19. People's Memorial Funeral Cooperative Obituary Guide

PEOPLE’S MEMORIALTM Funeral Cooperative

Obituary Guide

We encourage you to place an obituary and picture on our website. Email the text and a picture(.jpeg) to your funeral director and it will be posted on our website www.funerals.coop for six months at no charge.

Name of Deceased:______Title (Dr., Rev. ) First Middle Last Suffix (Jr., Sr., Ph.D.)

Age: ______Cause of Death: (optional) ______

Date of Birth: ______Place of Birth: ______

Date of Death: ______Place of Death:______

City of Residence: ______How long in area? ______

Education: ______

Occupation: ______Where Employed: ______

Married/Partnered: (when & to whom) ______

Memberships: (church, fraternal, unions, veterans) ______

Hobbies/Activities/Passions: ______

What made them unique/special: ______

Survivors: (Name and place of residence): ______

Sons (wives) ______

Daughters (husbands) ______

Brothers: ______

Sisters: ______

Father: ______Mother: ______

Other: (Grandparents, number of grandchildren) ______

______

Preceded in death by: ______

Details of service: (Date & Time) ______

Place: ______

Address: ______

Cemetery: ______

Memorials: ______

Funeral Home: PEOPLE’S MEMORIAL Funeral Cooperative www.funerals.coop

The Seattle Times (online)

To Place a Death or Funeral Notice Call: (206) 464-2059 Fax: (206) 515-5595 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: http://marketplace.nwsource.com/classified/deathnotices/placenotice.html Deadlines: For Sun. & Mon. publication, submit notices by 1 p.m. on Saturday; For Tues. - Sat. publication, submit notices by 3 p.m. on previous day; Notices that include photos must be submitted by 10 a.m. the day before publication (for Sun. or Mon. publication, by 5 p.m. Fri.) All notices are subject to verification.

Rates Per Day Daily: Approximately $95 per inch Sunday: Approximately $121 per inch Photos: Weekdays: $142.20 (black & white) Sundays: $181.26 (full color). For editing purposes, and inch is made up of approximately 12 lines of type in the paid death notice section, with the name of the deceased generally taking up two lines. There are approximately 40 characters per line. (Including letters, spaces and punctuation.)

Example Death Notices: James B. WOOD Eva Margaret Forsberg BLOMBERG Passed away at age 78 after a long illness. A world War II Age 92. Born August 7, 1910 in Aberdeen WA. Passed away veteran, Jim and his wife Ruth, both pharmacists owned their July 22, 2003 in Bothell, WA. Eva graduated from Weatherwas own pharmacy for many years. In addition to his wife Ruth he is H.S. in 1929. She and her husband Robert Blomberg were survived by son, Randy and wife Terrisa, daughter, Margo married for 63 years and made the Seattle area their home. Eva Vefersneck and husband Michael and brother Kenneth. was preceded in death by Robert (2001) and her sisters Helen (1 inch) Cavallaro and Anne Forsberg. She is survived by sisters Edna Caldwell, Ruth Bocek and Ethel Tietiens and many nieces and nephews. Private services will be held at a later date. (2 inches) Evelyn May WHITE William R. MEEK Age 74. Born Sep 11, 1928, in Portland, OR. Passed away July 67, Gig Harbor resident since May 1995, died July 18, 2003. 18, 2003 in Edmonds, WA. Preceded in death by her husband, Born and raised in Seattle, resided in Preston far 18years before Keith Lewis White. Survived by daughters Linda Austin, Viki moving to Gig Harbor. Proudly served his country as a Marine Points and Patricia Galvanin, step-sons Brian White and Keith during the Korean Way, and spent his 30 year career as a white, and extended family and friends. Celebration of Life will Seattle Police Officer before retiring in 1990. Survived by his be held at the Edmonds Senior Center on Sat, Aug 9, 2003 from wife of 41 years, Charlotte Meed, sons William R. Jr. (Lisa) of 1-4 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be designated for the Bothell, Todd (Nichole) of auburn, brother John L. Jr. (Lois) of research of uterine cancer to the National Foundation for cancer Kingston, and granddaughters Camille, Rachael and Bianca, as Research c/o Patricia Galvanin, 5215 76th Ave. Ct. W., well as numerous nieces, nephews, and other loving family University Place, WA. 98467. (2 inches) members. William was preceded in death in January 1995 by his son terry (Denise and husband Russell). As requested by William, there will be no services. Remembrances may be made to you local American Cancer Society, or the Seattle Police Relief Association, Key Tower, Suite 1862, 700 – 5th Ave, Seattle, WA. 98104 (3 inches)

SAVE ON OBITUARY COST To save on the cost of newspaper obituaries, consider placing a full obituary with photo on the PEOPLE’S MEMORIAL Funeral Cooperative website and a short death notice in the newspaper such as:

James Ray SMITH Born Sep 11, 1928, in Portland, OR. Died July 18, 2011 in Seattle, WA. Celebration of Life will be held at Seattle Unity Church on Sat, Aug 9, 2011 from 1-4 p.m. Complete obituary and guestbook online at www.funerals.coop. (1 inch)

There is no charge for posting a full obituary and photo on our website. This includes the ability for friends and family to write condolences or memories in the online guestbook.