Emma Mae Hart

Born March 14, 1922, passed away peacefully at Saint Annes Nursing Home on January 24, 2016. Her father and mother, George and Alice Bevensee, had seven children: Clarence, Eleanor, Ann, Lucy, Ruth, Emma, and Fred. In 1916, just after building a beautiful home in Snohomish, George was forced to sell the house to pay for his father’s funeral. He then purchased 40 acres of timberland on the Snoqualmie River and moved the family there where they lived in two large army tents, one for cooking and another for sleeping. At the time, Emma was only 3 months old. By September, 1922, when school started, George was able to clear some ground and put up a one room house built like a chicken coop with a slanting roof. Emma’s earliest memories were of piling up brush as the forest they lived in was being transformed into a producing farm. Emma entered the Nursing program at the University of Washington in the fall of 1940 and spent seven summers teaching Bible, counseling and acting as Camp Nurse. She attended Bible School in Three Hills Alberta, Canada. In 1945 Emma was inducted into the US Army as a 2nd Lieutenant just before the end of the war in the European theatre. She had field training with guns and gas masks and learned to survive on her own out in the woods. Emma was in line to board the the USS Comfort, but the person next in line ahead of her was the last one allowed to get on. The Japanese sank that ship in the Pacific. In September of 1955, Emma met Wesley Hart at a swimming pool party hosted by the University Presbyterian Church. They were married at that church on March 10, 1956, and later had four children: Christine, John, Daniel, and Bruce. Emma worked as a nurse in several nursing homes in our area, including the one she lived in, which is now called Saint Annes. She also worked as a secretary at Christ Church of Northgate from 1979 to 1991. In all, Emma had 17 grandchildren, and now has 6 great grandchildren (and 2 more on the way.) We love her dearly. She will be greatly missed.

Emma is survived by her brother Fred Bevensee and her four children, Christine, John, Dan, and Bruce. There will be a memorial service in her honor held at Purdy Walters in Everett on Saturday, February 6, 2016 @ 12:30pm.

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