Despite not living in what is today “Federal Way proper,” Tom Stewart loves Federal Way, considers himself a Federal Way native, and as a child, he lived in what used to be considered Federal Way in a home off Five Mile Lake.

Stewart was born in Tacoma General Hospital on July 9, 1953, and in 1958, his family moved into a home off Five Mile Lake, where he lives now. Despite moving out of the Federal Way area after high school, Stewart returned to the Federal Way area for good after almost 50 years in 2019.

Stewart is now the treasurer and a board member of the Historical Society of Federal Way. Alongside that work, he volunteers at the Federal Way Senior Center Food Bank. Stewart said he is also in the process of creating an education foundation for Federal Way Public Schools students an

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