Remembering Booth Gardner: ‘Civility & public service’
(Left to right: former Gov. John Spellman, former Gov. Booth Gardner, former Lt. Gov. John Cherberg, former Gov. Al Rosellini. Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives.) Booth Gardner, Washington’s 19th governor who later led a successful statewide initiative to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill, died at his Tacoma home Friday night at age 76 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Gardner became one of Washington’s more popular and charismatic governors. Gardner, a Democrat, was elected as the state’s top…