Michele K. (McConnell) Boyle

Michele K. (McConnell) Boyle, 68, a resident of Ocean Shores, Wash., died on March 26, 2009, at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, Wash. Michele died from complications due to strokes and heart attacks.

She was born and raised in Seattle. She received a full scholarship to Forest Ridge Convent School for girls and later attended Washington State University and Seattle University. In 1960, she married Michael Boyle. The couple lived in Seattle until 1963, when they moved to Moses Lake, where Michael and his brother Bill owned and operated Boyles’ Plaza Supermarket and later, the Fogcutter restaurant. In 1978, she moved to Bellevue, Wash., where Michael worked for the Boeing Company for 25 years. In 2005, they moved to Ocean Shores and have resided there since.

She has been active in her church and has written numerous poems and songs in the past several years. Michele loved people and had a gift to be able to listen and help people with their problems. She will be missed by all who knew her.

Surviving relatives include her husband Michael Boyle of Ocean Shores, Wash.; sons, Terry of Federal Way, Wash., and Stephen of Thornton, Colo.; a daughter Laurie of Las Gatos, Calif.; 11 grandchildren and a sister Sharon of Bellevue, Wash. Numerous cousins reside in the Puget Sound area. Her parents, Ross and Ethel McConnell, her son Patrick, a brother Brian and a grandchild died previously.

A funeral mass was held at 11 a.m., on Wednesday, at St. Jerome Catholic Church in Ocean Shores, Wash. A rosary preceded the mass at 10:30 a.m. Interment will be at 10 a.m., on Thursday, at Holyrood Cemetery in Shoreline, Wash.

Arrangements are by the Coleman Mortuary in Hoquiam, Wash. Please take a few moments to record your thoughts? for the family by signing the online register at www.colemanmortuary.net.