Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Hello Everyone:

Connie needs some help with the research she is doing.  Does anyone know the birthdate of or middle initial of Kathy Henderson?  Connie has found one possible with a death in Pierce County in 2000.  Any help you can pass along would be great.

John MacLeod

Well, another of our classmates has received a citatation.  It was serious enough to make the paper.  He happens to be an Asa Mercer alum of Chinese ancestry whose last name begins with L.  It is a Presidential Citation for service to the community.  His name is G,G,G, Gary..........Nope not him.  It is Chris Louie.  I will make an attempt to download the article.

This isn't the complete article.  More like the Cliff Note version.  Congratulations Chris for all you time and efforts. Now if we can only get him to sign onto our website.  Chris was one of my lunch mates.  I swear he was one of the funniest guys around.  Perhaps someone in our class knows how to contact him.  He lives in Edmonds but has a private listing. 

You can see his photo in Lyn's Asa Mercer Annual.

John MacLeod

Debbie,

Dog bites, blood tests, movies, buttered popcorn, trips out of town, birthdays.............Man at least life isn't dull and boring.  You could just be sitting at home watching the soaps, drinking beer and eating chocolate covered bon bons.  I'm glad to hear that you are still up and going albeit a little slower.

I got back to the current project the other day.  One of my guys starts poking the wrecking bar into some insulation to show me a bees nest.  I don't get too excited about these things.  They just happen, but that day one bee decided to go on a suicide mission.  Stung me right on the end of my nose just prior to getting slapped silly.  It didn't get red or swell up but that didn't stop the guys from asking me to guide the sleigh that night.  Couple cans of wasp killer and we were back in business.

John MacLeod

Dean,

Thanks for the notice of Evelyn's passing.   It is always tough to remember them being so young.  I've seen that several of our classmates have lost their parents recently.   We are getting to that age where the miles are starting to add up and pile on.

John MacLeod

Good  news...............The wife unit told me that I din't have to work seven days a week anymore.  She said that at my current age I could just work six days a week and take one day to rest up.  So, today (Saturday) I slept till seven thirty.  Futzed around the house and left at eleven to look six new jobs.  Home by 5:00.  I like this slower pace.

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Great article about Chris Louie.  I believe Mark Weaver is in contact with him.  I could also use some help.  All of Connie's work has got me poking around in death archives and I am trying to find out if anyone has either the middle name or the birthdate for Robert A Mitchell.  I have found one death in 2009 for a Robert A Mitchell originally from Washington, deceased in Texas.  I also found a different listing for a Robert Aloon Mitchell married in 1975.  If anyone can eliminate or confirm either listing, I can move forward to try to find him, or find out what has happened to him.  Had a great talk today with Vernia Williams Strickland and am hoping that she joins our website soon.  Please welcome her if she shows up.  Thanks for all your help.

Debra Moore (Murga)

John,

I guess for one reason or another I do keep busy. Next weekend I am taking 5 of my grandkids and their mothers to the Ringling Bros. Circus. Then on the 27th we are having my 3 year old grandsons "football" birthday party. There will be some where around 100 people there. I am making 20 pounds of potatoe's into potato salad. Bees really love me. We stopped in the desert rest stop on our way to Phoenix one time and there was ONE bee in the whole place and it stung me!! They always go for me. I must taste really sweet to them. LOL

Donna Amira

Hi All,

A huge thank you to Nancy for continuing to keep our class roster up to date. Thanks to John for his wondeful and very clever sense of humor! Welcome Gary. So glad you were found and in the fold.

Debra Moore (Murga)

Does anyone have a Sharples year book they can post?

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Debra: I don't have any Sharples photos except my home room pics. I believe that Alan Schocken had the annual and other memorabilia that he put together for the 30th reunion. When I moved to Arizona I gave them to Dave Azose and he may have returned them to Alan. Check with both of them and see if there isn't something available.

On a sadder note, yesterday I found two more classmates had passed away. Wylie Holze and Aaron Hudson, both of them in 2008. That brings the known death total for 2008 to 7 which equals the number of classmates that we lost in 2002. Thanks to Connie who found another deceased classmate Timothy Nolan (2003). 

Debra Moore (Murga)

Thanks for your response Nancy.

I am excited. Tomorrow I am taking two of my grandchildren to the movies to see the Smurfs ( 3d of course ). Hence this is where the tub of buttered popcorn comes in!!! Yummy.

John MacLeod

Debbie,

Be sure to let us know if you see double after the three-D movie.  Inquiring minds need to know if there is still only one Smurfette.  Something odd about that.  Great grist for conspiracy therories.  Maybe it is like an ant colony or bee hive.  Only one queen and the rest are just workers.  Kind of like our house.  There is "She Who Must Be Obeyed" and myself "Mister Humble Step and Fetch". 

Have a big bucket of buttered popcorn. 

John

Lyn McKinney (McGraw)

I soon will add the orchestra pictures.  Mark I miss you so very much.  John I wish I could come over and visit you and Vickie.  We are so very lonely over here ino Camano Island.

Debra Moore (Murga)

John

You are too funny. I ALWAYS see double, so I guess you can say I see double double. I remember the smurfs from what was it?? the 80's but really did not actually watch them per say. Yes there is still only one smurfette. Evidently she was sent there by the evil villian who is trying to get them to over empower them from the inside. Instead she turned against him and stayed with the smurfs. Looks like she could have her pick of any of them she wants. But I think she has a little crush on "clumbsie". In any even it was a cute movie and the popcorn was a flying. Prescious moments with my grandchildren...

John MacLeod

Debbie,

Glad to hear that you had a great time with the grandkids.  They must be at the pre-juvenile delinquent stage of their lives.  That is just about the time we become the village idiot in their eyes.  We just don't understand, we were born old and times have changed.  I am still amazed at how much my folks learned between my 16th birthday and my 21st birthday.  Sometimes I yearn for those thrilling days of yesteryear when I knew it all.  Maybe I still do but I just can't remember.

Went through some boxes yesterday looking for my Sharples annual.  It is around here.  Seems I forgot to equip it with a locator beacon.

John MacLeod

Lyn,

Sorry to hear about your feelings of lonelieness.  As you know I go through my bouts of the winter time blues.  My getting out and interacting with others sure helps.  My gift of gab can be a plus or a minus, depending on who happens to be on the recieving end.  I've never met a fence post that I couldn't talk into submission.

Just a couple thoughts here that might help and I am sure that you have already thought of them.  I figure that when we retire we have to have something to fill the void of eight hours of work and interacting with others.

I know a number of people around here who volunteer at the food bank.  We also have our voluteer fire department, a quilters group, community events group, red hat society, communtiy theatrical group, several book clubs, gardening club and always church committees.  Just a matter of which one might fit you and your expertise.  We have a lot of retirees in our community and I've been told that is what keeps them from going bonkers.

Coming to visit is always an option.  Just a matter of finding the right time.  Even if we meet for lunch in Port Townsend or something like that.

Ooh, Ooh.  27 wunnerful, wunnerful years with "She Who Must Be Obeyed" tomorrow.

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Okay everyone, I officially have old timers.  Somehow, we have Katie Neupert listed in our In Memory section.  I can only assume that someone told us that she had passed, but I have no idea who that might be.  In researching, I find that Katherine E. Neupert is still listed as a property owner in Lake City and there is no record in the Washington State Digital Archives of her death.  So, does anyone have any contact with Katie and can you straighten this out for me.  Getting old is so much fun as everything is new all over again. Please Help.

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

BTW, I just found the button to change the protocol so that the newest post is at the top.  This was requested long ago by Karen Kummerfeldt and I forgot to do anything about it 'til now.

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Okay, perhaps I just answered my own question.  Found an old email from Bob Temples circa 2006 with a married name for Katie Neupert of Lloyd.  I did find a death record for Katherine E Lloyd.

John MacLeod

Nancy,

Your tooooo fast.  The Katie Neupert in Lake City is around 36 yrs old.  Sue Niven said in one of her messages to the board that Katie's cousin used to be their paperboy.  Thought that might be a link to follow.  But it seems that you have already answered the question.

Eldon (Don ) Larson does indeed live in Poulsbo and is a dentist.  I will call him and see if he is our Don Larson.  I don't remember him, so his photo at his website doesn't trigger any memory.  He appears to be in the right age catagory.

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Thanks John:

Don Larson is pictured next to Julia Laranang on the upper left corner of one of the annual pages.  We didn't number them back then so I can't give you a page number.  If however you still have your senior annual, you should be able to see a picture of our Don Larson from back then.  Of course given our failing eyesight, that may not help.

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Happy Anniversary John and Victoria. 

Brenda Riddock

Hello everyone,

     So....  I found this old Sharples yearbook in a box I was looking through yesterday.  I see that someone has asked for it to be posted.  Here you are...  I scanned it and posted on my profile page.  Enjoy, it is pretty funny.  I hope everyone is well,  I am in town for a few days then back to Alaska to finish the cruise season.  I will be back in town end of September and will check in again.  Best to all....

     Brenda

Debra Moore (Murga)

Brenda,

I was looking in the Sharples yearbook. That is the saddest picture I have even seen of myself. Awe memories. But... I asked for it so there it is.

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Hello Everyone:

Did anyone know Pat Ozaki particularly well?  Connie has turned up info on one Patricia Lynn Ozaki Haug born 11/17/1949 who passed away in Texas in 2004.  We think it may be our gal but would like some confirmation.