Phyllis M. McMullen died Dec.18, 2004, with her daughter and four granddaughters by her side at Vashon Community Care Center. She was 93 years old.

Mrs. McMullen was born Nov. 10, 1911, in Davenport, Iowa, to Lawrence L. and Daisy LaRae Donnelly.

She married George W. Hayes in Chicago, Ill., and they had two children, Robert L. and Sandra D. Hayes. After the marriage ended, she moved to Los Angeles in 1943 where she worked as a “Rosie the Riveter” and then as a waitress at MGM Studios and fine restaurants in Los Angeles. She ran a bus stop cafe near Blythe, Calif., until 1946. She then moved to Santa Fe, N.M. where she met and married Eddie Gallagher. They moved to Seattle where she worked at the restaurant at the Roosevelt Hotel.

In 1951 they moved to Anchorage, Alaska. She worked at the Charter Room at the Westward Hotel for many years. She also lived in Juneau, Kodiak and Homer.

Mrs. McMullen worked for the Salvation Army as a social services visitor from 1985. In 1994 she moved to Vashon Island to be near her daughter. She lived at the Charter House apartments.

Survivors include her children Robert Hayes of Dallas, Ore., Sandra and her husband Gene Johnson of Vashon; grandchildren Jeremy Johnson of Vashon, Cindy (Martin) Hachle-Piccolo of Brussels, Belgium, Michael Snyder of West Seattle, Susan and her husband Craig Husa of Fall City, Laura and her husband Dan Tabish of Spokane, Debbie and her husband Doyle Pegram, Jackie and her husband Donnie Miller, Mark and his wife Rhonda Snyder, Linda and her husband Benny Ruiz, all of Othelo, Wash.; Nathan and Tyler and his wife Demaris Lahrum of Hawaii, Pamela and her husband Alan Johnson and Michelle Mulles of Calif., and Karin and her husband Tim McMahon of Colorado, and 14 grandchildren and 27 greatgrandchildren and 11 great- great- grandchildren.

At her request there will be no funeral service. Her ashes will be scattered in Alaska. There also will be a plaque at Vashon Cemetery in her memory. There was a remembrance service with family members on New Year’s Day in Othello.

Memorials in her name may be made to Vashon Island Pet Protectors or a charity or cause meaningful to the giver.