Married, raised children, returned to college, employed by the State of
Washington for 20 years.
Sang with the Sweet Adeline's 15 years. Over
the years have enjoyed sailing, downhill skiing and hiking. Have been
clogging 6 years. Oh yeah, I square danced and round danced for 8 years.
I prefer clogging as it is an aerobic exercise and one does not need a
partner or seven others to dance. Currently am president of the
Tanglefoot Cloggers of Olympia. In 1990 and 1991, I competed and placed
first in the Pacific Northwest Clogging Championship Senior Women's
Individual. NOT BAD FOR A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER!
I perform marriages and lovingly call myself a
mail-order reverend. In Washington, marriages are legally performed by
judges, church pastors and reverends who have no church congregations.
There are no longer Justices of the Peace in Washington State.
Lauretta Graves Losinger
Hopefully you have all endured the madness we have helped create in this
fast-paced world. Do we have a choice?
I have been busy rearing all kinds of kids
and when they left the nest I began my day care business. I feel
confident that I have done well. Over a year ago I began studying herbs
and herbal medicine, accompanied with organic gardening and still into
the day care. Last winter we developed our first anti-flu decoction and enlisted
several "guinea pigs", including myself, none of which
contacted the flu or colds. We have also been busy collecting and drying
wild herbs and roots of value. "We" means I have a great
mentor . . . a very intelligent person who keeps that push I need going
and offers a lot of support. I'm hoping my dear friend . . . Mr. Jacobs
. . . can accompany me to this reunion.
Martin
L. Graves
Self-employed 17 years, Petroleum Industry. Director, Marketing and
Sales Electronic Corporation 9 years. Vice-President U.S. Sales,
Petroleum Corporation, 4 years. Now Director of Marketing and Sales,
Peerless International, a 60-year-old manufacturer of Electronic and
Diagnostic Control Systems.
Just returned to Eugene, Oregon after spending
12 years in Phoenix, Arizona.
Betty and I have 5 children and 9 grandchildren.
Hobbies: Music and classic automobiles.
Dorothea
Gustofson Edwards
After graduation from high school I went to live with my aunt in
Spokane. I attended business college and Eastern Washington College. My
aunt owned a children's merry-go-round in Spokane and while I was
running the merry-go-round for her, I met my husband. That is where we
started "going around together."
We were married in 1953 and have three
children, two boys and a girl. They are all married and live in the
Portland area. We have six grandchildren, three boys and three girls,
ages one year to 9 years. We visit them and baby sit frequently, and we
enjoy having them around.
My husband went to the University of Washington
and we lived in Seattle, Bellingham, Seattle again, before moving to
Portland. He is now president of Grange Mutual Insurance Company in
Portland.
While my children were growing up I stayed home
and involved myself in the duties of motherhood. In 1975 I went back to
school and earned an Associate Degree in Nursing in 1977. I have been
working at nursing at Emanuel Hospital in Portland for 12 years and am
presently in the Family Birth Center caring for new mothers and playing
with newborn babies. My work schedule is five days on and 9
days off, which allows me free time to pursue my other interests, which
are: church activities, weekly Bible study, gardening, sewing, cooking
for my kids and grandkids, baby sitting, reading, going to lunch with
friends . . . chocolate and dieting, (which is not an interest, but a
necessity).
Edward
F. Greeno
Two years at G.H. Jr. College. Got married. Two years at University of
Washington for BS in Mechanical Engineering. Moved back to Aberdeen to
work at Rayonier Engineering Department.
After five years, found greener pastures at
Boeing. Moved to Bellevue and bought home. Son born in 1963.
Took flying lessons, bought airplane; sold
house, bought bigger house in Redmond; sold airplane. Son gets
interested in shooting (like dad did as a kid); got involved in junior
shooting program, can't get out, still involved in junior shooting
program.
Got divorce, several years of lean times. Got
remarried in 1983, now have five kids all grown and gone. Last count,
three of the five married with six grandkids for us.
Wife Dorothy is real estate broker who finds
ailing houses for us to make well, now have five. We find time each
winter to trade Seattle winter for Mazatlan beaches. Try to
participate in Porsche Club activities.
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Phyllis Gillette
Dionne
Married to Patrick for 40 years. We have 5 children, 7 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. (I don't feel that old!)
We moved to Olympia at Scott Lake 15 years ago. I retired from US West in 1995 after 28 years when
the business office closed in Olympia. We were avid boaters for 10 years, but
after sinking our 34' Bayliner 2 years ago we have decided to just take
cruises and let some one else "do the driving."
Leo
C. Gormley
After graduation it took me only six weeks to finish college. I left
Grays Harbor College and started a printer's apprenticeship at the
Aberdeen World. Two years into my apprenticeship, I was called to
active duty in the Navy during the Korean War. After my naval stint, I
returned to the Aberdeen World, finished my apprenticeship, got
married and started to raise the typical American family.
I have two sons, a daughter, four grandsons
and four granddaughters. My oldest son, Kirk, is managing editor for a
bi-monthly flying magazine that has a circulation of 60,000+ and a new
father in September of 1999. My
youngest son, Rick, is an accounting manager and works for a company in
Seattle. Rick and his wife have two sons. My daughter,
Kyle, is a wharf policewoman for the city of Juneau,
Alaska. She has four children, including a set of
twins that were born in November of 1990.
I left Aberdeen in 1967 and went to work for
the News Tribune, a newspaper in Tacoma. My first marriage ended in
divorce in 1970..
In 1975, I remarried. My wife, Myra DeVee, is
a certified genealogist. She is a writer for the Los Angeles Times
Syndicate, her columns on genealogy (family histories) appear in
newspapers throughout the United States. She is also a webmaster for
myfamily.com, and author of
three books.
In 1979, after 28 years of working in
newspaper composing rooms as a printer, I entered the commercial side
of the printing trade and went to work in the News Tribune's job shop.
At the end of 1993, I accepted an early retirement. Retirement
has really been great, lots of bad golf but a lot of wonderful free
time and best of all . . . NO DEADLINES!!
Here it is the year 2001, and I'm still
goofing around trying to print things. Now it's Web Sites. If any of
my classmates are reading this, I hope you are enjoying this latest
endeavor. Web publishing is much more difficult than the
printing I did for 42 years!
Loren M.
Gensel
From June, 1951 to June, 1955, I spent in the Navy. Ann and I were
married when I got out of boot camp. The first two years of my four
year hitch, Ann and I were in Honolulu, the next two years I was
aboard the aircraft carrier Boxer.
After my discharge we came back to Aberdeen
where our first two children were born. A year and a half later we
moved to Seattle where I started working heavy construction, driving
and running equipment. In September, 1973, I got a job on the Alaska
pipeline. I was there until its completion. I came home for a couple
of years, went in partners with Ann's brother, Al (Porky) Pierce,
building and leasing a commercial building.
In 1980, we bought a new Kenworth truck and a
trailer and went back to Anchorage, Alaska and trucked freight around
the state of Alaska until 1984. I took my retirement from the union
and came home to Everett. In 1987, I decided retirement wasn't for me
just yet, so went back to work.
In 1989, I had a bout with prostate cancer.
My hobbies are restoring cars, flying
radio-controlled airplanes and fishing. We have 5 grandsons.
Glenn
Garner
I moved to Aberdeen in January 1949 as a high school sophomore. My
father was the pastor of the First Baptist Church on Second Street. I
was accustomed to small towns of eastern Washington, so "city
life" and the wet climate devoid of frozen lakes to skate on was
less than ideal for me. My days at Weatherwax High were shall we say,
tolerable."
In the Spring of 1952 we moved from Aberdeen to
Prosser, WA. where I enlisted in the Navy. I was trained as an
aviation electrician, spending the last three of my four years on
Whidbey Island. There I met my wife, Helen, who was teaching school in
Oak Harbor. We were married in 1956.
Upon discharge I enrolled at Linfield College in
McMinnville, OR where in 1960 I graduated with a BA in History,
intending to go on to seminary and become a minister. After two years
of seminary training in California I decided the ministry was not my
calling. I took some technical training in electronics and began
working in industry. Helen got her California teaching credential and
we spent 36 years there in Silicon Valley. I worked in various jobs in
the electronic industry, ending as a Manufacturing Engineer in the
Facility Engineering Dept. of the Space Systems Division of
Lockheed-Martin in Sunnyvale, CA.
For twenty one of those California years we worshiped
regularly at Saratoga Federated Church where we still have many
friends. As we began to consider retiring in the mid-nineteen-nineties
we discovered the truth that retirement is as simple as ABC - Anyplace
But California. We two Washingtonians looked north and discovered
Sequim where we bought land and had a nice home built overlooking Juan
De Fuca Strait. Though we were never privileged to have children, God
has blessed our lives in countless ways, and we Praise Him.
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