THEODORE HAROLD SCRIVANICH
Ted was born May 24, 1929 in Brookfield, WA. to Mateo Scrivanich and Zena Tarabochia. He passed away April 9, 2009 in Edmonds, WA. He was the youngest of six children, a sister dying in infancy. In 1930 his family moved to Seattle.
He joined the Marine Corps in 1946. In 1952 he married Beverley J. O’Neal and together they had three children, Janet (Bob) Miller, Teresa Costle, and Paul (Olivia) Scrivanich. He always wanted to be a fireman and had many friends at the station off of Dravus St. on Queen Anne who mentored him. He gave up that dream to care for his family and became a warehouseman working for Eyres Transfer and eventually working at the Safeway Distribution Center in the meat department. In 1990 he had a brain aneurysm and was disabled.
He loved camping and showed us where Brookfield used to be on the Columbia River. He loved picking wild blackberries and blueberries. He helped Janet and Terry pick berries to sell so we could go to the summer District Assemblies. We also spent countless hours fishing, though we rarely caught anything. His biggest catch was an octopus that grabbed hold of the boat he and George Knierim were in. Ted also loved baseball. His cousins always talked about how they would play down in Interbay. He was a big fan of the Seattle Pilots and later of the Seattle Mariners. He often took the grandkids to games, loading up on candy and snacks before they went. Later, as he lay in a coma at Harborview we would turn on the Mariner games so that he could hear them. When he came home, Bev, Janet and Bob started taking him to the games and also became fans of the Mariners. Even as he became bed-ridden, he always watched the games and we could always tell how he thought they were playing by the noises he made.
Ted loved his family and his grandchildren, Gretchen (Dave) Wailes, Cynthia, Garrett and Ashley Miller. He saw his family expand with the addition of three great-grandchildren, Madison Maez, Jacob and Savanna Wailes. He was predeceased in death by his parents, his brothers Tony, Joe, and Mike and his sister Catherine. Several nieces and nephews survive.
He will be greatly missed, but we know that he now sleeps in death awaiting the resurrection on a peaceful new earth. We will miss you dad and we’ll do our best to look after mom who gave so much of herself caring for you.
Private burial was held at Tahoma National Cemetery. A memorial will be held at 2:00 pm., Saturday, May 9, 2009 at the Aurora Village Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses 2960 NE 200th., Shoreline,Wa.