05/14/2026
Support 7 held its fifth annual Reception and Auction on Saturday, April 25, that raise $155,000 for on-scene crisis care for trauma victims across south Snohomish County. Proceeds from the auction offset the nonprofit’s annual operating costs.
A brief memorandum video, put on by Voices of Courage, honored the Pendergraft Family where, five years ago, a house fire in Mukilteo took the lives of John Pendergraft and his seven-year-old daughter Aria.
John and his daughter Aria did everything together, the video described. John was an electrician who enjoyed scuba diving, hunting, crabbing, gardening and helping friends raise exotic animals. Often Aria was right there by his side on hunting and fishing trips, or in the kitchen making sausage or baking cupcakes.
“He [John] was a really loving and compassionate person,” said John’s mother, Linda Pendergraft. “And Aria was right there with him in all of that.”
Support 7 then recognized the first responders who responded to the Pendergraft family fire, who arrived on scene around 3:30 a.m. on April 15, 2001. By the time they arrived the house was already engulfed in flames and the roof had collapsed partially. Though they slept in different rooms, John and his daughter Aria were found dead at the scene, in each other’s arms.
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📸John and Aria Pendergraft. Photo courtesy of Pendergraft Family.
