Paul Reagan

Paul Reagan

Paul Ellsworth Reagan, 75, of Seattle, Wash., died Feb. 5, 2009, in Highline Community Hospital, Burien, Wash.

Paul was born Dec. 29, 1933, in Deer Lodge to Rev. John F. and Irene M. Reagan. He was their first child.

He graduated from Whitefish High School in 1952 and attended Rocky Mountain College, in Billings.

Paul served in the Navy aboard the U.S.S. Genesee, a fuel tanker, which was stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It most frequently serviced the islands of Entiwetok and Kwajalein.

He worked for Great Northern Railway also many years in construction, installing marble and granite on commercial buildings and homes in the Seattle area.

Paul and Virginia Cyr were married Dec. 26, 1955, in Kalispell. They later divorced. Of that union, two children were born, Kathy Ann and Michael John.

Paul and Freda “Duffy” Pomeroy Carlson were married June 6, 1995. She preceded him in death Sept. 17, 2003.

He is survived by daughter Kathy Lewis and her children Kyle and Dillon, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; his son Michael McKinley and his wife Shari and their son Trevor, of Coeur d’Alene; his wife Freda’s children Anita Smith and Valerie Smith, of Seattle, and Jonni Gabel, of Federal Way, Wash., and her son D.J. Rust, of Burien, Wash.; his sisters Lynette Randall and husband Howard, of Nye, Norma Reagan, of Seattle, and Marilyn Williams and husband John, of Helena; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.