Obituaries for Bradley-Kosec Funeral Home & Crematory

Feb 9, 2020

Ethel Loraine Crutcher, 93, of Port Townsend, Washington, passed peacefully on February 9, 2020, surrounded by family and friends. Ethel was born in Port Ludlow, Washington, on August 6, 1926 to Ernest and Edith Johnson, and graduated from Chimacum High School in 1944. Not long after graduation, Ethel met and married Ivan Crutcher. They were married until his passing...

Feb 5, 2020

Gary loved people and parties. He loved houses, especially kitchens, and art and music. And boy did he love his dogs. But, most of all he loved Jerry Haynes, his partner, with whom he shared 32 years of his life. These men straddled a time during which they installed two phone lines in their home and never dared answer...

Feb 2, 2020

Ruth Lina Marlow September 26, 1970 – February 2, 2020 Ruth (Ruthy) Lina Marlow passed away peacefully with her husband at her side on February 2, 2020. She was born on September 26, 1970, in Auburn, California, to Gary and Jeanne Zink. The family moved to Chico, California, before settling in Kent, Washington, in 1974. Ruthy attended schools in...

Jan 13, 2020

Kathy Francis died peacefully Monday morning January 13 at her home in Port Townsend after a long battle with cancer. She was lovingly attended by her husband Bob, her brother Carl, her friend Share de Wees and her dedicated hospice nurse. The previous weekend she had said goodbyes to her devoted sons Allen and Craig and (god) daughter Katie....

Jan 12, 2020

Janie Sue Marcus died surrounded by her loved ones on January 12, 2020 in Port Townsend. She is survived by her fiancé Doug Lewis, her mother Naomi, daughter Jessica Etta Ewoldt, brothers Larry and Cliff, sister Emily (Willie) and many more whom she loved and cared for deeply. Janie was born March 28, 1954 in Oceanside, New York. She...

Jan 7, 2020

James LaMoine Leavitt January 8 , 1949 - January 7 , 2020 Lifelong Jefferson County resident James"Jimmy" Leavitt passed away from heart failure at Harrison Medical Center, Bremerton, Wa on January 7 , 2020 with family by his side. He was looking forward to his 71st birthday, just missing it by a few hours. The eldest of five children,...

Dec 31, 2019

Heinz Karl Boeckmann died Dec. 31, 2019 after a brief illness in Port Townsend, Washington at the age of 83. He was born Sept. 25, 1936 in Wulfrath Germany where he attended high school, played the violin, and completed an apprenticeship as a machinist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1956, Heinz was employed as a machinist at the...

Dec 30, 2019

Honor is Not a Word, But a Way of Life Fredrick Basford White (Col. Ret.), a resident of Port Townsend, Washington died on December 30, 2019. Fred was born and raised in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, the eighth of nine children to Joseph Warren White and Rena Violet Bowering White. He grew up tending the family farm and working at...

Dec 30, 2019

Charlotte Clark June 25,1924 - December 30, 2019 “My name is Charlotte Clark. I didn’t receive my name, Charlotte until I was two years old. They just called me Baby. I was the youngest of six children all born in the period of eight years; Carl, Betty, Georgene, Richard, Vera and I. Our family was having a picnic and...

Dec 29, 2019

Barbara Hutmacher MacLean, journalist, artist, author and traveler, died after a short illness on December 29, 2019 in Port Townsend, Washington. She was 93. She was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1926. Self-educated, she had no interest in getting a formal education. She dropped out of her first year of college at Western Michigan College in 1946 when she...

Dec 21, 2019

Maggi Lucille Hurlong, 67, of Port Angeles, WA, died Dec. 21, 2019. She was surrounded by her family after succumbing to a long battle with cancer. She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Alice Butler. She is survived by her son, Jason (Pam) Horton and daughter, Brandi (Travis) Hamon; four grandchildren, Lexy and Max Horton; Kym...

Dec 20, 2019

Barbara Jean Skinner died at her home in Port Ludlow, Washington, on December 20, 2019. Barb had battled brain cancer for 7 months with her characteristic courage and tenacity. Barb was born November 29, 1948, in Hudson, Michigan, where she began what became a consistent pattern of helping others and doing well. Barb proudly tells the story of raising...

Dec 9, 2019

Willard Boyd Grafmyre a legendary music promoter, known to Seattle as the “Mahatma of Rock” passed on Monday, December 9, 2019 at the age of 79 in Port Townsend, WA. He graduated from Queen Anne High School (Class of 1959) and studied at Pasedena Playhouse in California. Boyd was drafted shortly after and spent time serving his country in...

Dec 7, 2019

Fern, Vern, Vernace the Furnace, Big Pops, Burt, Moose, Big Kahuna, Lips, Vermin, dude with big legs, the guy who always wears bright-colored shorts all year… the King of Makawao was a stubborn pain in the ass, but we loved him. On Dec. 7, 2019, we lost him to a combination of construction dust, a few too many cigarettes...

Dec 3, 2019

David E. Abshire was born in Long Beach, CA, on January 16, 1937 to Charles “Abby” and Mary (Brabb) Abshire. He died peacefully in his home in Port Hadlock, WA, on Tuesday evening, December 3, 2019. David grew up in Onalaska, WA, in a close family that included his brothers, Dennis and Nick. He joined the Navy in 1955...

Dec 2, 2019

When Ruth Elaine Kvinsland was born Saturday, May 8, 1943, in Bremerton, WA. When gas was .21 a gallon. She died December 2, 2019, at Harborview Hospital in Seattle, from injuries she received on Thanksgiving Day when her wheel chair took a wrong turn. Ironically, Thanksgiving week of 2013 was when she suffered a stroke during brain surgery and...

Nov 27, 2019

Nov 27, 2019

Norma Kay (Jackson) Minaker passed away at the age of 83 on 11/27/2019 in Port Townsend, WA. Norma was the daughter of Horace and Alice Jackson. Norma is survived by her children. Jim (Kelly) Minaker, JoAnn Minaker and Tim Minaker all of Port Townsend area. She has 6 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Her 3 great great grandchildren were...

Nov 15, 2019

Jim Pickett, 81, died Nov. 15, 2019 at home in Port Townsend. He had lived with Stage IV kidney cancer for twenty-eight years. Born in Wharton, Texas, he grew up in the small farming community of Lago, and worked in his father’s Pickett Hatchery and chicken feed store. He was a state winner in the 4-H Club and an...

Nov 11, 2019

Gabryel Christopher Mills, 18, passed away November 11th, 2019 in a tragic car accident with two of his close friends in Jefferson County, WA. Born April 16, 2001 to his mother Elisabeth (Motan) Mills in Port Townsend, WA and lovingly raised with both his mother and chosen father, Samuel Mills. Gabe was a very kind, generous and compassionate young...