Jean Louise (Morgan) Sceva
Jean passed away on Thursday, March 19, 2009 at Steven’s Hospital, just a few weeks before her 91st birthday, after suffering a massive stroke on Wednesday.
Jean was born April 8, 1918 in Seattle to David M. Morgan and Hazel E. (Monsey) Morgan. Her grandfather started the Northern Life Insurance Company with his brother and built the Northern Life Tower (now called the Seattle Tower) in downtown Seattle. She grew up in Seattle spending time in both the Ballard and Mount Baker neighborhoods and graduated from Franklin High School. She attended the University of Washington and was a member of the Sigma Kappa Sorority.
She married Paul H. Sceva, Jr. in the early 1950s and lived for a while with him in Spokane. where she had a daughter in 1956. She got divorced in 1958, and moved back to Seattle where she lived in Magnolia until 1974.
As a child she spent much time at Sandy Point near Langley on Whidbey Island, coming there for the first time in 1927. She remembered riding the ferry, which at that time, left from Everett, stopped at the dock at Sandy Point to unload foot passengers only, and then went on to Langley. She had many memories of fun times at Sandy Point as a child with her sisters and cousins.
Later, she would spend more time at Sandy Point in the early 1960s when her father leased a cabin for his four daughters and their families to use.
She was fortunate to be able to purchase a place of her own at Sandy Point in 1967 and spent summers and weekends there with her daughter, Melanie, until Melanie graduated from high school in 1974. At that time, she sold her house in Magnolia and moved permanently to Sandy Point where she lived alone, but with frequent visits and much help from her daughter, for the rest of her life.
She is survived by her daughter, Melanie (Kelvin) Hill, and granddaughter Kassandra A. Hill of Clinton; sisters Ruth Morgan Sceva, and Barbara Bedayan of Seattle, and Dorothy Caldwell of Mercer Island; nieces Julie Harry, Diane Hyder, Randi Nelson, Lisa Bartelli, Denise Paley, Troy Tissue, Robin Noel Gibbs and nephew Ross Gibbs; and many cousins.
Donations may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation or a charity of your choice. There will be no formal services, but there will be a celebration of her life at a later date.
