Nancy died in an accident in Hawaii on January 16, 1981. She was in an appliance store in Waimea on the island of Kauai when she opened the store refrigerator and it fell off a platform and onto he...

John O’Neill, 25, of Bellevue, died on December 7, 1980 in Okinawa. O’Neill had been serving in the U.S. Air Force at the time. The cause of death was not available.

Kathy died of a drug overdose in Texas on November 5, 1980.

Martin died in a late night car accident near the Puyallup River Bridge on July 14, 1980. He was headed northbound on Interstate 5 when he was hit by two cars, one of which was a drunk driver going...

Peggy had just rented a house in Bellevue when it caught fire the last day of January, 1980. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center where she died of her injuries a week later, on February 6, 1...

Rick died in a snorkeling accident in Hawaii in the late 70’s or early 80’s.

David Keys was a reading assistant at Interlake in the early 70’s. He passed away in the early 80’s.

Jim passed away in the late ’70s

Edward was killed in an auto accident in August of 1979. The car he was driving left the road and hit a tree.

Pam died on April 2, 1979, which was in the middle of her junior year at Interlake. A page dedicated to her was printed in the 1979 IHS yearbook, and can be found below.

Beloved sister to Scott & Kelly Sumner. Awesome daughter to Gail & Gordon Sumner. Julie wanted to sail around the world before attending college. She was on a trimaran journey with her boyf...

Bob died in a car accident in 1979. He is buried in Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Bellevue.

Friso (who some people knew as Cisco) died of cystic fibrosis during his senior year of high school, on October 8, 1978. In his honor, a tree was planted in the memorial garden with his name on it....

At Interlake, Jim was the captain of the undefeated Kingco champion golf team. He died after a motorcycle accident near Redmond in October of 1978.

Kirk died in a skydiving accident on July 23, 1978, the summer after his sophomore year, when both his parachutes malfunctioned over the Issaquah Parachute Center. He was only 16 years old. In hono...

Charlie died in a car accident on the same day he graduated from college. He passed away on June 16, 1978. Sadly, his sister Nancy also died in an accident, two and a half years later. She is also...

Steve was involved in a car accident on Sunday, February 12, 1978. He was a passenger in a vehicle that hit a patch of ice, and spun out of control and into a tree. He died in Overlake Hospital thr...

Jim, who broke the all time Kingco football rushing record his senior year at Interlake, was on a six-month Naval deployment to Spain and the Portuguese Azore Islands when he died in a plane crash ...

Pete died in a boating accident on Lake Sammamish the day before Halloween, on October 30, 1977. There is a memorial dedicated to him at Marymoor Park.

Dick Warner was a popular history and social studies teacher at Interlake from the late 60’s through the mid 70’s. He once even played the lead in the IHS stage production of “The Man of La Mancha....

Matthew died in Renton on March 26, 1976. He was a passenger in a car and he died when the driver got into an accident. Matt was 17 years old.

William was killed in a car accident in Pittsburgh in February of 1976.

John committed suicide in Ivanhoe Park in Bellevue on June 21, 1975, which was soon after he graduated from Interlake. See the comments below for more info from his sister.

June was married and she worked in dentistry She died very unexpectedly of blood poisoning, sometime in the mid 70s.

Stephen died on December 19, 1974. He was 22 years old.