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Genevieve Taylor was born January 30th, 1920 to Claude and Maude Taylor in St. Paul Minnesota. She did not come into the world easily. Her father left for a while during her birth, then returned and said, “Well, has ‘Jiggs’ arrived yet?” The nickname (after Maggie and Jiggs, who was always causing trouble in the funny papers) stuck for her lifetime. In fact, she rarely recognized the name Genevieve. In her youth, she organized her own campfire troop, walked “3 miles to school and 3 miles back, then walked another 3 miles in the other direction to go ice skating.” She got up at 5:00 each morning to do what homework she had rather than miss skating at night. She had a pretty free reign to do as she pleased. On the 4 days her father was home, she chose not to date rather than disappoint him by missing a curfew. Instead she stayed home until his next train shift (6 days on, 4 days off). On that day, she was dressed under her robe and as he went out the front door, she went out the back door, and headed for the Hippodrome for more skating. Her father worked as a chef on the Union Pacific Railroad and her mother was the homemaker. Each summer she, her sister Irene, and her Mom would travel from St. Paul to Spokane or Seattle where her mother helped her brother raise his 10 kids through the summer. She referred to them as her “summer brothers”. In 1938, she graduated from Central High School in St. Paul Minnesota and then went to business college to prepare for working life. Shortly after graduating, Claude abruptly sold the house and within two weeks they were headed to Seattle, leaving behind her treasured possessions, friends and a carefree life. At first, they all lived in an apartment and later they bought a home on Sunset Hill overlooking Shilshole Bay. It was an abrupt transition from a care-free life filled with friends, to a new life with no friends, a job at Rhodes Department Store, and the threat of war. She met Sherwood Collman at a party in West Seattle, they dated, he was called for the draft and due to report, so they hastily married in 1941. He headed off to war but got no further than the draft office where he was declared 4-F and sent back home. It was a bit of a shock to this new bride who expected to continue the free life. Jiggs and Sher bought a home in Lake City, in a logged over neighborhood totally devoid of trees and miles away from town and her parents. She started a garden and raised chickens to supplement the budget. It was a neighborhood of stables, so she’d gather the horse “biscuits” for her garden after the horses passed by. It has been told that Mom didn’t know how to cook. Dad made the mistake of saying he liked her peanut butter & jam sandwiches, so he ate P B&J sandwiches in his lunch every day for year. Mom had been told she wouldn’t be able to have kids, so it was a surprise to suddenly be pregnant. Sharon arrived April 20th, 1943 and later Lorie arrived January 15, 1947. Because Mom was somewhat isolated with only a few neighbors, Sharon’s baby books are filled with conversations to the unborn baby: “Your aunt Irene brought you a new baby blanket today to keep you warm when you arrive.” Lorie arrived four years later, in her baby book there were fewer conversations but there were lots of pictures. Photography and developing black and white photos in the basement became a passion for a while. As children we posed for the annual handmade Christmas cards. Jiggs adapted and kept busy. She was creative and enjoyed crafts. She and a new friend made stenciled cloth books with little animals on every page for their children, painted ceramic dishware. When we grew older, we took a bus to the Seattle Art Museum, Woodland Park Zoo and often the beach at Golden Gardens, Carkeek and Juanita Parks. Mom was involved in PTA, then Brownies and Girl Scouts. I most remember trips to the beach, learning to swim in horridly cold water at 8am, trips and picnics in parks. There were 10 or 12 Brownies and Girl Scouts that met in Dad’s workshop with its potbelly stove to keep us warm. Later they got involved as a team in the new St. Matthew’s Catholic Parish where they chaired the annual Bazaar, became leaders in the Catholic Youth Organization. They had roles in the church play called “Poochie’s Place”. Not one to shy away from work she won awards from the Girl Scouts and Archdiocese in Seattle for her leadership. Over the years Mom continued to garden, and Dad built things. Together they added onto their bedroom, added a large living room to the house and converted the old living room into a hallway, bedroom and dining room, mixed cement for a patio and driveway and other home improvements. He remodled the garage and invited her Mom’s mother to come to live with them, then told Jiggs. Time marched on: Lorie married Don Lyman in 1971 in the family living room; grandkids arrived, and Mom and Dad became more involved with taking their grandkids (Donnie, Doug and Dale) on outings, attending sports games and school plays. When Dad opened his plumbing shop, Mom decided that if she had to be there to answer the phone, she might as well open a craft shop. She taught art classes for Pat and Bobbie’s Crafts and Floral, including classes at the Seattle Center. In her shop, she taught resin arts, pouring molds for grapes and lamps and making glass and resin wall décor. Later when resin prices soared, she and Lorie started a consignment shop and made things to sell. They bought property outside of Tacoma at Long Branch above Taylor Bay. This started the years of building the cabin with Don and Lorie. At first there was just a shed for tools. Next came the flooring for the cabin “to-be” with just the roofed bathroom in one corner. Over the years they added living and bed rooms and roof, and a second story, decks and balcony until it became a small house. They spent hours walking the beach together, dragging home “drift lumber” and driftwood for fencing and siding, and driftwood for decoration. One day, Mom saw a woman carrying some gorgeous wood from the Lake City Library struck up a conversation about the wood. Thus, she met her soul-sister Jeanette Cline and became 1962 Charter Members of the LuRon Method Driftwood Sculpture group and began taking classes. Dad got interested and joined as well. Together with the Clines, they sought out gnarled twisted driftwood on their beach and travelled to beaches further afield. They scraped and cleaned the wood down to the underlying grain, polished the wood with antler, then oiled and polished the pieces with their hands till it had a fine luster. To showcase the works and recruit new students they worked on a Driftwood Sculpture Show each May. Throughout their lives, Mom and Dad were a team in so many of their activities, organizations and projects. After Dad died in January, 1989, Mom began decorating St. Marks Church with floral arrangements. Not one to do a minimal job, she found helpers and they filled the church with a stunning display of arrangements and flower each week. She also became active in the Lake Forest Park Garden Club and a St. Marks Church Guild and joined the North American Rock Garden Society with Sharon. She continued gardening. In spring the corner of her lot became a neighborhood destination for its colorful exuberance of spring flowers. It wasn’t until she hit her nineties that she began to slow down. She was showing the signs of early dementia. Keeping up the garden was harder, she relinquished decorating the church to others, but she continued to be an active member of the garden club and driftwood club and kept up with friends. Sharon moved in with her in about 1992, so she could stay in her home; and took her to some driftwood classes at the local senior center and lunches at Richmond Beach and Carkeek Parks where Mom could see the boats and water she loved. In about 2010, she moved into Aegis Memory Care where they had lots of activities to forestall increasing dementia, then in 2016 she moved into the Madrona Place Senior Care family home in Edmonds where she was well cared for and easy to visit. She passed peacefully in her sleep on the Winter Solstice, Dec. 21, 2018. She crammed a good deal into her 98 (almost 99 years) on this earth and I like to think that her husband Sherwood, and perhaps her mother, father, sister, grandson and summer brothers who passed before her, greeted her as she left this earthly life. She will be greatly missed by her daughters Sharon Collman, and Lorie Lyman, and Lorie’s husband Don and grandsons Dale Lyman and Donnie. But we are comforted by the gift of many happy memories of our time together.

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