Brockhaus Memorial Set For Sunday

A memorial gathering for family and friends of Barbara Ballantine Brockhaus, the Seattle political activist and jazz vocalist, will be held Sunday at Sand Point Country Club, 8333 55th Ave. N.E., Seattle.

Spoken remembrances with songs by Edmonia Jarrett will begin at 3:30 p.m. The open-microphone jam - a format Mrs. Brockhaus favored - will begin at 4 p.m., with music by Howard Bulson, Billie

Wallace, Hans Brehmer and others who worked with her at University Plaza, Pig and Whistle, and Sorry Charlie's.

"We're focusing on a celebration," said Mrs. Brockhaus' daughter, Mari Brockhaus of Seattle. "That's what she would have wanted."

Mrs. Brockhaus, active in the League of Women Voters, Planned Parenthood, and Citizens for Quality Integrated Education, died April 12 of injuries suffered in an auto accident on the Yucatan Peninsula. She was 69.

Born in Grand Rapids, Mich., she earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan. She and her husband of 39 years, J. Henry Brockhaus, who died in 1989, moved to Seattle in 1952.

She enjoyed tennis and was a bridge life master. She found her niche when she took up singing in her 50s and appeared at jazz clubs.