Charles Allen Ptolemy, Sr.

Doris S. Ptolemy

The lives and deaths of Doris and Charles “Allen” Ptolemy, Sr. will be honored by friends and family April 12, 2012. Allen passed away on March 31 at age 98. Doris at age 99 has been gone almost a year: April 2, 2011. They were married for 64 years.Allen was born May 31, 1913 in Seattle, first son of Hugh and Mary Ptolemy. He served in the Army Air Corp during WWII. His work years were at several local wholesale paper companies. Doris was born in South Dakota and graduated from Roosevelt HS in Seattle. She worked for Group Health for 28 years. Doris and Allen were married February 21, 1947. He brought a son and a daughter into the new family; she brought two daughters. They both retired and spent many happy years in their travel trailer and wintered in Hemet, California and Yuma, Arizona. Several winters were also spent in Kona, Hawaii.The Ptolemy’s are remembered by their children: Shirley (Jim) Groom; Charles Ptolemy Jr., Judi Raymond, and Jean (Larry) Bonzer. They have 11 grandchildren, many great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Memories will be shared on April 12, 2012 at the Tahoma National Cemetery at 2:45 p.m. Remembrances may be made to Group Health Hospice Foundation at P.O. Box 34015, Seattle, WA 98124.