October 2007

Ruby Landreth (Fisher) Elliott

Born in Seattle to Ruby Wilson and Richard Landreth. Raised by Bill and Ellen Jones in Seattle/White Center. The first of four generations to attend W.S.H.S. graduated 1927.

Ruby is survived by four children; Diana Boling, Spokane, Jerry Fisher, Fairbanks AL, Dixie Lynch, Seattle, and Judy Harrington, Huntington Beach CA; 12 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and 5 great-great-grandchildren.

She retired as a secretary from Smith-Berger Company. Enjoyed time with her family, W.S. Eagles, W.S. rock club, arts and crafts, sewing, animals, and dancing.

Dorothy "Dottie" Kilburg
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Age 83 passed away Monday evening, September 24th, from brain injuries sustained during a fall one month ago. Dorothy was a West Seattle resident for 55 years. She taught business education at West Seattle High School from 1962 until her retirement in 1988.

Raised in Milton-Freewater, Oregon, Dorothy (Angerman) graduated from Oregon State University in 1946. She married her high school sweetheart, Lee Kilburg, in 1947. They moved to West Seattle in 1952, where Lee worked as a local pharmacist. Their son Steve was born in 1953.

Ruth Alexina Lantz
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Died peacefully at home on September 17th at age 86.

She was born in Helena, Montana to Alma and Paul Immel. Her family moved to West Seattle when she was ten. She graduated from West Seattle High School, and attended Cornish, and Edison Vocational Schools.

Ruth and Ware Lantz were married in 1943. They settled in West Seattle, where they raised their children and participated in the life of the Fauntleroy neighborhood.

Ruth continued to develop and to practice her artwork with woodcarving, serigraphy, watercolor and sumi painting.

Sylvia Lindeman

Sylvia Lindeman passed away May 16, 2007.

Sylvia was born in Sweden in 1917 and immigrated to Chehalis in 1930. In 1940 she married Alvin Lindeman. They moved to Bremerton where Alvin worked in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard during and after World War II. Sylvia applied her artistic talents hand-coloring black-and-white photographs at a local photo studio.

Sylvia and Alvin lived in Tacoma for 30 years. After retirement they lived at Treasure Island (in Mason County) and in Federal Way.

Sylvia is survived by her son, Terry, and her grandson Jon.

Girls Swimming
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Team remains unbeaten

By Dean Wong

After only five meets, the Ballard Beaver swim team has remained unbeaten and has qualified many girls for the state meet that doesn't take place until mid-November.

"They are working very hard and are very talented. They are excited and determined to have a good season," said Head Coach Carlos Palacian.

Ballard has won every meet so far, beating Juanita, Roosevelt, Eastlake and Woodinville.

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Sustained by the street
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At Large in Ballard by Peggy Sturdivant

When I closed my eyes last Saturday night I could still see litter. It's called retinal fatigue when the days' images continue to play after your eyes are closed. Cigarette butts and more cigarette butts, pieces of Styrofoam, bottle caps, plastic bags fished out of storm drains like weeds with long roots. At first I couldn't stop picking up trash in my dreams.

Five days earlier I'd decided to organize a Northwest 24th Street Clean-up to coincide with first day of the Sustainable Ballard Festival.

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Ideas With Attitude

Stereotypes we lived with

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

If you were in school when the Dick and Jane books were the major readers in first grade, you were led to believe that every family lived in a nice house with a father in a business suit who worked for a living and a mother in her apron who stayed home to take care of two children, a dog Spot and a cat named Puff.

Until the late 1960s few challenged the stereotyped family pictured in these early readers.

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Ballard wonder woman

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Vikki Brock owns, sails, and repairs her own trimaran sailboat moored in a marina in Ballard. It is 52 feet long and 26 feet wide and sleeps eight.

She bought it in 1995 and is a certified US Coast Guard 50-ton captain. She took up sailing to satisfy her adventurous side that was not wholly satisfied by riding Harleys and pursuing a 21-year career at Boeing.

Vikki holds an executive MBA from the University of Washington and is completing a PhD in Coaching and Human Development this year.

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Notes From Old Ballard: Ross School was first here

In recent weeks we have had the pleasure of learning about Ballard Avenue in its early years thanks to "Passport to Ballard" contributing author Susan Cook. In addition, Dr. Nile Thompson, also a contributing author to the community history book, has told us part of the story of the first known settlers on Salmon Bay, the Shilshole-ahmish people.

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