Roger Lee Clement

Roger was born on May 20,1948 to Helen and Albert Clement in Seattle, Washington, the youngest of three children. He graduated from Meadowdale High School in 1966 and then went to study at Washington State University where he got his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1969. He then travelled across country to the University of Wisconsin--Madison and got his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology there in 1979.

It was here that he met and married his wife of 47 years, Nancy Clement, on January 20,1979. After living in the Los Angeles area together for a few years for his clinical internship and a job at Lanterman State Hospital, he returned home to Seattle and worked for seven years as a psychologist at Fircrest, a state facility for disabled children and adults.

In 1987, he started his own successful private practice, Mill Creek Psychological Services, which he ran for 38 years, retiring only a month before his death. He specialized in child and family therapy and ADHD in both children and adults.

In 1988 and 1989, he and his wife adopted two baby girls from Korea—Carly Clement and Brooke Clement, who are the great loves of their lives. In his spare time, he took them on family trips boating in Puget Sound for 10 years and RVing around the western half of the US for another 10 years. His favorite hobby was photography, at which he was very accomplished, and was how he documented the family’s many adventures. Another favorite activity was an annual trip to Whistler, BC the week before Christmas.

Roger was preceded in death by his brother Paul Clement and is survived by his sister Ann Langhofer, his wife Nancy Clement, his daughters Carly Clement and Brooke McBride and grandson Linnaeus McBride. He was also very close to his nieces, nephews, and cousins: Dolly Johnson, Erica Robertson, Paul Clement Jr., and Blake Clement. Warm, funny, kind and generous, Roger was much loved by his family, friends and clients alike and will be sorely missed.