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Building History

In 1956, John E. Drummey (d. 10/30/1959 in Seattle, WA) served as the President of the Bonney-Watson Company, with Emmett A. Drummey (d. 03/15/1983 in King County, WA), Vice-President and Secretary, and Ida A. Bachelder (born 01/25/1896-d. 04/18/1985 in King County, WA), Treasurer.

In 2018, the Bonney-Watson Company had four funeral homes in the Seattle area in Capitol Hill, SeaTac, Federal Way and Southwest Mortuary in Rainier Beach.

This firm, the Bonney-Watson Company, advertised in the R.L. Polk City Directory/Seattle Buyers Guide, 1921, (Seattle,WA: R.L. Polk and Company, 1921), p. 241, that it had been in business 50 years at that time, dating it to c. 1870. (Another ad in the Seattle City Directory, 1956, indicated that the firm was 89 years old, making its date of establishment 1868.) This Mission Revival Style building had a red tile roof and arched ground floor windows and arcade; a surprising number of Mission Revival buildings were built in the Pacific Northwest, an influence of contemporary building trends in CA.

An earlier funeral and embalming firm, Bonney and Stewart, operated in 1900 at the corner of Columbia Street and 3rd Avenue.

PCAD id: 13972