Reggie Sheegog

Reggie Sheegog was born on April 13, 1957 in Augusta Georgia. In 1970, Hank (his dad) received orders for Frankfurt Germany. The family including Reggie, Trudy (his mom) and Porsha (his sister) moved overseas. Lenora (his sister) was born soon after they arrived. In Germany he excelled in football as well as wrestling and made friends quickly.

After receiving orders, the family relocated to Fort Lewis army base in 1972. Reggie attended Lakes High School in Tacoma where he met many people that have become some of his lifelong friends. One of them eventually became his beautiful wife - Janice.

Growing up on the base in the Beachwood and Hillside area, Reggie and his family met Esteban, the Greer’s and other families, and reunited with the Yet’s whom they had met in Germany.

Once again, Reggie excelled at football and wrestling at Lakes. After graduating from high school, Reggie and Andy Stokes, a high school best friend, attended Mt Hood College to play football. After one year, he moved to Tacoma and began working at the mess hall on Ft Lewis base.

In 1977, at age 21, he started working at Boeing as a crane operator and over the years, his childhood relative Randolph joined him at Boeing. While working for Boeing, Reggie made many life long friends. He bought a new house in 1998 in Lacey located a few minutes from his parents house. He commuted to the Auburn and Frederickson Boeing plants working the 6am-2pm shift during the week while carpooling with Teeter.

Reggie enjoyed jazz music, bbqs, traveling, going to the annual Westport crab feed, golfing with his dad and friends, and playing dominoes and cards. Most days he would come straight home from work to his parent’s house to play pinochle for a few hours.

He became a Master Mason with his dad at the Fred U Harris Lodge #70 in 2000 while his mom Trudy had become a member of the Cascadian Assembly #46, Order of the Golden Circle.

In 2015 he went to his 40th high school reunion where he reunited with Janice, his high school Tolo dance date. They picked up right where they left off and married in September 2017 in Olympia. They traveled to Mexico, Vegas and Canada with friends.

After 43 years, Reggie happily retired as a Skin Teams Lead from Boeing. In his time there, he was never laid off. In his first few months of retirement, he spent much of his time golfing with Darren, Charlie Poole, Casper Blanc, Jason and other friends and began planning trips to take with Janice. In addition, he played Pinochle with his dad, Larry and others and recently began stopping by Darren and April’s house to play Backgammon.

On Sunday, July 9, Reggie died peacefully in his sleep.

Reggie is survived by his wife Janice, his daughter Monique and granddaughter Sicily, his dad Hank, step-mother Paula, his sister Porsha and brother-in-law Jason, nieces, Alexis, Kay and Justyce, and nephew, Alex, his sister Lenora, and brother-in-law Joshua, nieces, Laney and Ziah. He leaves behind his mom’s sister Melvenia and her family in Augusta and Kentucky and his dad’s sister Dorothy and her family in St. Louis, Chicago and Maryland.

Reggie was a calming, kind, good natured son, brother, friend, father and husband who enjoyed life, especially a round of golf with family and friends.