Emma Eleanor (Bratland) Landguth
Emma Eleanor (Bratland) Landguth, 97, passed away September 27, 2013 at Aegis of Kirkland. She was the youngest of five children, born at home on September 6, 1916 in Utsaladdy, Camano Island, Washington, to Olaf and Kristina Bratland. When she was four years old, her family moved from their house near the beach in Utsaladdy to homestead a farm on what a surveyor claimed to be the highest hill on Camano Island. She attended Rocky Point School, Utsaladdy School, Stanwood Grade School, and Stanwood High School. In her sophomore year, she moved to Seattle, sharing various apartments with her sisters and attended Broadway High School. After graduating from Broadway High School in 1935, she attended Business College.
Emma worked at Northern Life Insurance Company and the MGM Film Distribution Center in the Seattle. One of the highlights of her career at MGM was when she and the office staff had their photo taken with Frank Morgan, who played the Wizard in “The Wizard of Oz”. And, as an employee she was privileged to see MGM’s first-run films free at a small nearby theater called “The Jewelbox Theater” on “screening night”.
As a child, Emma was a talented artist and loved to sketch and draw comic strip characters, fashion models and movie stars, as well as silhouettes. In recent years her daughter Nancy used her artwork to create personalized Christmas cards for family and friends. Emma also loved dolls and smiled when introducing each of them by name to those who came to visit her.
Emma married Keith Charles Landguth on May 25, 1940, and had two children. They first lived in Seattle. In 1947 they moved from the Ballard area of Seattle to Kirkland, Washington, where she resided in the same house for 66 years. She was a loving wife and mother who devoted the rest of her life to taking good care of her family.
Preceded in death by her husband, Keith Landguth, her parents, Olaf and Kristina Bratland, her sisters, Borghild (Babs) Tremaine, Evelyn Nebenfuhr, Olive (Teen) Hanson and brother, Karl Bratland, she is survived by her son, Glenn Keith Landguth, and her daughter, Nancy Eleanor Bock, both of Kirkland, four grandchildren, Cindy Dusin of Mill Creek, Clark Landguth, of Bothell, Deanna Bock of Bothell and Kristina Bock of Seattle and six great-grandchildren, Alyssa Landguth, Caleb Landguth, Megan Landguth, Rachel Dusin, James Josiah Dusin, and Joshua Dusin.
The family suggests remembrances in Emma Landguth’s name may be made to your favorite charity. Friends and Family are invited to share memories, photos, and sign the on-line guest book on www.acaciafuneralhome.com. A private interment took place at Acacia Memorial Park.
