Jeri Francisco Porter
Chair
Jeri Francisco Porter is a lifelong resident of Roslyn and a retired electrician. Porter serves on the Board of the Roslyn Downtown Association and presently as a Roslyn Cemetery Commission. After serving on the Roslyn City Council for eight years she was elected and served as Roslyn City Mayor for an additional eight years.
Brian Browitt
Treasurer
Brian Browitt is from a 5th generation Roslyn family, grandson of coal miners, father, husband and local bank manager. Browitt loves hiking and adventuring with his family, gardening and photography. Honoring and protecting our community’s history is incredibly important to him.
He is super excited to work with this RCLA team to ensure the history and legacy can be enjoyed by his children and many more to come.
Beverly Prkacin Read
Director
Beverly is a coal miners daughter and granddaughter. She is a story teller.
Her first introduction to the Roslyn Cemetery was a visit to an unmarked baby’s grave in the Slovak Cemetery with her mother in 1975 and in subsequent years.
Fast forward to August 2010 when she met a man at the cemetery none other than Dick Watts, President of the Cemetery Commission. I told him my family’s story at the cemetery, my mother’s photo with Slovak Lodge in the small kiosk.
Later she was appointed Project Manager to build the Croatian Memorial Monument.
Then she was assigned the task to place 14 headstones on previously unmarked babies graves and that venture became the Babies Monument.
Beverly leads a purposeful life with God, family and community. She is first of three generations Realtor family.
Pam Myers-Sloane
Director
Pam Myers-Sloane is an experienced genealogist and has a passion for breaking through the “brick walls” in family research. She is committed to providing factual profiles, stories, and photos to the digital kiosk. She also has an interest in discovering the identities of those buried in the many unmarked graves.
In addition, Pam has a background in advertising/marketing. She worked for Rainier Brewing Company back in its heyday. She also has worked as a music director and in music education.
Pam is happy to provide tours of the Roslyn cemeteries. Other outside activities she enjoys include travel, hiking, photography, gardening, and spending time with family and friends.
Lynda Cribb Solter
Director
Lynda Cribb Solter has been doing family history research for nearly 20 years. It began accidentally when she found her father’s name. Genealogy intrigued Lynda and she became dedicated to find out more. “I marvel at the resiliency of our ancestors and I cherish the ability to say I have walked the same ground they did so many decades ago.”
She remembers coming to the Roslyn cemeteries as a child with her Grandma to place flowers on her ancestors’ graves. At that time Lynda had no idea there were so many connections to her family in Roslyn and in the cemeteries. In a small historic town, there are many common threads.
“I appreciate the opportunity to research and preserve the memory of so many of my ancestors and their friends, neighbors and associates.”
Lisa Browitt
Director
As a life-long resident of Roslyn, I have had the blessing of experiencing the richness of our communities through my Croatian and Irish heritage. I am a fourth generation child from my mother’s Irish family, the Lanigans that homesteaded above Cle Elum in the late 1880s, and my father’s Croatian family, Luka and Marija Butkovich, who arrived in Roslyn one hundred years ago.
While earning a Bachelor’s degree at Willamette University and a Master’s degree at the University of Portland, lead to years away from Roslyn, I returned to marry and raise a family here. The importance of continuing to honor our heritage continued through my thirty-two years teaching history in our local middle school. In retirement, my husband and I manage the Roslyn Veterans Memorial Cemetery with assistance from family members and local veterans.
Dick Watts
Director
Dick Watts is a legend at the Roslyn Cemeteries and was instrumental in drafting the 10 year vision and completion for Restoration, Preservation and Maintenance of what you see today.
Lorrie Sivich
Volunteer
Lorrie Sivich is retired engineer – Boeing Research and Technology business unit.
Contractor: Working with SAE (Society of Aerospace Engineers) Chairperson for Advanced Manufacturing and AI.
Technical support, education and preservation for non-profit RCLA
Emily Gass
Volunteer
Emily has a professional background in tech, working as a Producer in the extended reality space. She has been assisting the Roslyn Cemeteries since 2019, supporting the build out of the cemetery database, providing technical support, and developing front end designs that deliver educational and fulfilling user experiences.