In addition to Judge Hanford, who also was a member of the Washington Territorial House of Representatives and U.S. District Court Judge for Washington from 1890 to 1912, her great-great grandfather was Edward Hanford, who settled in South Seattle in 1853. A great-uncle, Thaddeus Hanford, once owned the Daily Intelligencer newspaper.

Mrs. Bulger, who was raised on Hunt's Point when Bellevue was a small country town, loved dogs and horses and read voraciously, finishing at least one book a day. A notable raconteur, she loved to laugh; her wit is legendary among family and her wide circle of friends. She liked to travel, camp, hunt for mushrooms, garden, cook and talk about books. When she moved to a rural area outside Kennewick in 1999, she transformed a barren acreage into a garden spot.

In Kennewick, she founded Whiteapple Westies, breeding and showing champion West Highland White Terriers. When her health failed late this summer, Mrs. Bulger moved back to Seattle. Born in San Mateo, Calif. on Jan. 25, 1935 to C. Hanford Haynes and Elizabeth Ayars Slade Haynes, Marian Lucy Haynes attended Bush School and graduated from Franklin High School, then attended Colorado College and the University of Washington.

She was married three times, to Miles March, William Blaker and Arthur "Ray" Bulger; the marriages ended in divorce. As a military wife--her first two husbands were Army officers, her third husband was an Air Force officer--she lived in Germany, Italy and Japan. Mrs. Bulger moved back to Seattle in 1972 and worked for twenty years as a Seattle school bus driver. Mrs. Bulger is survived by her children: Leslie March and her husband, Warren Zimmermann of Mandeville, La.; Scott March of Everett; and Reed Blaker, Stacia Bulger and Kristin Bulger Beaulieu and her husband Steven Beaulieu, all of Seattle; two grandchildren, Maxwell and Allison Beaulieu. She also is survived by her sister, Elizabeth Perry of Seattle, and her brother, Edward H. Haynes of Nevada City, Calif.; eight nieces and nephews. She was predeceased in 1956 by her mother and in 1972 by her father, a retired civil engineer for Western Steel and former owner of Associated Shipyard in Seattle. Her father was a founding member of Overlake Golf and Country Club and captain of the University of Washington football team in the early 1920s.

At her request, no funeral will be held. She was cremated, and will be buried at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Hood River, Ore., where her mother and her maternal grandparents, early residents of the area, are buried. In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be sent to WesiteMed (http://www.westiemed.com/).

The town of Hanford, unoccupied since it became part of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, was named for Judge Hanford. He was part of a group of Seattle and Tacoma industrialists who established the Hanford Irrigation and Power Company, building an electric power plant at the base of Priest Rapids. Mrs. Bulger’s father lived in the town as a boy with his parents, Manley and Elaine Haynes.

Marian Haynes Bulger was in the words of her son-in-law Steve Beaulieu, "larger than life."