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Date: Tuesday, 5 December 2017, at 2:15 p.m.

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Bernard Ray Lottman
12/29/1959 - 12/28/2003

Bernard R. “Barney” Lottman, 43 years
of age, of Ferndale, Washington
formerly of Beatrice, Nebraska born on December 29, 1959 in Fairbanks,
Alaska and attended school in Kanto
Mura, Japan and Loring Air Force Base,
Maine. He came with his family to
Beatrice and attended Stoddard
Elementary School and Beatrice High
School. He worked at Hoover Group in
Beatrice for three years and then lived
and worked in Denver, Colorado for
three years before returning to Lincoln
where he worked for Spray Tech.
In 1997, he moved to Whidbey Island,
Washington where he worked for Tanco
Engineering as a foreman/welder. He was
death by his
grandparents, John and Emma Combatti
and Fern and Cena Lottman.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held
on Friday, January 2, 2004 at 11:00
A.M. at the St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church in Beatrice, Nebraska, with
Father Mark Seiker officiating. Burial
will be in the St. Joseph’s Catholic
passed away peacefully
on the afternoon of December 25, 2003 in
Bellingham, WA. It was in Bozeman,
Montana that her father and mother,
John and Anna Kountz, welcomed her on
May 26, 1915. She death by
her loving husband and survived by her
sister, Katherine Kay of Kirkland, WA,
son John & his wife Eileen, of
Bellingham, and son James & his wife
Lola, of Ferndale. She also has 3
grandchildren and 3 great-
grandchildren. She will be laid to
rest beside her parents in Bozeman,
Montana. Memorials can be made to
Hospice of Whatcom County or the Polio
Outreach Program. Visitation will be
held at Westford Funeral Home on
Monday Dec. 29, 2003 from 9-11 AM. A Funeral
Service with Rosary will follow at 11
AM at Westford Funeral Home, followed
by a reception at Westford’s Broadway
Hall, 1300 Broadway.

Evelyn Aplin Heaps
4/8/1946 - 12/13/2003

Evelyn Aplin Heaps passed away on
Saturday, December 13, 2003 at her home
in Bellingham after a short but
courageous battle with brain cancer.
She graduated from Wright State
University Summa Cum Laude with a
degree in accounting, completing her
CPA certification shortly after.
Evelyn was an adventurer in life having
sailed the Sea of Cortez, and across
the Pacific Ocean, crossing the
equator. She was a tremendous artist in
every sense, a ham radio operator, a
guitar and mandolin player, and a
licensed boat captain. From her
countless interests, adventures, and
accomplishments, there are many people
who met “Evie” along the way and became
her lifelong friends. Mom’s real pride
and joy were her 4 (soon to be 5)
grandchildren, Andrew, Jake, Cameron,
Kaelin, and Madison. Evelyn’s sole
focus in her later years was the time
spent with her “grandbabies” at
Boulevard Park and at the Children’s
Museum. She is survived by her son Mark
and wife Traci, daughter Valerie and
husband Scott, sister Hellen, brothers
Tim and Doug, mother Ruby, father
Howard and stepmother Jackie, numerous
nephews and nieces, and her 5
precious “grandbabies.” Her wonderful
and courageous friend Ken Gaston was
with Evelyn to the end, never giving up
hope, an amazing and rare human being.
To know “Evie” can be summed up in the
words of one of her favorite Jimmy
Buffett songs, “Lovely Cruise”:
.
“Drink it up, this one's for you
It's been a lovely cruise
I'm sorry it's ending, oh it's sad, but
it's true
Honey, it's been a lovely cruise
These moments we're left with
May you always remember
These moments are shared by few
There's wind in our hair and there's
water in our shoes
Honey, it's been a lovely cruise
Ohhh, these moments we're left with
May you always remember
These moments are shared by few
And those harbor lights, lord, they're
coming into view
We'll bid our farewells much too soon
So drink it up, this one's for you
Honey, it's been a lovely cruise
Yeah baby, it's been a lovely cruise
Oh darlin', it's been a lovely cruise”
Per her request, a Celebration
of “Evie’s” Life is pending . The
family requests that memorials be made
in Evelyn’s name to City of Hope at
www.cityofhope.com and/or the Brain
Tumor Center at Duke University at
www.cancer.duke.edu/btc.

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