Obituaries
Obituaries for Bradley-Kosec Funeral Home & Crematory
Frank Graves Brown
Jun 26, 2021
Frank G. Brown, 94, of Port Townsend, WA passed away quietly at home on June 26, 2021, just four months after his beloved wife of 72 years, Margery Goodwin Brown, passed away. Frank was born on September 1, 1926 in Lynn, MA to Leona Young and Frank G. Brown. They moved to Marblehead when Frank was a child, and...
Martin Waldo Wilcox
Jun 25, 2021
Capt. Martin W Wilcox, MD Port Gamble - Martin “Marty” “Doc” Wilcox died June 25, 2021, on a picture-perfect day at Heaven’s Hideaway. He was 82. Martin was born in Independence, KS. He grew up in our nation’s national parks, with Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon as his favorites. He graduated from Hurricane High School and the...
Willard Leroy Aldrich
Jun 16, 2021
Willard L. Aldrich, 96, of Port Hadlock, passed away on June 16, 2021 at home with his family surrounding him. Willard was born on May 22, 1925 to Forrest and Louise Aldrich in Seattle, Washington. The family moved to Port Townsend in 1929. After graduating from Port Townsend High School in 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard...
Ira Alten Nelson-Bokum
Jun 2, 2021
Ira Alten Nelson-Bokum died June 2, 2021. He was 41 years old. He was born January 15, 1980 and because of this auspicious date, he was the only one in his first grade class who knew who Martin Luther King Jr. was. He quit school at the age of 16 and after earning his GED, he set off on...
Thomas Edward Booth
May 23, 2021
THOMAS EDWARD BOOTH SEPTEMBER 15,1949 - MAY 23, 2021 Tommy Booth was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Edna Mae Babcock and Thomas Edward Booth. He grew up fishing and hunting in the woods around the family farm in Wexford. Learning to draw with his mother seemed like magic to him and art became his vocation. As a young man,...
Deborah Lee Townsend
May 21, 2021
Deborah Lee Townsend October 3, 1949 - May 21, 2021 Born in the steel mill town of Weirton, West Virginia, Deborah Lee Sadler was raised by her grandparents Harold and Martha Leuthke. Despite black soot commonly raining down from the stacks of the nearby blast furnaces, Deborah was drawn to nature and outdoor activities from an early age. Whether...
Robert Eugene Gooch, Jr.
May 12, 2021
Robert Eugene Gooch, Jr., who was born to Robert and Frances Gooch on December 16, 1951, passed away peacefully with family by his side. On May 12th of 2021 a beautiful heart stopped beating. Bob was a wonderful caring man who worked hard to take care of his family and was married to his wife, Sandy for 48 years....
Richard Joseph Humphrey
May 11, 2021
Richard Joseph Humphrey 4-10-1993 to 5-11-2021 Richard (Ricky) Joseph Humphrey passed away on Tuesday May 11th 2021 with his fiance Justina, her mother, Maria, his brother Keith and sister Amanda by his side. He was born on April 10th 1993 here in Port Townsend Washington, to Kristie May Abendroth and Darryl Earl Humphrey. Soon after he became a big...
Herbert Wayne Cook
Apr 18, 2021
Herb Cook, lifelong Brinnon resident, passed away April 18, 2021 at home. Herb was the eldest of Red and Johnny Cook's children. His parents preceded him in death. He is survived by sisters, Fay Beck of Brinnon and Hazel Munday of Walker Mountain along with various nephews and nieces. Herb was born May 22, 1948 and raised on the...
Naomi Nadine Barker Mitchell
Apr 13, 2021
Naomi Nadine Barker Mitchell Just A Gypsy... A life lived doing it ‘her way’! It is with heavy hearts we say goodbye to Naomi who was born Oct.3, 1933 to ‘Bill’ & Jean Barker in Fort Lewis, Washington and died April 13, 2021 in Port Townsend, Washington. Married 30 years to Walter J. Mitchell; loving husband, first love, &...
Carol Jean Carlson
Apr 5, 2021
Longtime Port Ludlow resident, Carol Jean Carlson, age 89, passed away on Monday, April 5, 2021 in Silverdale, Washington after a series of illnesses. Born to Anthony E. and Helen G. (Wilkins) Karnes in Ketchikan, Alaska, on November 22, 1931, Carol grew up in Juneau, Alaska, where she met her future husband, Bill H. Carlson, one day on the...
Joan Merridith Reed
Mar 26, 2021
Joan Merridith Reed August 20, 1934 – March 26th, 2021 Joan Merridith Reed, known as Joanie to her loved ones, died March 26th, 2021, from a ten year long illness of Alzheimer’s disease. Joan was born August 20th, 1934, in Seattle, Washington, to Margaret McKay Merridith (Peg) and William Kenneth Merridith (Ken). Joan grew up in a logging camp...
Susan Kathryn Bassett
Mar 18, 2021
Susan Kathryn Cullen Bassett died on March 18, 2021 of ALS at the age of 81 in Port Hadlock, WA. She was born 12/9/1939 in Madera, CA to father Eugene Raymond Cullen and mother Cora Betty Hughes Cullen. Raised in San Anselmo, CA, she attended Saint Anselm's Grammer school and graduated from Marin Catholic High School in 1957. She...
George Frederick Fisler
Mar 11, 2021
George Frederick Fisler, PhD On Thursday, March 11, 2021, George F. Fisler, professor, biologist and avid bird watcher, and loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, passed away at the age of 89. George was born on November 29, 1931 in Saginaw, Michigan and raised in Pontiac, Michigan. After high school he attended Adrian College where he was on the...
Margery Ann Goodwin Brown
Feb 25, 2021
Margery Goodwin Brown, 95, of Port Townsend, WA passed away February 25, 2021 at home with her husband of 72 years, Frank G. Brown, by her side. Margery was born to William H. and Hattie Horne Goodwin in Marblehead, MA where she graduated from Marblehead High School’s class of 1943. After graduation she earned her RN at Salem Hospital...
Kathryn Louise Hammond Cogswell
Feb 10, 2021
Kathryn (Kathy) Louise Hammond Cogswell passed away peacefully in Port Townsend, Washington on Wednesday, February 10, 2021. She squeezed in maximum mileage during her 77 years. Kathy’s journey began in Tucson, Arizona- born to Kathryn Louise and William Ira Hammond on May 28, 1943. She graduated from Tucson High, then attended University of Arizona where she majored in English,...
Ronald Edward Hoffman
Feb 7, 2021
Ron Hoffman passed away February 7th, 2021 of cancer and a heart attack. Ronald Edward Hoffman was born in Bremerton, Washington on July 28th, 1960 to Wayne Eugene and Elizabeth Alma (Rutherford) Hoffman. The family moved to Brinnon in 1962. Ron attended first through eighth grade in Brinnon, then attended grades ninth through twelfth in Quilcene, where he graduated....
Richard Konizeski
Jan 28, 2021
Richard (Dick) Konizeski, was a well known resident of Cape George having lived there with his wife Ruby for app. 40 years. He was born 9 March 1917 and died 28 Jan 2021. Just shy 5 weeks of his 104th birthday. He was well known in the Port Townsend community as the man who wears a beaver coat. Dick...
Irene Isabelle Date
Jan 17, 2021
Irene Date died peacefully Sunday, January 17, 2021 at her home 21 miles SE of Quilcene, WA at the age of 99. Irene was born October 13, 1921, 5 miles north of Poulsbo, WA, at the family home of Paul and Dorthea Schechert. She graduated North Kitsap High in 1939 and went on to get her beauticians license in...
Richard Alan Maltby
Jan 15, 2021
Richard “Dick” Maltby 6-7-1931 - 1-15-2021 Richard Maltby died on January 15th in Port Townsend, WA, after a long illness. He was born in southern California to Clifford Maltby and Alta Donnelly and grew up in Hollywood, California. He graduated from Hollywood High School and later Washington State University, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science. His whole life...
Frank Graves Brown
Jun 26, 2021
Frank G. Brown, 94, of Port Townsend, WA passed away quietly at home on June 26, 2021, just four months after his beloved wife of 72 years, Margery Goodwin Brown, passed away. Frank was born on September 1, 1926 in Lynn, MA to Leona Young and Frank G. Brown. They moved to Marblehead when Frank was a child, and...
Martin Waldo Wilcox
Jun 25, 2021
Capt. Martin W Wilcox, MD Port Gamble - Martin “Marty” “Doc” Wilcox died June 25, 2021, on a picture-perfect day at Heaven’s Hideaway. He was 82. Martin was born in Independence, KS. He grew up in our nation’s national parks, with Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon as his favorites. He graduated from Hurricane High School and the...
Willard Leroy Aldrich
Jun 16, 2021
Willard L. Aldrich, 96, of Port Hadlock, passed away on June 16, 2021 at home with his family surrounding him. Willard was born on May 22, 1925 to Forrest and Louise Aldrich in Seattle, Washington. The family moved to Port Townsend in 1929. After graduating from Port Townsend High School in 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard...
Ira Alten Nelson-Bokum
Jun 2, 2021
Ira Alten Nelson-Bokum died June 2, 2021. He was 41 years old. He was born January 15, 1980 and because of this auspicious date, he was the only one in his first grade class who knew who Martin Luther King Jr. was. He quit school at the age of 16 and after earning his GED, he set off on...
Thomas Edward Booth
May 23, 2021
THOMAS EDWARD BOOTH SEPTEMBER 15,1949 - MAY 23, 2021 Tommy Booth was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Edna Mae Babcock and Thomas Edward Booth. He grew up fishing and hunting in the woods around the family farm in Wexford. Learning to draw with his mother seemed like magic to him and art became his vocation. As a young man,...
Deborah Lee Townsend
May 21, 2021
Deborah Lee Townsend October 3, 1949 - May 21, 2021 Born in the steel mill town of Weirton, West Virginia, Deborah Lee Sadler was raised by her grandparents Harold and Martha Leuthke. Despite black soot commonly raining down from the stacks of the nearby blast furnaces, Deborah was drawn to nature and outdoor activities from an early age. Whether...
Robert Eugene Gooch, Jr.
May 12, 2021
Robert Eugene Gooch, Jr., who was born to Robert and Frances Gooch on December 16, 1951, passed away peacefully with family by his side. On May 12th of 2021 a beautiful heart stopped beating. Bob was a wonderful caring man who worked hard to take care of his family and was married to his wife, Sandy for 48 years....
Richard Joseph Humphrey
May 11, 2021
Richard Joseph Humphrey 4-10-1993 to 5-11-2021 Richard (Ricky) Joseph Humphrey passed away on Tuesday May 11th 2021 with his fiance Justina, her mother, Maria, his brother Keith and sister Amanda by his side. He was born on April 10th 1993 here in Port Townsend Washington, to Kristie May Abendroth and Darryl Earl Humphrey. Soon after he became a big...
Herbert Wayne Cook
Apr 18, 2021
Herb Cook, lifelong Brinnon resident, passed away April 18, 2021 at home. Herb was the eldest of Red and Johnny Cook's children. His parents preceded him in death. He is survived by sisters, Fay Beck of Brinnon and Hazel Munday of Walker Mountain along with various nephews and nieces. Herb was born May 22, 1948 and raised on the...
Naomi Nadine Barker Mitchell
Apr 13, 2021
Naomi Nadine Barker Mitchell Just A Gypsy... A life lived doing it ‘her way’! It is with heavy hearts we say goodbye to Naomi who was born Oct.3, 1933 to ‘Bill’ & Jean Barker in Fort Lewis, Washington and died April 13, 2021 in Port Townsend, Washington. Married 30 years to Walter J. Mitchell; loving husband, first love, &...
Carol Jean Carlson
Apr 5, 2021
Longtime Port Ludlow resident, Carol Jean Carlson, age 89, passed away on Monday, April 5, 2021 in Silverdale, Washington after a series of illnesses. Born to Anthony E. and Helen G. (Wilkins) Karnes in Ketchikan, Alaska, on November 22, 1931, Carol grew up in Juneau, Alaska, where she met her future husband, Bill H. Carlson, one day on the...
Joan Merridith Reed
Mar 26, 2021
Joan Merridith Reed August 20, 1934 – March 26th, 2021 Joan Merridith Reed, known as Joanie to her loved ones, died March 26th, 2021, from a ten year long illness of Alzheimer’s disease. Joan was born August 20th, 1934, in Seattle, Washington, to Margaret McKay Merridith (Peg) and William Kenneth Merridith (Ken). Joan grew up in a logging camp...
Susan Kathryn Bassett
Mar 18, 2021
Susan Kathryn Cullen Bassett died on March 18, 2021 of ALS at the age of 81 in Port Hadlock, WA. She was born 12/9/1939 in Madera, CA to father Eugene Raymond Cullen and mother Cora Betty Hughes Cullen. Raised in San Anselmo, CA, she attended Saint Anselm's Grammer school and graduated from Marin Catholic High School in 1957. She...
George Frederick Fisler
Mar 11, 2021
George Frederick Fisler, PhD On Thursday, March 11, 2021, George F. Fisler, professor, biologist and avid bird watcher, and loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, passed away at the age of 89. George was born on November 29, 1931 in Saginaw, Michigan and raised in Pontiac, Michigan. After high school he attended Adrian College where he was on the...
Margery Ann Goodwin Brown
Feb 25, 2021
Margery Goodwin Brown, 95, of Port Townsend, WA passed away February 25, 2021 at home with her husband of 72 years, Frank G. Brown, by her side. Margery was born to William H. and Hattie Horne Goodwin in Marblehead, MA where she graduated from Marblehead High School’s class of 1943. After graduation she earned her RN at Salem Hospital...
Kathryn Louise Hammond Cogswell
Feb 10, 2021
Kathryn (Kathy) Louise Hammond Cogswell passed away peacefully in Port Townsend, Washington on Wednesday, February 10, 2021. She squeezed in maximum mileage during her 77 years. Kathy’s journey began in Tucson, Arizona- born to Kathryn Louise and William Ira Hammond on May 28, 1943. She graduated from Tucson High, then attended University of Arizona where she majored in English,...
Ronald Edward Hoffman
Feb 7, 2021
Ron Hoffman passed away February 7th, 2021 of cancer and a heart attack. Ronald Edward Hoffman was born in Bremerton, Washington on July 28th, 1960 to Wayne Eugene and Elizabeth Alma (Rutherford) Hoffman. The family moved to Brinnon in 1962. Ron attended first through eighth grade in Brinnon, then attended grades ninth through twelfth in Quilcene, where he graduated....
Richard Konizeski
Jan 28, 2021
Richard (Dick) Konizeski, was a well known resident of Cape George having lived there with his wife Ruby for app. 40 years. He was born 9 March 1917 and died 28 Jan 2021. Just shy 5 weeks of his 104th birthday. He was well known in the Port Townsend community as the man who wears a beaver coat. Dick...
Irene Isabelle Date
Jan 17, 2021
Irene Date died peacefully Sunday, January 17, 2021 at her home 21 miles SE of Quilcene, WA at the age of 99. Irene was born October 13, 1921, 5 miles north of Poulsbo, WA, at the family home of Paul and Dorthea Schechert. She graduated North Kitsap High in 1939 and went on to get her beauticians license in...
Richard Alan Maltby
Jan 15, 2021
Richard “Dick” Maltby 6-7-1931 - 1-15-2021 Richard Maltby died on January 15th in Port Townsend, WA, after a long illness. He was born in southern California to Clifford Maltby and Alta Donnelly and grew up in Hollywood, California. He graduated from Hollywood High School and later Washington State University, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science. His whole life...
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