Harriet E. (Guddall) EATON

EATON, GUDDALL, SPRINGER, LEMLEY, FRENCH, DAVIS, LEIBRAND, LEIBBRAND, HOPE, RIAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/20/2008 at 09:57:06

Sedro-Woolley Courier-Times
October 2000

Harriet E. Guddall Eaton, 90, a longtime Sedro-Woolley resident, passed away on Oct. 7, 2000, at Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon. She was born in Thor, Iowa, on June 1, 1910, a daughter of John and Elsie Springer Guddall. She came to Sedro-Woolley as an infant, attended schools here and graduated with the class of 1928. She attended Washington State College in Pullman where she was a member of the Delta Zeta sorority. Harriet was employed as a bank clerk at her father's bank and later at the C.E. Bingham bank, both in Sedro-Woolley. She was united in marriage to Willard Eaton in Sedro-Woolley on June 7, 1936. Harriet was a member of the PEO sisterhood in Sedro-Woolley for more than 50 years. She was dedicated to her husband, her home and graden and to her many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Willard, in 1972; her brother, John Guddall; and sisters Elaine Guddall and Ethel Lemley. She is survived by her only remaining sister Helen French and her husband, Irwin, of Seattle; nine nieces and nephews and their spouses; Robert and Judy Lemley and Richard and JoAnna Lemley of Sedro-Woolley, LouAnn and Denny Davis of Mount Vernon, Shirley Lemley of Bellingham, Craig Leibrand of Everett, John and Julie Leibbrand of Seattle, Julie and Terry Hope of Bellingham, Connie and Rick Rian of New York and Chris and Bob Henke of Arizona; also numerous grand and great-grand nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at Lemley Chapel in Sedro-Woolley on October 10 with Rosalie Robles of the Federation of Christian Ministries officiating. Services will conclude at the chapel, followed by a luncheon and fellowship at the Three Rivers restaurant. Entombment will be at Acacia cemetery in Seattle.