James (Jim) Frederick Rouse of Port Orchard, WA passed away peacefully at home on January 12, 2022 at the age of 93. James was born to Earnest W. and Clara Rouse on September 26, 1928 in Tacoma WA. He spent the majority of his early years in the Tacoma and Gig Harbor area before entering the Air Force in 1948. He served as a Medic and played baseball in Japan during the Korean War. He loved sports and was an avid Seattle Mariners Baseball and UW Huskies Football fan. After being discharged...

Yumiko Nanjo, 88, passed away peacefully at her home, in Gig Harbor, WA on Monday, January 10, 2022 surrounded by loved ones. She was born in Tokyo, Japan on January 1, 1934 and was sponsored to moved to the United States in 1960 to San Francisco, California where she met her husband.  She was an Air Force wife, moving many times during her life, including overseas.  Yumiko loved to cook and travel.  Gig Harbor has only been her home for 3-years, but she loved the community...

Gurli Ragnhild Ekberg Pedersen Nielsen Ervin. This is her story . . . Born Gurli Nielsen, her journey began on December 4, 1925, in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the young age of four, Gurli immigrated to the United States with her mom, Ketty. Traveling by steamship across the Atlantic Ocean and then by train across Canada, her family settled in Portland, Oregon. Here she grew up and lived until moving to Seattle, Washington to raise her own family, with her husband, Larry Ervin. As a youngster,...

Philip A Greyell passed from this earth to heaven on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. Philip was born on August 24, 1927 in Snoqualmie, Washington. He was raised in Bremerton. At seventeen years of age, Philip joined the Coast Guard during WWII. He was taken to the seas, including other countries. Following the war, Philip enrolled at Northwest Bible College, in Kirkland, WA where he met the love of his life, Joyce Holihan. They dated throughout school. After they both graduated in the spring of...

With great sadness, we announce the loss of Renate Ingeborg May, 92, of Gig Harbor, who died January 3, 2022.  Renate passed peacefully from natural causes in the presence of her family at Saint Anthony’s Hospital in Gig Harbor, Washington. She touched many lives as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend.  She will be greatly and forever missed. She was born in Bad Kissingen, Germany on March 26, 1929. Renate immigrated to the United States in 1948...

Sutton Daniel Delabar May 28, 2014 – January 1, 2022 Fox Island, Washington – Sutton Delabar, age 7, passed away on January 1, 2022 while sleeping in his mother’s arms and is now with Jesus and his grandma in Heaven. Sutton was born on May 28, 2014 in Tacoma, Washington and was a child of Mallory Beckingham Delabar and Daniel Delabar. Sutton was full of life and joy and was well loved by his family, friends, and his community. If he just met you he would be the first to...

Phyllis Ann Crangi Bacic, 86, of Arizona Traditions in Surprise, AZ, passed away on January 1, 2022. She was surrounded by her family. Born on April 28, 1935, to Phillip and Anna Crangi in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Phyllis graduated from Beaver Falls High School.  She then obtained her nursing degree at St. Joseph's Nursing School and embarked on her multi-decade nursing career as an RN. Phyllis married her high school sweetheart of 65 years, Donald Bacic. They lived in Koppel, PA...

Mary Margaret Malm Breininger was born on April 29th, 1933 in Cotati, California; into a family of seven siblings, of which she was the second youngest.  She grew up on the family chicken farm in Santa Rosa, California. During her life of nearly 89 years, she married her husband, Fred Breininger, in 1957 and together they raised a son and daughter; John and Susan; and lived together for nearly 50 years before his passing in 2006. During their family-raising years, Mary and Fred lived...

Richard Beighley Richard (Rick) Harold Beighley died December 28, 2021. He was born in Tacoma on September 18, 1961. Rick moved to Gig Harbor in 1978 and graduated from Peninsula High School in 1980. After high school he began working at Simpson Tacoma Kraft Company and worked there for over 35 years, eventually becoming a recovery boiler operator. Rick was a history enthusiast and enjoyed reading and collecting memorabilia. He also built and painted intricate models of historic planes,...

Alan w. Thompson, 70, of Gig Harbor, WA passed away suddenly on Dec. 28, 2021.        He was born June 30, 1951 in Los Angeles, CA. He graduated from Palos Verdes High School in 1969, went on to Cal Poly, SLO where he got a degree in Biology. He then pursued his PharmD. Degree as a clinical pharmacist at USC. After graduation, he married the love of his life, Barbara, and they decided to take an adventure and moved To Helena, MT where he worked for 10 yrs. at the...