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JENNY FISKVIK
Mrs. Jenny Fiskvik, 81, of Port Angeles was ``Promoted to Glory" on Dec. 26, 2003.
Born in Portland, Oregon, on July 19, 1922, to Frank and Emelia Matz Beissel, Jenny is survived by sister Dorothy Clark of Port Angeles, daughter Lena McGovern of California, granddaughters and many friends.
Jenny Fiskvik was a homemaker and volunteer here in Port Angeles. She was the Food Bank Manager for The Salvation Army, her church, located at 206 So. Peabody St., for many years. She enjoyed Bible study and was always ready to help people in need.
She was the residence supervisor on site, at The Manor, across from The Salvation Army on East Second Street, as well as The Home League Chaplain for the Army.
Memorial service will be conducted by Majors George and Jeri Bawden at 11 a.m. this Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004, as part of the celebration of worship at the Salvation Army, 206 So. Peabody, Port Angeles.
ELIZABETH S. MUNSON
Nov. 16, 1910 -- Jan. 14, 2004
Elizabeth S. ``Betty" Munson, 93, of Sequim died Wednesday at Olympic Care, of congestive heart failure.
She was born Nov. 16, 1910, in Sunnyside, Washington, to pioneer parents, Harvey and Adeline (Alexander) Smith.
In 1928, she graduated valedictorian from Quillayute High School in Forks.
On May 31, 1928, she married
Arthur J. Munson at her parent's home in LaPush, Washington. They were married
for 75 years.
She was a rancher and a piano teacher for many years and had a passion for horses. She raised, trained and sold purebred Arabians and was very active in the Wranglers in Forks. She won many awards with her horses.
Also, she was a 4-H leader and a lifetime member of The Washington State Grange. She played the piano for the Grange throughout her entire adult life and held several different offices.
In addition, she played the piano for the ``Rainbeats" and at many different organizations and functions. For many years, she and her husband had their own dance band.
During WWII, she was a supervisor and observer for the Aircraft Warning Service.
In 1989, she was crowned Clallam County Fair Queen. She had many hobbies: gardening, sewing, crocheting, traveling, playing the piano and riding her beautiful Arabian horses.
Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Linda Chapman of Manchester and Mona Olman of Ardenvoir; a son, Gregory Munson of Beaver, nine grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren.Betty was preceded in death by a sister, Zona Roth; a son Arthur J. Munson, Jr.; two grandchildren, Vicki Jeanne Lesure and Byron Lesure.
A funeral service will be held Monday at 11 a.m., at the Sequim Prairie Grange Hall, 290 Macleay Road with a viewing beginning at 10 a.m. A graveside service will be held at the Quillayute cemetery following the funeral.
Memorial donations may be made to Sequim Prairie Grange, PO Box 201, Sequim, WA 98382.
Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel has been entrusted with arrangements.
Jack Cady, `American writer'
PORT TOWNSEND -- ``American writer" Jack Cady of Port Townsend died Wednesday night at Jefferson General Hospital at the age of 71.
Mr. Cady, a noteworthy teller of ghost stories, died of complications of bladder cancer, his wife, Carol Orlock, said.
``Jack always thought of ghosts as representing forces in history the evil and goodness in the world collected, " Orlock said. ``He embodied those ghostly forces in his stories."
But ghosts didn't embody all of Mr. Cady's work.
Defining himself as an ``American writer" above all else, Mr. Cady explored the history of literature in North America.
Local settings
Perhaps more appropriately, Mr. Cady was a Northwest writer, often using local places in his books.
The Off Season was described in Library Journal as ``an offbeat, whimsical tale (that) recounts the history of Point Vestal, a Pacific Northwest coastal town where ghosts walk the streets in broad daylight."
In reality, Mr. Cady admitted, it was a look at his own hometown for more than 30 years: Port Townsend.
The Hauntings of Hood Canal, too, reflected on Mr. Cady's life in east Jefferson County. It was set in a small town on Hood Canal.
Mr. Cady wasn't always a success in the national book-selling market.
Before writing professionally, he was a truck driver, an auctioneer, a warehouseman and did landscaping in Port Townsend.
From the late-70s to mid-80s, he wrote columns for the Peninsula Daily News.
``He was a character, " recalled former Peninsula Daily News entertainment editor Jim Guthrie. ``He would sometimes do a profile on an interesting person in Jefferson County. Mostly, he wrote about the way he saw the Peninsula and other things in the world.
Free spirit
``But Jack wasn't the kind of guy who would always stick to what you hired him to do, " Guthrie recalled with a chuckle.
What he did do was done well, however, and Mr. Cady won many awards throughout his writing career.
In 1993, he won the prestigious Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Award for his novella The Night We Buried Road Dog.
Other awards include Atlantic Monthly magazine's Atlantic First Award, Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the World Fantasy and Science Fiction Award.
He taught English literature at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma for a number of years before retiring in the late 1990s.
He had six children with his first wife, Betty.
``He was a very great man, " son Don said. ``He was a teacher, a mentor and a friend."
Wrote continuously
After retiring from teaching at Pacific Lutheran University, he ``continuously wrote" and owned an Internet book-selling business, Don Cady said.
Plus, he continued to teach whenever he got the chance.
``It was his life, " Don Cady said.
He had a great impact on people far and wide, Orlock agreed.
``He gave everyone in every direction so much; to his students, to his family, to his readers, to his community, " Orlock said. ``He gave great literature and learning to his country.
``He was a gentle and generous man."
No memorial service has been planned, Orlock said, but there may be a memorial event around his birthday, March 20.
A memorial scholarship fund in Mr. Cady's name has been established in his name at Pacific Lutheran University.
Rememberances can be sent to PLU, Office of Development, Jack Cady Scholarship, 1010 122nd St. South, Tacoma, WA 98447.
Raymond Willard Hull
Nov. 28, 1914 -- Jan. 15, 2004
Bear Creek resident Raymond Willard Hull, 89, died of heart failure in Forks.
He was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, to Ralph Willard and Elva Maude (Wilburn) Hull. The family moved to Santa Rosa, Calif., when he was 4.
During the Great Depression, Mr. Hull relocated to Bear Creek to work in the mills. Throughout his life, he was employed in many aspects of the timber industry.
He met Myrtle Tomlin in Bear Creek and they married
on June 28, 1937.
Mr. Hull, who was a member of the Assembly of God Church in Forks for more than 60 years, was active in the Sunday School program, and as a board member and bus driver.
In addition to attending sporting events involving his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, he enjoyed mechanics, gardening and solving crossword puzzles.
Survivors include sons Raymond ``Rick" Hull Jr. and Jim Hull, daughters Barbara Ray and Beverly Kershner and brother Robert Hull, all of Forks; brothers Glen Hull and Lester Brown, both of Portland, Ore.; 13 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
His wife died last May. He was also preceded in death by brothers Ralph Brown, Kenneth Hull, Floyd Hull, Paul Hull and Albert Hull; sister Irene Dillon; and grandson Kenneth Church.
Services: Monday, Jan. 19, 10 a.m. until noon, visitation in Mount Olympus Funeral Home, 481 Calawah Way, Forks, followed at 12:30 p.m. with a graveside service in Forks cemetery. A 1 p.m., memorial will be held in Forks Assembly of God Church, 81 Huckleberry Lane.
Thomas `Pat' Hunter
July 31, 1928 -- Jan. 10, 2004
Thomas ``Pat" Hunter died in his Port Angeles home at age 75.
He was born to Thomas Wyatt and Linda Patricia (O'Hagen) Hunter in Seattle, where he graduated from Lincoln High School in 1946.
After serving in the Marine Corps in 1946-48, he earned his master's degree in education from University of Washington.
Mr. Hunter was a professor at Shoreline Community College in Seattle, teaching Spanish in 1968-87.
He enjoyed photography, gardening, hiking and working in his shop.
Mr. Hunter married
Virginia Lisowski on Aug. 30, 1960. They divorced in 1983.
He married
Carol L. Browarzick in Reno, Nev., on June 13, 1987.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Hunter's survivors include son and daughter-in-law Kevin and Almuth Hunter of Germany; daughter and son-in-law Therese and Kevin Caldwell of Kingston; stepson Len McKeever of Portland, Ore., stepsons and stepdaughters-in-law Chuck and Kelly McKeever of Shoreline and Stephen and Angie McKeever of Lynnwood; five grandchildren and two stepgrandchildren.
Services: Monday, Jan. 19, 2 p.m., memorial at The 125th Street Grill, 125th Street and Aurora Ave., Seattle. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home, Port Angeles, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Alzheimer's Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave., 17th Floor, Chicago, IL 60601-7633.
Elmer Geer `Gus' Lindquist
Aug. 14, 1925 --Jan. 14, 2004
Elmer Geer ``Gus" Lindquist died in his Port Townsend home at age 78.
Services: Sunday, Jan. 25, 2 p.m., memorial in Trinity United Methodist Church, 609 Taylor St., Port Townsend. Kosec Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Leo C. White
Sept. 28, 1910 -- Jan. 14, 2004
Port Angeles businessman, civic leader and Rotary Club officer Leo C. White died in Sequim of Alzheimer's disease at age 93.
He was born in Butte, Mont., to Charles H. and Anastasia ``Daisy" (Stack) White.
At age 6, he began helping in the family's laundry business in Lewiston, Idaho. He and his family moved to Port Angeles and Lake Crescent when he was 10.
After graduating from Port Angeles High School, he attended the University of Washington in 1929-30. Mr. White majored in accounting and joined Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He also was a football manager and striped the field before Husky games.
He attained the rank of lieutenant commander in the Navy during his World War II service in 1941-46. After the war, he organized a Navy Reserve unit in Port Angeles.
He married
Clarice E. Lundberg in Centralia in 1962.
Mr. White owned Olympic Laundry and Dry Cleaners until his retirement. The business remains in family ownership.
Mr. White's community and service club activities spanned decades.
He was president of the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1952.
In the 1970s, he chaired the city's U.S. Bicentennial celebration and led an effort to purchase a replica Liberty Bell, which was mounted and rung on July 4, 1976.
The bell is the centerpiece of Veterans Park on Lincoln Street.
Mr. White was named 1976 Man of the Year by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
He was a lifetime member of Naval Elks and the American Legion, and was amateur ham radio operator W7NB, who signed off every day by saying: ``Remember, I'm the one who loves you all."
He joined the Port Angeles Rotary Club in 1949 and was its president in 1978-79.
He rose to governor of Rotary International District 5020, which includes clubs from the Washington coast, Tacoma-Olympia and Kitsap and Olympic Peninsula areas to the top of Vancouver Island.
Mr. White was an honorary life member of Port Angeles Rotary Club at the time of his death.
He was a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the result of his becoming a pilot and founder of a flying club following his college days.
Mr. White's other interests included photography, skiing, traveling and candlemaking.
He was a member of Queen of Angels Roman Catholic Church in Port Angeles.
Survivors include his wife, Clare, of Port Angeles; son and daughter-in-law John Gregory and Consuelo White of Port Angeles; stepson and stepdaughter-in-law John and Elizabeth Percival of Kalama; daughters and sons-in-law Carol and Michael Brown of Bellevue and Kristin White and Sasho Petrovski of San Diego; brother Howard White of Brier; sister Beatrice Elm of Lynnwood; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one grandchild.
Services: Today, Jan. 16, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., visitation in Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel, 105 W. Fourth St.
Saturday, Jan. 17, at 11 a.m., funeral Mass in Queen of Angels Catholic Church, 209 W. 11th St., followed by burial in Mount Angeles Memorial Park, U.S. Highway 101 and Monroe Road. The Rev. Kurt Nagel will officiate.
A reception in the St. Anne Room of Queen of Angels Church will follow the graveside service.
Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Alzheimer's Association, 12721 30th Ave., Seattle, WA 98125; Rotaplast International (for District 5020), 1633 Mission St., Suite 320, San Francisco, CA 94103; or Queen of Angels School, 1007 S. Oak St., Port Angeles, WA 98362.
The family requests no flowers.
