Birth date: Jan 19, 1936 Death date: Jan 9, 2016
Donald Henry Ost Sr., 79 of Spanaway Washington went to Heaven peacefully, Saturday, January 9th at 7:50PM at Tacoma General Hospital. A celebration of life service will be held at 2:30PM, Saturday, January 23rd at Mountain View M Read Obituary
We miss you Uncle Don💛💛💛
🕊️Rest in Heaven🕊️
I can remember one get together when all of the kids were playing in a back bedroom and then we heard Uncle Don had arrived, he was greeted with a screaming chorus of “Uncle Don! Uncle Don!” How we enjoyed his stories and how he enjoyed entertaining family with songs like his famous “sasquatch song”. He was a talented man, artistic and musical. In his little shed out back of his house, he made knives and hatchets, carved ducks and boats and next to his house he tended his little garden. Uncle Don was also an avid outdoorsman that loved fishing, hunting (or as I like to call it “napping-under-a-tree-until-its-time-to-go-home”) and rambling. He taught me how to shoot on one of those rambling adventures and had fun teasing and scaring me the entire day. What I wouldn’t give for just one more day like that, a day full of laughter and sunshine; time to ride the back roads in search of hidden potatoes and stop for a snack of cocktail shrimp and Hershey’s bars.
Yes, we all share a treasure trove of memories that we now hold dear. Moments in time that were made all the more special by him. Uncle Don passed onto glory January 9, 2016 after spending the last days of his life surrounded by loved ones. And while I grieve, while we grieve together, over our loss of such an individual I am comforted by the knowledge that he has joined the ranks of our departed ancestors in heaven. I will keep Uncle Don in my heart and remember his humor and I may even start planting potatoes in the woods so I can go rambling in hunt of them.
Great memories of you Dad, cowboy coffee on the Mountain....Love Donald Ost II and family
I will always love you Daddy...Dee Dee Davis....Morganton, North Carolina
My precious brother, Don, I cherish the memories I have of you. We all loved your guitar playing and goofy songs of sasquatch! You gave me so much joy. I loved walking with you around your neighborhood, listening to your stories, going ramblin'with you, and even stopping in unexpectedly and sharing your yummy roast. I'm thankful for the letters you did write to me...how I will miss that. Katie, thank you for your care thru' the years of my precious brother, Denny also. To be absent in the body is to be present with the Lord...our hope. One more...when he was in the army he came home on leave and gave me, his little sister, a silver ring with two hearts on it...oh, what a proud time for me....still have it too. <3
