Jille Voerge Rowe

1938 - 2025

Jille Voerge Rowe, 86, of Burien, WA, died at St. Anne Hospital September 14, 2025 following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer.

She was born in Everett, WA October 11, 1938 to Lee Denholm Voerge and Montana Little, and grew up in the Alderwood Manor area near Seattle. She would later attend Pacific University in Forest Grove for two years before marrying Clifford G. Rowe on December 24, 1958. They shared 63 years of marriage before Clifford's death on January 5, 2022, living in Burien for 56 of those years. She loved family, gardening, reading, and cooking, and she especially enjoyed traveling to Montana most summers to visit with relatives in the Livingston area. Jille devoted her life to supporting Clifford and raising their three children.

Jille was preceded in death by her husband, Clifford, and two of her three children, Petra Sharm Karr and Scott Patrick Rowe. She is survived by her third child, Stuart Rowe and his wife, Dawn; a son-in-law, Chris Karr; a daughter-in-law Kim Rowe; grandchildren Carson Lehman, Nick Lehman, Caitlin Karr, Ethan Rowe, Sean Rowe, and Dustin Rowe; and a great-granddaughter Loewen Lehman.

No date has been established at this time, but an open-house memorial will be held at the family home later this year. In lieu of flowers, please contribute to the Clifford and Jille Rowe Journalism Scholarship through Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA.