Louise was the second child of Ollie B Riggs and Helen H (Jensen) Riggs. She remembers holding her older brother Jack's hand when they walked to school in West Seattle; and going with the large extended family to the Santa Monica beaches.
Louise was adventurous; she liked to try new things and nothing was too difficult to take on. Her cooking skills were legend and she would think nothing of whipping up an entire meal when one of her children or relatives stopped by.
The family moved to Washington State from California and eventually she lived at Long Lake, a lovely quiet lake in Port Orchard, Washington. She stayed friends with many of her classmates from those years and had great fun organizing barbecues and parties for the 1938-1940 class reunions of Bremerton and South Kitsap High schools.
As a young woman she went to Hawaii in 1943 to marry her first husband Dean Tyler at Pearl Harbor. She gave birth to two daughters there. After she returned to Washington, divorced, she ran into an old high school sweetheart, Dick Schwartz, and married again in 1952, having three more children. One of the photos with this memorial shows her with the deer she shot while nine months pregnant with her last child.
Louise moved to Guam for 7 years with her husband Dick and 3 youngest children; then returned to live on Hood Canal waterfront property, one of her favorite places before buying a home in Silverdale, high above the water where the Seattle skyline and the Cascade Mountains are visible.
Louise loved history, especially genealogy. She went to Kansas to research relatives and wrote many letters for more information in the days before the internet.
In the last years of her life she took a 4 year old grandson to visit relatives in California when she was 75; bravely faced three years of cancer treatment and planned her last high school reunion barbecue.
She loved opera, history, reading, music, gourmet cooking, sewing and was a Life Master in Bridge. Her favorite sport was golf which she discovered in her forties. She was an avid player on Guam but found that her arthritis in her hands kept her from continuing to play when she was in her 60s. So she took up bicycle riding. In the end she loved to watch birds from her favorite chair in her living room. She told her daughters, "Every day is a gift."
Louise was adventurous; she liked to try new things and nothing was too difficult to take on. Her cooking skills were legend and she would think nothing of whipping up an entire meal when one of her children or relatives stopped by.
The family moved to Washington State from California and eventually she lived at Long Lake, a lovely quiet lake in Port Orchard, Washington. She stayed friends with many of her classmates from those years and had great fun organizing barbecues and parties for the 1938-1940 class reunions of Bremerton and South Kitsap High schools.
As a young woman she went to Hawaii in 1943 to marry her first husband Dean Tyler at Pearl Harbor. She gave birth to two daughters there. After she returned to Washington, divorced, she ran into an old high school sweetheart, Dick Schwartz, and married again in 1952, having three more children. One of the photos with this memorial shows her with the deer she shot while nine months pregnant with her last child.
Louise moved to Guam for 7 years with her husband Dick and 3 youngest children; then returned to live on Hood Canal waterfront property, one of her favorite places before buying a home in Silverdale, high above the water where the Seattle skyline and the Cascade Mountains are visible.
Louise loved history, especially genealogy. She went to Kansas to research relatives and wrote many letters for more information in the days before the internet.
In the last years of her life she took a 4 year old grandson to visit relatives in California when she was 75; bravely faced three years of cancer treatment and planned her last high school reunion barbecue.
She loved opera, history, reading, music, gourmet cooking, sewing and was a Life Master in Bridge. Her favorite sport was golf which she discovered in her forties. She was an avid player on Guam but found that her arthritis in her hands kept her from continuing to play when she was in her 60s. So she took up bicycle riding. In the end she loved to watch birds from her favorite chair in her living room. She told her daughters, "Every day is a gift."
Louise was the second child of Ollie B Riggs and Helen H (Jensen) Riggs. She remembers holding her older brother Jack's hand when they walked to school in West Seattle; and going with the large extended family to the Santa Monica beaches.
Louise was adventurous; she liked to try new things and nothing was too difficult to take on. Her cooking skills were legend and she would think nothing of whipping up an entire meal when one of her children or relatives stopped by.
The family moved to Washington State from California and eventually she lived at Long Lake, a lovely quiet lake in Port Orchard, Washington. She stayed friends with many of her classmates from those years and had great fun organizing barbecues and parties for the 1938-1940 class reunions of Bremerton and South Kitsap High schools.
As a young woman she went to Hawaii in 1943 to marry her first husband Dean Tyler at Pearl Harbor. She gave birth to two daughters there. After she returned to Washington, divorced, she ran into an old high school sweetheart, Dick Schwartz, and married again in 1952, having three more children. One of the photos with this memorial shows her with the deer she shot while nine months pregnant with her last child.
Louise moved to Guam for 7 years with her husband Dick and 3 youngest children; then returned to live on Hood Canal waterfront property, one of her favorite places before buying a home in Silverdale, high above the water where the Seattle skyline and the Cascade Mountains are visible.
Louise loved history, especially genealogy. She went to Kansas to research relatives and wrote many letters for more information in the days before the internet.
In the last years of her life she took a 4 year old grandson to visit relatives in California when she was 75; bravely faced three years of cancer treatment and planned her last high school reunion barbecue.
She loved opera, history, reading, music, gourmet cooking, sewing and was a Life Master in Bridge. Her favorite sport was golf which she discovered in her forties. She was an avid player on Guam but found that her arthritis in her hands kept her from continuing to play when she was in her 60s. So she took up bicycle riding. In the end she loved to watch birds from her favorite chair in her living room. She told her daughters, "Every day is a gift."
Louise was adventurous; she liked to try new things and nothing was too difficult to take on. Her cooking skills were legend and she would think nothing of whipping up an entire meal when one of her children or relatives stopped by.
The family moved to Washington State from California and eventually she lived at Long Lake, a lovely quiet lake in Port Orchard, Washington. She stayed friends with many of her classmates from those years and had great fun organizing barbecues and parties for the 1938-1940 class reunions of Bremerton and South Kitsap High schools.
As a young woman she went to Hawaii in 1943 to marry her first husband Dean Tyler at Pearl Harbor. She gave birth to two daughters there. After she returned to Washington, divorced, she ran into an old high school sweetheart, Dick Schwartz, and married again in 1952, having three more children. One of the photos with this memorial shows her with the deer she shot while nine months pregnant with her last child.
Louise moved to Guam for 7 years with her husband Dick and 3 youngest children; then returned to live on Hood Canal waterfront property, one of her favorite places before buying a home in Silverdale, high above the water where the Seattle skyline and the Cascade Mountains are visible.
Louise loved history, especially genealogy. She went to Kansas to research relatives and wrote many letters for more information in the days before the internet.
In the last years of her life she took a 4 year old grandson to visit relatives in California when she was 75; bravely faced three years of cancer treatment and planned her last high school reunion barbecue.
She loved opera, history, reading, music, gourmet cooking, sewing and was a Life Master in Bridge. Her favorite sport was golf which she discovered in her forties. She was an avid player on Guam but found that her arthritis in her hands kept her from continuing to play when she was in her 60s. So she took up bicycle riding. In the end she loved to watch birds from her favorite chair in her living room. She told her daughters, "Every day is a gift."
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