Okerlund Family Trust Scholarship

  • Scholarship Established: 2003
  • MEMORIAL
Okerlund Family Trust Scholarship
Emmett Okerlund's wish was to pay back the community for the education he so valued by providing scholarships to help promising students expand their horizons through a college education.
Emmett Okerlund, the youngest of seven children, grew up in Anacortes in a family of modest means. After graduation from AHS, he enlisted in the Navy, fought in World War II and worked as a salesman for a paper company in Bellingham. Upon retirement, Mr. Okerlund and his wife, Helen, were able to move back to Washington State and settled, for the last time, at Hood Canal, where he was able to do what he loved bestā€”boating and fishing. He died in Shelton, Washington in November 2003, at the age of 90. Mr. Okerlund treasured his education in Anacortes and left his entire estate to the Anacortes Schools Foundation. His wish was to pay back the community for the education he so valued by providing scholarships to help promising students expand their horizons through a college education. He also hoped that recipients of his generosity would one day follow his example and fund an Anacortes Schools Foundation Scholarship for another deserving student. These scholarships are awarded to students with exemplary academic achievement.

Scholarship Recipients

Will McClintock

2023
Will McClintock

Connor Barton

2022
Connor Barton

Isabel Shainin

2022
Isabel Shainin

Hunter Berard

2021
Hunter Berard

Graham Quitno

2021
Graham Quitno

Ava Hawkins

2020
Ava Hawkins

Anna Prewitt

2020
Anna Prewitt

Oleksii Bondar

2019
Oleksii Bondar

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2019
Thomas Dylan

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2019
Alexandra Hanesworth

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2019
Julia Houppermans

Nicole Houppermans

2019
Nicole Houppermans

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2019
Sierra Scamfer

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2019
Sally Vaux

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2019
Lydia Weddle

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2019
Calder Wood

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2019
Giulia Wood

Ella Martinez

2024
Ella Martinez

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2024
Keira Hines

Anacortes Schools Foundation