Rev. Fred Beaver Chief Jameson, 46, was a member of the Lummi Nation, a spiritual leader, musician, and social activist who worked among Seattle's Native American community and also in the local art and music scenes. He lectured across North America and Europe; he'd married a Swiss woman and was planning to move to Zurich. He was the Seattle School District's Native American liaison in the '70s. He led drum circles and made recordings of Northwest Coast Salish music, including the 1999 CD Red Cedar Medicine Circle Songs. One of Jameson's friends in the music community, Sky Cries Mary founder Roderick Romero, said he was "the most significant native of this area that I've encountered. His whole purpose was to bridge the indigenous culture and that of what he called 'the settlers,' and try to heal the pain." In the local pagan publication Widdershins, writer Amanda Silvers called him "a wise man, teacher, healer, singer, storyteller and all-around funny guy who is very serious about spirit." In his book A Handbook for Human Beings, Jameson said about himself: "I am a bridge. A bridge to help you understand our culture and combine it with your own.... NOT to replace it, but to combine it." He died of a sudden aneurysm on June 8 at the Queen Anne post office.
Harry W. Hagen, 93, was an original member of the Seattle Mountaineers and, in 1938, obtained Recreational Equipment Inc. membership card #18.
Leonard Tepper, 63, was a regular sketch performer on The Late Show with David Letterman. As TVBarn.com notes, "Tepper, who tended to yell his lines, was cast in a variety of outlandish roles--most cruelly as TV critic Tom Shales."
Harbor Air ceased all its single-engine passenger flights between Seattle and the San Juan islands, and laid off its 100 employees.
Jack V. Wills Jr., 94, was a former Seattle Times photographer. Among his many other jobs, he served the first legal drink in Washington after Prohibition.
Lucinda Harder, 66, was a former Belltown antique-shop owner who was involved in many community causes. One was Stop the Violence, a nonprofit gun buy-back group that collected and melted down 1,800 handguns in 1992.
Carol Bernstein Ferry, 76, was a New York-area socialite and heiress who donated millions to leftist causes (peace, prisoners' rights, environment, the Black Panthers). She made a statement for her last cause, legal euthanasia, when--ridden by terminal illness--she OD'd on sleeping pills in her home while friends watched.
