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Frank E. Dobbs
Longtime Sequim resident Frank E. Dobbs died Oct. 23, 2000, in Wagoner, Okla. He was 85.
Mr. Dobbs was born Jan. 19, 1915, in Wesley, Okla.
Because of illness, he moved to Oklahoma six months ago to live near his daughter and family.
Mr. Dobbs had many dear friends in the Sequim area, where he loved to fish.
Harriette Mantle Burdick
A memorial service for Harriette Mantle Burdick, of Sequim, is planned for 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, at Trinity United Methodist Church on Blake Avenue. The Rev. Earl Rice will preside. A reception will follow.
Mrs. Burdick died Nov. 8, 2000. She was 89.
She was born Feb. 27, 1911, in Toledo, to Jess Samuel and Bess A. Andrews Mantle. She was 2 when the family moved to Sequim after her father accepted the position of teacher and superintendent of Sequim School District. The family purchased a 60-acre dairy farm at the corner of Sequim Avenue and Port Williams Road. Eventually the farm became their livelihood, and brothers Rex and Vernon later became dairy farmers.
She studying home economics for two years at Washington State College, then transferred to Bellingham Normal School where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1933. She was a sixth-grade teacher in Sequim for three years before she and Eugene W. Burdick married on June 10, 1934. In 1950, the couple bought Eberle's grocery in Sequim and opened Burdick's Fine Foods. In 1965, Mrs. Burdick became manager of the schools' lunch room. She retired in 1975.
Mrs. Burdick was an avid bridge player, achieving the level of life master in the American Contract Bridge League. She actively promoted the game of duplicate bridge in Sequim.
As a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, she had to prove lineal, blood-line descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence.
Mrs. Burdick was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and of the Order of Eastern Star.
She enjoyed sewing and cooking.
Mrs. Burdick, who was a resident of the Sequim valley for 87 years, was chosen to be an honorary pioneer for the 1997 Sequim Irrigation Festival.
Mrs. Burdick is survived by son Dr. Robert E. Burdick and daughter Jesslyn Ann Howgate, both of Seattle; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two nieces and two nephews.
Her husband preceded her in death on Dec. 30, 1995.
Sequim Valley Chapel was in charge of arrangements.
Helen V. Edgecomb
A memorial service for Helen V. Edgecomb, of Sequim, will be held at a later date in Cottage Grove, Ore.
Mrs. Edgecomb died Nov. 7, 2000. She was 79.
She was born Feb. 14, 1921, in Bend, Ore., to Joel S. and Nellie Smith Thrasher.
She and Earl P. Edgecomb married June 4, 1937, in Reno, Nev. They celebrated their 50th anniversary in 1987 in Cottage Grove, Ore., and were married 56 years before Mr. Edgecomb's death on Feb. 8, 1994. Mrs. Edgecomb was self-educated in clerical work. She worked for Standard Oil company in Mojave, Calif., in the mid-1940s until her husband returned from Navy service in World War II. Around 1945, she and the family moved to Port Hadlock, where she worked for 28 years as a supply clerk at federal facilities at Indian Island, Bangor and Keyport. The Edgecombs were snowbirds for 17 years.
Mrs. Edgecomb enjoyed golf.
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; a life member of VFW Ladies Auxiliary; a member of Lady Elks, Eastern Star and Amaranth.
Mrs. Edgecomb is survived by daughters Earlene J. Anderson, of Sequim, and Janice L. Neudorfer, of Port Angeles; son Donald E. Edgecomb, of Fruitland; brothers Clifford Thrasher, of Roseburg, Ore., and James Thrasher, of Cottage Grove, Ore.; sisters Maybelle Comstock, of Cottage Grove, Ore., Josephine Swanson, of Sutherlin, Ore., and Allie Lee Quigley, of Port Townsend; six grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by sisters Betty Holliday and Charolette Ross.
Sequim Valley Chapel was in charge of arrangements.
Katherine C. Wilbert
Katherine Wilbert, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Dec. 7, 1999, with clowns and cake at the Port Angeles Care Center, died Nov. 2, 2000, just shy of her 101st birthday. She will be laid to rest with her husband, in the family plot at Rose Hills in Whittier, Calif.
She was born Dec. 7, 1899, in Chicago, the eldest of eight children of Otto and Emilie Behnke. The family moved to the California oil fields in the early 1920s, and settled in Montebello, where her father worked as a machinist for Howard Hughes Tool and Die.
She met and married Fred E. Wilbert, who preceded her in death in 1970. She then moved to Yucca Valley, Calif., where she lived until the 1980s when she moved to Arlington, Texas, to live with her daughter. In 1991, her daughter's family retired to Sequim and Mrs. Wilbert moved with them, to the Port Angeles Villa.
Mrs. Wilbert loved designing hats, playing bridge and her membership in Bettina Chapter of Eastern Star, in Long Beach, Calif.
She celebrated her 60 years as a member of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.
Mrs. Wilbert is survived by daughter Barbara Jasper, of Sequim; sister Mary Morrill and brother Arthur Behnke, both of Montebello, Calif.; four grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Sequim Valley Chapel was in charge of arrangements.
Dr. M. Pat Wennekens
At his request, no service is planned for Dr. M. Pat Wennekens of Sequim.
Dr. Wennekens died Nov. 11, 2000. He was 77.
He was born Aug. 14, 1923, in Belgium, but was raised in France. During World War II, he joined the Free French Navy and spent the war years in North Africa, Spain and Portugal.
He emigrated to the U.S. in 1946 and married Alix Gillis that year. Mrs. Wennekens preceded him in death in 1997.
He earned his master's degree and doctorate in oceanography from the University of Washington. He spent many years in Anchorage, Alaska, working for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Pat and Alix retired to Sequim in 1981.
Dr. Wennekens was very active in local environmental issues and worked diligently in improving the water quality of the Sequim area.
He spent this past year as a patient at Olympic Health Care in Sequim. His friends are grateful to the staff for the excellent care he received.
He leaves to mourn him, the rivers, lakes and oceans of this earth.
Pat, you will be missed.
Pearl Mae Durham
A funeral service for Pearl Mae Durham is planned for 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, at Drennan & Ford Funeral Home. A time of refreshments and reflections follows at the Sons of Norway, 131 W. Fifth St., Port Angeles. Mrs. Durham died Nov. 7, 2000.
Curtis Wayne Wells
A memorial gathering for Curtis Wayne Wells is planned for 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, at Lazy Acres clubhouse, 111 Dryke Road. Mr. Wells died Nov. 10, 2000.
