In Memory

Audrey Kay Saldin (Mills)

Audrey Kay Saldin (Mills)

AUDREY K. (SALDIN) MILLS, 4/22/1946 – 1/18/2018, Audrey was born to Richard and Bea Saldin at the Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane, Washington; Spokane, The Lilac City, was always home to Aud and lilacs were her favorite flower. She attended grade school first at Irving then Roosevelt Elementary and graduated from Lewis & Clark High School in 1964 and then from Eastern Washington State College in 1968. While at Eastern Aud met Bob, they eloped in 1969; their honeymoon was a drive across the U.S. after Bob completed military training in Baltimore, MD., a drive during which they outran a tornado and suffered July snow with freezing temps in Yellowstone. During their 49 years together they lived in Milton, WA; El Paso, TX.; at Ft. Lewis; on McNeil Island (where Aud was the only woman treated in the penitentiary hospital); San Jose, CA; Tukwila, WA. and finally Sequim since 2001. Aud and Bob were frequently seen biking around Sequim and as sweep riders for the Olympic Discovery Marathon. Biking took them to the Trail of The Coeur d'Alenes in Idaho, cancer fund raising rides in Walla Walla and a host of roads and trails across the Pacific Northwest. Audrey touched many hearts on her journey and her circle of friends spread across the country; with them she biked, cruised the Caribbean, tasted wine, broke a finger bowling, toured cities, helped form the Emerald Highlands CERT and played board games.  Audrey is survived by her husband Bob of Sequim, daughter Margaret Keppeler and husband Paul of Beaverton, OR., son Richard, wife Leah and two grandsons of University Place, WA. and her sister Loal Meyers of Spokane, husband Larry and their two daughters. Audrey loved the water and chose her home so she could see it every day; later this year, Aud's ashes will be scattered on the Strait, with a few retained to be buried next to her Father-in-Law. The family requests donations to the Lewy Body Dementia Association or Sequim Soroptomists.

 



 
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02/07/18 07:59 PM #1    

Maureen Sullivan (Sullivan)

U will miss her. A very sweet person, & one of the people I knew from the now defunct Irving Grade School. Those were great times, & Audrey will be missed.

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