Natalie Elizabeth (Clark) Freeman, age 47 of Monroe, Washington, passed away at 2:45AM on Sunday, December 4, 2016 with her family by her side at Evergreen Hospice Care Center in Kirkland, WA after an 8-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
She was born on May 3, 1969 in Enid, Oklahoma. She is survived by her husband, Eric Freeman, whom she had known since elementary school and to whom she was married on May 1, 2001 in Sultan, WA.
She is also survived by her mother Martha, her father Mark, her sister Cathy Gault, her four teenage children Stephen and Lorin Stewart and Samuel and Catherine Freeman, and many extended family members whom she loved dearly.
Natalie graduated from Round Rock High School in 1987 and with a bachelor’s degree in music education from Mississippi State University. Her life’s work included raising and homeschooling her four children while also working part-time with Sonshine Preschool.
She was very active in the churches she attended, and spent a lifetime in the AWANA programs with her kids, where she also last served as the AWANA program’s secretary at FBC Monroe, WA.
She loved to travel, especially to her favorite destination Hawaii. She loved the outdoors, enjoyed camping, crafts and had an extra special love for music. She has given a lifetime of service to her family, friends, the kids’ school at SVEC in Monroe, WA and the churches she was family to, with an extra special love and attention to the children’s ministries.
There will be a service celebrating Natalie’s life well lived on Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 6:00 PM at First Baptist Church, Monroe, WA.
Memorial contributions in Natalie’s name can be made to Sonshine Preschool, C/O First Baptist Church, 17922 149th Street SE, Monroe, WA 98272. Sonshine Preschool was something she has been part of the last 16 years she spent living in Monroe and it held a special place in her heart.
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