James Oliver Parker
July 27, 2010
James Oliver Parker
James Oliver Parker, of Issaquah, died at home in Sammamish on Friday, July 23, 2010. He was 80.
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. July 28 at Mountain Creek Christian Fellowship, 205 Mountain Park Blvd. S.W., Issaquah. A reception will follow.
James was born to Oliver and Gertrude Parker on a small farm in Point Arthur, Ontario, Canada, on May 22, 1930. He married Kathleen Garland on New Year’s Day 1952, and their daughter Maxine was born two years later. They moved to Pennsylvania, where Jim and Kathleen pastored a two-church Free Methodist circuit. Edith Kay was born there in 1957.
The family moved to Los Angeles the next year, where they assisted at Brentwood Free Methodist church and school. They eventually began a business, called Jim’s Home Repairs.
In 1990, Jim and Kathleen retired to Washington state to be near their children and grandchildren. They were extraordinary grandparents and will be deeply missed by their four grandchildren.
They were beloved founding members of Mountain Creek Christian Fellowship in Issaquah.
Daughter Edith Roller preceded her dad in death in March of this year, after a short battle with cancer.
Survivors include daughter Maxine Sellers, of Carnation; son-in-law Mike Roller, of Prescott, Ariz.; four grandchildren; sisters Joyce Crickett and Barb McKelvie, of British Columbia; and many nieces and nephews.
Friends are invited to share memories and sign the family’s online guest book at www.flintofts.com.
Arrangements are by Flintoft’s Funeral Home and Crematory.
Mike Edwins
July 27, 2010
Mike Edwins
Mike Edwins died at his home with great courage and dignity on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. He was 67.
Mike was born Jan. 10, 1943, in Akron, Ohio, the son of Charles and Cora Edwins. He graduated high school in Akron and attended Ohio State University.
Mike served proudly as a United States Marine in the Vietnam War from 1964-1968.
At 47, he retired from AT&T Communications after a long career as a marketing manager with the Bell System. He proudly served as the Boeing account manager in Renton until divestiture.
Mike loved life, his family, friends and his pal Bogie. You were close to Mike’s heart when you earned the moniker: “Bunky,” “Buddy,” “Peach,” “Jimbo,” or “Yen-Yen.”
Marjorie Louise Squifflet
July 27, 2010
Marjorie Louise Squifflet
Marjorie Louise Squifflet (nee Metzger)
1925-2010
Margie was born in Wichita, Kan. She grew up sharing her life there and at her maternal grandparents’ home in Kansas City, Mo. She attend the Kansas City Art Institute and was an accomplished “amateur;” her works grace the walls of our home.
At the end of World War II (in 1945), she spent a year at the Army hospital in Brigham, Utah, with her “adopted” brother Jack Menefee, who had been badly wounded in the battle of Anzio.
She married Edmond Squifflet Sr. on Aug. 2, 1952 in Chicago. They moved to Detroit in 1957, and then to the Seattle area in 1960, where they went to work for The Boeing Co. (Margie retired in 1970 during the 1969-1971 “mass extinction” in the aerospace industry.)
Norma Marie Bradeen
July 20, 2010
Norma Bradeen
Norma Marie Bradeen, of Issaquah, died July 12, 2010, at Ideal Adult Family Home. She was 90.
A funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Issaquah. Read more
Morton Daniel Wiener
July 20, 2010
Morton Daniel Wiener, of Sammamish, died Friday, July 16, 2010, at home. He was 79.
Morton Wiener
A cryptside service will be at 1 p.m. July 23, at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale, N.Y.
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Gordon Roger Fitzgerald
July 13, 2010
Gordon Roger Fitzgerald, of Issaquah, died peacefully in Issaquah on July 4, 2010. He was 81.
A memorial service is at 2 p.m. July 17 at Richardson Brown in Pomeroy. Read more
Willard (Bill) Laurel Carrigan Sr.
July 6, 2010
Willard Carrigan Sr
Willard (Bill) Laurel Carrigan Sr. died June 25, 2010. He was 82.
His funeral is at 1 p.m. July 12 at Mount Tahoma Veterans Cemetery. Read more
Malcolm LeRoy Matthews
July 6, 2010
Malcolm Matthews
Malcolm L. Matthews, of Issaquah, died Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at Issaquah Nursing and Rehabilitation. He was 77.
A funeral service was July 3 at The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, Issaquah. Burial followed at Upper Hillside Cemetery in Issaquah. Read more
Olga Marie Goben
July 6, 2010
Olga Marie Goben, 91, went home to be with her Lord on June 22, 2010. Read more
Donna L. Berto
July 6, 2010
Donna Lee Berto, of Issaquah, died June 22, 2010, at Issaquah Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where she had been an Alzheimer’s patient for many years. She was 81. Read more
