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Charles Wilkie
Feb 21, 2021
Charles Wilkie 1941-2021 "I believe God has called me to serve him, and serve him well." Charles "Chuck" Wilkie was born November 1941 in Los Angeles to Charles Wilkie Sr. and Helen Woodfin. He attended Los Angeles High School, and then Santa Monica College. After graduating college he worked in hardware and construction. He joined the Hollywood Young Adults...
Lanney Wixson
Feb 21, 2021
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Lanney Wixson on the morning of February 21, 2021 from COVID19.
Lanney was a lion-hearted, forever welcoming, conversation starting, island hopping, constant bird watching, life-long woodworking, world traveling, photography loving, and charitable, vibrant soul. He was also a fierce advocate, black licorice connoisseur, and bicycle...
Sherry Ann Shipley
Feb 20, 2021
Sherry Shipley was a wife, a mother and grandmother.
Sherry was conceived in Texas, born in Seattle and grew up in Skagit County with her parents Harold and Reba Lange. Her father, Harold was a beekeeper, and it was through him that she began the journey of developing  a deeper appreciation of  the natural world. She went...
F. Christine Perry
Feb 20, 2021
Christine was born December 22, 1945 in Concrete Washington and died on February 20, 2021 in Burlington Washington. She graduated high school in 1964 and married David Gustafson that same summer, together they had three children. They moved to New Mexico in 1972, moved back to Skagit Valley in 1975, and they divorced in 1981. She worked for the...
Barbara June Harris
Feb 15, 2021
Barbara June (Klaus) Harris, 97, a lifelong resident of Sedro Woolley, passed away on February 15, 2021, after a brief illness.
Barbara was born in Sedro Woolley, on June 13, 1923, to Nicholas and Mattie Klaus. Â Barbara loved to travel and traveled often, but Sedro-Woolley was always her home. Â She was active in the community, having owned...
Robert Alban Mccauley
Feb 15, 2021
Robert Alban Joseph McCauley, 97, passed away on 15 February, 2021 in Anacortes WA. He was born at the Stetson Hospital in Philadelphia, PA to Chief Water Tender John Joseph and Martha (nee Geier) McCauley.
He was raised in a rowhouse in Philadelphia with his brother, Jack. He graduated from Northeast Catholic High School in June of...
Shirley Potts
Feb 14, 2021
Shirley Anne Potts, 77, died peacefully at her home in Burlington, WA amongst her family on February 14, 2021.
Shirley was born to the late William and Evelyn Glasser on August 27, 1943 in Crookston, MN. She moved to Tacoma, WA as a young teen and graduated from Franklin Pierce High School in 1961.
Shirley...
Floyd L Nelson
Feb 12, 2021
Floyd L Nelson was born on August 7, 1927 in Hayes Township in Swift County, Minnesota. He loved learning and inherited a love for music from his mother. Floyd was a talented piano player. His sister, Grace said that no one could play like him.
When Floyd was 18, he joined the Coastguard and finished high school...
Emma Sanchez
Feb 12, 2021
Emma Sanchez, a beloved mother, sister, Tia, daughter and grandmother passed away on Friday, February 12, 2021.
Emma died Friday at her home in Mount Vernon surrounded by family. After an aggressive but short battle with pancreatic cancer she passed away at the age of 62.
Emma was born to Pablo & Anita Sanchez in...
Zona L Sjogren
Feb 11, 2021
Zona L. Sjogren
Zona L Sjogren, age 92, passed away  February 11th 2021 in Mount Vernon.  Born August 14th 1928 in Sedro-Wooley to Jenoth and Helen Coker.  She grew up on their dairy farm along with her brothers Lloyd and Norman.  She graduated from Sedro-Wooley High School in 1946 and worked at Memorial Hospital for several years....
Colleen Mullen
Feb 8, 2021
COLLEEN MARIE (DYNES) MULLEN
FEBRUARY 23, 1964 – FEBRUARY 8, 2021
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our beloved wife, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend. Colleen passed away at home, surrounded by her husband, stepchildren, and friends.
Colleen was born on February 23, 1964, in...
Neva Leed
Feb 4, 2021
Neva Leed passed away peacefully on February 4, 2021, in Burlington Washington, with family by her side.
Neva Therese Aarstad was born in 1932 to Alice and Nick Aarstad in their home outside of Burlington. Despite being an only child, she had the blessing of growing up surrounded by many aunts, uncles and cousins. Neva attended elementary...
Robert Gardner
Feb 1, 2021
Robert Kyner "Bob" Gardner, 78, of Burlington, Washington, passed away on February 1, 2021.
Born October 23, 1942, in Leetown, West Virginia, he was the youngest child and son of the late Margaret Blue Gardner and John F. Gardner, Jr.
After graduating from Charles Town High School with the Class of 1960, he went to...
James Hobbs, Sr.
Jan 31, 2021
James Hobbs Sr. passed away on Sunday, January 31, 2021 as the result of an inoperable tear in his aorta near his beautiful heart.
Jim was born December 18, 1936, in Mount Vernon, WA joining his parents Arthur and Lillian and his two older brothers, Bobby and Nathan Hobbs on the family farm in Burlington, WA. Jim...
Leonard L Bainter
Jan 26, 2021
Leonard L. Bainter, age 89, a resident of Mount Vernon, WA., died January 26, 2021 at home.
He was born January 17, 1932 in Bellingham, WA, the son of Sherman and Ellen Bainter. He married
his High School sweetheart, Edna McBee, on March 16, 1949 in Burlington and were married until her
passing...
Sandra Kay Mack
Jan 25, 2021
Sandra (Sandy) Kay Mack, age 80, passed away on January 25, 2021 on Camano Island, WA. Sandy was born on December 30, 1940 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Sandy has been an active member of the American Legion Auxiliary Post 207 of Camano Island. She worked at the Boeing Company for 33 years and retired in 1996.
...
James Howard Ammons
Jan 21, 2021
James (Big Jim) Howard Ammons was born March 6, 1931 in Jackson Co., North Carolina to Emma E. Ammons. On January 21, 2021 he passed away peacefully at home at the age of 89, surrounded by family, after a valiant fight with cancer. Â He was raised and educated in North Carolina and in Washington as his family moved several...
Mildred Lorraine Gundersen
Jan 18, 2021
Lorraine Gundersen, 83, of Bow, passed away peacefully with the Lord in her heart and by her side January 18, 2021.
She was born August 10, 1937 in Burlington, the eldest child of the late Leonard and Margaret Omdal.
Lorraine grew up with her three siblings on the family dairy farm in Bow. She graduated from Burlington-Edison...
Willis Harshman
Jan 17, 2021
Willis D. Harshman of Mount Vernon Washington passed away on January 17 th , 2021 at United General Hospital in Sedro Woolley at the age of 82. He was born on July 4 th , 1938 in Oxford, Nebraska to John and LuElla (Wolfe) Harshman.
The family moved to Washington State in 1941 and resided in Burlington,...
Inez Boffey
Jan 17, 2021
Inez Irene Boffey went home to be with the Lord on January 17th, 2021. She was 93. She passed having never eaten even one bite of fish, and she liked it that way.
Born to Vernon and Ethel (McConnell) Clark on September 28, 1927, in LaGrange, IN, Inez grew up on a farm with seven siblings. Shy...
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