HAWKINS,BEVERLY JOANNE
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Beverly (Bev) Joanne Hawkins, 82, of Yakima, passed away peacefully at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital on December 31, 2014, with her family by her side. Bev was born and raised in Ellensburg, WA.
She grew up with her two siblings, Ted and Gloria, graduating from Ellensburg High School in 1950. While in school, her passions were reading and playing her flute. She worked in the school library and loved playing in the band. She was always active in 4-H and attended the 4-H Leadership Conference in Chicago as a high school senior. After high school, Bev moved to Yakima and began her career as a secretary working for Webb Tractor Company and Walter Rothe Architecture Company. She married Wallace Harmon at the age of 19. Together they loved to hike and camp along the Bogachiel River and at Copalis Beach. A highlight in her younger years with Wally was the early formation of Little League Baseball in Yakima. She was the scorekeeper for the Champion Cascade Timberwolves. She was also an initiating member of the Wagon Wheelers square dance club. During this time she began her 40-year career as a legal secretary and paralegal, first for Ken Hawkins and later for various prominent Yakima attorneys. She was never lacking for a job as she was highly sought after for her legal secretarial expertise. As an extension of her work for Ken Hawkins, she was an executive officer of the Lewis County Development Corporation, which was instrumental in the creation of the White Pass Ski Area. Although she herself was not an avid skier, she was involved in all of the early business of the White Pass Ski Area.
Beverly was known for her laughter, wisdom, thoughtfulness, and fun loving spirit; but mostly she was known to all as a loving mother. From the moment they were born, her three daughters were her pride and joy and she gave everything to make their childhood wonderful, exciting, carefree, and fun, fun, fun! She started the Merry Homemakers 4-H club for the girls at Marcus Whitman Elementary School. She and friends made during 4-H activities ran 4-H camp for many summers. Her favorite camp responsibility was running the craft department.
Bev followed her daughters into so many arenas, from soccer to quilting to traveling to the songwriting clubs of LA. Her passions were reading murder mysteries, sewing, and crafting. She made costumes and dresses for proms and church cantatas. She completed the final touches to her eldest daughter's wedding dress while racing to the church.
Bev was remarried later in life to Kenneth C. Hawkins and realized her lifelong dream of traveling to Europe, and especially to Switzerland. She also graduated from Central Washington University in the Law and Justice program. She enjoyed hiking with Ken every summer Sunday from the White Pass lodge up the Paradise ski run.
As when she was raising her own daughters, in more recent years her passion had been attending the games, concerts, competitions, and recitals of her grandsons, of which she has five. Soccer was her favorite spectator sport. She also loved water walking at the Athletic Club where she met some very dear friends. In fact, Bev collected friends throughout her life and loved to spend time with them. Most recently, she lived at Windcrest Villa where she enjoyed weekly games of cribbage and pinochle, and served on the community social committee.
Bev was preceded in death by her husband, Ken Hawkins, and by her mother and father, Ted and Wanda Capps. She is survived by her sister Gloria Rosenberg of Ellensburg, her brother Ted Capps (Gay) of Camano Island, her three daughters, Kelley Strange (Bill), Laurie Harmon-Willard (Marvin), Lisa Harmon, and by her five grandsons, Jackson Harmon, Corey Willard, Ryan Willard, Nathan Strange, all of Yakima, and Reid Strange of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Bev would want especially want to thank Dr. Albert Brady and his staff, the nurses at Memorial Hospital Infusion Care, and the staff at the Memorial Hospital Critical Care Unit, for the wonderful and compassionate care they gave her.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Yakima Valley Regional Library trough www.justgive.org .
A graveside service will be held at Terrace Heights Memorial Park at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 6. A celebration of life will follow at 3:00 p.m. at Rusillo's Pizza, 32 N. Front Street in Yakima.
To share a memory of Bev, visit www.keithandkeith.com.
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Beverly (Bev) Joanne Hawkins, 82, of Yakima, passed away peacefully at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital on December 31, 2014, with her family by her side. Bev was born and raised in Ellensburg, WA.
She grew up with her two siblings, Ted and Gloria, graduating from Ellensburg High School in 1950. While in school, her passions were reading and playing her flute. She worked in the school library and loved playing in the band. She was always active in 4-H and attended the 4-H Leadership Conference in Chicago as a high school senior. After high school, Bev moved to Yakima and began her career as a secretary working for Webb Tractor Company and Walter Rothe Architecture Company. She married Wallace Harmon at the age of 19. Together they loved to hike and camp along the Bogachiel River and at Copalis Beach. A highlight in her younger years with Wally was the early formation of Little League Baseball in Yakima. She was the scorekeeper for the Champion Cascade Timberwolves. She was also an initiating member of the Wagon Wheelers square dance club. During this time she began her 40-year career as a legal secretary and paralegal, first for Ken Hawkins and later for various prominent Yakima attorneys. She was never lacking for a job as she was highly sought after for her legal secretarial expertise. As an extension of her work for Ken Hawkins, she was an executive officer of the Lewis County Development Corporation, which was instrumental in the creation of the White Pass Ski Area. Although she herself was not an avid skier, she was involved in all of the early business of the White Pass Ski Area.
Beverly was known for her laughter, wisdom, thoughtfulness, and fun loving spirit; but mostly she was known to all as a loving mother. From the moment they were born, her three daughters were her pride and joy and she gave everything to make their childhood wonderful, exciting, carefree, and fun, fun, fun! She started the Merry Homemakers 4-H club for the girls at Marcus Whitman Elementary School. She and friends made during 4-H activities ran 4-H camp for many summers. Her favorite camp responsibility was running the craft department.
Bev followed her daughters into so many arenas, from soccer to quilting to traveling to the songwriting clubs of LA. Her passions were reading murder mysteries, sewing, and crafting. She made costumes and dresses for proms and church cantatas. She completed the final touches to her eldest daughter's wedding dress while racing to the church.
Bev was remarried later in life to Kenneth C. Hawkins and realized her lifelong dream of traveling to Europe, and especially to Switzerland. She also graduated from Central Washington University in the Law and Justice program. She enjoyed hiking with Ken every summer Sunday from the White Pass lodge up the Paradise ski run.
As when she was raising her own daughters, in more recent years her passion had been attending the games, concerts, competitions, and recitals of her grandsons, of which she has five. Soccer was her favorite spectator sport. She also loved water walking at the Athletic Club where she met some very dear friends. In fact, Bev collected friends throughout her life and loved to spend time with them. Most recently, she lived at Windcrest Villa where she enjoyed weekly games of cribbage and pinochle, and served on the community social committee.
Bev was preceded in death by her husband, Ken Hawkins, and by her mother and father, Ted and Wanda Capps. She is survived by her sister Gloria Rosenberg of Ellensburg, her brother Ted Capps (Gay) of Camano Island, her three daughters, Kelley Strange (Bill), Laurie Harmon-Willard (Marvin), Lisa Harmon, and by her five grandsons, Jackson Harmon, Corey Willard, Ryan Willard, Nathan Strange, all of Yakima, and Reid Strange of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Bev would want especially want to thank Dr. Albert Brady and his staff, the nurses at Memorial Hospital Infusion Care, and the staff at the Memorial Hospital Critical Care Unit, for the wonderful and compassionate care they gave her.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Yakima Valley Regional Library trough www.justgive.org .
A graveside service will be held at Terrace Heights Memorial Park at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 6. A celebration of life will follow at 3:00 p.m. at Rusillo's Pizza, 32 N. Front Street in Yakima.
To share a memory of Bev, visit www.keithandkeith.com.
HAWKINS,BEVERLY JOANNE
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2014-12-31
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Beverly (Bev) Joanne Hawkins, 82, of Yakima, passed away peacefully at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital on December 31, 2014, with her family by her side. Bev was born and raised in Ellensburg, WA.
She grew up with her two siblings, Ted and Gloria, graduating from Ellensburg High School in 1950. While in school, her passions were reading and playing her flute. She worked in the school library and loved playing in the band. She was always active in 4-H and attended the 4-H Leadership Conference in Chicago as a high school senior. After high school, Bev moved to Yakima and began her career as a secretary working for Webb Tractor Company and Walter Rothe Architecture Company. She married Wallace Harmon at the age of 19. Together they loved to hike and camp along the Bogachiel River and at Copalis Beach. A highlight in her younger years with Wally was the early formation of Little League Baseball in Yakima. She was the scorekeeper for the Champion Cascade Timberwolves. She was also an initiating member of the Wagon Wheelers square dance club. During this time she began her 40-year career as a legal secretary and paralegal, first for Ken Hawkins and later for various prominent Yakima attorneys. She was never lacking for a job as she was highly sought after for her legal secretarial expertise. As an extension of her work for Ken Hawkins, she was an executive officer of the Lewis County Development Corporation, which was instrumental in the creation of the White Pass Ski Area. Although she herself was not an avid skier, she was involved in all of the early business of the White Pass Ski Area.
Beverly was known for her laughter, wisdom, thoughtfulness, and fun loving spirit; but mostly she was known to all as a loving mother. From the moment they were born, her three daughters were her pride and joy and she gave everything to make their childhood wonderful, exciting, carefree, and fun, fun, fun! She started the Merry Homemakers 4-H club for the girls at Marcus Whitman Elementary School. She and friends made during 4-H activities ran 4-H camp for many summers. Her favorite camp responsibility was running the craft department.
Bev followed her daughters into so many arenas, from soccer to quilting to traveling to the songwriting clubs of LA. Her passions were reading murder mysteries, sewing, and crafting. She made costumes and dresses for proms and church cantatas. She completed the final touches to her eldest daughter's wedding dress while racing to the church.
Bev was remarried later in life to Kenneth C. Hawkins and realized her lifelong dream of traveling to Europe, and especially to Switzerland. She also graduated from Central Washington University in the Law and Justice program. She enjoyed hiking with Ken every summer Sunday from the White Pass lodge up the Paradise ski run.
As when she was raising her own daughters, in more recent years her passion had been attending the games, concerts, competitions, and recitals of her grandsons, of which she has five. Soccer was her favorite spectator sport. She also loved water walking at the Athletic Club where she met some very dear friends. In fact, Bev collected friends throughout her life and loved to spend time with them. Most recently, she lived at Windcrest Villa where she enjoyed weekly games of cribbage and pinochle, and served on the community social committee.
Bev was preceded in death by her husband, Ken Hawkins, and by her mother and father, Ted and Wanda Capps. She is survived by her sister Gloria Rosenberg of Ellensburg, her brother Ted Capps (Gay) of Camano Island, her three daughters, Kelley Strange (Bill), Laurie Harmon-Willard (Marvin), Lisa Harmon, and by her five grandsons, Jackson Harmon, Corey Willard, Ryan Willard, Nathan Strange, all of Yakima, and Reid Strange of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Bev would want especially want to thank Dr. Albert Brady and his staff, the nurses at Memorial Hospital Infusion Care, and the staff at the Memorial Hospital Critical Care Unit, for the wonderful and compassionate care they gave her.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Yakima Valley Regional Library trough www.justgive.org .
A graveside service will be held at Terrace Heights Memorial Park at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 6. A celebration of life will follow at 3:00 p.m. at Rusillo's Pizza, 32 N. Front Street in Yakima.
To share a memory of Bev, visit www.keithandkeith.com.
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2014-12-31
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Beverly (Bev) Joanne Hawkins, 82, of Yakima, passed away peacefully at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital on December 31, 2014, with her family by her side. Bev was born and raised in Ellensburg, WA.
She grew up with her two siblings, Ted and Gloria, graduating from Ellensburg High School in 1950. While in school, her passions were reading and playing her flute. She worked in the school library and loved playing in the band. She was always active in 4-H and attended the 4-H Leadership Conference in Chicago as a high school senior. After high school, Bev moved to Yakima and began her career as a secretary working for Webb Tractor Company and Walter Rothe Architecture Company. She married Wallace Harmon at the age of 19. Together they loved to hike and camp along the Bogachiel River and at Copalis Beach. A highlight in her younger years with Wally was the early formation of Little League Baseball in Yakima. She was the scorekeeper for the Champion Cascade Timberwolves. She was also an initiating member of the Wagon Wheelers square dance club. During this time she began her 40-year career as a legal secretary and paralegal, first for Ken Hawkins and later for various prominent Yakima attorneys. She was never lacking for a job as she was highly sought after for her legal secretarial expertise. As an extension of her work for Ken Hawkins, she was an executive officer of the Lewis County Development Corporation, which was instrumental in the creation of the White Pass Ski Area. Although she herself was not an avid skier, she was involved in all of the early business of the White Pass Ski Area.
Beverly was known for her laughter, wisdom, thoughtfulness, and fun loving spirit; but mostly she was known to all as a loving mother. From the moment they were born, her three daughters were her pride and joy and she gave everything to make their childhood wonderful, exciting, carefree, and fun, fun, fun! She started the Merry Homemakers 4-H club for the girls at Marcus Whitman Elementary School. She and friends made during 4-H activities ran 4-H camp for many summers. Her favorite camp responsibility was running the craft department.
Bev followed her daughters into so many arenas, from soccer to quilting to traveling to the songwriting clubs of LA. Her passions were reading murder mysteries, sewing, and crafting. She made costumes and dresses for proms and church cantatas. She completed the final touches to her eldest daughter's wedding dress while racing to the church.
Bev was remarried later in life to Kenneth C. Hawkins and realized her lifelong dream of traveling to Europe, and especially to Switzerland. She also graduated from Central Washington University in the Law and Justice program. She enjoyed hiking with Ken every summer Sunday from the White Pass lodge up the Paradise ski run.
As when she was raising her own daughters, in more recent years her passion had been attending the games, concerts, competitions, and recitals of her grandsons, of which she has five. Soccer was her favorite spectator sport. She also loved water walking at the Athletic Club where she met some very dear friends. In fact, Bev collected friends throughout her life and loved to spend time with them. Most recently, she lived at Windcrest Villa where she enjoyed weekly games of cribbage and pinochle, and served on the community social committee.
Bev was preceded in death by her husband, Ken Hawkins, and by her mother and father, Ted and Wanda Capps. She is survived by her sister Gloria Rosenberg of Ellensburg, her brother Ted Capps (Gay) of Camano Island, her three daughters, Kelley Strange (Bill), Laurie Harmon-Willard (Marvin), Lisa Harmon, and by her five grandsons, Jackson Harmon, Corey Willard, Ryan Willard, Nathan Strange, all of Yakima, and Reid Strange of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Bev would want especially want to thank Dr. Albert Brady and his staff, the nurses at Memorial Hospital Infusion Care, and the staff at the Memorial Hospital Critical Care Unit, for the wonderful and compassionate care they gave her.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Yakima Valley Regional Library trough www.justgive.org .
A graveside service will be held at Terrace Heights Memorial Park at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 6. A celebration of life will follow at 3:00 p.m. at Rusillo's Pizza, 32 N. Front Street in Yakima.
To share a memory of Bev, visit www.keithandkeith.com.
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