Bernice Lillian Velategui

Sep, 10, 1922 – Oct 9, 2025

Bernice Lillian Velategui, our mother, left us with love on October 9th, 2025 after more than 103 years of adventurous life. Born in 1922, Bernice set out from her four sisters and parents in Chicago traveling across the country to marry our father in 1943. Together they camped and explored the forests of Washington and the beaches of Mexico. After our father’s passing,

Bernice continued the traveling tradition, riding camels in Egypt, elephants in Africa, and dancing on barges through the canals of Europe. She and her sisters had rejoined for drives to Alaska on the Al-Can gravel highway in her convertible that sported questionable tires.

For 27 years, Bernice owned and operated Mercer Island Fabrics where she sold myriad textiles

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