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1939
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2020
LaVonne Greaves Obituary
LaVonne (Gordon) Greaves, 80, of Silverdale, passed away March 9, 2020, at Harrison Medical Center.
She was born Oct. 18, 1939, to Ed and Alvina (Lunden) Gordon, in Thief River Falls, Minn. The family moved to Bremerton in 1945. She was confirmed at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Bremerton.
She was in the first graduating class of West High School in 1957 and attended Olympic College. In 1959, she married Lawrence Greaves, whose family were early settlers of Silverdale.
After raising their two sons in the Midwest and the San Francisco Bay Area, they returned to Silverdale in the mid-1980s. She was an active member of the Sons of Norway, Silverdale Lutheran Church and Seattle Children's Guild Association. She was warm and generous and made everyone feel at home.
LaVonne was preceded in death by her parents, and her brothers, Vern Gordon (her twin) and Gary Gordon.
She is survived by Lawrence; son Scott and Dodie Greaves of Mukilteo, and their children, Sydney and Benjamin; son Mark Greaves and Ombretta Romice of Glasgow, Scotland, and their daughter, Elena; her sister and brother-in-law, Darlene and Bill Yocum, of Poulsbo. She is loved and missed by her many friends and a big family of in-laws, cousins, nieces and nephews.
A celebration of LaVonne's life will be held at a later date.
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March 18, 2020
i remember lavonne and vern - went to high school with them soph and jr. year - really wonderful friendly people - so sorry to read about both of them. love, janice gilmore schoner
Linda Roberts
March 15, 2020
Every so often you meet someone and think, 'God put them on earth to inspire the rest of us to be just a little bit better.' One of those people was LaVonne. She was beautiful inside and out and she will be dearly missed.
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