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Albanese, Lewis b. April 27, 1946 d. December 1, 1966
Vietnam Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Born in Venice, Italy, he served in the United States Army during the war in Vietnam as a Private First Class in Company B, 5th Battalion (Airmobile), 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. He was awarded the CMOH for his bravery on December 1, 1966. His citation reads "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty. Pfc. Albanese's platoon, while advancing through densely covered terrain to...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Veterans Cemetery, Section KO, Lot E, Grave 75
Allen, John Beard b. May 18, 1845 d. January 28, 1903
US Senator. He served during the Civil War as a Corporal in Company D, 135th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Elected as a Delegate from the Washington Territory in the United States House of Representatives, he served from March to November, 1889. When Washington was admitted as a State, he was elected as one of its first two Senators to the United States Senate, serving from 1889 to 1893. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Lot 159, Grave E1/2
Atkins, Henry Allen b. 1827 d. 1885
Seattle Mayor. Elected as the first Mayor of Seattle, Washington, and served from 1869 to 1871.
Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Lot K, Circle
Bagley, Daniel b. September 7, 1818 d. April 26, 1905
Seattle Pioneer, Minister. Born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, he was ordained a Methodist minister in 1842. He spent the first 10 years of his ministry traveling throughout the state of Illinois as a circuit preacher, before being assigned to the Oregon Territory in 1852. On April 20, 1852 he left Princeton, Illinois, for the Oregon Territory, which included the present day states of Washington, Idaho and parts of Wyoming and Montana. Accompanying him on his westward journey were the...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Ballinger, Richard A. b. July 9, 1858 d. June 6, 1922
Presidential Cabinet Secretary. Served as Mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1904 to 1906. Served as Secretary of the Interior in President William H. taft's administration from 1909 to 1911. In 1909 he was President of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition World's Fair. Named Lake Ballinger in honor of his father, Col. Richard H. Ballinger.
Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Lot 31
Barczak, Patricia b. March 7, 1967 d. October 11, 1986
Serial Murder Victim. Patrica was one of the victims of Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River serial killer. He raped, strangled and dumped bodies near the Green River initially. For years, Ridgway eluded capture, but because of DNA technology, he was finally brought to justice and confessed to approximately 50 murders on November 5, 2003. Pacific Highway South is where many of these girls were last seen. Patricia was last seen on October 11, 1986. Her remains were found on February 3, 1993...[Read More] (Bio by: Always with Love)
Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Beck, Dave b. June 16, 1894 d. December 26, 1993
Labor Leader. He was president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1952 to 1957. Forced to quit high school at the age of 16 in order to go to work, he took a job as a laundry worker and joined the Laundry Workers International Union. He later helped organize Local 566 of the Teamsters after a short strike in 1917. He would become a key leader of the Teamster's Union on the West Coast for some 40 years, from the late 1920s to the early 1960s. As president he shot to national...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Calvary Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Bello, Mary Sue b. December 22, 1957 d. October 11, 1983
Murder victim of Gary Leon Ridgway, known as "The Green River Killer" who was responsible for the murders of 49 women in Seattle, Washington, between 1982 and 1984.
Wright Crematory and Columbarium, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Black, Frank Dewitt b. September, 1854 d. July 11, 1919
Seattle Mayor. He was elected mayor of Seattle on March 9, 1896. A graduate of Wooster University in Ohio, he began his early career in banking. He reluctantly allowed his name to be placed in nomination for the office of Seattle mayor by friends and associates, although he had no personal desire or political ambitions to become city mayor. He resigned three weeks into office after becoming disillusioned with political office seekers and professional politicians. He served as president of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Section C, Lot 0025, Grave 2. Grave located on the west side of the vertical Black family monument.
Blethen, Alden J. 'The Colonel' b. December 27, 1846 d. July 12, 1915
Newspaper Publisher. Born in Knox, Waldo County, Maine, he began his career as a school teacher and attorney. He received his formal education from Wesleyan Seminary and College in 1868, and a Masters degree from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1872. From 1869 to 1873 he served as principal of the Abbott family school in Farmington, Maine, and as a practicing attorney in Portland, Maine, from 1873 to 1880. He purchased the Seattle Daily Times in 1896 while on a trip to visit relatives in...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Lot C, Grave W1/2, C and D Circle
Bloch, Orville Emil b. February 10, 1915 d. May 28, 1983
World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Served as a First Lieutenant in the 338th Infantry, 85th Infantry Division. As a platoon leader, he was conspicuous in leading his command in the assaults on the city of Firenzuola, Italy. It was near there on September 22, 1944, that he took the matter of enemy German resistance into his own hands. Gathering three volunteers from his platoon, the patrol made their way to a big rock, behind a group of three buildings where five machine gun...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Washelli Cemetery, Section W, Lot 0215, Grave 1
Bois, Frank E. b. September 13, 1841 d. January 25, 1920
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Entered the service at Northampton, Massachusetts at age 18 on June 21, 1861 and served in Co. C, 10th Massachusetts Infantry. He was mustered out of the Army on September 30, 1862 by virtue of a transfer to the Navy as Quartermaster, Signalman. On May 27, 1863 he was on board the U.S.S. Cincinnati during the attack on the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Engaging the enemy in a fierce battle the Cincinnati was in a fatal...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Brown, Beriah b. February 23, 1815 d. February 8, 1900
Seattle Mayor. He served as mayor of Seattle, Washington from July 1878 to August 1879. Trained as an printer apprentice in a New York county newspaper, he worked briefly in the banking and mining industry before devoting his life to a career in publishing. Considered one of the best editors in the United States, he operated major newspapers in Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Salem, Oregon; San Francisco, California; Sacramento, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Niles, Michigan and...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Bullitt, Dorothy Stimson b. February 5, 1892 d. June 27, 1989
Broadcast Pioneer, Businesswoman. She was the first woman to own and operate a television station in the United States. She created one of the nation's greatest broadcasting empires, establishing television and radio properties in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Boise, Spokane and Honolulu, along with cable and business operations in Washington, Oregon and California. She acquired her father's real estate and lumber holdings during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Widowed at the age of 40...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Section SH, Lot 0056, Grave 3
Bulosan, Carlos b. November 24, 1913 d. September 13, 1956
Writer, Poet, Political Activist. Born in a rural village in the Philippines, he became one of America's most prolific writers on pre-war social and economic injustice. A strong and firm believer in the American dream, he arrived in Seattle, Washington on July 22, 1930 at the age of 17. His belief in American society as a land of opportunity and equality among classes soon turned to disillusionment and bitterness. Faced with racial discrimination and brutality, he was forced to endure harsh and...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Burns, George H. b. January 31, 1893 d. January 7, 1978
Major League Baseball Player. The American League's MVP for 1926, "Tioga George" hit .307 over 16 years with five different teams. He is often confused with the other George Burns who played outfield for the New York Giants during the same time period. After completion of his major league career, "Tioga George" played and managed in the Pacific Coast League before becoming a King County (WA) sheriff. He died in 1978, 24 days shy of his 85th birthday.
Calvary Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Saint Alphonsus First Section, Lot 546, Grave 38
Carmack, George Washington b. September 24, 1860 d. June 5, 1922
Western Frontier Figure. Born in California, he was a seaman on the USS Wachusetts, when he abandoned ship in 1882, at Juneau, Alaska, to search for gold. He to crossed the Chilkoot in 1887, created a good relationship with the Tagish Indians and married a relative of the chief named Kate. Prospecting in the Yukon Territory, he was credited with the discovery of gold which set off the rush known as the Klondike Gold Fields in August 1896. The finding of gold made him wealthy and he relocated to...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Section F, Lot 0077, Grave 5A
Carroll, John Edward b. October 15, 1877 d. February 22, 1955
Seattle Mayor. He served as mayor of Seattle, Washington from January 27 to March 27, 1941. He was appointed mayor by the Seattle City Council following the resignation of Arthur B. Langlie, who had resigned his office as Seattle mayor to become governor of Washington state. He served as a major in the United States Army during World War I, and was a member of the Washington State Bar Association. In addition to briefly...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: Lot 1010
Collins, John b. 1835 d. April 22, 1903
Seattle Mayor. He served as mayor of Seattle, Washington from August 1873 to August 1874. He was elected as Seattle's fourth mayor on July 14, 1873. One of Seattle's earliest and most successful businessmen, he was involved in numerous investment opportunities including banking, railroading, gas lighting, electric street cars, hotels, book publishing, coal and irrigation projects. In addition to serving as mayor, he also served as a member of the Seattle City Council from 1869 to 1870, 1874 to...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Calvary Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Plot: St. Joseph's, First Section, Lot 377, Grave 3.
Corahorgi, Demetri b. January 3, 1880 d. October 15, 1973
Interim Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Entered the service in New York was a veteran of the Spanish American War serving as a Fireman First Class, U.S. Navy. Aboard the U.S.S. Iowa on January 23, 1905, he showed extraordinary heroism at the time when the manhole plate of boiler D blew out on board that vessel. His citation was awarded on March 20, 1905. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington, USA

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