Donnie Don Ray Baucom
February 1, 1940 - October 2, 2010
Obituary
Donnie Don Ray was born Feb 1, 1940 in Oklahoma City, Okla. to
Elzy Franklin and Jessie Dean Baucom. He was the youngest of four, a brother Sonny, a
sister, Patricia Faye, and a brother, Vernon Dale.
At the age of seventeen Don moved to Seattle, WA with his parents, where
he began working at Boldt’s-Boeing cafeteria, plant #2 and making his home in Georgetown, WA.
Oct, 1957 he met Charlene, the love of his life, they were united
in marriage on June 24, 1961. Their marriage was blessed with the arrival of their
two sons, Jeffrey Alan born March 31, 1963 and Randall Lee born April 4, 1964.
Making their home in the Burien, WA and in 1972 moving to Des Moines, WA. He took
interest in supporting the boy’s sporting events and also was a little league coach.
Don began his employment with Water District #20 in 1969 and retired
in the summer of 1998 with 30 years of service. Don and Charlene started attending Midway Christian Center of Kent, Wa March, 1989.
Regularly attending Don enjoyed worship and fellowship with his church family.
Don and Charlene joined the Shindigger’s Square Dance Club actively
dancing, clubbing, traveling, having fun at every twirl and especially loving the
lasting friendships.
Don has enjoyed his twelve years of retirement spending time with his
grandchildren, Ashlee, Austin, and Alyssa, extended family Kameron, Kyle, Keaton, Michael,
Keilani, Keilee, Justyce, and God-daughter Sina. He attended their sporting events, taking
them to the ocean, and going to school events. He stayed busy in his retirement
maintaining his home in Des Moines, WA and summer home in Cle Elum, WA. He enjoyed eating
out and especially visiting with his friends at Huckleberry Square Restaurant. He joined the
Y.M.C.A. last fall and found that exercise was not so bad, when you were
exercising your social skills and visiting with friends instead of working out.
One of his his favorite pastime was visiting the ‘Muckleshoot Casino’ and talking about it afterwards.
Don is survived by his wife Charlene, son’s Randy and Jeff and daughter-in-law Kelly,
grandchildren Ashlee, Austin, and Alyssa and nieces Karen and Marcie, nephew’s Stanton and Scott with extended family of
great nieces, and nephews.
Charlene&Family
We are so sorry for your loss,I will miss Don,but will always think of him when I am at the QFC store,and remember all the fun times we had at the Water District.with Love Dick&Shelley Swaab
I will miss Don so much… his smile and his funny comments – always giving my dad a hard time… he was just too funny! And he had such a good heart even though he made Charlene move rocks! What a good man. The world really has lost an absolute joy. I’m very sad at his passing…
Charlene and family,
We were heartbroken to hear of Don’s passing – he will be greatly missed. Randy so enjoyed working with Don at the Water District, and it was wonderful to visit your family as all of our sons grew up. Don’s great sense of humor kept everyone entertained and laughing. He was a wonderful friend and we are saddened at his passing, but celebrate the many years of friendship. Love and best wishes, Randy and Diane Mullinax, Tony and Adam