Hastry, Frances Rosalie b. 17 Aug 1920 Baltimore, Independent Cities, Maryland, USA d. 6 Nov 2016 Kent, King, Washington, USA

1920 - 2016 (96 years)

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Name	Hastry, Frances Rosalie [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Born	17 Aug 1920	Baltimore, Independent Cities, Maryland, USA [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Gender	Female
Died	6 Nov 2016	Kent, King, Washington, USA [11, 12]
Buried	Mountain View Cemetery, Auburn, King, Washington, USA [13]
Person ID	I20439	Our Family \| Descendants of Lob Pfeifer
Last Modified	16 Jan 2024

Family Pfeifer, John Leo, b. 4 Sep 1918, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA , d. 12 Apr 1976, King County, Washington, USA (Age 57 years)

Married 2 May 1943 Ocala, Marion, Florida, USA [1, 2, 14, 15, 16]

Children

+	1. Pfeifer, Jack
+	2. Pfeifer, Susan

Last Modified 16 Jan 2024

Family ID F5165 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Rosalie H. Pfeifer, who was involved in civic activities and adult education in Kent and Federal Way for more than half a century, died Nov. 6 at home in Kent, her oldest grandchild, Jenny Overstreet, at her side. She was 95 and died of natural causes.
Mrs. Pfeifer died in the family home on the West Hill of Kent. She and her husband, John L. Pfeifer, who died in 1976, built the house in 1963, when the community there, called Green Valley Heights, had dirt streets. The family, which included a son, Jack, and a daughter, Susan, had originally moved to Federal Way in 1960 from Seattle.
The four-bedroom home was filled with the collectibles and vintage clothing, quilts and furniture Mrs. Pfeifer saved over the years and often used in the classes she taught and fashion shows she helped prepare. Among her favorite holdings were ice cream molds, wooden duck decoys, Wedgewood dishes, covered milk-glass dishes, stone cookie molds, beaded purses, nesting dolls, tin chocolate molds, hundreds of cookie cutters, fur Teddy bears; dozens of quilts, some of which were made by herself or her mother, and woven coverlets.
For some two decades, Mrs. Pfeifer staged vintage fashion shows on behalf of Children's Hospital to benefit the hospital's program for uncompensated care. She was a longtime member of the Julien Soule Guild, which assisted in fundraising for the hospital, and she was a founding member of the hospital's thrift store in downtown Kent, where she continued to volunteer every Wednesday for 20 years. A devoted Kent citizen, she was a docent at the Kent Historical Society for a decade and enthusiastically entered every art contest and street-naming competition the city held.
She taught adult education evening classes at Highline Community College on such diverse topics as gem identification, quilting, shoemaking and floral arrangements.
Her community activities were legendary, participating in numerous regional crafts organizations including Green Rippers, which worked with fabric; QA, or Quilters Anonymous; Comforters, and Stitch & Bitch.
As a guest lecturer on her favorite topics, Mrs. Pfeifer appeared around the country regularly. In 1978, on behalf of the Puget Sound Needle Art Guild, she flew to Alaska to make a presentation and work as a judge at a quilt show in Anchorage. She was a regular participant in quilting demonstrations at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup on behalf of QA. She crossed the country to teach a class for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on how to make handmade canvas and leather shoes, and she appeared frequently throughout South King County before church and civic groups.
Mrs. Pfeifer was born Aug. 17, 1920, in the front room of a row house in the Pigtown district of East Baltimore. After half a dozen years in rural Eastern Baltimore County, where her father ran a general store, the family moved to Highlandtown, a humble neighborhood of brick row houses where she lived with her parents and her younger sister, Jean. There she attended public schools and was physically active in many ways, such as ice skating every winter in nearby Patterson Park.
During the Depression, her parents survived on the strength of the seamstress abilities of her mother, Rose, who made wedding dresses and did alterations in the living room. That sewing affinity then was passed on to her daughter, Rosalie, who full name was Frances Rosalie Hastry, in honor of her parents' names, Joseph Francis Hastry and Rose Cook Hastry.
She was in the first graduating class, in 1938, of Eastern High School, a girls-only public school in Baltimore, and then attended the Maryland Institute of Art for two years, studying commercial illustration, a talent she put to use in her own pen-and-ink drawings, many of which hung for years in the family home.
When the war started, Mrs. Pfeifer went to work as a secretary and illustrator for the U.S. Army at Edgewood Arsenal, north of Baltimore, where she met her future husband, John, an Army officer from Arkansas. After a courtship that included outings on the base bowling team, they were married in Ocala, Fla., May 2, 1943. Their son, Jack, 69, and their daughter, Susan, 67, were born as soon as World War II ended. The family moved west to Seattle in 1958 when John took a job with the Boeing Co. With her husband starting his position early, Mrs. Pfeifer drove herself and her two children across the country in the family's red and white Rambler station wagon, a sign affixed to the back window saying, "Baltimore to Seattle with a Rock, Roll and Rattle." On the way, for the first time, the Pfeifer family traversed the famous Route 66.
After the children had left the family home, Mrs. Pfeifer enjoyed traveling around the country - she visited all 50 states - and internationally, including her ancestral countries such as Ireland and Norway. On one such domestic trip, when she was in her late 70s, she crossed the country with a female friend in the woman's purple Corvette convertible.
On arrival in the Pacific Northwest, Mrs. Pfeifer took an interest in horticulture, eventually joining the Des Moines Garden Club, where she made lifelong friends. She continued to work in her extensive outdoor gardens at home into her 90s. An active, independent woman, she only stopped driving her car at age 94, at which point she sold her beloved, four-door 1993 white Ford Taurus for $300 to her great-grandson, Evan, a student at Western Washington University.
Other survivors include five grandchildren, Jenny Rebecca Overstreet, 48, of Everett; Jessica Lee Pfeifer, 47, of Durham, N.C.; Ira Avey Pfeifer, 34, the husband of Krystal Garvin, of London; Ezekiel David Pfeifer, 30, the husband of Anna Bykova, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Amanda Jean Krohn, 29, the wife of Justin Joel Krohn, of Renton; five greatgrandchildren, Mattson John Overstreet, 22, of Bellingham; Evan Robert Overstreet, 20, of Bellingham; Caroline Lee Overstreet, 18, of Seattle; Ruby Dean Alworth, 17, of Durham, and Hannah Jean Krohn, 5, of Renton, and a nephew, James Bott Pfeifer, 69, and his wife, Robynn Louise Zinser, 59, and their daughter, Jade Zinser Pfeifer, 20, all of Little Rock, Ark.
Rosalie H. Pfeifer, who was involved in civic activities and adult education in Kent and Federal Way for more than half a century, died Nov. 6 at home in Kent, her oldest grandchild, Jenny Overstreet, at her side. She was 95 and died of natural causes.
Mrs. Pfeifer died in the family home on the West Hill of Kent. She and her husband, John L. Pfeifer, who died in 1976, built the house in 1963, when the community there, called Green Valley Heights, had dirt streets. The family, which included a son, Jack, and a daughter, Susan, had originally moved to Federal Way in 1960 from Seattle.
The four-bedroom home was filled with the collectibles and vintage clothing, quilts and furniture Mrs. Pfeifer saved over the years and often used in the classes she taught and fashion shows she helped prepare. Among her favorite holdings were ice cream molds, wooden duck decoys, Wedgewood dishes, covered milk-glass dishes, stone cookie molds, beaded purses, nesting dolls, tin chocolate molds, hundreds of cookie cutters, fur Teddy bears; dozens of quilts, some of which were made by herself or her mother, and woven coverlets.
For some two decades, Mrs. Pfeifer staged vintage fashion shows on behalf of Children's Hospital to benefit the hospital's program for uncompensated care. She was a longtime member of the Julien Soule Guild, which assisted in fundraising for the hospital, and she was a founding member of the hospital's thrift store in downtown Kent, where she continued to volunteer every Wednesday for 20 years. A devoted Kent citizen, she was a docent at the Kent Historical Society for a decade and enthusiastically entered every art contest and street-naming competition the city held.
She taught adult education evening classes at Highline Community College on such diverse topics as gem identification, quilting, shoemaking and floral arrangements.
Her community activities were legendary, participating in numerous regional crafts organizations including Green Rippers, which worked with fabric; QA, or Quilters Anonymous; Comforters, and Stitch & Bitch.
As a guest lecturer on her favorite topics, Mrs. Pfeifer appeared around the country regularly. In 1978, on behalf of the Puget Sound Needle Art Guild, she flew to Alaska to make a presentation and work as a judge at a quilt show in Anchorage. She was a regular participant in quilting demonstrations at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup on behalf of QA. She crossed the country to teach a class for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on how to make handmade canvas and leather shoes, and she appeared frequently throughout South King County before church and civic groups.
Mrs. Pfeifer was born Aug. 17, 1920, in the front room of a row house in the Pigtown district of East Baltimore. After half a dozen years in rural Eastern Baltimore County, where her father ran a general store, the family moved to Highlandtown, a humble neighborhood of brick row houses where she lived with her parents and her younger sister, Jean. There she attended public schools and was physically active in many ways, such as ice skating every winter in nearby Patterson Park.
During the Depression, her parents survived on the strength of the seamstress abilities of her mother, Rose, who made wedding dresses and did alterations in the living room. That sewing affinity then was passed on to her daughter, Rosalie, who full name was Frances Rosalie Hastry, in honor of her parents' names, Joseph Francis Hastry and Rose Cook Hastry.
She was in the first graduating class, in 1938, of Eastern High School, a girls-only public school in Baltimore, and then attended the Maryland Institute of Art for two years, studying commercial illustration, a talent she put to use in her own pen-and-ink drawings, many of which hung for years in the family home.
When the war started, Mrs. Pfeifer went to work as a secretary and illustrator for the U.S. Army at Edgewood Arsenal, north of Baltimore, where she met her future husband, John, an Army officer from Arkansas. After a courtship that included outings on the base bowling team, they were married in Ocala, Fla., May 2, 1943. Their son, Jack, 69, and their daughter, Susan, 67, were born as soon as World War II ended. The family moved west to Seattle in 1958 when John took a job with the Boeing Co. With her husband starting his position early, Mrs. Pfeifer drove herself and her two children across the country in the family's red and white Rambler station wagon, a sign affixed to the back window saying, "Baltimore to Seattle with a Rock, Roll and Rattle." On the way, for the first time, the Pfeifer family traversed the famous Route 66.
After the children had left the family home, Mrs. Pfeifer enjoyed traveling around the country - she visited all 50 states - and internationally, including her ancestral countries such as Ireland and Norway. On one such domestic trip, when she was in her late 70s, she crossed the country with a female friend in the woman's purple Corvette convertible.
On arrival in the Pacific Northwest, Mrs. Pfeifer took an interest in horticulture, eventually joining the Des Moines Garden Club, where she made lifelong friends. She continued to work in her extensive outdoor gardens at home into her 90s. An active, independent woman, she only stopped driving her car at age 94, at which point she sold her beloved, four-door 1993 white Ford Taurus for $300 to her great-grandson, Evan, a student at Western Washington University.
Other survivors include five grandchildren, Jenny Rebecca Overstreet, 48, of Everett; Jessica Lee Pfeifer, 47, of Durham, N.C.; Ira Avey Pfeifer, 34, the husband of Krystal Garvin, of London; Ezekiel David Pfeifer, 30, the husband of Anna Bykova, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Amanda Jean Krohn, 29, the wife of Justin Joel Krohn, of Renton; five greatgrandchildren, Mattson John Overstreet, 22, of Bellingham; Evan Robert Overstreet, 20, of Bellingham; Caroline Lee Overstreet, 18, of Seattle; Ruby Dean Alworth, 17, of Durham, and Hannah Jean Krohn, 5, of Renton, and a nephew, James Bott Pfeifer, 69, and his wife, Robynn Louise Zinser, 59, and their daughter, Jade Zinser Pfeifer, 20, all of Little Rock, Ark.
Rosalie H. Pfeifer, who was involved in civic activities and adult education in Kent and Federal Way for more than half a century, died Nov. 6 at home in Kent, her oldest grandchild, Jenny Overstreet, at her side. She was 95 and died of natural causes.
Mrs. Pfeifer died in the family home on the West Hill of Kent. She and her husband, John L. Pfeifer, who died in 1976, built the house in 1963, when the community there, called Green Valley Heights, had dirt streets. The family, which included a son, Jack, and a daughter, Susan, had originally moved to Federal Way in 1960 from Seattle.
The four-bedroom home was filled with the collectibles and vintage clothing, quilts and furniture Mrs. Pfeifer saved over the years and often used in the classes she taught and fashion shows she helped prepare. Among her favorite holdings were ice cream molds, wooden duck decoys, Wedgewood dishes, covered milk-glass dishes, stone cookie molds, beaded purses, nesting dolls, tin chocolate molds, hundreds of cookie cutters, fur Teddy bears; dozens of quilts, some of which were made by herself or her mother, and woven coverlets.
For some two decades, Mrs. Pfeifer staged vintage fashion shows on behalf of Children's Hospital to benefit the hospital's program for uncompensated care. She was a longtime member of the Julien Soule Guild, which assisted in fundraising for the hospital, and she was a founding member of the hospital's thrift store in downtown Kent, where she continued to volunteer every Wednesday for 20 years. A devoted Kent citizen, she was a docent at the Kent Historical Society for a decade and enthusiastically entered every art contest and street-naming competition the city held.
She taught adult education evening classes at Highline Community College on such diverse topics as gem identification, quilting, shoemaking and floral arrangements.
Her community activities were legendary, participating in numerous regional crafts organizations including Green Rippers, which worked with fabric; QA, or Quilters Anonymous; Comforters, and Stitch & Bitch.
As a guest lecturer on her favorite topics, Mrs. Pfeifer appeared around the country regularly. In 1978, on behalf of the Puget Sound Needle Art Guild, she flew to Alaska to make a presentation and work as a judge at a quilt show in Anchorage. She was a regular participant in quilting demonstrations at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup on behalf of QA. She crossed the country to teach a class for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on how to make handmade canvas and leather shoes, and she appeared frequently throughout South King County before church and civic groups.
Mrs. Pfeifer was born Aug. 17, 1920, in the front room of a row house in the Pigtown district of East Baltimore. After half a dozen years in rural Eastern Baltimore County, where her father ran a general store, the family moved to Highlandtown, a humble neighborhood of brick row houses where she lived with her parents and her younger sister, Jean. There she attended public schools and was physically active in many ways, such as ice skating every winter in nearby Patterson Park.
During the Depression, her parents survived on the strength of the seamstress abilities of her mother, Rose, who made wedding dresses and did alterations in the living room. That sewing affinity then was passed on to her daughter, Rosalie, who full name was Frances Rosalie Hastry, in honor of her parents' names, Joseph Francis Hastry and Rose Cook Hastry.
She was in the first graduating class, in 1938, of Eastern High School, a girls-only public school in Baltimore, and then attended the Maryland Institute of Art for two years, studying commercial illustration, a talent she put to use in her own pen-and-ink drawings, many of which hung for years in the family home.
When the war started, Mrs. Pfeifer went to work as a secretary and illustrator for the U.S. Army at Edgewood Arsenal, north of Baltimore, where she met her future husband, John, an Army officer from Arkansas. After a courtship that included outings on the base bowling team, they were married in Ocala, Fla., May 2, 1943. Their son, Jack, 69, and their daughter, Susan, 67, were born as soon as World War II ended. The family moved west to Seattle in 1958 when John took a job with the Boeing Co. With her husband starting his position early, Mrs. Pfeifer drove herself and her two children across the country in the family's red and white Rambler station wagon, a sign affixed to the back window saying, "Baltimore to Seattle with a Rock, Roll and Rattle." On the way, for the first time, the Pfeifer family traversed the famous Route 66.
After the children had left the family home, Mrs. Pfeifer enjoyed traveling around the country - she visited all 50 states - and internationally, including her ancestral countries such as Ireland and Norway. On one such domestic trip, when she was in her late 70s, she crossed the country with a female friend in the woman's purple Corvette convertible.
On arrival in the Pacific Northwest, Mrs. Pfeifer took an interest in horticulture, eventually joining the Des Moines Garden Club, where she made lifelong friends. She continued to work in her extensive outdoor gardens at home into her 90s. An active, independent woman, she only stopped driving her car at age 94, at which point she sold her beloved, four-door 1993 white Ford Taurus for $300 to her great-grandson, Evan, a student at Western Washington University.
Other survivors include five grandchildren, Jenny Rebecca Overstreet, 48, of Everett; Jessica Lee Pfeifer, 47, of Durham, N.C.; Ira Avey Pfeifer, 34, the husband of Krystal Garvin, of London; Ezekiel David Pfeifer, 30, the husband of Anna Bykova, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Amanda Jean Krohn, 29, the wife of Justin Joel Krohn, of Renton; five greatgrandchildren, Mattson John Overstreet, 22, of Bellingham; Evan Robert Overstreet, 20, of Bellingham; Caroline Lee Overstreet, 18, of Seattle; Ruby Dean Alworth, 17, of Durham, and Hannah Jean Krohn, 5, of Renton, and a nephew, James Bott Pfeifer, 69, and his wife, Robynn Louise Zinser, 59, and their daughter, Jade Zinser Pfeifer, 20, all of Little Rock, Ark.

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