Sarah Alice Heiner Rasmussen, 91, died July 11, 2003, at Copper Hills House in Yuma, Ariz.

She was born July 17, 1911, in Morgan, Utah, to Lafayette and Naomi Heiner. She grew up on her father’s farm in Morgan, and had a very close family. While visiting an aunt in Seattle, she met Soren Rasmussen and they married in 1932. They lived in Seattle for many years. In 1945 they moved to Sunlight Beach, Clinton, where they lived until the early 1960s.

She was a homemaker. In 1950 they converted a barn into a roller skating rink called The Roller Barn in Oak Harbor. She also enjoyed working there. They sold the roller rink in 1960 and Soren went to work for Associated Engineers inspecting installation of underground phone lines. They traveled all over the western United States, including Alaska, on jobs that lasted from one to several months. She loved to bowl, and joined bowling teams in her travels to towns. They made many lifelong friends.

While working in Arizona, they fell in love with Yuma and decided to buy a home there. She enjoyed her daily swim sessions at the clubhouse, visiting with friends. She and her husband came to the Northwest for about three months each year to visit and get relief from the heat of Arizona in the summertime.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, Soren Rasmussen, in September 1998; three brothers Don, Mareon and Bruce; and a sister, Helen.

She is survived by five sisters, Ruth Ellis and her husband, Mickey, of Oak Harbor, Thelma Leak of Morgan, Marge Rix and her husband, Burt, of Edmonds, Joyce Fisher of Clinton, Utah, and Naomi Faye and her husband, Glen Detherage, of Toledo, Wash.; three children — who graduated from Langley High School — Charles Hugh Rasmussen of Clinton, Wash., Joyce Alice Bruneau of Clinton, Wash., and Gordon Rasmussen and his wife, Lisa, of Bothell; nine grandchildren, Lee Rasmussen, Roger Rasmussen, Cindy Rasmussen Burley, Jon Bruneau, Janice Bruneau Williams, Jock Bruneau, Lori Rasmussen Ireland, Rex Rasmussen and Glen Rasmussen; and 14 great-grandchildren, Lance and Dillon Burley, Alaska and Cheyanna Bruneau, Tearsa, Drey, Taft, Tavin and Tilmann Williams, Johnathan and Sarah Leatherman, Krystal Ireland and Kelsey and Adam Rasmussen.

There will be a memorial service at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Sunlight Beach House, 2482 E. Sunlight Beach Road, Clinton. It will be an informal gathering of family and friends to celebrate her life with a casual potluck barbecue.