Jean Adele Roth

4/21/1944 – 4/2/2023

Seattle, Washington

Jean Adele Roth, 78, born to Fredrick Roth and Edythe McGrath Roth of Seattle, died in Seattle April 2 following treatment for her kidney disease.

Her family moved to Kirkland in 1951 where they ran Roth’s Bakery until fire took out several businesses. Thereafter they settled in the Greenwood Neighborhood of North Seattle.

Jean was a longtime Board Member of the Irish Heritage Club, the Greater Seattle Chapter of the Germans from Russia, and the Seattle Scottish Highland Games Association, She served as a genealogical advisor and resource on the Board of Seattle's Irish Heritage Club for almost 20 years and served the SGS as President and Director of Education and was an Honorary Life Member of SGS. She recently served as SGS Vice President and as Group Leader for SGS's Irish Interest Group.

A kind and sociable individual, Jean has voluntarily assisted hundreds of individuals with tracing their Irish roots. She annually organized the genealogy booth at Irish Festival Seattle and at the Highland Games in Enumclaw and Mount Vernon. Jean was highly respected for her expert genealogy knowledge, and her contributions to this area's Irish community have been invaluable. Her warm spirit and kind personality will be sorely missed by her cousins, close friends, and multiple committee level board members. She will be remembered forever in our hearts and minds.

Jean attended Woodrow Wilson Jr. High and graduated with honors from Lincoln High School in 1962. She then entered the University of Washington School of Drama to become a teacher. While at the UW, she pledged to the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority. After three years at the UW, she traveled to Hawaii to participate in the University of Hawaii’s summer plays and decided to stay resulting in a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Hawaii in 1967. When she returned to Seattle, her passion for travel and tourism led her to take the Travel School Course and was then employed by Where-To-Go/University Travel for the next 23 years until her early retirement.

Her career as a Certified Travel Consultant, provided her the opportunity to travel the world and continue her lifelong hobby of genealogy and family history which generated travels to lands of her ancestors in Germany, Russia, England, Scotland and Ireland.

Jean embraced the Baha’i faith in High School and had been an enrolled member since 1965.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: The Seattle Genealogical Society; The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia; The Irish Heritage Club; Northwest Kidney Centers.

A visitation for Jean will be held Sunday, April 23, from 10 am to 5 pm at Evergreen Washelli Funeral Home, 11111 Aurora Ave N, Seattle. A graveside service will occur Monday, April 24, at 12 noon, also at Evergreen Washelli Cemetery.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.Evergreen-Washelli.com for the Roth family.