Anita Maryanne Belding (nee Kurzenberger) of Silverdale, Washington, age 84, passed away peacefully on November 22, 2022 after a brief battle with cancer. Anita was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1938 as the only child of German immigrants Karl and Erna Kurzenberger. In 1952, her family moved to Denver, Colorado where Anita attended high school. In 1960, she graduated from Colorado College with a B.S. in medical technology and got married that same year. After college, she worked as a...

On October 23, 2022, Timothy John Duncan a beloved husband, father, uncle, and grandfather, was called home. He was 70 years old. Born to Alvin Duncan and Helen Duncan on January 7, 1952. He graduated from Port Angeles High School in 1970. Timothy married “his one and only” high school sweetheart Lila Jean Henning on August 1,1970. During their 52 years of marriage, they enjoyed raising their two children Brian and Kevin on the beach, crabbing and clamming, traveling, RV...

On October 23, 2022 John, a very private person in most respects, made his transition to his next life of eternal peace. He passed away at home in the care of Kathy, his loving wife of 50 years. John was born in Mt. Lebanon, PA to G. Reed Schreiner and Virginia Nancy Early. After graduating from high school, John joined the U.S. Coast Guard on the day after his 18 th birthday. He served as head cook at Loran Station in the Phoenix Islands in the south Pacific theater during WW2. He...

Anthony Pabon II was born on March 6, 1935, and passed away on October 19, 2022, at age 87. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and lived in Puerto Rico, Virginia, Florida, California, and then Washington state. Tony was a choir boy at the Episcopal Church and enjoyed playing the game of chess at a young age. He played Bobby Fisher blindfolded, and in 2011, he won US Senior Open Chess Championship over the age of 74. He was active in Theater and dance. His passion was travel, chess,...

Lila Grace (Terpening) Frisch, 93, of Port Angeles, died peacefully on Oct 12 at home, with family and caregivers present. Lila was born Nov. 18, 1928 in Almont, MI to parents Oliver Terpening & Mattie Washer. She lived in Imlay City, Mi attending Central Michigan College. She lived in Sanford, MI teaching Kindergarten and 1st Grade. Lila married Lewis A. Frisch 6/11/1949 in Sanford and they moved to Williamson where she taught 2nd Grade and worked as a telephone operator. The next...

James (Jim) Roger Thomsen, (also known as “Gentleman Jim”), 87, passed away at home on September 24, 2022, of natural causes. Jim was born in Gayville, South Dakota on August 14, 1935 (the same day that President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law). Jim’s parents, Aage and Ida Thomsen, left South Dakota during a snow storm in February of 1941, headed for Washington. With them were their four boys, Aage’s younger brother Virgil, and all of their...

Jon Carl Didrickson was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 18, 1943, to Carl and Kathryn Didrickson. Growing up in Chicago, Jon attended St John’s Lutheran School through the 8th grade and graduated from Mt Prospect High School in 1961. Jon studied Biology at Wheaton College, graduating in 1965.  While at Wheaton he met his bride, Jana Filip, and they were married in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1966.  Together they pursued Christian missionary service in Chicago and Newark and...

On August 23, 2022, a beautiful soul transitioned from this earth to the other side. Jack Smith passed away August 23rd, at the age of 71, from cancer. He was at his home surrounded by his life partner, Connie Kirkpatrick; his daughter, Joelle Ferber; his sister Vikki Connelly; and 2 very special friends, Susan Prehm and Ashley Leland. Services will be held on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, at 1:00 p.m., at the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, WA, followed by a reception at the Cliff...

Roberta (Bobbie Jo) Jacobson was born in a cabin near Mizpah, in northern Minnesota on April 15, 1951, the fourth of nine children to Clifton and Martha Williams. She often told people that when she was born, she was weighed on a milk scale, and that she weighed “nine pounds of milk”. Her father delivered her the night that she was born. The family doctor scolded him telling him that in the future he should take her mother to the hospital to deliver her babies. She shared many...

Robert “Bob” Weaver was born on May 1, 1956, to Helena and Robert H. Weaver in Troy, New York and passed on July 26, 2022, in Port Angeles, Washington. Because of his love of the military and all things that fly, Bob joined the Air Force in 1974, retiring in 2014. Bob spent most of his career at McChord Airforce Base working alongside the 446th MXS where he had the joy of training airmen aircraft maintenance and ground support equipment. Bob was the recipient of multiple awards,...