Nettie Maizels died in Seattle on Oct. 4, 2014.

She was born in Portland, Oregon in 1915, the youngest of Morris and Eva Glickman’s eight children, and she married Sam Maizels in 1935.

After moving to Seattle, Nettie commuted on two ferries each way to work as a court reporter in Port Orchard.

The Depression, then World War II, and then two small children had prevented Nettie from attending college, but once her daughters were in school she attended the University of Washington, where she majored in economics, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year, and graduated summa cum laude in 1958.

Soon thereafter, Nettie took on a new challenge that gave her immense pleasure. She became owner of the Island Bazaar, a beloved department store in the tiny shopping center on Bainbridge Island known as The Village. Nettie and Sam built a second home on the Sandspit, which her family continues to enjoy.

Nettie was warm, generous, and a very hard worker.

Her energy, humor and good advice will be missed by her many friends and her family, especially her daughters, Nancy and Deborah, her son-in-law Alan, and her granddaughters Rebecca and Molly.