SEQUIM — A memorial/celebration of life service honoring Bill Littlejohn is set for 2 p.m. Jan. 11.
The service will be at Sequim Community Church, 950 N. Fifth Ave.
Bill Littlejohn, a Sequim businessman who owned numerous senior care facilities and whose philanthropy and advocacy boosted dozens of local organizations, died Dec. 12, just before his 73rd birthday on Dec. 18.
Esther Littlejohn, Bill’s wife of 51 years, said after his death that it was expected, but not so soon.
He had an as-yet unnamed neurological disease, she said, and his health deteriorated quickly.
The Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce gave its 2007 Humanitarian Award to the Littlejohns.
Littlejohn owned and oversaw several senior living facilities, including Sherwood Assisted Living, Fifth Avenue Senior Independent Living and the Lodge at Sherwood Village and owned Thomas Building Supply and Olympic Ambulance.
He was a significant contributor to the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula and Olympic Medical Center Foundation.
The Littlejohns also bestowed scholarships annually to local high school students.
He served in a number of leadership roles in the health care arena — he was an OMC hospital board commissioner from 1986-1996 — as well as in business and community board, including the Sequim-Dungeness Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Council.
His community activities and donations include the Sequim Irrigation Festival, Olympic Peninsula Humane Society and Peninsula Friends of Animals, Dungeness Health and Wellness Clinic, Dungeness River Audubon Center, Peninsula College nursing program and others, as well as OMC foundation fundraising events such as the Festival of Trees, Harvest of Hope, the Red, Set, Go Luncheon and the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby.
