Ellen Caspara Rundquist

Ellen Caspara Rundquist died August 30, 2004 in an adult family home in Bothell. She was born February 4, 1920 in Bellingham. She went to grade school in Anacortes until the family moved to Seattle in 1929. She attended grade school at Greenwood Elementary and Junior High at James Monroe. She graduated from Ballard High School in 1938 and then went to Western Washington University where she earned a teachers certificate. She taught school in Arlington for two years and then Lake Chelan for one year. She then went to work for Bell Telephone in Seattle until she retired in 1984.

Ellen was very active in many organizations. She attended University Presbyterian Church and sang in the Cathedral Choir for many years. She also sang in the Seattle Choral for 25 years. She was active in the Golden Beavers Alumni Organization, which she was president of in 1999, the year the new high school was dedicated.

Ellen loved to travel and had been to Hawaii seven times. She went to Sweden, her fathers' birthplace. She took a cruise thru the Panama Canal in 1995 with her best friend and companion Millie Cockle.

Ellen was preceded in death by her parents, Sam and Gladys Rundquist, her sister Marilyn Simmons, and two brothers, Gordon and Lloyd Rundquist. She is survived by her sisters Bernice Ward, Shirley DeYoung and Dolores Thompson, and brothers Wallace wife Fran and Neil wife Ave Rundquist, and numerous neices and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 1:00pm, Saturday, September 4, 2004 at Evergreen-Washelli Funeral Chapel, 11111 Aurora Ave. N. Seattle.