by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
They should have been used to cold weather for he was from Maine and she was from Nebraska and after their marriage they had spent six years in Alberta, Canada but none of those experiences prepared the Noble family for the chilling reception they received during...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
The handsome black haired boy with the snapping dark eyes hesitated on the steps of the Bayview school on the first day of the opening semester in September 1915. He wanted very much to go into the building and was excited at the prospect of starting school but he...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
He was just an ordinary man, unpolished, given to straight talk and to smoking a pipe; not the sort at first glance whom one would expect to be immortalized by having a waterfront park dedicated to him, but that is what happened to Phil Simon. He was noted for many...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
Ray Fossek’s daughter, Rae, married a man from Alabama, Vance Tillman, who now works as an accountant with a firm in Everett. Rae and Vance make their home on Sixth Street adjacent to the original Jensen family home. Especially for this Volume, Rae taped an interview...
by James Canby | Mar 2, 2022 | SW People & Families
When a woman who has been a busy wife and mother for over 20 years is left a widow in midlife with six grown and teen-age children it would be logical to assume she would slow her pace and settle down in the area to which she was accustomed. That is not what Louisa...
