MEMORIAL SERVICE
Services
604 Avenue C East
Snohomish, Washington
July 22, 2010
Begins at 2:00 pm
Ends at :00
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December 21, 1937
Seattle, Washington
July 5, 2010
Edmonds, Washington
Seattle, Washington
July 5, 2010
Edmonds, Washington
Our family lost a beautiful wife, mother, grandma, sister, aunt and friend on July 5, 2010. Mom passed peacefully with Dad and her children Deborah Jahnke (Donaldson), Sheryl Haile (Donaldson) and Gary, Michael, Mark and Jenny (Donaldson), Sean (Hardy) and Dawn Ross (Hardy), and other loved ones at her side. Jack Donaldson (1976) and Steve Hardy (1974) preceded her in death as did parents Lars and Gina Svege and brother Stanley . She also leaves sisters Laila Carlsen and Margie Strandoo, step-children Steve, Pam and Marc Holcomb, many grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces , nephews, “brother” Maury and many friends.
Born on December 21, 1937, Arlene Joan Svege grew up in Ballard, married Jack Donaldson in 1954 and raised four children (Deborah, Sheryl, Michael and Mark ). Mom remarried in 1969 (Steve) and had two more children, Sean and Dawn. In 1974, Steve, a commercial fisherman was lost at sea. God gave mom strength, stamina, and an enormous capacity to love and a strong faith and extended family to single parent teenagers and toddlers together. Then, in 1980 God gave her Dad.
On May 3rd, 2010, mom and Dad (Chuck) who has known mom since she...
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