A potluck memorial has been arranged for David Ritchie. Friends, family, classmates and public are invited to attend an informal gathering at the gazebo in Marvista Park to share our memories of Dave. The Park is in Normandy Park located at the corner of 4th Ave. S.W. and S.W. 200th St. We will meet in the evening of Sunday, September 19, 2021 at 6:00 p.m.
Gordon Quinn surprisingly slipped quietly away in his room on the morning of August 15, 2021 at the Clark Family Farm where he had recently moved from his long time West Seattle home. He is now with his creator, and has joined his beloved wife Geraldine Bronson Quinn who passed away several years ago.
Marian Sarah Nelson passed away peacefully on June 29, 2021, at the age of 90.
Born on August 13, 1930, to Andrew and Amanda Melby in Ashby, Minnesota, Marian was the youngest of three – her brothers, Howard and Warren – having predeceased her. In 1949 she married Gerald R. “Jerry” Nelson and they moved to West Seattle in 1958, where they raised their family. They were married for 55 years until Jerry’s passing in 2004.
Stan grew up in a loving family in West Seattle, son to Al and Jean Skaret. He attended Fauntleroy Grade School, Denny Jr. High, and Chief Sealth High School. He also went to Highline Community College.
Stan served his country in Vietnam as a door gunner. After returning, he worked for Todd Shipyards as a Shipwright for 27 years and was a Chief Shop Steward.
Rose Marie (Sissy) Price passed away peacefully on July 3, 2021, in Kirkland, WA at the age of 89.
She was born in Van Hook, North Dakota May 13, 1932 to Rose Ella Genevieve and Fred C. Ellis. She graduated from Van Hook High School in 1950 and married James (Bobby) R. Price on October 8, 1951.
Sissy was small in stature but big in energy. She was a wife, caregiver, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
She and her family moved to Seattle in 1966 and started a career at The Boeing Company where she retired after 26 years.
Janice Kay (Martinson) Heckman was born January 2, 1943, in Starbuck, Minnesota, to Nels and Fern Martinson. Her family left Minnesota for Seattle, Washington in November 1949.
The extraordinary life of Martin (“Marty”) C. Dirks of West Seattle, a family man, adventurer and master storyteller who also made significant contributions as a civil engineer, ended on July 16 in a Seattle hospital, surrounded by his loving family. He was 87.
Marty split his time between Seattle, where he was born on April 9, 1934, and Camano Island, where he was raised. Highlights of his teen years were chronicled in the Seattle Post Intelligencer by his father, Clarence, a sportswriter-turned “City-Bred Farmer” columnist. Marty’s mother was Cleo Coons.
Barbara Glee Maurer died on July 15, 2021, at the age of 76, in the comfort of her home overlooking Puget Sound, surrounded by friends and family. Her death was a culmination of a valiant battle against cancer.
The family of Phyllis Joyce Harriage (Clark) is deeply saddened to announce her death at 81 years old from complications of Parkinson’s disease on June 14, 2021.
John Herbert Nitardy was born to Otto and Alice (Mehaffey) Nitardy on April 29, 1937, in Minneapolis, MN and died June 1, 2021, at Wesley Health Center in Des Moines, WA.
