Margery May (Logg) Noson

August 1, 1924 – May 30, 2016

Margery May left this world at the end of May 2016 at the age of 91. She was born Aug. 1, 1924, on Bainbridge Island at Rolling Bay, in the house of her grandparents, George, a Scot, and Emeli Peterson, a Swede, on Logg Road. Her father, George E. Logg, worked in the wheat fields of Tekoa, Washington, on the Idaho border, where her mother, Edna May, kept house and raised children.

Margie spent her early years there before moving back to Bainbridge Island in 1933, and later to West Seattle, where she attended junior high and high school. During the war, Margie met a sailor and, at age 19, married Frank Louis Noson from Aurora, Minnesota. They raised three children, Dennis, Nancy (Leach), and Gregory.

Navy assignments took her to California and Hawaii, and finally back to Seattle in 1960. After 20 years with the Navy they set up their home in Des Moines, Washington. Margie and Frank’s few retirement years were filled with nonstop travels, around the world and around the United States, before Frank’s passing in 1986.

She was a volunteer for the USO, and worked at the voting polls. Margie was a “do-it” person — gardening, as her mother did, in spring and summer; canning in the fall; knitting in winter; quilting in spring.

She is survived by her three children; six granddaughters, Anna, Kate, Ann, Julia, Alena and Shannon; and two great-grandchildren, Sonja and Finn. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews in Puget Sound Country, east of the Cascades, as well as in Minnesota and California. They seem too numerous to count, but all counted to her.

We miss her. There will be a memorial service at Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church on July 30 at 1:00 pm.