Andrea Nauss Memorial
September 21st, 2026 | Community Updates
The memorial service for Andrea Nauss will be this Saturday, September 26 at 10:30am in the Chapel at West Seattle Christian Church. Please make plans to attend the service, followed by a light reception afterwards.
If you cannot make it in person, you can watch the live Zoom call here on YouTube (Mike Shaughnessy’s Channel) or you may attend the service via Zoom using the LINK HERE. [live links coming soon]
Andrea (Andie) was born in San Francisco and adopted at birth by Glenn and Dorothy Molyneaux, the second of five children the couple adopted in five years.
She had both an artistic and an athletic bent, and a love of reading. Her younger brother won a number of swimming championships in Northern California, and an avid swimmer herself, she was frustrated that only males were allowed to compete in swimming in high school. Her brother won a city swimming championship and she was faster than he was.
She earned a degree in dancing from Scripps College, and a Master’s degree from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco. Sadly, rheumatoid arthritis made it impossible to pursue her passion as a career.
She and John met at her home church in San Francisco, where they both sang in the choir and served together as youth group counselors. They married in 1987, and the first of their four children, David, was born in San Francisco as well.
The next three children, Jacob, Travis and Miriam, joined the family after a move to Seattle in 1989. Andie helped support the family with her own medical transcription business. She loved gardening, and planting flowers.
The family joined West Seattle Christian Church thirty years ago. Andie and John sang in the choir together, and she made many strong friendships here. She particularly enjoyed music and singing in worship, and it would not be unusual to see her dance and move her body in time to the music, something which caused a bit of embarrassment for her children…but that never stopped her!
Though afflicted by physical challenges and chronic pain, she always had a heart for serving the church, sometimes accepting tasks that were beyond her human ability to accomplish, without paying a physical price afterwards.
She loved her family, she loved her church family, and she loved the Lord. After 74 years on this earth, she was welcomed into the presence of her Savior (exactly thirty-nine years and one month after she and John were married).