Jeannette Sayles

O’ Grady Howe, 86, died June 15, 2003, at Panorama City in Lacey.

She was born Nov. 19, 1916, in Seattle, to Roy and Nancy Sayles and was a graduate of Roosevelt High School. Jeannette met her first husband while serving an adventurous life with the American Red Cross during wartime.

She settled in Chicago until the death of her husband Frank Joseph O’Grady.

She then moved with her three children to Coupeville where she was a loving and devoted mother who put raising her children above everything. Mrs. Jeannette O’Grady was employed as a secretary to the superintendent of schools in Coupeville until she retired in 1976.

Her love of playing bridge and golf introduced her to her second husband, retired commander Elmer C. Howe. For more than 26 years they enjoyed their residence in Oak Harbor.

Together they enjoyed not only bridge and golf but gardening and extensive travel.

Jeannette served countless hours at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Coupeville as a volunteer and was an active member with the Ladies Guild of St. Augustine’s Catholic Church in Oak Harbor.

Jeannette was preceded in death by her sister, Betty Williams and brother George Sayles.

She is survived by her husband Elmer Howe; daughter Katy O’Grady of Renton, son John Joseph O’Grady and wife Debbie of East Wenatchee, and son Frank Patrick O’Grady and his wife Frenda of Redmond. Jeannette also leaves behind grandsons Jeremy and Matthew O’Grady and granddaughters Kelley and Shannon O’Grady as well as her nephews Joe and David Williams.

Family services will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, July 3, at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.