Ronald D. Fawcett's Obituary
Ronald D. Fawcett was a good man who loved his family. He was born in Tacoma, WA on November 16th, 1934 and peacefully passed on October 30th, 2024 at his home in Gig Harbor, WA. Ronald D. Fawcett and Eleanor A. Austermuhl had 4 children, Dianna Harris, Katherine Dumont, Kimberley Agnew & John Scott Fawcett Sr. Later he married Patricia Ann Slater who brought her two children with her, Diane and Duffy. Ronald was a native of Tacoma, he was the great-grandson of former Tacoma Mayor A.V. Fawcett. He was a 1953 graduate of Lincoln High School.
1958 the Tacoma News Tribune featured a photo of the Tacoma all city team Ronald Fawcett played basketball on. He and his teammates were apprentices in the plumbers local 82. The local sponsored the team with their donation of $40. Ronald Fawcett worked for Pease and Sons Plumbing at that time. Their team won the championship of the Tacoma Industrial Tournament in 1958. This was a very tight team of men who not only were doing their apprenticeship together through the local 82 Union, they played ball and continued their friendship during their own time with family camping, fishing, and hunting trips together. They represented the industry well and continued to hold onto the values of being true friends. Ronald held his membership with both the United Association of National Plumbers and Pipefitters, and the State of Washington Plumbers and Pipefitters Union for 70 years.
Ronald was a co-owner of Union Plumbing in Tacoma and later the sole owner of Fawcett Plumbing.
Ronald D. Fawcett was inducted into the Tacoma Hall of Fame and his name had approached legendary status, as tales of his exploits on the softball diamond, gridiron, hockey rink, basketball court, golf course and bowling alley combine to recreate the figure of a man who dominated in virtually every athletic arena.
An athlete from birth, Ron won the Pigskin Pete football throwing competition in his first try at 13 years of age after hearing that the winner would receive a bicycle. He walked to the competition and rode home on his brand new bike, and his legend only grew from there.
Fawcett played for five AAA Northwest League fastpitch teams between the years of 1954 and 1967, and his prowess behind the plate as well as homerun power at the plate helped lead the Clearview Nursing Home team to the Northwest Regional Tournament in Pocatello, Idaho.
Once his softball career was cut short by knee injuries, Fawcett turned his attention to other sports. He played center and right wing for the Thunder Birds hockey team, won numerous motorcycle races and even placed second with golf pro Buzzy Thomas in the 1995 Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament.
Fawcett has also won nine straight Gig Harbor Golf Senior Men's Golf Tournaments, and he also owns the Longest Drive championship. He bowled a 300 game in the Daffodil Bowl Men's League, and caught a 400-lb. blue marlin while deep-sea fishing off the coast of Honolulu in 1975.
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