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Scott Bringedahl Obituary
Scott Byron Bringedahl
Scott was born on June 15, 1960 in Seattle, WA.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Carl and Marie Bringedahl.
Scott is survived by his brothers, Bruce (Sherrie), Mark (Leslie), Brad (Nicki); and his sister, Ann; as well as many nieces, nephews; other family; and numerous friends.
His intense love of music was known to all who knew him. Scott was a major contributor for many bands in the Puget Sound region, playing bass and vocals for The Dana Osborne Band, The Jones, Culprit, and Eddie Spaghetti and the Meatballs, among others.
Scott loved the outdoors and his favorite times were spent hiking, fishing and camping with his dogs, Jazz and Brew. His biggest passion was bird watching. He also supported the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center to rescue injured birds.
He touched the lives of those around him and will be deeply missed by all who knew him.
There will be a memorial at the Jet Bar and Grill in Mill Creek, WA on November 4, 2012, at 6 p.m.
If desired, memorial gifts may be made in Scott's name to the General Foundation Providence Regional Cancer Partnership - Cancer Center Fund at 425-258-7500.
The Bringedahl family would like to thank the staff at Providence Hospital, the Providence Regional Cancer Partnership, and all those who helped to enrich Scott's life.
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Memories and Condolences
for Scott Bringedahl
Rick Velez
October 16, 2023
Hi Scott its Oct 16th 2023 seems like yesterday Oct 12th 2012 Think often about you I went fishing in Oregon for a week with Bob Hornberger he moved close to Tillamook in Garibaldi we all miss you .
Craig Yahne
October 15, 2021
Scott was a great friend we met him at the Pavillion Swimming pool next to Mountlake Terrace JR HS we loved the outdoors and animals we would hang out in the woods exploring nature as we grew up we diceded to fish and go hiking all around during 2010, 2011 we made a few really great hiking adventures upto lake 22 with our dogs. Laughing and remembering the old days back in school it was a remarkable day. Godspeed Scott.
November 10, 2012
I knew scott from the hospital where we both had cancer treatment he tride had to beet the dsease and was loved by so many people there, We had alot of good laughs. Marc and i will think of you often. Untill we meet agin in heaven.
Dene; Claybo
November 5, 2012
Scott was one of the most positive people that I've ever known in my life. I never heard him say a negative thing about anyone or anything. He was always smiling with his face and his eyes. I wish I could have had more time to spend with him. Talented beyond belief. I just found out that he loved to fish the Skagit River which is less than 1/8 of a mile from my house. Walk along its banks will bring me much peace. Smile on Scott! I will think of you often. Dene'
Patty Martinez
November 5, 2012
I knew Scott from him playing in the band, The Jones. He would always give me a very sweet smile and say hi Patty. Just a very kind guy he was. My condolences to his family. He will be greatly missed.
tim &terri bianchi-ames
November 4, 2012
God bless you scotty,and God bless your family and friends. you will be missed very much.your courage & kindness will never be forgoten. love, Tim&Terri Bianchi-Ames, and family.
Jana McBride
October 29, 2012
I grew up across the street from Scott & knew him from the time we were both in diapers. Both of us were the youngest siblings in our respective families & when the older kids were in school Scott & I hung out together; we were best buddies in those early years. We shared so many childhood memories; catching bees with him in his yard, building little forts in his wooded backyard, stuffing the mailbox in front of the fire station with fake letters scrawled in crayon, racing our trikes (he always beat me, either though he was a year younger!) from his driveway to Mrs. Webb's driveway & slamming into her garage for "brakes", & so many more...
My brother Jon who commented here earlier was right; we had a wonderful childhood & Scott was a big part of that.
God Bless you Scott; you're home now & I will see you again someday... I love you.
1 Peter 1:3
Craig Otto
October 29, 2012
I played with Scott in "Fugitive" as well as crossing paths musically and personally with him in other situations. Scott was always positive even before his diagnosis. He always seemed happy with what he had going on and shared that with the people around him. Other than being a talented musician my memory of Scott is he always had me laughing, always told jokes or had some hilarious story about growing up and of course plenty of fishing stories. He will be missed.
Paul Christie
October 28, 2012
Great guy. A truly talented musician. I am grateful to have shared music again this summer. He will be missed by many.
Craig Yahne
October 25, 2012
Scott thanks for the hike up to Lake Twenty Two in 2011 you and dean's Dog Gus was a super wonderful time it was a very spiritual hike we talked about the jr high schoold days fishing, birds, friends and life you will always be in my thoughts every time I go hiking thanks for the great music, hikes, the friendship from the 1972 to 2012 love you my friend Godspeed, Namaste"'
Thanks for coming over on Oct 6th 2012 You made a special trip for me and Ruby my friend to come by and spend a couple of hours with us. You rock on in the heavens above like always keep that special positive energy going always. Love ya brother.
william hill
October 25, 2012
Your soul has its wings scott,fly on and be free as a bird.
Kurt Wang
October 25, 2012
A great guy, and terrific class mate. My condolences to family, and friends. We were blessed to have known him.
Diana Cordray ( wiseman)
October 24, 2012
Scott...we just talked 3 weeks ago, you sounded so upbeat, I tried to ask how you were doing and you just keep saying " will talk about that later" ??? you were so happy that I quit smoking, you said " you made my whole week" I think about your comment everyday... I am so glad to have made a good happy feeling inside you and I was happy to have had the time to tell you that you helped me with the push to quit smoking.
I still remember the first time I saw you- 11th grade ??, your smile and beautiful curls- loved your hair- everyone has it right about you.. you were a coooool guy, down to earth ( more then most I can think of, sorry guys) I have memories that keep putting smiles on my face. Our last words "love you",cant get more perfect then that. You will also have that special place in my heart. I am at a loss for words right now.
One of my favorite songs "Free Bird" I dedicate to you.........
Di ooxx
Julie Logue Shirley
October 24, 2012
Scott, Every time I saw you after your diagnosis you had nothing but positive things to say. Hope there are birds in your heaven!
Perry Berggren
October 23, 2012
When I heard about Scott's passing this morning I was overcome with a flood of memories as well as a strong sense of sadness that one of the truly good guys of the "Terrace Gang" was no longer with us. One of the things I will always remember about Scott was that he was always one of the calmest, sensible and most level headed guys around, even when we were all young punks. It reminds me of a time back in the mid 70's when my parents were supposed to be gone for the night so we thought it would be a good idea to have a house party, in other words a kegger, in the basement of my house. I invited Scott and Denny to come play but didn't know somebody had invited a different band to play and when the 2 bands showed up there was almost a riot. Luckily for us Scott was able to diffuse the situation and the party went on, for a while anyway...
Scott, I hope where you are at it's always "FISH ON!!" and maybe someday the old Terrace gang will meet up again in a better place. God Bless.
Michael Pool
October 23, 2012
You are one of the best people I have ever known. I miss the light you brought to so many of our lives. See you again Scott.
Perry Berggren
October 23, 2012
I first heard aboout Scott's cancer and passing this morning when a friend forwarded website to me and I have to say my world has been rocked. The years of our youth have come flooding back on me with a vengence and all I can say is that Scott was ALWAYS the one with the cool head, sensibility and the ability to calm eveybody down. I remember a particular time in the mid 70's when my parents were supposed to be gone for the night and we decided it would be a good idea for us to have a house party so I asked Scott and Denny and the boys to come over and jam in the basement. Unfortunately somebody had asked a different band to come band to come over and a riot almost broke out. Luckily for us Scott was on top of things and was able to diffuse the situation so the party went on as planned, for a while anyway. Scott was like that...
Scott, I hope where your at there is always a " FISH ON !!" and someday the old Terrace gang will meet again. God Bless.
Debbie Barrett
October 22, 2012
Scott it was so wonderful meeting you years ago and finding out that Brad is one of my brothers good friends. I remember the time that Jayne Johnson had a party before she went into get her bone marrow transplant, you where dealing with cancer at that time to, yet nothing held you down. Scott you've been a good friend & a great musician. Everyone will surely miss a great guy like you. Lots of loves.
Toby Strotz
October 22, 2012
Scott, I loved you like a brother. I will forever miss our lunches and long phone conversations. I am so grateful we got to play one last time together as a band at StrutzFest this past year. You fought hard and never gave up. You were an inspiration to us all. RIP and I'll see you on the other side. Love you man.
October 22, 2012
While I certainly did not know him as long as most, I really did get to know him. My first words to him, on his FIRST day of chemo treatment in February 2010, were “how are you doing Captain?”, and his response “OK” (which was NOT exactly true!). My last words to him, the way we ended all of our conversations over the last two years, “I love you”, and his response “I love you”. As a volunteer (and cancer survivor) at the Cancer Center I got to walk along with him on his journey, and while when first diagnosed, he thought he had no time left, he defied the odds, did EVERYTHING right, and courageously battled his disease. I got to join him at appointments, and various procedures that were not that much fun! Cancer did NOT win. Scott grew as a person, and I grew as his friend. We shared a lot of really great events in his two and a half year “journey”. He was always there for me on my “watch”, and we laughed a lot. I will never forget his look when he was chastising the jet boats he could hear from a mile away, and I assured him he could hear mine from 5 miles away...a very good laugh! We shared many bird stories, hiking stories, and I was fortunate to introduce him to my wife and daughter (another cancer survivor). Scott developed many friends at the Cancer Partnership because of his great attitude, and seldom got “down”, in spite of how he really felt. My world is a better place for getting to know him. I will NEVER forget my friend Scott.
Bob Banks
Steve Lesh
October 22, 2012
I have known Scott for about 40 years, he played at my 21st birthday party with Denny, Sean and Ed, something I will never forget. Although I have not seen Scott in probably 10 years, I have been able to keep up to speed with some of his adventures through friends like Rick Velez, Sheryl Journey, or Bob Hornberger. All of us from Mountlake Terrace have watched each other grow from kids to teenagers to young adults to.... well what we are and who we are today and Scott was a part of all of our lives. Scott will be truely missed but never forgotten, RIP Scott
October 22, 2012
Scott was my very first best friend. We were babysat together when we were kids.
From the earliest of my memories to about when I turned 14 we were together almost every single day. Scott was 3 years my junior and thats a big difference when you are a teenager so we had different friends after that, but living across the street we still saw each other all the time. We used to build tree forts and pull each other on Tonka trucks behind our bikes and hitch rides on that 3-wheeled popsicle truck until we got chased off. In the mid sixties they still had those civil defense sirens going off all the time in Terrace and the fire dept would use them as well to signal they were off to a fire. So when we heard it blast me and Scott and whoever else was with us would hop on our bikes and jet down the hill to city hall and try to follow the firetruck to the fire as fast as we could, but our crappy home-made bikes could never keep up and we never once saw a fire in all those years. Whats funny is you always imagine your friend is always going to be around, I guess thats why people dont keep in touch as much as they should. Theresa always tommorrow. I live in Connecticut now about as far away from where I grew up as you can get. I dont get back too often but when I do I usually hooked up with der bopper (thats what I called Scott, he called me Zonderby, I don't remember why or when like all that DEEOWWWWL! stuff we came up with) but in the last 20 years or so I had very little contact. So when Scotts cancer took a turn for the worse I contacted him about 3 months ago by phone. we talked about 6 hours the first time, so much about our growing up together. Hunting frogs, his crow Egor, his dog Heidi, and cat sylvestor. His father Huby never really liked me, he always thought of me as Eddie haskel always getting scott into trouble. Probably right there, ol Huby was no nonsense and could size a guy up pretty good. Of our many phone calls toward the end Scott would remark abpout what a "magical" childhood we had playing flyers up in the street or TV tag and camel fights and hide and seek way into the night. I told him yeah, I cant imagine ANYONE having as wonderful a childhood as we did. With all this internet crap and all kids just dont know and cant even fathom what real fun is. We were so so lucky to grow up where and when we did.
People say what a great guy Scott was and it sounds so cliche but he was different, he really WAS that great guy everyone talks about. Of all the people I,ve ever known I cannot recall of anyone ever saying a bad thing about Scott on any occasion - EVER! and if you know anything about life thats pretty impressive. One pearl in which to illustrate this point I can recall when I was about ten years old and my dad took me and Scott down to Richmond beach in Edmonds. The water was really shallow and we were catching flounders by clasping them between 2 large shells (our Terrace method) anyway Scott saw this big crab skittering along and he scooped it up with the shells and it latched onto his finger with one of its burley claws. He started swinging it around,which only made it worse, and was screaming and crying. I got the thing off him and was ready to clobber it into a mealy puld when Scott says "dont do that, it was just defending itself" I couldn't believe it. There he was crying and bleeding and he was worried about the crab! I knew right then he was better than I could ever be. Who else in this world would have given that dirty finger biting crab a fair shake? Nobody, only my special friend Scott Bringedahl thats who.
I really love you scott and I'll miss you the rest of my days.
Your best friend always-
Jon McBride.
christine thoma
October 22, 2012
The good ones get taken too soon. You were one of the good ones...rest in peace my friend you will live on in the music. watch over us as we journey along see you on the other side!
Cindy C
October 21, 2012
I have known Scott for 20+ years. I am so grateful for having reconnected with him this last year.
My heart will forever reserve that spot that he captured the moment I met him.
I'm going to miss that laugh, that smile, those beautiful eyes that looked right into my soul.
Oh Scott, I love you too. I'll see you again someday.
This world has lost a beautiful man, inside and out.
wendy mcclay
October 21, 2012
I'll miss seeing Scott at Music events. I was priveleged to listen to him play bass and sing with 2 of his bands. Scott would encourage people to exercise healthy habits whenever he had the chance to. He was concerned with the health of his friends even as his health was failing. He was a brave man. He was a kind man. He shared his pain with very few people. His message for his friends to engage in healthy habits will be one of his many legacies. R.I.P., Scott. Thanks for your smiles, music, and friendship.
October 21, 2012
Scott you was loved by so many in the world of music that you so loved. Your happy smiling face and warm heart will be missed my friend you fought a long and hard battle you are now at peace. Kathy Wahl
Rhonda Owens Flint
October 21, 2012
Scott was a friend of mine and my brother Kerry from the yearly 70's.Kerry played sports with him in jr. high and I always made it to see him play his bass.some of my favorit memories of scott was just walken around MLT with Rudock, Bergern,Lesh,Aimes,Clemets,Soini,West Graw,and the rest of the old log gang, silly us.I know scott grew very talanted with his music and saw him a few time as we got older. Scott was always good to all of us,kind,funny and sensitive A good man with a great soul . You will be missed Scott <3
Dennis Barrett
October 21, 2012
Even though we all go our seperate ways in life and you don't get see each other that much after leaving school I did and still do consider Scott a friend. I have known the Bringedahl family my whole life, my heart goes out for the loss of a loved one, Scott has touched a lot of people in his short life.
October 21, 2012
live on a play hard and keep an eye on us all. I grew up with scott through grade school to high school. he was a fun guy to be around in school. he will be missed. I hope he looks in on us all from time to time. Scott Berlin
Linda Painter
October 21, 2012
I knew Scott for a couple of years he was a very caring and NICE man .. always ...
Rod Dolman
October 21, 2012
I had known Scott since Mountlake Terrace Junior High and watched him play bass for different bands throughout the years.I remember he always had a smile and was one of the nicest people I've ever met.Rest In Peace my friend.
Tamie Tarbox
October 21, 2012
Wow. The times we had in our younger days. You rocked and I will always remember you as one of the nicest guy's I have ever met.Rock on forever. and as Rick V. said, "DEOWL"
Rick Velez
October 21, 2012
Oh Scott we will so miss you ,the memories as we have grown up in the Mountlake Terrace area will all ways be remembered with a smile,your first tree house ,your pet crow,your music and the fun of going out fishing, RIP my friend.
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