OBITUARY: Kay Eileen ‘Haline’ Sundet, 1937-2021
Kay Eileen ‘Haline’ Sundet passed away peacefully at home on March 26, 2021 at the age of 84, one month after suffering a stroke.
Kay was born in Toledo, Washington in 1937 to Harold and Helen Ames, and grew up in Kelso, Washington in a household of musicians. After graduating high school with honors, Kay earned a scholarship to the University of Washington where she graduated with a degree in commercial art, and met fellow art student Edwin “Stuart” Sundet. Kay and Edwin were married in 1961 and lived in Seattle, where Kay worked as a secretary for IBM and law firms in the area before moving to Oakland, California for her husband’s teaching job. In 1968 the couple moved to Humboldt County where Edwin was employed as an art professor at HSU. An intelligent, creative, and award-winning artist in her own right, Kay chose to forego a career to focus on raising her three daughters and supporting her husband in his creative e