John Carmichael Bromiley

John Carmichael Bromiley Sept 22, 1935 – Sept 13, 2024 John C. Bromiley, 88, of Moses Lake, WA, passed into his eternal rest on September 13, 2024. John was born on September 22, 1935 in Wenatchee, WA. He met the love of his life, Nancy Lee Bromiley, at a county fair when he was stationed in California while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. They married in June 1957. John and Nancy lived in California for several years, and welcomed two children, Byron and Lee Ann, into their family. When the children were young, the family moved to Lake City, WA, then a few years later to Preston, WA, where John owned Seagull Trailer Repair, a semi-trailer repair business, and Nancy worked as a bookkeeper for the business. After their children had graduated from high school, John and Nancy moved to the Wahluke Slope agricultural area near Mattawa, WA, where they raised alfalfa and tree fruits, and owned and operated a snack bar with pool tables for several years in town. Soon after retirement from farming, they moved next door to the home where John grew up on Badger Mountain near East Wenatchee, WA. While there, John enjoyed helping his cousins Clark, Mike and Doug Bromiley with field work on their wheat farm. John and Nancy moved to Moses Lake, WA, in 2005 and turned their bare 2 acre lot into a home and mini farm. They kept themselves busy raising a very large garden and participating in the annual Heirloom TomatoFare at Cedarbrook Lodge in Seattle for many years. John was known as the Tomato Farmer, and freely shared his heirloom tomato surplus from growing hundreds of plants every year. John relished the fruits of his gardening labors all through the year via Nancy’s skill at home canning. John and Nancy loved spending time at the many gatherings of their vast family clan in the Wenatchee valley and elsewhere, and at gatherings of friends in Moses Lake, WA. John and Nancy were inseparable throughout their nearly 65 years of marriage, until Nancy passed in March of 2022. John C. Bromiley is survived by his son Byron (Sharon) Bromiley, his daughter Lee Ann (Brian) Bratton, granddaughter Nicole Bratton, and sisters Harriet Erb, Shirley Smith, Leah Myers, and Sylvia Chapman. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife Nancy, parents Frank and Lois Bromiley, brothers William Bromiley and Stanley “Pete” Bromiley, and sisters Esther Loranger and Betty Hylton. A celebration of life for John C. Bromiley will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2024 in East Wenatchee, beginning with a potluck lunch at 11:00 AM at the Community of Christ Church, 690 N. Baker Ave, followed by a drive up to the Badger Mountain Cemetery near where he grew up, for a brief memorial at his gravesite where he will already be resting next to Nancy. Please sign the online guestbook or leave a note for the family at kaserschapel.com.

John Carmichael Bromiley

September 22, 1935 - September 13, 2024