MYERS — Gerald B., 80; born June 4, 1935, Berrien Springs, Mich.; died Jan. 31, 2016, Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup, Wash., due to multiple complications of Leukemia. Surviving: wife, Deborah (Wazdatskey) Aeschlimann, Bonney Lake, Wash.; sons, Jeff Myers, Bruce Myka; stepsons, Stephen Henkes, C. Nicholas Aeschlimann; daughters, Jenny Myers, Teresa Leach; stepdaughters, Tara Dewar, Kimberly Aeschlimann, Kathleen Aeschlimann; brother, Leroi Myers, Lake Tapps, Wash.; sister, Darlene McMillan, Colton, Calif.; and 7 grandchildren, Justin, Brodie, Josiah, Ashley, Jasmine, Amelia and Quinn.

Jerry was an Ob Gyn physician and practiced medicine in Renton, Wash., until retiring in June 2000 after having delivered several thousand new lives. As a recreational pilot, he flew over 87 missions for Angel Flight Northwest. He also volunteered his medical skills on mission trips all over the world. His zeal for action and the outdoors is reflected in and carried on by his family, who today remain very active in myriad outdoor pursuits. He was a fine craftsman, lending his skill and refined eye to scores of projects (reupholstering his plane's interior, remodeling a split-timber farmhouse into a showpiece residence for a friend) for his own pleasure, and that of members of his tribe, near and far. He personified what it means for so many of us to be a man of service, in all facets of his life.