Vashon Island High School Washington Alumni Obituaries

Cheerful loving thoughtful and kind these adjectives best describe Marjorie who passed away peacefully at her home in Arizona October 27 2023. Marjorie was born on July 21 1924 in Spokane Washington. She attended Lewis Clark High School and married her high school sweetheart Jim Davey a Gonzaga gra...

Jaqueline Jackie Lee Vangilder passed away on June 29 2024 surrounded by family at her home at Franke Tobey Jones Memory Care. She was 93 years old. Jackie was born on November 30 1930 in Sioux City Iowa to Vernon and Marguerite Anderson. She was born into the large extended Kinney family of Nebrask...

Marilyn Yvonne Fox passed away peacefully in her sleep the morning of December 29th 2023. She was 89 years old. She was born in Tacoma Washington May 11th 1934 to John and Ann Cross joining her brother Jack and sister JoAnne. Marilyn grew up in Tacoma and Graduated from Stadium High School in 1951. ...

Frances Fiske Wright Grandma Frank 88 passed away peacefully in her sleep on January 13th 2025 in SeaTac Washington after a long and fulfilling life. She was born in Miles City Montana on December 201936 the second child in a family of five daughters to Edward Albert and Lona Belle Fiske Vest. She l...

It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Christine "Chris" Jovanovich. Chris met her diagnosis of multifocal glioblastoma courageously with unyielding faith and passed peacefully from this world at her home on Vashon Island on March 5 2023 at the age of 60 surrounded by her family. Chris...

Stuart passed away on June 14 2023 at home on Vashon Island Washington. He was born on August 9 1948 to Donald Jones and Helen Chapman Jones in Seattle Washington. He grew up in the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard where he made lifelong friends who affectionately referred to him as The Golden Peso. ...

Connie Lee Keeney DuFresne passed peacefully on her birthday April 10 2023. She was 89 years old. She was born in Vancouver WA to Theron Sherman Keeney and Mary Margaret Barr Keeney. She spent her childhood in Vancouver and Portland OR. She moved to her familys homestead town of Long Creek OR. as a ...

Prolific and insightful writer inspiring educator and visionary college president Ronald R. Thomas 74 departed this life for his next great adventure on April 17. He passed peacefully at the home he shared on Vashon Island WA with his beloved wife and partner in life Dr. Mary Domingo Thomas and thei...

James Jim Edward Bruya was born on December 10 1950 in Niskayuna New York to Cliff and Lillian Bruya. As the middle child with two sisters on each side Jim developed the determination and inventiveness that carried him throughout his life. Ambitious from an early age he stood out for his curiosity a...