Arthur H. (Art) Goldkamp died on July 9 in Kirkland, WA, his family at his side 
supporting him and loving him until the end. He was 83 years old.
Art was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 8, 1929, the third son of Louis J. and Katherine Leary Goldkamp. He grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and graduated from Chaminade High School.
He graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame where he played in the Notre Dame Marching Band. He received a Master’s degree in biochemistry from Loyola University of Chicago, Illinois. He earned a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois.
While a student at Loyola he met and married Virginia (Ginny) Stuart. They lived with their family in Illinois for seventeen years where Art worked 
for G. D. Searle and Company as a Senior Research Chemist. He 
was part of the team that developed the artificial sweetener Aspartame.
In 1969 Art was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical chemistry at the University of Washington and the family relocated to Bellevue, Washington. Art was involved in church and school activities and coached basketball at the Bellevue Boys’ Club, Lake Hills soccer and Little League baseball. In 1975 a catastrophic illness forced his retirement from laboratory research and he did some teaching, tutoring, and investment management. He was fond of playing golf, baseball and tennis and, when he could no longer play these sports, he remained an avid and interested on-looker. Art loved music of all kinds, classical, jazz, show tunes and big band dance music. He played trumpet in a dance band in high school and college.
Preceded in death by a son Kevin, Art is survived by Ginny his wife of 60 years and children 
Robert (Takako) of Kent; Steven (Trudy) of Kirkland; Julie Mauermann (Pat Savatgy) of Bellingham; Amy (Robert) Sauerlender of Olympia; Brian (Naoko) of West Bloomfield, MI; Timothy and Jeffrey of Seattle; and Gregory (Sarah) of Kirkland. He also leaves grandchildren Bradley (Katie), Joseph (Tara), Kevin, Emma, Michael, Lindsay, Leanna, Katherine, Eleanor, Stuart, and Karen, and a great-grandson Nash.
The family will hold a memorial service and celebration of Art’s life at St. Jude Catholic Church, Redmond, Washington, on August 17.
