Carl Francis Kessell

M, b. 27 March 1932, d. 29 August 1976
  • PARENTS*: He was the child of Mamie Panek & Benjamin Joseph Kessell.

Family:

Barbara Jean Remington b. 6 Jun 1933, d. 15 Aug 1964

Child:

Carl Francis Kessell II b. 30 Nov 1954, d. 2 Dec 1982

Carl Francis Kessell II

M, b. 30 November 1954, d. 2 December 1982
Charts:
John Gilliam/Elizabeth Murrell Descendants
  • Obituary*: An obituary appeared in the Collision Abroad Claims Soldier
    Army Warrant Officer Carl F. Kessell II, 28, died Dec. 2, in Kizerslautern, Germany. He was killed while driving to work when his car was struck by another vehicle. Funeral services will be held at Mt. Scott Funeral Home, Portland, on Friday at 1 p.m. with military honor guard burial immediately following at Willamette National Cemetery, Portland. He was born Nov. 30, 1954, at Fort Lewis, Wash. He was a graduate of Klamath Union High School and had earned the rank of Eagle Scout while in the Boy Scouts of America. He joined the Army shortly after graduating from KUHS in 1973. While in the Army, he served in Korea, Turkey, Germany and the U.S. He was preceded in death by his father Carl, an Army veteran, and by his mother Barbara. Survivors include his wife, Tambria A. Kessell; sisters, Barbara Thorpe, Tacoma, Wash., Natalie McCrosson, El Paso, Texas, and Audrey DiCosol, Bremerton, Wash; great-grandfather, Ray Davis, Junction City; grandmothers, Ethel Remington, Widbey Island, Wash., and Mamie Kessell Hawkins, Klamath Falls; stepmother, Ingeborg Kessell, Klamath Falls; and numerous aunts, uncles and nephews. on Wednesday, 8 December 1982.

Parents:

Father*: Carl Francis Kessell b. 27 Mar 1932, d. 29 Aug 1976
Mother*: Barbara Jean Remington b. 6 Jun 1933, d. 15 Aug 1964

Family:

Tambria Annette "Tammy" Martin b. 25 Sep 1957, d. 11 Jul 2017

Aloysius Stanislaus Joseph "Alex Stanley" Flynn

M, b. 17 September 1928, d. 22 January 2010
  • PARENTS*: He was the child of Mary Monaghan & Aloysius "Leo" Flynn.
  • Obituary*: An obituary appeared in the Alex Stanley Flynn
    Born in Tacoma, Washington on September 17, 1928 Passed away on Fri. January 22, 2010 and resided in Mount Vernon, WA
    Eighty-one years, four months and five days after his birth Alex Flynn lost a brief, stoic, fight with lung cancer, dying quietly in his bed at Alpine Ridge Retirement Apartments in Mount Vernon, Washington. Aloysius Stanislaus Joseph Flynn, the fourth of five children, was born to Mary Monaghan and Aloysius (Leo) Flynn in Tacoma, Washington in 1928. He changed his name to Alex 14 years later. As a lad Alex and his family moved several times, settling in various locations including Helena, Great Falls and Butte, Montana as well as Spokane, Washington. He spent two years at the children's orphanage in Sprague, Washington and Great Falls, Montana before graduating high school in 1935. In 1950 while living with a sister in California Alex joined the United States Army. He served with the 518th AAA Gunnery Battalion, Battery "A", with most of his time spent stationed at Hanford, Washington during the Korean Conflict. He left with an honorable discharge in 1952 and returned to Spokane where he attended Gonzaga University for three years where the Jesuit priests introduced him to analytical thinking before eventually returning to western Washington where he lived with his dad in a beach cabin in Edmonds for a number of years. In 1958 Alex married Carol Remington of Edmonds, Washington and their union produced four children. Alex is survived by Carol Flynn of Freeland, Washington, sons Tony Flynn (Lale Johnson) of Mount Vernon, Washington and Chris Flynn of Grand Forks, North Dakota, daughters Rebecca Flynn of Everett, Washington and Dawn Ogasawara (John) of Lake Stevens, Washington plus grandchildren Shane Flynn, Samantha and Sierra Ogasawara and Ian, Trevor and Grace Flynn and step-grandchildren Bryson and Landen Campbell. He is also survived by his sisters Roberta Harniteaux of Spokane, Sr. Imelda Flynn of West Seattle and Alouiz (Jim) Linnehan of Orange County, California plus numerous nieces and nephews, as well as dozens of surrogate sons and daughters he acquired over the years and friends too many to name. Preceding Alex in death were his parents, sisters Maurine Flynn and Nell Fuchs and brother-in-law Bob Harniteaux. Alex was an involved and vocal community and environmental supporter, having been a charter founder of the Help House for needy folks on South Whidbey in the early 1970s while at the same time helping to establish a grassroots recycling program in the community. In 1977 he was a leader of the activist group Save the Trees whose historic efforts to preserve old growth forest lands near South Whidbey State Park forever changed the way sensitive areas around state parks are protected. He much cherished his stint as an elected freeholder in the unsuccessful 1976 charter campaign for Island County. Alex also twice ran as a Democrat for the position of Island County Commissioner, once in 1972 and again in 1980. At the age of 71 Alex proudly hopped on the ferry boat and headed to the Emerald City where he partook in protests against the WTO during the Battle in Seattle of November 1999. Alex held several jobs during his life after the army, first working for the American National Insurance Company until 1961, and then switching to a different career with Pacific Pools in Seattle. While there he helped build the fountain system for the Seattle World Fair in 1962. In 1964 the family moved to a 1-acre farmstead near Langley on Whidbey Island. In 1968 he started the short-lived Big "P" pool maintenance company. Later that year he made another career move and signed up as an independent motor-route dealer for the Seattle Times, a job he continued for 28 years until his retirement in 1996. During the years Alex was a member of the St. Hubert's Catholic Church community, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Legion, the Fraternal Order of the Eagles, the Order of the Knights of Columbus and the Writers Association of Whidbey Island. He also was a longtime member of the South Whidbey theater community, having appeared in several stage productions at the historic Clyde Theatre in Langley. In retirement Alex expanded his horizons even further. He bought an ultra light plane and enjoyed hours soaring in the skies above Whidbey Island. In his sixties he took up the art of chain saw carving, specializing in creating and selling authentic life-like bald eagles from cedar logs. He once competed in a contest at the State Fair in Puyallup but wore himself out before he could finish. Throughout his life Alex became an accomplished poet, artist, author and playwright. He published a novel entitled "His Majesty the Golden Eagle" in 2002. Even up until his final days he continued to spin words into rhymes, to recite poetry and to sketch eagles for his friends. Always a champion for the less fortunate Alex lived life by his faith and unbending principles. He loathed treachery, ambivalence and bullies; he treasured friendship, integrity and a man's word of honor. He always strived to keep up a cheery outlook and held true to his beliefs. In the end, as at the end of one of his favorite poems, Invictus, he remained the master of his fate, the captain of his soul. The eagle has landed. Instead of flowers the family requests remembrances by made to Skagit Hospice, 819 S. 13th Street, Mount Vernon WA 98273 or to Senior Services of Island County, 14594 SR 525, Langley WA 98260. after 22 January 2010.

Family:

Carol Joyce Remington b. 26 Apr 1938, d. 2 Mar 2015

Aaron Burks Thorpe

M, b. 7 May 1980, d. 11 May 1980

Tambria Annette "Tammy" Martin

F, b. 25 September 1957, d. 11 July 2017
  • Married Name: As of 1976,her married name was Kessell.

Family:

Carl Francis Kessell II b. 30 Nov 1954, d. 2 Dec 1982