Detail from “Setting Sail IV” by Denise Snyder

In Memoriam

Northwest Designer Craftartists wishes to take this opportunity to remember our friends and colleagues who are gone but not forgotten. We hope you will join us in recalling their lives and work, and paying respects to the memory that they leave behind.


Founding Members:

Robert Sperry - Founder - Click here to watch the “Living Treasures” video about Robert Sperry
Evert Sodergren - Founder - Click here to watch the “Living Treasures” video about Evert Sodergren
Hella Skowronski - Founder
Coralynn Pence - Founder
Lizel Salzer - Founder
Henry Lin - Founder
Irene McGowan - Founder
Ruth Penington - Founder
Russell Day - Founder - Click here to watch the “Living Treasures” video about Russell Day

Lifetime Members:

Gloria Crouse - Lifetime
Ron Ho (obituary) - Lifetime - Click here to watch the “Living Treasures” video about Ron Ho
Anne Hawkins - Lifetime
Jim Egbert - Lifetime

Honorary Members:

Lloyd Herman - Honorary - Click here to watch the “Living Treasures” video about Lloyd Herman
Anne Gould Hauberg - Honorary - Click here to watch the “Living Treasures” video about Anne Gould Hauberg
Anne Todd - Honorary
Don Foster - Honorary
Ruth Nomura - Honorary

In memory of our past members:

Nancy Erickson
Ronald Dee Childers
Anne Niles Davenport
Judy Laub
Wendy Anne DeRoux
Inge Norgaard
Ray Ho
Calvin Killgore
Carolyn Price Dyer
Hannah M. Voss
Hazel Koenig
Liz Checkley Manfredini
Luana Sever
Polly Stehman
Ramona Solberg - Click here to watch the “Living Treasures” video about Ramona Solberg
Robert S. Purser
Richard E. Wrangle
Fran Reed
Orville Chatt
Louella Simpson
Jean Griffith