Enid Irene Eytel, passed away from cancer on May 30th, 2009. She was 87.

Born July 16th, 1921 to Thelma "Momp" (Lindemann) and Leopold Mueller in Cass County North Dakota, she is survived by three children, seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She will be buried beside Norman Roy, her husband of more than fifty years and their eldest daughter Judith Dianne at Forest Lawn Cemetary.

Enid and Roy met in his home town of Seattle when they were teenagers. Dad was a hoodlum and Mom was a nursing student.

After they met, they were never apart for more than a couple of weeks at a time until my dad died in 1997.

She graduated from South Kitsap High School Port Orchard in 1939.
Both my dad and my momma were natural athletes and loved the outdoors. She was quicker than the wind and twice as ornery. My dad was a bull in a china shop and as strong as any three men. No joke.
Mom used to boast to me a bit about Dad knocking out some guy named Herb who was from Germany in a bar fight when they were young. I didn't know it until much later but it was the same Herbert Runge who won the boxing gold medal in the 1936 olympics. Go figure - my dad took out an olympian. I don't know how old Mr. Runge would have been at the time, but my dad would have been twenty one in 1936.

My mother and father were not allowed to play on the same team at neighborhood baseball games. They had played on the same team once or twice until everyone wised up and realized that they were outnumbered and outclassed any time either one of my parents were around.
Mom was active in track and baseball for most of her life either as a participant or fan. She could run the 50 yard dash in about five seconds. No one could catch her in a footrace even if she wasn't wearing the proper shoes. If she was on base in a baseball game and decided to steal second or third, it was hers.
She followed local sports and liked the Seahawks well enough because dad was a football fan, but the Mariners were her team. She always thought the last game of the World Series should be scheduled for the last Saturday in September each year.

The Eytel family moved to Bremerton in 1956 so that my dad could work in the shipyard and be closer to the ferry in case of emergencies.
My oldest sister Judy required frequent hospital care in Seattle and the ferries used to run on the hour. Judy died from Rheumatic fever when she was 17. I never got to meet her but by all accounts she was something else.
All of Roy and Enids kids went to West Bremerton High School. We didn't hold the fact mom went to South Kitsap against her very much... :)
(I went out with a girl from North Kitsap so the Vikings are ok. East High still sucks even though it no longer exists. They should have kept the Wildcats as the mascot when they combined the East and West Bremerton high schools. Wildcat pride will never die.)

After graduation from South; Enid studied nursing at the University of Washington. Go Huskies.
She decided to forego a career as a nurse to be a full time homemaker, wife and mother. She loved kids and teaching. Our parents taught us to be independant, imaginative and honest. We were brought up in the Lutheran faith and attended Our Savior's Lutheran church in West Bremerton. Everything my sisters and I are today we owe to our parents.
Enid was a good wife to my dad and a wonderful mother and friend to her kids.
We will miss her.