Jeanette Mitzel

On May 31, 2025, Jeanette (Bogert) Mitzel passed from this life to her eternal life. She was born on a cold winter day in 1930, to Herbert & Woutera Bogert who had settled in the Yakima Valley. She attended school in the Sunnyside School District, elementary through high school. After graduation, Jeanette worked for the Old National Bank as a bookkeeper. During this time, she lived with her sister, Wilma, and husband, Ed, helping with their growing family. This is where she met her future husband, Alfred, (Ed’s brother) who had recently been discharged from the Navy. Jeanette and Alfred were married in 1955.

Jeanette & Alfred had three boys, Robert (Bob), William (Bill), & David. Once the boys were all in school, Jeanette began her new career as a bus driver for the Sunnyside School District that lasted for 25 years.

After her and Alfred’s retirement from the Postal Service, they moved to the west side of the state living in Chehalis, Glenoma, and then Randle where they raised Angus cattle on their small family farm. In 2015, Al & Jeanette sold the farm and moved to Yakima. Three short years later they moved back to the west side of the state to be near their children, making their home in Eatonville and then Yelm.

Jeanette is survived by her husband, Alfred, sister Marie Duim of Sunnyside, sons Bob (Debbie), Bill (Kim), & David (Andrea) with grandchildren including, Justin (Holly) Mitzel, Tyler (Tiffani) Mitzel, Emily Mitzel, Collin Mitzel, Tianna Mitzel, & Brandon Mitzel, great-grandchildren Robbie & Maddie Mitzel, in addition to many nieces and nephews. Jeanette is preceded in death by her parents, Herbert and Woutera Bogert, brothers, Pete Bogert, Morris Bogert, Henry Bogert, Walter Bogert, her sister, Wilma Mitzel, and grandson, Jeffrey Mitzel.

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