Stina Karin Maria Jakobsson Ross

STINA KARIN MARIA JAKOBSSON ROSS Stina was born in Gavle, Sweden on May 3, 1926; she passed away December 21, 2004 in Lake Oswego, OR. She was the next to youngest of five children born to a lumber mill executive father and homemaker mother. Stina came to the United States in 1947 to stay for a year but fell in love with San Francisco and decided to stay in her adopted "American home." She had a successful career as a runway and print model for Nelley Gaffney, and appeared in the now famous columns of Herb Caen. While Stina intended to pursue a career as an actress, she gave it up when she met and fell in love with a young musician; and they were married in the famed Wayfarers Church in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. She soon became a mother to Tia, born in 1953 and Robert in 1955. Stina spent the next 12 years traveling and moving with her husband and children as happens in show business families. The traveling was difficult but she greatly enjoyed spending time with many great entertainers from Danny Kaye to Julie London and Bobby Troup and many others, however the lifestyle took its toll and in 1965 she divorced. In 1966 Stina remarried and began a "more normal" life with her second husband, a talented architect, who proceeded her in death in 1995. She is survived by her children Tia and Rob; grandchildren, Karina, Kris, Christina, Lauren; and great grandchildren, Tynan and Isabella; and three sisters, Ingrid of Sacramento, CA and Karin and Birgitta of Gavle, Sweden. They spent many years in Arizona and then moved to Central Washington in 1978. Stina and her husband could often be seen in town sipping coffee and walking with their beloved standard poodle, one of three she had during her lifetime. Stina grew to love Ellensburg because of the terrific people here. She made many lifelong friends in Ellensburg that she treasured everyday. Once asked by her young granddaughter what she had wanted to do when she was young, "be famous and make her parents proud." Her granddaughter Lauren responded, "I think she succeeded because she is famous for making everyone in her life HAPPY!" One cannot have a better legacy than that. Stina asked that there be no services but that her ashes be spread in her beloved Sweden and San Francisco.