Theodore Zawicki

  Theodore Zawicki went to be with Jesus on June 25, 2016, six days before his 104th birthday.
  He was born at home in Bessemer, Michigan, in 1912. He enjoyed his boyhood with his 11 siblings doing chores, fishing and wandering in the woods and fields. He left home to join the 3-C’s to log and do construction work in California, Oregon and Washington at the beginning of the Great Depression. In 1939, he married his sweet Betty (dec. 1993) and began his family: Art (Lynn), Jeannie, John (dec. 2012) (Marianne), and Dan (Delinda).
  He served in the Aleutian Islands with the Army Engineers, later purchased 80 acres in Oregon to work and log, in 1955 moved to Bellingham and in 1967 moved to Lynden where he stayed put. He helped his son start a wrecking yard along Interstate 5, which eventually moved to what is now Z Recyclers on Guide Meridian Road where Ted worked until he was 83. After that he took up fishing full-time. He enjoyed being “the” pool champ at the Lynden Senior Center.
  Ted was never a worrier but instead truly a warrior in prayer and love for his ever-growing family of numerous grands, great-grands and great-great-grandchildren. Ted’s life testimony of memorizing scripture, and singing and praising the Lord continued to the end in glorifying his Heavenly Father in word and deed.
  A memorial service will be celebrated on his “would be 104th birthday” at 6:30 p.m. July 1, 2016, in Crosspoint Church, 8686 Vinup Rd., Lynden.