port Angeles resident C. Gene Nelson died of an apparent heart attack at age 54.
He was born in Moscow, Idaho, to Richard and JoAnne (Cochran) Nelson and attended school in the Eastern Washington town of Garfield, graduating in 1969.
He enlisted in the Navy in 1969 and served until 1973.
Returning to Garfield, Mr. Nelson held a variety of jobs before he joined a paint crew on the Lower Granite Dam.
He also drove a harvest grain truck for two years before working for the state of Washington, driving a snowplow during winter months for two years. On the side, he cut and sold firewood.
Mr. Nelson moved to Kent and attended Green River Community College at Auburn to earn an associate degree in the applied science of forest technology.
On the advice of college friends, he decided to try the fishing industry, bought a 17-foot boat and started what was to become a 21-year career fishing in southeast Alaska. He traded up to a 40-foot boat before he moved to Port Angeles in 1995.
On the Peninsula, Mr. Nelson started a boat repair business. At the time of his death, most of this work involved welding aluminum.
He never married
.
Survivors include friend and partner Sally Knight of Port Angeles; his parents of Garfield; brothers Dwain Nelson of Tucson, Ariz., and Dick Nelson of Moses Lake; and sister Susan Brooks of Helena, Mont.
Services: Held Jan. 4 in Palouse. His cremated ashes will be interred in Garfield cemetery.
Memorials: Garfield cemetery, c/o Jim Storms, P.O. Box 235, Garfield, WA 99130; or Ladow Court Assisted Living, c/o Laura Redman, 308 California St., Garfield, WA 99103.
Floyd Steven Tate
May 7, 1914 -- Jan. 9, 2006
Sequim resident Floyd Steven Tate died of cancer in Olympic Care and Rehabilitation Center at age 91.
He was born in Champaign, Ill., to Alexander and Elsie (Russell) Tate.
He married
Margaret Christine Bateman in Urbana, Ill., on Nov. 18, 1933.
After high school, he served in the Navy during World War II and became a propeller instructor.
After the war, Mr. Tate was a procurement right of way agent for the state of Arizona.
He loved dogs, owned and traded horses, played golf and bowled, called square dances and played church organ.
He was a member of the Sequim Valley Church of the Nazarene.
In addition to his wife of 72 years, Mr. Tate is survived by nieces Doris Jean Hicks and Shirley Victor, both of Arizona, and Betty Christy of California.
Services: Thursday, Jan. 12, 10:30 a.m., memorial in Sequim Valley Church of the Nazarene, 481 Carlsborg Road, Sequim. The Rev. William C. Haley will officiate. Burial in Sequim View cemetery will be private.
Olympic Cremation Association, Port Angeles, is in charge of arrangements.
Aurel Todor Trailov
Feb. 15, 1916 -- Dec. 27, 2005
Sequim resident Aurel Todor Trailov, 89, died of age-related causes while vacationing in Glendale, Ariz.
He was born in Dolovo, Yugoslavia, to Todor and Marina Trailov.
He married
Tatiana Benzev on April 24, 1944, in Cairo, Egypt.
Mr. Trailov served as a lieutenant in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Yugoslavian Air Force as well as with the 512th Squadron of the U.S. Air Force, which was comprised of Yugoslavian airmen and attached to the 376th Bombardment Group during World War II.
He was employed as an electrical engineer for Western Electric and Harza Engineering, both in Chicago, where he settled after the war.
After retiring to Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, he moved to Sequim in 2000.
Mr. Trailov's personal interests included spending time with his family, correspondence and photography.
He was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 376th Bombardment Group, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Moose Lodge.
Survivors include his wife; sons Mickey Trailov of Franklin, Tenn.; Danny Trailov of Newport Richey, Fla.; Peter Trailov of Crystal Lake, Ill.; and Paul Anthony of Torrance, Calif.
Other survivors include daughters Marie-Louise Nikitovich of Woodstock, Ill.; Nadine Bobit of Rolling Hills, Calif.; Janet McColl of Sequim; and Nevette Neal of Glendale, Ariz.
Also surviving are 17 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Services: Feb. 11, 3 p.m., memorial and reception in St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 512 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim. The Rev. Robert Rhoads will officiate. At a later date, his cremated ashes will be scattered at sea.
Neptune Association, Tempe, Ariz., is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Donations in honor of Aurel Trailov to St. Luke's Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 896, Sequim, WA 98382; or to Hospice of the Valley-Thunderbird PCU, 1362 N. 55th Ave., Glendale, Ariz. 85304. The family requests no flowers.
