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Evelyn Carl Obituary
Amy was born in Mount Vernon, Washington on January 29, 1943 to Halfdan "Hoff" Tronsdal and Dora Tronsdal. Amy cherished growing up on Engen Farm at Milltown in south Skagit County, an idyllic location bordering Tom Moore slough with Skagit flatland split by Milltown Road leading to grassy uplands, Fir Conway Lutheran Cemetery and woodlands. As a proud Husky, she attended the University of Washington where she earned a degree in History. It was here on a sidewalk by University Hospital where on the way from class to her apartment she, an upper campus student, crossed paths with a young man on his way from his apartment to his lower campus class. Shy smiles were exchanged. Later they were to discover they occupied adjacent apartment buildings, with their rooms directly across a narrow alleyway from each other. She asked the young man if he would be so kind as to replace a burnt-out lightbulb that she could not reach in her ceiling. That young man, Edward, became her husband of 59 years and five months. Amy was baptized and confirmed in Fir Conway Lutheran Church where she married Edward on June 26, 1965. They drove off for their honeymoon in a 1964 Corvette Stingray, after freeing it of the manure spreader chained to its rear bumper.
Amy went on to become a caseworker for Children's Protective Services while Edward worked a Boeing career. This enabled them to purchase a house in Shoreline which they shared for the duration of their marriage. They were blessed with children, Karen (Neal), Chris (Cynthia) and Dave (Emily) all three of whom became (occasionally) proud Huskies leading to careers in government, firefighting and medicine respectively. Their marriages produced grandchildren, Samantha, Andrew, Caitlin, Jake, Josh, Abcde, Hailey, Ryder and Avery. Amy was especially proud when Caitlin (Jose) made her a great grandma with the arrival of Brinley.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, February 8 at Fir Conway Lutheran Church from 2 - 4 PM.
Donations in Amy's memory may be made to treehouseforkids.org, a nonprofit serving youth in foster care or to the Fir Conway Lutheran Church. (www.kernfuneralhome.com)
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
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