Loving wife and mother Julie M. Benedetti, of Ravensdale, WA, passed away at the age of 73 on Sunday, November 22, 2020 in Renton, WA.
Julie was born in 1947, one of four children born to Serafino and Maria Collecchi, in Ravensdale, WA. She graduated from Tahoma High School in 1965 and then attended Mr. Lee’s Beauty School receiving her Degree and License in Cosmetology. On June 10, 1967, she married Robert Benedetti raising two sons, Robert Jr and John. She eventually returned to school completing a degree in Customer Service from Renton Technical College and furthered her career as a Personal Banking Representative.
Julie was a hairdresser, homemaker, administrative assistant, and school volunteer. She loved painting, designing clothes, making and decorating cakes, gardening, enjoying nature, and cooking authentic Italian food. In 2017, she went on a lifelong dream to retrace her family’s history by visiting Camporanda, Italy. In 2019, she embarked on her very first trip
for resources to continuing working during the day tomorrow. and as you can see from the photos, the terrain is steep and rugged and we will have to fight most of this fire with just boots on the ground. it s mostly inaccessible even to our bulldozers so it s going to be a very difficult it s to put this out. can you update us on the home evacuations? reporter: they are still being protected by firefighters at the area, still have crews at the homes making sure there isn t any further threat to them. the conditions are lightening up just slightly. the winds are dying down a little bit. but our initial forecasts are that we are still going to see some winds continuing this evening and tomorrow. we ll have a heavy presence with a lot of crews out there all night making sure that fire doesn t continue t spread. let s get to roberta with the forecast for later. when that fire did break out it was 76 degrees in napa. extremely unusual for this i am too of the year. the winds