Ruth Dagmar Hinthorne

Ruth Dagmar Bakken HINTHORNE Born on March 11th, 1908 in Fargo, ND. Her father Olaf Bakken was a Pentecostal preacher who died of the flu 4 weeks before she was born. Her mother was Grace Edith Fix Bakken who had been a nurse and missionary in an Astoria OR skid road church. Two years later her mother married Gardiner Allen Baker and they lived in Kapowsin, Elbe and Orting, WA. She attended high school in Orting where she got to know one of her teachers Gail Ira Hinthorne and they were married shortly after she graduated in 1926. She and Gail then lived wherever his job as teacher, principal or superintendent took them in western Washington Tacoma, Carbonado, Eatonville, Raymond, South Bend, Tenino, Seattle. They moved to Alderwood Manor in 1934 buying 7 ? acres from Pope & Talbot of virgin logged off land at what is now 38th and 172nd SW in Lynnwood. They built their home there. Her husband Gail died in 1960 after some difficult years of illness.She was mother to Jeanne Carolyn Hinthorne Winegar, Beverly Ann Lermond Clark Bourne and to Robert Dean Hinthorne. She also acted as a dear friend and surrogate mother to countless young women and men she met through her travels, jobs, her children, and all her activities. She loved them and provided a safe place that was like a home to them. She was very gifted. She had perfect pitch, played piano beautifully and could play anything by ear. She taught piano, played for church from the time she was 12 years old on until her hands gave out. She played for various community choruses, orchestras and soloists. She also played the organ. She was active in PTA and became a state vice president. She loved her garden and held offices in Garden Club, Ladies Aid and other organizations in the 40?s and 50?s. She worked at Paine Field as a secretary and also at the Veterans Administration in Seattle. They told her when she left that it would ?take two coolies and a chorus girl? to replace her. She traveled every chance she got - spending 2 months traveling in Europe with her friend Ethel-Martin, traveling also over Mexico together. Ruth also flew with a tour group to Japan, Taiwan and leaving the group went on to Malaysia to be with her sister and husband. When her daughter Jeanne lived in Iran, she flew to Israel and then traveled on to spend time with Jeanne and see the old Persia. She also traveled over much of the western US. She always loved animals. She was never without a dog or two. And when her kids grew up and left her with horses she became a horsewoman. She rode in competitive trail endurance rides that covered sixty miles. She crossed the Cascades to Lake Chelan several times on horseback. She also rode the 90 mile Wonderland Trail around Mt. Rainier. She loved to entertain - whether it was badminton games or mini-golf around the yard or Hide and Seek by bonfire light thru the woods in summer or Charades, 20 Questions, indoor Hide & Seek or some other game in winter. She was an avid and very good bridge player in her later years. She remodeled her house and did the yard work including using a chain saw until she fell off a ladder with the chain saw and the family took that dreadful tool away from her! She took care of her animals herself, including packing wounds, and getting up every few hours to tend to them when needed. She had many wild stories to tell of all her adventures. She loved life -- and people -- and animals -- and most of all she loved her Lord -- who had made it all possible. He had given her salvation - LIFE - and she knew she would go home to be with Him Whom she so dearly loved.She lived in the Alderwood/Lynnwood house for 69 years until in 2003 she moved to Chateau Pacific for more care and then 2 years ago to live with Jerry and Jim Lille, and then spent her last months at Emerald Hills in Lynnwood. She is survived by her daughters Jeanne and Beverly and her son Dean, Her grandchildren, Laura Winegar Carlos, Bruce Winegar, Vicki Lermond Keeling and Debbi Lermond Backstrom, and her great grandchildren Alia Carlos Long, and Chad Carlos, David Winegar, Dan Winegar, Naomi Winegar and Mark Winegar, and her great-great-grandson, Zachary Long. She went to be with her Lord and Savior on November 19, 2006. Visitation Saturday, November 25 and Sunday November 26, 10:00am-6:00pm at the Bothell Funeral Home 18224 103rd Ave NE, Bothell WA. 98011. Memorial Service to be held at Alderwood Manor Community Church is pending. Contributions suggested to the American Heart Association.