Douglas Stephen Van Woudenberg, a Port Orchard resident since 2003, died July 28, 2020. He was born in Bethesda Maryland. Doug was a member of the U.S. Air Force working as assistant crew chief on the F 15 Eagle. After eight years of active service he continued on in active reserve until retirement after twenty-two years. While in the Air Force he was able to complete his education, receiving both his B.A and MBA degrees. He met his wife, Nancy while at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls,...

Lorn Lightfeldt, 72, of Horsehead Bay, Gig Harbor, WA. passed in his home July 27, 2020 of cancer. He is survived by his wife of 47 years Linda, his daughter Kibbi Lightfeldt (husband Todd Smith), grandsons Logan Murray and Lorn Murray, great-grandchildren Lara, Logan and Bane (Poppy to them), several nephews and sister Karen. Lorn was preceded by his beloved daughter Mackenzie in 2001 and his parents Bob and Betty Lightfeldt of Kirkland. After college and military Lorn and Linda married and...

George H. Wills, better known as "Dick", passed away at St Anthony’s hospital in Gig Harbor, Washington due to a stroke. He was raised in Burien, Washington and resided most of his life in the state of Washington, the last 32 years on the Key Peninsula. A Korean War Vet (Navy) and mainly worked in heavy construction. He leaves behind his wife Hedy of 46 years, 2 sons Mike Wills (wife Signe), Mark Wills (wife Melanie), one daughter Roseana (Wills) Tidball (husband Garry)....

Edward Phillip Bechtholt, 72, of Gig Harbor, WA, passed away on July 16th suddenly and unexpectedly in his home. He loved to say that he was just Ed, but never Mr. Ed (“I’m no damn horse”) or Eddie (“only my mother called me Eddie, and she’s dead!”). He was born to Phillip and Ruth Bechtholt on May 1st, 1948, in Tacoma and spent his formative years terrorizing the streets around 40th and Alaska just blocks from Lincoln High School, where he graduated in...

Shelley Guttormsen, 70, passed July 16, 2020, with her husband by her side in Gig Harbor, Washington, after a battle with cancer. She was born May 27, 1950, in Tacoma to Patrick and Alice Doyle. Shelley graduated from Peninsula High School in 1968 where she was a Cheerleader and a Rainbow Girl. She was a proud Seahawk and would proudly sing the fight song, even 50 years later.  Shelley first met her husband, Jerry Guttormsen, when she was 9 and he was 13. Jerry made a face at her as...

James F. O’Donnell – Jim to those who knew him – passed away on July 16, 2020. He was born in Niagara Falls, NY, where he began his lifelong love for the outdoors. He studied forestry at Paul Smith University in the Adirondacks, and, after fulfilling his military duty in Germany, received his forestry degree at the University of Idaho. While in Germany Jim met and married Jeanne, his wife of 64 years. After 3 years with Oregon State Forestry Department, he entered...

Frank Martin “Ted” Bayer was born in Fargo, North Dakota, August 5, 1931. He attended Fargo Central High School and North Dakota State University before joining the US Air Force Security Service at age 20, serving as a language specialist in Bremerhaven, Germany. In 1952, he married Helena Ann Pond of San Antonio, Texas. The couple had four children: Christopher Andrew Bayer (Gig Harbor WA), Steven Eric Bayer (Salt Lake City UT), Nina Pond Bayer (Port Orchard WA), and Catherine...

Christopher’s life, by all accounts, was a miracle. He was born nine weeks premature on June 19th, 1981 in Medford, Oregon.  When born, he was so small he could be held in the palm of your hand.  He spent more than a month in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit before returning with his family to Klamath Falls, Oregon.  While in the NICU he sustained two strokes and a double hernia.  Yet through all of this – he lived.  Physician’s warned of possible...

Solomon Athanasius Seelhoff-Lindsey was born May 6, 1995, in Tacoma, Washington.  He entered this earthly plane in his trademark creative fashion, in his own way and time, arriving in the back seat of his dad’s car on a chilly morning under sunny skies.  Solomon was named after the historic King Solomon, also known as Jedidiah, names which mean “peaceful,” and “friend of God,” and after Athanasius of Alexandria, a man who was consecrated and revered by...

Diane E. Davis, age 68, passed away peacefully on July 1st, 2020 in Port Orchard, WA. She was born in Bremerton, WA on April 28th, 1952, daughter of the late Bruno and Rita Goetz of Coeur d’Alene, ID. She was a graduate of Red River High School in Minot, ND in 1970, received her Cosmetology License from Dahl’s College of Beauty in Great Falls, MT in 1975 and later received her Cosmetology Instructor License from The Beauty Academy in Coeur d’Alene, ID.  After teaching...