Andrew (Andy) L. BARONE 8/13/1930 ~ 7/20/2009 A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Andy attended the local schools where he graduated from Balboa High School and San Francisco Junior College. He volunteered for service in the US Army. Having shown a potential for leadership, he was chosen to attend OCS Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Following graduation and a short assignment in the US, he was assigned to an Engineer Aviation Battalion in Korea as a part of the Special Category Army with Air Force (SCARWAF). Andy returned to California in 1953. Upon release from active duty, he attended Healds Engineering College where he majored in Architectural Engineering. About this time he met and married Patricia Casey. In 1954 he took employment with Union Oil of California in the Engineering Department as an architectural draftsman. He remained with Unocal for the next 30 plus years in various positions with the Engineering, Maintenance and Construction Departments; and, retired from UNOCO as Northwest Division Environmental Engineer in 1992. He continued his engineering talents with Charles Gove & Associates for several years before finally retiring. Having fallen in love with the sea as a teenager in the Sea Scouts in San Francisco, as soon as UNOCO transferred him to Seattle, he started looking for a sailboat. Having owned several small day sailors in the Bay Area, he graduated to the Baroness, a Coronado 25 and joined the Edmonds Yacht Club. With a growing family and his sights set on longer cruising, he traded the Baroness for a Columbia 30, Stormalong. He led his family into active sailing in the area where they were named Boating Family of the Year in 1978. Andy was elected Commodore of the Edmonds Yacht Club in 1980. He led his family on sailing vacations north to Desolation Sound and west to Barkley Sound and finally a trip around Vancouver Island. In the meantime, he sailed the Straits of Georgia and Swiftsure races several times with fellow Edmonds sailors. Looking farther afield, he went sailing several times in the Caribbean and the Aegean Sea. A natural born builder, Andy designed or directed remodels on his children's homes. In his later years, he directed some of his energy to gardening in his home in Bear Creek. Andy is survived by his wife of 56 years, Patricia and his children Carol Greetan (Wallace), Arlene Buetow (Bayard), Ellen Schoonover (Jeff), David Barone (Theresa) and Sheila Barone as well as grandchildren and great grandchildren. The family would like to express their appreciation to his Bear Creek neighbors and the wider community for their endless acts of kindness, compassion and support. Visitation will be on Monday, August 3 from 4 to 8:00 p.m., with a vigil service at 7:00 p.m. at Sunset Hills Funeral Home, 1215 145th Place SE, Bellevue. A funeral mass will be on Tuesday, August 4 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Jude's Parish, 10526 166th Av. NE, Redmond. Burial will follow at 2:00 p.m. at Tahoma National Cemetery, 18600 SE 240th St., Kent. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Andrew may be made to Sea Scouts c/o the Boy Scouts of America, the American Cancer Society or a charity of your choice. Please continue to share your memories with the family at www.mem.com. Published in The Seattle Times on 7/31/2009