Mayme Andersen Pettygrove Langloe

Mayme Andersen Pettygrove Langloe

Jan. 10, 1917-Mar. 21, 2007

Mayme Langloe, age 90, passed away at Josephine Sunset Home in Stanwood, WA, surrounded by loving family.
She was born the youngest of four children to Mathias Andersen, a commercial fisherman from Norway, and Henna Lekkola of Finland, in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Her life journey began growing up in Ward Cove (Ketchikan), Alaska. She graduated from Ketchikan High School in 1935, then moved to Juneau, Alaska, to attend Business School, where she met and married Francis W. Pettygrove, a direct descendent of F. W. Pettygrove, the founder of Portland, OR, and Port Townsend, WA. They returned to Ketchikan, had four children (Frank, Kathleen, Nickolos, and Alyce), and eventually purchased the Lighthouse Grocery on North Tongass Road, which remains a Ketchikan icon to this day.
In 1965, Mayme and Frank sold the Lighthouse Grocery, retiring to Edmonds, WA. Her husband, Frank, died suddenly in early 1969, and in 1976 Mayme moved to Treasure Island in Mason County, WA, to live with her daughter, Alyce, and be near her daughter Kathleen and her grandchildren.
In 1984 at the age of 67 she married her childhood sweetheart, Mone L. Langloe, 69. He gave her 10 of the happiest years of her life, and preceded her in death in 1994. Mayme and Mone spent many happy years alternating extended stays with their children and their families and pleasant summers at their home on Treasure Island.
Mayme was also predeceased by her beloved firstborn son, Frank, in 1995; brother, Toivo Andersen, in 1991; sisters, Matilda Andersen, in 1925, and Harriett Pacleb, in 2002.
She is survived by her loving son, Nick Pettygrove and his wife Beverly, of Lake McMurray, WA; daughter, Kathleen Reid and her husband Nelson, of Tacoma, WA; daughter, Alyce Meyering and her husband David of Arlington, WA. She was close to her grandchildren, Rina (Doug) Impey, David (Erin) Kirby, Marty Luckow (Travis), Daniel, Casey, and Paul Meyering in whose lives she played a major role and will forever remain an icon of what a caring and involved grandmother should be. David, Rina and Marty have given Mayme the gift of six great-grandchildren, Jorden, Tayler, Trevor, and Landon Kirby, Madison Impey, due in June, and Nevin and Nolan Luckow. Mayme also had a special relationship with her nephew and nieces; her brother Toivo's children, Alan Andersen of Sitka, Alaska, and Suzanne Scotchmer, of Berkeley, CA; as well as her sister Harriett's children, Constance Phillips, of West Seattle, and Roberta Hayes, of Arizona.
Mayme's family wishes to express sincere gratitude to the staff at Josephine's and Skagit Hospice for their exceptionally professional and compassionate care.
We shall all miss her generosity, dry Scandinavian wit, and that special twinkle she got in her eye when she was up to mischief. She was always there for her family and had the courage of her own convictions in all things.
A memorial service will be conducted at the gravesite at 2 p.m., on Tuesday, March 27, 2007, at New Tacoma Cemetery with a celebration of her life to follow. Arrangements have been entrusted to the care and direction of Affordable Burial & Cremation Services, LLC of Mount Vernon, Washington, (360) 424 - 1002.
Cards of Condolence may be sent to the family in care of the Funeral Home.