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Kevin Mark Cornelius
January 28, 1957 † January 27, 2008
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 Kevin
Mark Cornelius Kevin Mark Cornelius, 50, of Spanaway, died January
27, 2008 at Harborview Medical Center. He was born at St. Joseph's
Hospital in Tacoma on January 28, 1957 to William Lester and Agnes
Marie Cornelius (Schaeffer). Kevin attended Visitation School from
1963 to 1971 and graduated from Mount Tahoma High School in 1974. He
joined the Marine Corps in 1976, and after four years switched
services to the Navy. In 1983, Kevin was medically retired from the
Navy due to a brain hemorrhage. He was a Life Member of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans organizations. He
married Marilyn Elizabeth Smith in 1978. They were married for 17
years and had three children. After he was discharged from the Navy,
Kevin worked at Wells Fargo for a few years and then joined the Post
Office, where he worked from 1986 to 1996. Kevin loved square
dancing and met Beth Ann Sanders (Henderson) in 1996 and married her
one year later. He and Beth adopted their grandchild Isabelle Marie
Cornelius in 2002. Kevin is survived by his parents W. Lester and
Agnes Cornelius, his brothers Michael (Debbie) Cornelius and Joseph
(Gail) Cornelius, his sister Deanna (Bonnie) Cornelius, his wife
Beth, his children: Amy (Robert) DeMarco (Cornelius), Allison
Cornelius, and Michael Cornelius, his step children Jayme Hodel
(Sanders), Todd Sanders, and April Knesal (Sanders), and many other
relatives and friends. The funeral service will be held at Our Lady
Queen of Heaven, Sat., Feb. 2, 2008 at 11:30 A M. The graveside
service will be held at Tahoma National Cemetery, Mon., Feb. 4, 2008
at 11:15 a.m. Service directed by Weeks' Dryer Mortuary. |
Published in the News Tribune (Tacoma) on
1/31/2008. |
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Cornelius
Guest Book |
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February
25, 2008 |
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Dear dad,
I miss you a lot. Not a day goes by that I don't think of you.
Every time I look up at the sky I know your looking back at me.
I always looked up to you as a role model. You lived life the
way everyone in the world should of. Even though your gone you
still live on in my and everyone's hearts who love and care
about you. So all I want to say is I love you and I always
will forever. SEMPER FI DAD, SEMPER FI. |
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Mike Cornelius
(East Hartford, CT)
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February
25, 2008 |
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Uncle Kevin - I love and
miss you so much every day. You were the most kindest and
gentlest man I have ever met. You touched the lives of
everyone that knew you. I have described you as "The Salt of
the Earth". You were the most unselfish man I have ever met,
I will always love and miss you. |
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Melissa
(Cornelius) Pruitt (Boise, ID)
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February 7,
2008 |
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Daddy,
I miss you more than words can describe. Whenever I see a
rainbow, I know you're there. I love you very, very, very
much.
Love,
Amy |
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Amy DeMarco
(Jacksonville, FL) |
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February 6,
2008 |
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Uncle Kev- You will be
missed by every person who met you. You are the sweetest man
on the face of this earth. You loved and helped people your
entire life and even your death helped so many people. I love
you so much and I will try to be a better person because of
you. I miss you!
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Jennifer
(Cornelius) Newman (Clackamas, OR)
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February 5,
2008 |
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Uncle Kevin... you were
the sweetest and most kind man I ever knew. You never failed
to make every person you met feel special and loved. Your life
was a great one that touched many many others. We all love and
miss you something awful and always will. You are our heart.
God Bless you uncle Kev and thank God for giving us such a
gift. |
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Whitney Cornelius
(Tacoma, WA) |
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February 2,
2008 |
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Dear Beth and family---It
was always a joy to dance with Kevin, he was such a caring and
polite young man. I know you will be missing him very much.
Our heartfelt thoughts of sympathy are with you today and in
the days to come. Willis Dodge and Kathy Christensen. |
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(Tacoma
Washington)
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February 2,
2008 |
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Though we never had the
opportunity to meet Kevin, the DeMarco family, in Denver,
sends our love and prayers to his family. We love you Amy and
all your family. |
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Jennifer DeMarco
(Denver, CO)
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February 2,
2008 |
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My dear friend, many
years have passed since the school days at Visitation and
Mount Tahoma where we were classmates. The times Ken Kron, You
and I would get together and those times we would serve Mass
as alter boys at Visitation are fresh in my memory. Then we
grew up, got married and lived our separate lives. We kept in
touch by E-mail. You, Joe and Dee came over to visit Myrtle
and I on 11/21/2006. We sat up and talked of old times. I was
so touched by last E-mail you sent me "Twinkies and Rootbeer"
that I looked up the pictures I took of You, Joe and Dee when
you came to visit us last thinking we ought to get together
again. I never would of believed our next get together would
be at the Celebration of Your Life. We'll talk again in
prayer. You'll know it's me and some day I'll see you when I
come home. God Bless you my friend. May the Peace of Our Lord
Be With You Always. |
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Bob Pensworth
(Port Angeles, WA) |
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February 1,
2008 |
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Kevin was a high school
friend and a part of our square dance family. He is missed
already. Lots of hugs to his family from me. |
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Nadine (Sandvold)
Lewtas (University Place, WA)
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February 1,
2008 |
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My deepest sympathy to
all those who knew and loved Kevin. He was such a gentle man
and was always glad to see you. He will be greatly missed.
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Sayra Hill
(Auburn, WA)
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January
31, 2008 |
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My deepest sympathy
to the family of Kevin especially Liz and Bev.
I've enjoyed Kevin as a leader in Awana on Wednesday
nights. He was committed to sharing the good news to Liz
and boys and girls like her that God love them . He will
be miss. |
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Allen Hall
(Tacoma, WA)
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January
31, 2008 |
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My condolences to the
family in your loss of Kevin. He was a patient of mine at
the American Lake VA dental Clinic and I was always
pleased to see his name on my appointment schedule. He was
a gentle man and a gentleman. I was privileged to have
known him Please be patient with yourselves in your
healing. |
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Peggy Myers
(Tacoma, WA)
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