BARBARA TESCHER RICHARDS Obituary (1915

BARBARA TESCHER RICHARDS Barbara Tescher Richards, 86, a resident of Bremerton for the last 61 years, died in the Harrison Hospital on May 21, 2002. She was born on November 18, 1915, in Perkins County, South Dakota, to her parents Roll Evert and Grace Lula (McClain) Tescher. She completed her training in nursing at Holy Rosary Hospital in Miles City, Montana, in 1936. She married Earl E. Richards on June 9, 1939, in Deer Lodge, Montana. He died in 1982. Mrs Richards had worked as a Registered Nurse at the Harrison Hospital , retiring after 35 years. She had served as the head of Obstetrics Department there during World War II. She was a member of the Retired Nurses Association at the Harrison Hospital and volunteered at St. Vincent de Paul. She had also been a member of Our Lady Star of The Sea Catholic Church for 61 years, since living in the Bremerton area, and participated in the Young Ladies Institute at the Church. Her interests included playing bingo and she loved to collect antiques whereever she went. She is survived by her two daughters, Valerie Barnes, and her husband, Jim, of Poulsbo, Washington; Vicki Gudgeirsson, and her husband, Paul, of San Clemente, California; Three brothers, Lee, Rolland J. and Irwin Tescher; a sister, Eula Hallman, of Poulsbo, Washington; four grandchildren, Sean Corey, Shelly Fragiao, Christine McLaughlin and Kevin Gudgeirsson; and three great grand children, Griffin Fragiao, Hunter McLaughlin and Thorunn McLaughlin. She was preceded in death by brothers, Gerald, John, and Jim Tescher and by a sister, Thelma Fenelon. A rosary service will be said at 10:30 am, on Friday, May 24, 2002, at Our Lady Star of the Seas Catholic Church, 1516 Fifth Avenue, Bremerton, Washington. The Mass of Christian Burial will be following the Rosary at the church at 11:00 am. Interment and the Graveside service will follow at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Bremerton, Washington. Memorial donations may be made to Harrison Hospital Foundation, 2520 Cherry Avenue, Bremerton, Washington, 9831-, or to the American Diabetes Foundation, Washington Affiliate, 557 Roy St, Lower Level, Seattle, Washington, 98109-4219. arrangements entrusted to the Lewis Funeral Chapelm Bremerton, Washington.