Karrie Rae Spitzer

Karrie Spitzer of Marysville, Wa. was just 40 years old when she passed away on Sept 18, 2015 at UW Medical Center after a year long battle with leukemia. Karrie was born in Everett, Wa on Nov 19, 1974 and spent most of her childhood in Bellevue, Wa where she graduated from Sammamish High School in 1993. She attended Lake Washington Vo-Tech and worked for a short time for an executive head hunter company. She married Michael James Spitzer in 1997. Besides being a devoted wife to Mike and mother to daughter Emily Rae and son Mason James. Karrie was active in her children's school activities, serving one year as co- president of the PTSA. Karrie loved the outdoors and was an avid gardener and concrete sculpture artist. We will miss her beautiful smile and loving caring spirit. She is survived by her husband and children as well as her parents, Carol and Jerry Ohail of Allyn, Wa; her grandmother, Beatrice A. York of Walla Walla; her mother and father-in- law, Jane and Bob Phillips of Everett, Wa; father and mother-in-law Ken and Pat Spitzer of Whidby Island, her sister and brother-in-law, Wendy and Mike Brennan of Gilbert, Az; brother and sister in-law Darren and Ngoc Ohail of Sammamish Wa; brother and sister-in- law, Ted and Wendy Ohail of Maple Valley, Wa; and brother Tim Ohail of Richland, Wa; sister in law, Cherie Spitzer of Everett, Wa as well as numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 11:00 AM at the Schaefer-Shipman Funeral Home at 804 State St, Marysville, Wa. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Karrie’s name to the Providence Regional Cancer Partnership in Everett, Wa.