In Loving Memory
Deborah-Lee Bodkin
July 2nd, 1964 – January 9th, 2007
Deborah-Lee
Bodkin was born on July 2nd, 1964 and passed away on January 9th, 2007.
She was born at the Balboa Naval Hospital to a flower of the south and her young
Naval Officer
husband, who was then serving in Vietnam. She lived the majority of her life
in Renton, WA
with her partner Greg Taylor. Her early years were spent in the Seattle area,
until 1979 when she moved with the majority of her family to Anchorage, AK.
In
Anchorage she spread her wings, leaving West High School and entering into the
mortgage
business. She returned to the Eastside in 1986 and shortly thereafter opened
Alternative Mortgage
Source, later shortened to AMS, with her life long business partner Pamela Gordon.
Regardless of
name, “the girls” quickly developed a reputation for ingenuity,
hard work and level dealing.
They gave many people, especially women, their start in this business,
a fact of which Deb’s was especially proud.
Deborah-Lee
was a person who lived larger than life, whether diamonds or whipping cream,
XL was considered openers. She loved to cook, to entertain and to travel. She
lived a life of
abundance multiplication, she had more fun if you were having fun, she was committed
to the
practice of tithing and was generous with family, friends and employees alike.
Deborah-Lee
loved America. She loved the wide-open spaces of Montana and the comfortable
embrace of the gun range booth. Mounts Shasta and Rainier were sacred and cherished
retreats.
Deborah-Lee
passed from this earth in the manner she lived on this earth, with generosity
and grace.
She was an organ donor and her strong heart literally still beats in Seattle.
She
shared life’s journey, its ups and downs, with her partner of 17 years,
Greg Taylor.
She is further survived by her Mother, Fran Omholt and her husband Bud, her
Father Robert Bodkin
and his wife Helen, her sister Jennifer, her brother Robert, her Grand Mother
Annabelle Hawkins;
and her nephew Dexter Peterson. She also had three step siblings Jonnie, Courtney
and Ranjini,
of whom she was especially proud and who is presently serving in Iraq. She delighted
in
her niece and nephews, as well as many “adopted” children of friends
and co-workers.
Donations in Deborah-Lee’s memory may be made to:
The
Pediatric Interim Care Center in Kent
“The
Newborn Nursery”
328 4th Avenue
South
Kent, WA
98032
Checks may be made payable to: PICC Unit
"In
a beautiful blue lagoon on a clear day,
a fine sailing ship spreads its brilliant
white canvas in a fresh morning breeze and
sails out to the open sea. We watch her
glide away magnificently through the deep
blue and gradually see her grow smaller and
smaller as she nears the horizon. Finally,
where the sea and sky meet, she slips silently
from sight, and someone near me says, 'there,
she is gone!'
Gone
where? Gone from sight. That is all.
She is still as large in mast and hull and
sail, still just as able to bear her load.
And we can be sure that, just as we say,
'there, she is gone' another says, 'there, she comes!'."
Henry
Van Dyke