On Monday, August 11, 2025, Jean Wilcox, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother passed away at age 89. She will be deeply missed by her family, neighbors, and friends who knew her as a woman of great inner strength and abiding faith.

Eva Jean Wilcox (Fluharty) was born on May 16,1936 in Kooskia, Idaho where her adventurous parents, Dale and Eva Fluharty moved from Iowa to tame the land. She spent her early yearsin a one room log cabin with no electricity or running water. She inherited her parents’ strength and grit which came to define her.

Jean moved to Kirkland during her early school days where she excelled as a student and graduated as salutatorian from Lake Washington High School. She also applied herself to competitive shooting and as a teenager was the Washington

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