Elaine Carol Stout

She was born in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania to John and Mary Velky and graduated as salutatorian of her class from that high school in 1956. Two days later she began her first five year career as reporter for the Sharon Herald Newspaper in the Women’s News Department. After crossing the country she started her second five year career in accounting at the Marsh and McClelland Insurance Brokers in Seattle, then Reinell Boats in Marysville. She then launched her third career back into the newspaper field as reporter, photographer, and editor of the Granite Falls Press-Lake Stevens News along with an affiliation to the Everett Herald.

With these successes behind her, she entered Palmer College of Chiropractic and graduated cum laude in 1981 to start her fourth career as a chiropractor, that same year, with an office in Arlington. She later moved to Marysville and finally to South Everett and closed her practice in December of 2016, a bitter-sweet ending to nearly 40 years of treating patients and making lasting friendships, enjoying life at its fullest.

From her first trip across America, from Pennsylvania to California to Washington, Elaine loved to travel. With her sisters and her Beta Sigma Phi sisterhood, she cruised to countries in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, the Baltic and to Cuba. She frequently jetted to Pennsylvania and Florida to visit family. Post graduate chiropractic seminars took her thousands of miles coast to coast, always broadening her education and sharing new- found methods to help people.

She has five trips to Medjugorje in Bosnia-Hertzogovenia, staying with Marriana or Jacob, two of five visionaries of Mary who has been appearing there since 1981.

Elaine loved her faith and loved sharing her Slavic religious traditions especially at the Easter and Christmas family dinners. Sitting at the head of table was her husband of 23 years, Raymond S Stout, who preceded her in death in 1985. Later, that chair was for either their son, John, or Ray’s son, Steven.

Her faith carried her through deaths, first of her father followed by their family dog, Duke. Both tolled years of grief for her, but nothing in comparison to the death of her husband, Ray. These were followed by others, including her mother, aunts and uncles; sisters; Barbara, Dorothy, and Ester, and step-daughter, Holly.

Elaine is survived by her son, John, and daughter-in-law Lynne, and their two children Colin and Rory; her step-children Steven, Beth and Carl, and Holly’s husband, Tom McGehee; ten step-grandchildren and many greats.

It is with the firm faith in life beyond this one, she had prepped herself, to look forward to this as the most exciting trip of the lifetime. All she wants from you all is to be remembered, perhaps with a memorial Mass, or to say prayer once in a while, smiling and singing with the angels, even if it’s a Christmas carol. That’s her middle name. Carol. She loved you all.