Earl B. Seaman was born July 14, 1928, the second child of Hazel (Booream) Seaman and Earl Seaman, in Milltown, New Jersey. Raised in Milltown and summering on the family farm in upstate New York, he was enriched by the extraordinarily close, three-generational relationships of the family. These have endured to this day and the reminiscing never has ceased to be vibrant, drawing those who joined the family more recently into the enchantment of it all. Gatherings never escaped “Earl’s stories,” which are being retold with love and delight in his absence.

Following mid-year graduation from high school, Earl served in the U.S. Coast Guard for the remaining few months of World War II. He then studied Architecture and Business Administration at Seaton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, following which he joined his father’s architecture and construction firm. Together they

designed and built a large number of homes, including one which brought special pleasure as a House and Garden House of the Year.

Subsequent to his father’s death, Earl and his young family relocated to the Bay Area following his close cousin Hazel and her husband, Earl’s longtime friend Donald Kiser, and their children. In 1970

Earl moved to the Seattle area, having been recruited to a new position.

While his greatest joy and pride were clearly his family, his four children and four grandchildren, he also found deep satisfaction in his professional accomplishments. A myriad of highly regarded tributes to his vision and excellence remaining for posterity, a remarkable body of work including new construction and renovation: high-rise buildings, historical preservation projects reflecting the highest levels of integrity, and homes of great beauty that grace the landscape from New Jersey to Tacoma and Oregon. Compelling

projects stand in California and Hawaii and reach to Bellevue. In Seattle award-winning renovations and

reuse of historic properties in Pioneer Square spearheaded the recapturing of that area, and in Tacoma, further redevelopment of notable old buildings occurred.

In the Bay Area, Earl was in management with The David D. Bohannon Organization, Haas and Haney Corporation and Dillingham Land Corporation. He left California to become Assistant to the President of Howard S. Wright Construction Company and later worked for Lincoln Property Company. In 1973 he founded Heritage Group, Ltd., followed by The Berkshire Group, both of which left us with Earl’s legacies in Seattle and Tacoma.

Earl’s sporting activity was politics. He was actively engaged in politics from a very young age, having served as precinct committee chairman, in county delegations, playing key roles in the campaigns of state candidates and attending national conventions.

Earl loved design, traditions, beauty in every category, travel and engaging in the cultures of one’s world, automobiles, the arts, reading, and the dynamics of the political process. He was known for possessing an ardent interest in whatever and whomever he encountered and was a devotee of lifelong learning.

A man who was captivated by people and the world around him in turn captivated all who knew him. His unabashed delight in connecting with people was transparent. Friendships were meaningful and abiding to him. His humor and his wit were both legendary and absolutely reliable. One could watch as the twinkle in his eyes increased, reflecting his penchant for reinterpreting what was being heard into something magically humorous. And at just the key moment he would share this to the unfailing delight of all. His warmth was unforgettable. He was enormously talented and completely gentle. These traits were enveloped by the purest of integrity, sincerity, acceptance and unending compassion – for all people and creatures. Earl’s principles were based on tolerance for all, and he imparted this premise by example every day. He was a love story.

Earl was preceded in death by his parents, his sister June Kuhlthau, and his cousin Hazel Kiser.

He is survived by those he loved so deeply, his wife Patricia Seaman of Vashon Island, children

Mark Seaman (Shelley Hauser) of San Anselmo, California, Jill Allen of Seattle, Jeff Seaman of Bellevue, and Alexandra Seaman of Vashon Island, as well as his four treasured grandchildren: Melissa Seaman, Kendra Seaman, John Allen and Jennifer Allen. Further beloved survivors include his niece Lynn Thompson of Florida and his cousins on the East Coast.

To honor Earl’s life, the “Earl B. Seaman Memorial Fund” has been established to augment the

continued education of his youngest child. The donation account is at US Bank of Washington,

PD-WA-3318, P. O. Box 428, Vashon, WA 98070 or one may contact any US Bank. Also dear to

Earl’s heart was the American Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

An online guest book may be visited at www.islandfuneral.com.

The service in tribute to Earl’s life will be Saturday, July 30, 11:00 a.m., at the Church of Saint Patrick, 1001 North ‘J’ Street, Tacoma, Washington.