Rev. David Colwell, 84, died September 22 from complications after a fall. Colwell led Plymouth Congregational Church on Stewart Street from 1967 to 1982. In 1980, he started the Plymouth Housing Group, an independent nonprofit group operating 700 low-income housing units in 10 Seattle buildings (including one, on Denny Way, named for him). He was also a co-founder of the Church Council of Greater Seattle. He'd come to Seattle from a church in Washington, D.C., where he was heavily involved in the '60s Civil Rights movement and helped plan the 1963 March on Washington.
The Trophy Room, a retro beer bar in the back of Shorty's hotdog stand and video-game parlor on Second Avenue, a Belltown institution for over four years, was shuttered on October 1. It was a crowded, popular joint, particularly on wrestling and South Park TV nights; but owner Martha Manwaring said she needed to concentrate on the main food-and-games side of her business.
Gary James Lockhart, 59, died September 18 at his Seattle home after a heart attack. Lockhart wrote the books The Weather Companion (1989) and The Herbal Center of Healing (1998). He was a longtime advocate of herbal remedies; in the mid-'90s, he helped lead the successful effort to preserve the University of Washington's Medicinal Herb Garden. He held several day jobs throughout his 25-year writing/researching career (most recently at City Ice), and left behind "about a dozen manuscripts, which are yet to be published," according to his friend Arthur Jacobson. People interested in helping get Lockhart's manuscripts into print are invited to contact Jacobson at 328-8733.