Leoleon Alice “Pat Wagness” Cervo, 87, of Lopez Island, died Saturday, May 13, 2006.

She was born Sept. 10, 1918, in Twining, Mich., to Harry and Alice Babcock March. The family then moved to Stanwood, Wash.

She graduated from Stanwood High, then went on to Junior College in Mount Vernon. She continued her education at Western Washington University in Bellingham, graduating with a teaching degree.

Pat taught school for 25 years at the Highline School District in Seattle; most of those years teaching third-grade children.

Pat and her husband Ken moved to Lopez Island in the mid-1960s. Kenneth Wagness died in April 1999, and Pat remained at the family home on Lopez. She married Gordon A. Cervo Oct. 26, 2003.

She is survived by her husband, Gordon, of Lopez Island; sons Harry Wagness, of SeaTac, and John Wagness, of Anacortes; daughter and son-in-law Patricia and Wayne Crinklaw, of Portland, Ore.; brother Wayne March, of Vacaville, Calif.; sisters and brothers-in-law Nina and Bill Babcock, of Terre Haute, Ind., and Marian and Ray King of Camano Island; grandchildren Matthew and Stephanie Crinklaw, of Sammamish; Ken and Sarah Crinklaw, of Redland; and Jeff and Katie Crinklaw of Portland, Ore.; and great-grandchildren Blake, Allison and Bailey Hoppe Crinklaw.

Funeral services will be Wednesday, May 24, 2006, at 1:30 p.m., at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Stanwood, with burial in the Anderson Cemetery in Stanwood.

Memorials may be made to Skagit Valley Hospital Foundation or to the Catherine Washburn Memorial Association, care of the Lopez Island Clinic, Lopez Island, WA98261.