Cowlitz-Mason County WA Archives Obituaries.....Bond, Douglas Elwood  June 12, 2006
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Published in The Daily News on 6/21/2006.   www.tdn.com/obits
 	 
Douglas Elwood Bond passed into glory Monday, June 12, with his family at his 
side, after a three-year journey through leukemia, and a stem-cell transplant. 
All who knew and loved him are invited to funeral services to be held at 4:00 
p.m., Father's Day Sunday, June 18, 2006 at the Douglas E. Bond Gymnasium, 
Tacoma Baptist Schools, 2052, So 64th St., Tacoma. 

Born in Bellingham to Elwood and Leona Bond, he graduated from Kelso High 
School, earned a BA at Seattle Pacific University, an MA from Pacific Lutheran 
University, and a PHD from United States International University, San Diego, 
CA. 

In 1956 Bond became a systems engineer for Western Electric Company and trained 
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in groundbreaking computer science for 
his work on the SAGE Project, a top-secret Cold War early warning defense 
system. 

He married Mary Jane Baldwin in 1956 in Longview, WA, and they were blessed 
with two children: Tilda Jean (Jim) Hunter and Douglas (Cheryl) Bond, Jr. After 
living many years in Tacoma, in 1990 they moved to the home which he designed 
and built on Anderson Island, a place he considered to be a foretaste of 
heaven. 

In 1964 he left engineering to become the administrator of Tacoma Baptist 
Schools, the first evangelical Christian school in the south Puget Sound 
region. "Serve the Lord with gladness" (Psalm 100: 2a), became his lifelong 
motto. A builder and problem solver at heart, Bond believed that Christian 
education ought to prepare young people for lives of humble service to God. He 
taught this by precept but more by his eagerness to take on any task, no matter 
how menial. For over thirty-seven years, Bond also "served the Lord 
with "gladness" by building and maintaining the facilities on the Tacoma 
Baptist campus. Alongside their algebra and geometry, many young people have 
learned how to swing a hammer, or dig a ditch, or repair a drainpipe by 
following Bond's work ethic. 

Bond is survived by his loving wife, his daughter and son, nine grandchildren, 
one great granddaughter, two sisters: Kathleen Cowen, El Paso, TX; Shirley Ann 
Peer, Lynwood, WA; and two brothers: Charles Bond, Longview, WA; Larry Bond 
(his transplant donor), Clatskanie, OR, and a host of nieces and nephews and 
extended loved ones. Arrangements are under the direction of the New Tacoma 
Cemeteries & Funeral Home. 

DOUGLAS ELWOOD BOND 

September 21, 1933 – June 12, 2006 

"Serve the Lord with gladness." 

Psalm 100:2a 



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