All Obituaries

Don was born June 17, 1932 at the Auburn hospital to Ernest and Alice (Thrane) Moergeli. He graduated in the first class of White River High School, Enumclaw Branch. Don attended Washington State College, Pullman, Washington and C.W. Pierce College, Canoga Park, California. He enlisted in the Navy as a Naval Aviation Cadet (NAVCAD) and started pre-flight training at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola in October 1952. He made his six aircraft carrier landings aboard the USS Monterey CVL-26...

Norene Temple was born June 13, 1935, in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, to Cecil Raymond and Arhea Mertese (Meek) Hulse. She died April 12, 2018, in Enumclaw, Washington at the age of 82. Norene met her husband Jim at one of the drive-in theaters his family owned in Meridian, Idaho. They married December 4, 1953. Together they had three children: Debra, Dan and Dianne. Norene owned a daycare in Idaho; she especially loved the babies. Norene enjoyed gardening,...

Marydale Brooks, 74, of Buckley, Washington died April 12, 2018, at her home.  She was born August 20, 1943, to Clarence and Mary Brooks in Grenada, Mississippi.  She was a philanthropist contributing regularly to the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, White River School District, and other organizations.  When she saw a need for social services in Buckley, she helped start White River Community Outreach.  She was an Eagles member.  She enjoyed vegetable...

Patricia Marsten died April 9, 2018, at the age of 87. She was born March 31, 1931, in Packwood, Wash., to Charles and Myrtle Ratcliffe. Patricia enjoyed riding horses, fishing, hunting, painting, sewing, crocheting, canning and attending shows and plays. She loved being in the outdoors and took special interest in gardening when she was younger. Patricia adored her cat, Sissy.  She loved pie, and spending time with good friends and her family. Patricia is survived by...

Lifetime Enumclaw resident Delbert Grennan passed away peacefully on April 9th. He was 87 years old and the youngest of Fenton & Sylvia Grennan’s 11 children. Del graduated from Enumclaw High School in 1948 and went to St. Mary’s College in California for a year where he played football and baseball. He returned home and married his high school sweetheart Sue McKay and they had seven children. Later Del married Linda (Erickson) Weddle and welcomed her two children...

Our beloved Father and Papou, age 79, died April 7, 2018 in San Diego, California. He was born May 21, 1938 in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England to Clifford Walter Orriss and Eileen Mary Orriss (née Brown). His father Clifford (MBE), served in the Royal Air Force as a mechanic during World War II in Europe and India. During our grandmother’s estrangement from our grandfather, she met a U.S. serviceman named Harley Schumacher. After the war Granny and Dad came to the...

Gilbert Huizenga 1933-2018 Gilbert Huizenga was born October 17, 1933 in Haynes, CA, the 3rd of 5 sons and 1 daughter, to Ted...

Memorial service: Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at Weeks' Funeral Home, 451 Cemetery Rd., Buckley, WA 98321

Mark Patrick James, 63 of Auburn, died April 3, 2018 in Seattle, WA.  He was born March 13, 1955 in Tacoma, WA to Russell & Yvonne James.  Mark was a commercial and sports fisherman, and a hunter and gatherer.  He was a tribal activist who fought for treaty rights, elder abuse and Violence Against Women’s Act, water rights, natural resources, and the preservation and revitalization of the Muckleshoot language.  Mark was a member of the Muckleshoot Tribal...

Eric Lowell Peterson 1990-2018 Eric was the oldest of two sons of David & Patricia (Sponenburg) Peterson.  Eric was born February 28, 1990 in Puyallup, Washington at Good Samaritan Hospital.  Eric started having seizures when he was about six months old.  The early years of Eric’s life were difficult as he didn’t progress with the others his age.  Eric had two outstanding teachers in the Puyallup School District Pam (Fujimura) Gargett...