On May 15, 2025 the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office held a ceremony for the over cremated remains of over 300 unclaimed dead of Pierce County at Haven of Rest Funeral Home in Gig Harbor.
175 of those dead died in Tacoma. Here are their names and ages sorted by date of death.
2020
9/1/2020 Alan Ogard age 70
9/4/2020 Eugene Bingham age 52
10/5/2020 Joellen Steffan age 81
10/11/2020 Douglas Siler age 68
11/4/2020 Daniel Meeker age 45
11/9/2020 Lechoslaw Redziejowski age 77
11/10/2020 Thomas Hutchinson age 68
11/15/2020 Dorothy Buffum age 77
12/4/2020 Paul Nathan age 58
12/9/2020 Catherine Bolton age 65
12/15/2020 Otis Hilyard age 79
12/22/2020 Soon Jung age 70
12/29/2020 Shelby Cole age 83
2021
1/6/2021 Steven Bolieu age 64
1/15/2021 Gerald Casterlow age 61
1/24/2021 Paul Sunich age 69
2/6/2021 Burgin Brown age 59
2/7/2021 Dennis Winter age 68
2/20/2021 Willard Ott age 76
2/28/2021 Joseph Gillum age 72
3/10/2021 Tony Pelley age 66
3/26/2021 Fetus Theodore age 0
4/9/2021 Michael Wilcox age 70
4/18/2021 Frederick McCall age 76
4/20/2021 Sue Kiefer age 66
5/5/2021 Terry Michelbrink age 49
5/7/2021 Wayne Batten age 62
5/30/2021 Barbara Hoem age 59
6/3/2021 Ian Mottinger age 48
6/28/2021 Thomas Walker age 58
7/6/2021 Shane Hudecek age 67
7/6/2021 Charlaine Barker age 77
7/12/2021 David Regester age 67
8/5/2021 Timothy Hancock age 56
8/10/2021 Verna Bish age 61
8/12/2021 Thomas Wright age 60
8/12/2021 Gordon Kenfield age 56
8/21/2021 George Heedly age 59
9/9/2021 William Degarmo age 78
9/14/2021 Howard Southard age 61
9/21/2021 Gary Arvidson age 63
10/3/2021 Peggy Tuohy age 62
10/7/2021 Richard Amsbary age 47
10/21/2021 Patrick Harrison age 66
10/22/2021 Wilma Spencer age 43
10/27/2021 Robert Frederick age 60
11/4/2021 Gregory Grayson age 57
11/22/2021 Gloria Hansen age 66
11/22/2021 Rochelle Clemons age 62
11/23/2021 Janet Macias age 73
11/27/2021 Rachelle Bradford age 49
12/1/2021 Robert Tate age 54
12/6/2021 Paul Widener age 69
12/19/2021 Donald Svenson age 47
12/31/2021 Bonnie Forman age 55
12/31/2021 Sheryl Pernu age 63
2022
1/1/2022 Kim Sulser age 67
1/5/2022 Jerry Richmond age 71
1/5/2022 Edward Cole age 74
1/17/2022 Jung Yoon age 86
1/23/2022 John Chase age 68
2/23/2022 Daniel Rawson age 60
3/5/2022 John Hitchcock age 58
3/22/2022 Robert Burton age 72
3/23/2022 Delvin Denison age 58
3/28/2022 Marcy Cummins age 71
4/21/2022 Lorenzo Smith Jr. age 66
5/2/2022 Christina Jacobs age 67
5/16/2022 Joyce Marek age 69
5/31/2022 Woodrow Johnson age 59
6/5/2022 Mark Pullen age 64
6/11/2022 Gregory Qunnine age 60
6/15/2022 Chanthala KeokeneKanlaya age 68
6/21/2022 Rodney White age 50
6/29/2022 Karin Peveler age 82
7/6/2022 Ronnie Herring age 78
7/28/2022 Robert Schoolcraft age 39
8/9/2022 Gerald Groomer age 64
8/25/2022 John Joseph age 72
8/27/2022 Viktor Razoumovski age 65
9/19/2022 Gary Ross age 64
9/20/2022 Theodore Bjoring age 60
9/21/2022 Patrice Weidner age 69
9/26/2022 David Ramsey age 46
9/29/2022 Gary Jennings age 63
10/4/2022 Louise Robertson age 70
10/11/2022 Dianne Poe age 79
10/19/2022 Sean Mulcahy age 35
10/22/2022 Timothy Haag age 58
10/23/2022 Billy Bice age 72
11/13/2022 William Hopps age 64
11/18/2022 David Glaspey age 80
11/21/2022 Pun Bowers age 83
11/23/2022 Michael Proffit age 61
12/4/2022 James Bachman age 56
2023
1/1/2023 Nathan Griffin age 40
1/4/2023 Jeffrey Anderson age 52
1/20/2023 Gerald Baldwin Jr. age 66
1/24/2023 James Batts age 71
1/26/2023 Edward Hynes age 68
2/15/2023 Patricia Lapitan age 74
2/21/2023 Jimmy Ameline age 62
2/21/2023 Charles Dart age 76
3/13/2023 Thomas Rollings age 64
3/26/2023 Bobbie Blacksher age 67
4/16/2023 Melanie Taylor-Tomashek age 69
5/5/2023 Richard Orth age 79
5/19/2023 Lorie Ellison age 60
5/22/2023 Mary Anne Keckler age 65
6/3/2023 Cody Seaman age 39
6/3/2023 Fuafiva Fale Jr. age 58
6/4/2023 Young Jin Baik age 87
6/11/2023 Sherry Wingerter age 58
6/12/2023 Parker Ward age 61
6/18/2023 John Davis age 62
6/29/2023 Katherine Galbraith age 70
7/21/2023 Ann Calvino age 80
8/17/2023 Shalonda Freeland age 51
8/29/2023 Daniel Miller age 55
8/31/2023 Suzanne Hoskins age 62
8/31/2023 Tristen Morrison age 34
9/10/2023 Robert Simon age 63
9/18/2023 Dwain McCaskill age 66
11/13/2023 Anthony Carmichael age 61
11/13/2023 Sandra McGee age 59
11/15/2023 Paul Pederson age 65
11/18/2023 Laurie Hazen age 70
11/30/2023 Hoyle Wright age 60
12/17/2023 Mark Kelly age 75
12/21/2023 Holly Appleton-Edwards age 59
12/22/2023 Richard West age 77
12/23/2023 Robert Halvorsen age 67
12/29/2023 Helen Cadwell age 74
2024
1/1/2024 Craig Wise age 59
1/15/2024 Leona Stringer age 40
1/26/2024 Robert Kittleson age 57
1/31/2024 Baby Fink age 0
2/3/2024 David Reeves age 64
2/21/2024 Clyde Rogers age 64
3/3/2024 Charles Williams age 57
3/8/2024 Kara Minnema age 64
3/8/2024 He Sung Kim age 76
3/16/2024 George Alderman age 75
3/19/2024 Stephen Mercier age 69
3/27/2024 Donald Gamer age 77
3/30/2024 Rosa Gonzalez age 64
4/7/2024 Michael Morrow age 45
4/11/2024 Leo Smith age 69
4/23/2024 Peggy Root age 67
4/25/2024 Linda Stephenson age 62
5/2/2024 Tina Eggert age 56
5/16/2024 Terry Emerick age 66
6/4/2024 Gary Little age 60
6/15/2024 Paul Hofgaard age 45
6/17/2024 Doo Soo Wang age 77
6/29/2024 Eunice Cross age 80
7/2/2024 Dede Batts age 55
7/7/2024 Anastacio Martinez Martinez age 45
7/9/2024 Jean Duverne age 68
7/10/2024 Jeffrey Bingham age 64
7/12/2024 Donald Allen age 71
7/13/2024 Karen Terry age 61
7/23/2024 Jennifer Christensen age 53
8/1/2024 Sophal Saing age 68
8/14/2024 Sandra Holt age 62
8/26/2024 Susan Johnson age 79
8/27/2024 Ronald Morrison age 62
8/31/2024 Linda Roloff age 75
9/18/2024 Everett Morris age 66
10/1/2024 David Bunce age 76
10/4/2024 Ross Caldeira age 62
10/13/2024 Sean Elgin age 64
10/15/2024 David Smasal age 72
10/18/2024 Kristine Roth age 73
11/8/2024 Stephen Bruechner age 61
New Tacoma Historical Fiction
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