Charles Harvey Amstutz, age 85, left his earthly body to be with our God in Heaven on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, while residing at Fieldstone Memory Care. He was born in Seattle, WA on Dec. 8th 1931.
Charles (Chuck) joined the Army National Guard at age 17. He graduated from Garfield High School in 1950 along with Quincy Jones. He worked at Boeing briefly then joined the Navy for 4 years. He served on the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge CVA-33 and the USS Toucan AMS 387 minesweeper. He was a part of combat missions during the Korean War. He was honorably discharged at age 23. He went on to attend the U of WA, graduated in 1960 with a BA in Statistics. Later he attended U of Oregon and graduated in 1970 with a degree in Law. He was a life member of American Legion, VFW, and the Eagles.
Chuck first married when working on his Law Degree and had 4 daughters before the marriage was dissolved in 1985. He purchased and was able to build a successful law Practice in Wapato Wa., practicing for 37 years before retiring in 2008.
Chuck and Barbara met in 1989 dancing at the Chalet. They were married on July 8, 1995. They were together for over 25 years enjoying life with all the extended family.
He joins his brother John Amstutz, his oldest daughter Kathleen Ciampossin and two step grandsons,Tyler White and Brian White in heaven. He is survived by a large combined family. His side of the family includes his sister Delores (Ted) Herrington. daughters, Christlyn (Kirk) Nurmi, Amber (Jeff) DeVore, and Andrea Amstutz. Grandchildren are Loic and Remi Ciampossin, Noelle and Lucas DeVore, and Annalie Payette. He is also survived by Barbara’s children, Rick (Terry) White, Jeff White, Carolyn (Dan) Swan; eight additional grandchildren, Christie (Craig) Thompson, Jenny (John) Trivett, Derek White, Andrew White, Brandon White, Brycen (Laura) Taylor, Brad Taylor and Brett Taylor and two great granddaughters, Kylie Thompson and Blakely Trivett.
He was baptized and joined Mt Olive Church in 1999 where he and Barbara attended regularly and was very active on committees and leadership positions. His church family enjoyed seeing him dance down the isle at the end of each service.
Chuck was very active during his lifetime running in marathons, lifting weights, playing tennis, and of course dancing. At age 84 he could still do pushups with a clap in between. He valued spending time with family. His goals in life were to live a good Christian life, live as sin free as he could and be a server to God.
Things that made Chuck happy were time with family, his religion with prayer, a good sun-shiny day, sunsets, the harvest moon and walks, all with Barbara by his side. While we are sad that we cannot visit with him now, but we know that he is dancing to some great music in Heaven!
A memorial service will be held at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church on Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Memorial contributions in memory of Charles Amstutz may be made to Mt. Olive Lutheran Church Building Fund, Alzheimer’s Research Fund or charity of your choice. To celebrate the life of Charles and share a memory visit www.lepfuneralhome.com.
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