Leoleon Alice Certo (Pat Wagness)

Leoleon Alice “Pat Wagness” Cervo of Lopez Island died May 13, 2006.

She was 87.

She was born Sept. 10, 1918, in Twining, Mich. to Harry and Alice Babcock March. The family then moved to Stanwood, Wash.

She graduated from Stanwood High School, then attended junior college in Mount Vernon, Wash. She continued her education at Western Washington University in Bellingham, earning a teaching degree.

Pat taught school for 25 years in the Highline School District in Seattle; most of those years were devoted to third-grade children.

Pat and her husband, Ken, moved to Lopez Island in the mid-1960s. Kenneth Wagness died in April 1999 and Pat remained at the family home on Lopez. She married Gordon A. Cervo on Oct. 26, 2003.

She is survived by her husband, Gordon, of Lopez Island, Wash.; sons, Harry Wagness of SeaTac, Wash., and John Wagness of Anacortes, Wash.; daughter, Patricia, and her husband Wayne Crinklaw of Portland, Ore.; brother, Wayne March of Vacaville, Calif.; sisters, Nina, and her husband Bill Babcock of Terre Haute, Ind., and Marian and her husband Ray King of Camano Island, Wash.; grandchildren, Matthew and Stephanie Crinklaw of Sammamish, Wash., Ken and Sarah Crinklaw of Redland, Wash., and Jeff and Katie Crinklaw of Portland, Ore.; and great-grandchildren Blake, Allison and Bailey Hoppe Crinklaw.

Funeral is May 24, 2006 at 1:30 p.m., in Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Stanwood, Wash., with burial at Anderson Cemetery in Stanwood, Wash.

Memorials may be made to Skagit Valley Hospital Foundation or to the Catherine Washburn Memorial in care of Lopez Island Medical Clinic, Lopez Island, WA. 98261.

— Family of Leoleon Alice “Pat Wagness” Cervo