Obituaries

Sherill L. de Carrico, 65, died surrounded by her children at her home in Federal Way on 11/15/2006. She was born in Wichita, KN on 3/23/1941.

Sherill was a spiritual woman who fiercely loved her family and was cherished by them. She befriended all that she met. She had adventure in her blood and loved to travel the country. Her many accomplishments included being voted Miss Congeniality as Miss Federal Way in 1959. She authored and illustrated a children's book and loved to dance so much that she owned a dance studio.

Ron L. Cole, 63, a Port Orchard and Goodyear, Arizona resident since 1999, passed away on Nov 20, 2006, due to complications of open heart surgery.

Ron was a graduate of University of Puget Sound, a retired commercial mortgage banker, and a B-52 pilot during the Vietnam War. He was a member of The Church at Litchfield Park in Arizona.

Virginia Mae LaMoria was born May 12th 1917 in Dubuque, IA, to Crystal and Albert Witte. In her late teens, she, with her family, moved to Seattle, WA where they lived across the street from Alki Beach. There she met Robert Ernest LaMoria and the two were married in January 27, 1935. She loved small children and animals of all kinds. She also loved poetry and over the years, wrote several hundred poems. She was a resident of Federal Way for 12 years. On November 9, 2006, in Federal Way, WA, she passed away from respiratory and heart failure. She was 89 years old.

Jerry Jackson will be remembered as a kind, generous, eternal optimist with a quit wit and an easy smile that he would share with the closest of friends as well as strangers who were simply friends he had not yet met.

Jackson, 69, died peacefully on November 20th after a 5 year battle with cancer. He had defied the odds, surviving 3 years beyond all prognoses.

Pam was born to Allan and Donna Robinson in August 1948. She passed away at home on November 14, 2006. She was the middle child of three daughters. The familly lived i the Ballard area where she graduated from Ballard High School in n1966 and attended Shoreline Community College. She worked as a data processor.

She met her busband, Robert, in the summer of '62 and they were married in 1967. They were married for the past 39 years.

Pam was the mother of two sons, Chad and David, and a daughter, Cheri.

In 1988 she was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy.

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Carl Jensen passed away on Nov. 21, 2006, of cancer at age 97. He was preceded in death by his wife, Vera Archer Jensen.

He leaves a son Larry Jensen and wife Joanie, three grandchildren, one great grandchild and nephews and nieces Ernest Jensen, Ron Jensen, Roy and Eleanor Archer, Jerry and Darlene McNaul, Betty Stone, Barbara Tollefson and Carita Calderone, as well as special friends Hans Thompson and Jim Huntley.

An alumnus of Central Washington and the University of Washington, Carl enjoyed a fulfilling life.

Jerry Jackson will be remembered as a kind, generous, eternal optimist with a quit wit and an easy smile that he would share with the closest of friends as well as strangers who were simply friends he had not yet met.

Jackson, 69, died peacefully on November 20 after a five-year battle with cancer. He had defied the odds, surviving three years beyond all prognoses.

Stanislaw Milkowski was born in Lublin, Poland, on Palm Sunday, 1918. He attended grade school and high school in Lublin.

After graduating, he served in the Polish army's cavalry unit during the Second World War. While in the service, he was held as a prisoner of war by the Russians. When Hitler invaded Russia, he and all the labor-camp prisoners were released. Most of them ended up in Africa where some of them, including Stan, volunteered for the Royal Air Force.

Robert Lee Hudson, 82, of Des Moines, died on November 18, 2006, in Federal Way. He was born in Champagne-Urbana, Ill., on January 1, 1924, and had been a resident of Des Moines for 40 years.

Robert served in the Army during World War II under General Patton. He retired as a caregiver for developmentally disabled children.