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on July 6, 1927
in Deventer, The
Netherlands, to
Marcel and Wil-
helmina (Bieck-
mann) Gyswyt.
He married
Rita (Dragt)
Gyswyt on June
4, 1955 in Cal- Hans
gary, Alberta, Gyswyt
Canada.
He served in the Royal Dutch
Navy from 1945 to 1948 as a ra-
dio operator and later worked 31
years as a mechanical engineer for
The Boeing Company.
Mr. Gyswyt enjoyed sailing,
camping, traveling, reading and
his grandchildren.
Surviving are wife Rita J. Gysw-
yt of Shelton; daughters Wilma J.
Flanagan and Johanne R. Vahala,
both of Spokane; son Marcel H.
Gyswyt of Golden Valley, Min-
nesota; son HansJohn Gyswyt of
Buckley; and eight grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held
at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, contributions
may be sent to Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center, J5-200,
P.O. Box 19024, Seattle, 98109-
1024.
Arrangements are under the di-
rection of McComb Funeral Home
in Shelton.
Obituaries A sign of. cosmic pl"()pc rti,)00
H Gyswyt F;an P con (Continued from page 1.)find is a meteorite crater, D'Alelio later worked as a fi.e
miles from Havre, Montana, to and Mainwaring plan to name clan for a company the.,
ans G. ces . Ba look at their discovery. D Alelio it after Les and Karen Bender, ray machines, then wol"
said they checked with the U.S. a Montana couple who came to electronics technician q
Hans G Gyswyt, a native of o eHsraS GeologicalSurvey, orUSGS, and their rescue after the Mule suf- in Boston. ,1
Holland who had a three-decade
there was no record of it. fered exhaust problems. Mainwaring, 31, pl.:
career as a mechanical engineer ageo After loading up the Mule, as The Benders towed the two roll at Saint Martin's
for Boeing, died of cancer-related
causes on Friday, July 6, at his A graveside service will be held they call D Alelio's former ibur- men in the Mule in the pouring and study history, aisle'
door Saturn that's been trans- rain all 96 miles to Havre, where tually to teach. He re,
home in Shelton. at the Harstine Island Cemetery formed into a dune buggy which they could get parts to fix the the Army after being w
He was 80 and a today, Thursday, July 12, at 11 he uses for mushroom hunting rig. a mortarroundin Iraq
resident of Shel- a.m. Arrangements are by Me- in the Olympic Mountains in the The Benders then put the 2003. He grew up in tidal
ton for 19 years. Comb Funeral Home in Shelton. fall, they eyeballed the crater, twosome up in their house, fed mento area of Califo!e
He was born A full obitary will appear in which measures some 1.7 miles them dinner and let them stay lived in Lacey three y:
next week's Journal. from rim to rim and is 600 feet the night. "They're a real testa- has a wife and three cld
Mitchell G. Calvert
Mitchell G. Calvert, a Shelton
resident, died Tuesday, July 3, at
his home. He was 48. Arrange-
ments are by McComb Funeral
Home.
Sharon L. Maddox
Sharon L. Maddox, a Shelton
resident, died Saturday, July 7, at
Shelton Health and Rehabilitation
Center. She was 57. Arrangements
are by McComb Funeral Home in
Shelton.
Maria M. Bolster
Maria M. Bolster, a Shelton
resident, died Saturday, July 7,
at Shelton Health and Rehabilita-
tion. She was 92. Arrangements
are by McComb Funeral Home in
Shelton.
Cynthia A. Hall
Cynthia Ann Hall, a Shelton
resident, died Thursday, July 5, at
Mason General Hospital in Shel-
ton. She was 53. Arrangements
are by McComb Funeral Home in
Shelton.
County calls for wastewater bids
(Continued from page 9.)
while bids for the Rustlewood
project are due by 2 p.m. on
Wednesday, August 1. Bids for
both projects must be submitted
to the clerk's office. Contracts
for these two projects will be an-
nounced at a later date.
• Authorized Charlie Butros of
the Department of Public Works
to sign the membership applica-
tion with Westcare Clinic to pro-
vide physical examinations re-
quired to maintain a commercial
driver's license and any other
medical examinations requested
by his office.
• Authorized an agreement to
establish the requirements for
federal aid projects and release
the federal funds to the county
for the Purdy Cut OffRoad Over-
lay Maintenance Project.
• Authorized a resolution clos-
ing Clifton Lane from 6:30 to 9
p.m. on August ii for the "Taste
of Hood Canal."
• Authorized an agreement
with the Washington State De-
partment of Transportation al-
lowing the closure of Sunnyside
Road and the use of the Skokom-
ish River Road as a detour route
during work on U.S. Highway
101. The work is anticipated to
occur over a 10-day period in Oc-.
tober.
* Authorized a supplemental
agreement with Integrity Struc-
tural Engineering, increasing
the maximum payable amount
to $45,000. This will allow the
company to continue providing
the county with bridge consult-
ing and on-call engineering ser-
vices.
• Extended an agreement
with Don Small and Sons Oil of
Shelton for gasoline, diesel and
heating fuel to May 31, 2008.
We, individually and as a family, would like to ex-
press our deepest and most sincere thanks for the
sacrifice of love and time and personal resources you
have given to our family during this time of the loss
of our most precious Will. Thank you for your gifts,
thank you for your love and your expressions of sup-
port, as well as the compassion and understanding
which you have showered on all of us. We continue
to grieve for the loss of our son as we know many
of you do, for he touched many, either directly or
indirectly, and we share with you our most grateful
thanks for loving and caring for him and for us. We
appreciate the opportunity to talk and share mem-
ories with all who have known us and/or our son.
Thank you for allowing his memory to remain alive
in all our lives.
With God's grace,
Bill and Leslee and Jordan McComb,
Kaylee and Rand Wagner,
Rachel and Royal Lovingfoss,
Joanna and Jon Williams
Page 10 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday. July 12, 2007
deep. ment to the people of Montana," The two friends lil
They collected rock samples D'Alelio said. "It's a real lost out in the Mule for oi
from the area and plan to have community out there." way places, where they!
them tested at the University of D'Alelio, 34, is studying cam- hunt, camp, look for fat
Washington for the presence of puter science at Saint Martin's now, meteorite cratel
iridium, an element found in me- University and is thinking about summer, they plan to ct
teorites, as well as for "shocked switching majors to geology. He to the crater and spend
quartz," caused by the heat and said he thinks there are three of weeks in the area.
pressure when a meteor hits the other secondary impact craters As for the significant
ground, in the general vicinity some 100 find, Mainwaring sa
Results from the rock samples miles around the large crater, have been more people
will also give then a definitive HE HAS BEEN living in gone into outer space tJ
idea as to the age of the cra- Shelton for the past three years, discovered meteorite cr
ter, D'Alelio said. For now, he's where he has family. Fossil hunt- "Your name will alwl
guessing the crater is a fairly ing is a serious hobby, he said, the history books now,'i
young one, from 10,000 to 50,000 adding he's also a rock hound "We found something
years old. who is passionate about geology, this Earth that ] 9ovl,
IF THE USGS confirms their He joined the Navy at age 17, discovered before."
Book highligk00c:s famou,, fj()I
(Continued from page 2.)
eration Mason County resi-
dent, longtime president of the
historical society and author of
several books on Mason Coun-
ty. His books include Oakland
to Shelton: The Sawdust Trail
on the pioneer period of Mason
County from the 1850s to 1890s;
Log Towns, about railroad log-
ging of old growth from 1889 to
1910; Shelton's Boom: The Clas-
sic Years about industrialization
from 1910 to 1933; and Beast
Man about John Tornow.
HE HAS ALSO penned two
short works for The Journal: A
Short History of Mason County
for the 150th anniversary of the
county in 2004 and Orre Nobles
and the Artist Colony on Hood
Canal, a subject on which he is
currently writing a book.
His keen interest in local his-
tory comes from his family. His
namesake landed in the Hood
Canal area in the late 1850s and
worked as a carpenter. After
serving in Vietnam from 1969
to 1970, the author earned a
bachelor of arts in psychology in
1974 from Central Washington
State College and then a master
of fine arts in creative writing
from the University of Arizona
in 1978.
For the pictorial book he has
drawn upon the historical soci-
ety's archives and personal col-
lections, from glass-plate nega-
tives to local logging company
photographs, to illustrate the
canal's history. He regards the
book as a present to Hood Canal
that he and the historical soci-
ety are delighted to give.
His inspiration for the book
was the fragile state of the canal
he has loved since he was a boy.
Hood Canal is an endangered
ecosystem with water-quality is-
sues, and many newer residents
are uninformed about the 150-
year history of settlement.
TO RESEARCH the book, he
selected photos from the histori-
cal society, local residents and
former inhabitants who have
since moved, then collected in-
formation by interviewing people
and reading newspapers, books,
letters and land title records.
Fredson said this is the first
book to look at the history of
the canal, not just bits of it. In-
cluded are photos of Union from
i Ill i 11
Dr. Mark Corley
I II
Dr. Mark Corley passed away on July
2, 2007 after a long illness.
Please join the family for a celebra-
tion of his life of dedication to friends
and community. Everyone is welcome
to visit an open house in remembrance
of Dr. Corley to be held at Harmony Hill
on Monday, July 16, 2007, from 5 p.m.
to 9 p.m.
Harmony Hill
7362 E. Hwy. 106
Union, WA 98592
(360) 898-2363
www.harmonyhill.org
Our family would like to thank Mason
General Hospital, the community and
all those who kept Dr. Corley in their
thoughts and prayers over the past 16
months. A deep gratitude goes out to
everyone who sent cards and letters to
brighten his days.
-- Paid obituary notice --
1893, before the McRe$
sEen was built in 1890.
can enjoy photos of ear[
such as Madrona and All
Inn. The artist colony.t
Canal, with Orre No! r
Waldo Chase, also is exZ
Author Michael
will sign copies of//
nal from 1:30 to 3'
Friday, July 27, at
grounds museum dm
Mason County Fair. T
will be $21.65 with tm
be available at the do1
museum from July
at the fairgrounds z
during the fair July
Hood Canal is alsd
able from the histori¢
ety by mail for anotb
for postage and h$
Those who want to d
by mail through the
may send $24.15 to
P.O. Box 1366,
98584.
FRAMEWORN
Funerals perform th
,moorta function of p
mm.v rv mbers a, ld frii
me aec, sed with an
aT exaression and a
mecnan m for their gl
bereavement. The cere
ritual may not relieve
of arief, nor even necd
rei=eve the sense o{
emotiness, Ionelines!
desoair, but it does nro
framework of sac al s!
that is life-affirming. Fu
create a structure that
the bereaved a wm of b
the past reiat=ol she
the aeo =sed to a cla
oeginnin! l a transition
future, eally, f ler=l
orovide omfort and
osvcnoic ical support t,
mn oenl irl by sanctifyi
life and ,elationsips
person who has passer
Those who have expel
the loss a loved €ne d
solace in the commema
of the passing. At Mcl
FUNERAL HOME, W!
honor your wishes regl
how you want to hon4
memory of the deceasd
detail is too large r toe
for us to h :mdle, C =nta
426-4803. We will clnd
meeting. Let us also at
a tour of our facility €i
Railroad Avenue, "WE
honor your requests.
Quote: "Death is the
Key that opens the pal
, It
Joh
Obituaries * sign of. cosmi00 prc,portio00
- (Continued from page 1.) find is a meteorite crater, D Alelio later worked as a fi_e r
' " miles from Havre, Montana, to and Mainwaring plan to name clan for a company tl,
Hans
G.
Gyswyt
Fr
ances P. Bacon look at their discovery. D'Alelio it after Les and Karen Bender, ray machines, then wol"
said they checked with the U.S. a Montana couple who came to electronics technician 11[
• " i '
Hans G. Gyswyt, a native of Frances Pauline Baconi a Harst- Geological Survey, or USGS, and their rescue after the Mule suf- n Boston. ,11
Holland who had a three-decade ine Island resident, died Tuesday, there was no record of it. fered exhaust problems. Mainwaring, 31, ply. J,
career as a mechanical engineer July 10, in Shelton at the age of After loading up the Mule, as The Benders towed the two roll at Saint Martin'l
for Boeing, died of cancer-related 85.
causes on Friday, July 6, at his A graveside service will be held they call D Alelio's former four- men in the Mule in the pouring and study history, aisle_
door Saturn that s been trans- rain all 96 miles to Havre, where tually to teach. He ret e
home in Shelton. at the Harstine Island Cemetery formed into a dune buggy which they could get parts to fix the the Army after being w
He was 80 and a today, Thursday, July 12, at 11 he uses for mushroom hunting rig. a mortarroundin Iraq
resident of Shel- a•m. Arrangements are by Mc- in the Olympic Mountains in the The Benders then put the 2003. He grew up in t
ton for 19 years. Comb Funeral Home in Shelton. fall, they eyeballed the crater, twosome up in their house, fed mento area of Califo!e
which measures some 1.7 miles them dinner and let them stay
A full obitary will appear in
next week's Journal.
Mitchell G. Calvert
Mitchell G. Calvert, a Shelton
resident, died Tuesday, July 3, at
his home. He was 48. Arrange-
ments are by McComb Funeral
Home.
Sharon L. Maddox
Sharon L. Maddox, a Shelton
resident, died Saturday, July 7, at
Shelton Health and Rehabilitation
Center. She was 57. Arrangements
are by McComb Funeral Home in
Shelton.
Maria M. Bolster
Maria M. Bolster, a Shelton
resident, died Saturday, July 7,
at Shelton Health and Rehabilita-
tion. She was 92. Arrangements
are by McComb Funeral Home in
Shelton.
Cynthia A. Hall
Cynthia Ann Hall, a Shelton
resident, died Thursday, July 5, at
Mason General Hospital in Shel-
ton. She was 53. Arrangements
are by McComb Funeral Home in
Shelton.
He was born
on July 6, 1927
in Deventer, The
Netherlands, to
Marcel and Wil-
helmina (Bieck-
mann) Gyswyt.
He married
Rita (Dragt)
Gyswyt on June
4, 1955 in Cal- Hans
gary, Alberta, Gyswyt
Canada.
He served in the Royal Dutch
Navy from 1945 to 1948 as a ra-
dio operator and later worked 31
years as a mechanical engineer for
The Boeing Company.
Mr. Gyswyt enjoyed sailing,
camping, traveling, reading and
his grandchildren.
Surviving are wife Rita J. Gysw-
yt of Shelton; daughters Wilma J.
Flanagan and Johanne R. Vahala,
both of Spokane; son Marcel H.
Gyswyt of Golden Valley, Min-
nesota; son HansJohn Gyswyt of
Buckley; and eight grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held
at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, contributions
may be sent to Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center, J5-200,
P.O. Box 19024, Seattle, 98109-
1024.
Arrangements are under the di-
rection of McComb Funeral Home
in Shelton. .
County calls for wastewater bids
p.m. on August ii for the "Taste
of Hood Canal."
• Authorized an agreement
with the Washington State De-
partment of Transportation al-
lowing the closure of Sunnyside
Road and the use of the Skokom-
ish River Road as a detour route
during work on U.S. Highway
101. The work is anticipated to
occur over a 10-day period in Oc-.
tober.
* Authorized a supplemental
agreement with Integrity Struc-
tural Engineering, increasing
the maximum payable amount
to $45,000. This will allow the
company to continue providing
the county with bridge consult-
ing and on-call engineering ser-
vices.
• Extended an agreement
with Don Small and Sons Oil of
Shelton for gasoline, diesel and
heating fuel to May 31, 2008.
I I I
(Continued from page 9.)
while bids for the Rustlewood
project are due by 2 p.m. on
Wednesday, August 1. Bids for
both projects must be submitted
to the clerk's office. Contracts
for these two projects will be an-
nounced at a later date.
• Authorized Charlie Butros of
the Department of Public Works
to sign the membership applica-
tion with Westcare Clinic to pro-
vide physical examinations re-
quired to maintain a commercial
driver's license and any other
medical examinations requested
by his office.
• Authorized an agreement to
establish the requirements for
federal aid projects and release
the federal funds to the county
for the Purdy Cut OffRoad Over-
lay Maintenance Project.
• Authorized a resolution clos-
ing Clifton Lane from 6:30 to 9
i ii
We, individually and as a family, would like to ex-
press our deepest and most sincere thanks for the
sacrifice of love and time and personal resources you
have given to our family during this time of the loss
of our most precious Will. Thank you for your gifts,
thank you for your love and your expressions of sup-
port, as well as the compassion and understanding
which you have showered on all of us. We continue
to grieve for the loss of our son as we know many
of you do, for he touched many, either directly or
indirectly, and we share with you our most grateful
thanks for loving and caring for him and for us. We
appreciate the opportunity to talk and share mem-
ories with all who have known us and/or our son.
Thank you for allowing his memory to remain alive
in all our lives.
With God's grace,
Bill and Leslee and Jordan McComb,
Kaylee and Rand Wagner,
Rachel and Royal Lovingfoss,
Joanna and Jan Williams
I
Page 10 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 12, 2007
from rim to rim and is 600 feet
deep•
They collected rock samples
from the area and plan to have
them tested at the University of
Washington for the presence of
iridium, an element found in me-
teorites, as well as for "shocked
quartz," caused by the heat and
pressure when a meteor hits the
ground.
Results from the rock samples
will also give then a definitive
idea as to the age of the cra-
ter, D'Alelio said. For now, he's
guessing the crater is a fairly
young one, from 10,000 to 50,000
years old.
IF THE USGS confirms their
the night. "They're a real testa-
ment to the people of Montana,"
D'Alelio said. "It's a real lost
community out there."
D'Alelio, 34, is studying com-
puter science at Saint Martin's
University and is thinking about
switching majors to geology. He
said he thinks there are three
other secondary impact craters
in the general vicinity some 100
miles around the large crater.
HE HAS BEEN living in
Shelton for the past three years,
where he has family. Fossil hunt-
ing is a serious hobby, he said,
adding he's also a rock hound
who is passionate about geology.
He joined the Navy at age 17,
lived in Lacey three YI
has a wife and three c h
The two friends li
out in the Mule for oi
way places, where they!
hunt, camp, look for foJ
now, meteorite crate!
summer, they plan to &
to the crater and spend
of weeks in the area.
As for the significant
find, Mainwaring sa
have been more people
gone into outer space t]
discovered meteorite crt
"Your name will alwl
the history books now,':i
"We found something
this Earth that peopli
discovered before."
Book highli00,st].ts famous fjo00
(Continued from page 2.)
eration Mason County resi-
dent, longtime president of the
historical society and author of
several books on Mason Coun-
ty. His books include Oakland
to Shelton: The Sawdust Trail
on the pioneer period of Mason
County from the 1850s to 1890s;
Log Towns, about railroad log-
ging of old growth from 1889 to
1910; Shelton's Boom: The Clas-
sic Years about industrialization
from 1910 to 1933; and Beast
Man about John Tornow.
HE RAS ALSO penned two
short works for The Journal: A
Short History of Mason County
for the 150th anniversary of the
county in 2004 and Orre Nobles
and the Artist Colony on Hood
Canal, a subject on which he is
currently writing a book.
His keen interest in local his-
tory comes from his family. His
namesake landed in the Hood
Canal area in the late 1850s and
worked as a carpenter. After
serving in Vietnam from 1969
to 1970, the author earned a
bachelor of arts in psychology in
1974 from Central Washington
State College and then a master
of fine arts in creative writing
from the University of Arizona
in 1978.
For the pictorial book he has
drawn upon the historical soci-
ety's archives and personal col-
lections, from glass-plate nega-
tives to local logging company
photographs, to illustrate the
canal's history. He regards the
book as a present to Hood Canal
that he and the historical soci-
ety are delighted to give.
His inspiration for the book
was the fragile state of the canal
he has loved since he was a boy.
Hood Canal is an endangered
ecosystem with water-quality is-
sues, and many newer residents
are uninformed about the 150-
year history of settlement.
TO RESEARCH the book, he
selected photos from the histori-
cal society, local residents and
former inhabitants who have
since moved, then collected in-
formation by interviewing people
and reading newspapers, books,
letters and land title records.
Fredson said this is the first
book to look at the history of
the canal, not just bits of it. In-
cluded are photos of Union from
I II
Dr. Mark Cow l, ey
Dr. Mark Corley passed away on July
2, 2007 after a long illness.
Please join the family for a celebra-
tion of his life of dedication to friends
and community. Everyone is welcome
to visit an open house in remembrance
of Dr. Corley to be held at Harmony Hill
on Monday, July 16, 2007, from 5 p.m.
to 9 p.m.
Harmony Hill
7362 E. Hwy. 106
Union, WA 98592
(360) 898-2363
www.harmonyhill.org
Our family would like to thank Mason
General Hospital, the community and
all those who kept Dr. Corley in their
thoughts and prayers over the past 16
months. A deep gratitude goes out to
everyone who sent cards and letters to
brighten his days.
-- Paid obituary notice
I
1893, before the McReii
sion was built in 1890.
can enjoy photos of earl
such as Madrona and A1
Inn. The artist colony
Canal, with Orre No]
Waldo Chase, also is ex
Author Michael |
will sign copies of/
nal from 1:30 to 3
Friday, July 27, at
grounds museum duZ
Mason County Fair.
will be $21.65 with taJ
be available at the do1
museum from July
at the fairgrounds
during the fair July J
Hood Canal is alsd
able from the historic
ety by mail for anotb
for postage and h
Those who want to d
by mail through the
may send $24.15 to
P.O. Box 1366,
98584.
by Bill & Leslee Mc
A"Fi'A''UM!00
FRAMEWORI
Funerals perform th
important function of pr
family members and M
the deceased with anlJ
of expression and a!
mechanism for their gr
bereavement• The cerel
ritual may not relieve t
of grief, nor even nec
relieve the sense o
emptiness, Ionelines
despair, but it does pr
framework of social s
that is life-affirming• Fd
create a structure that
the bereaved a way of b{
the past relationshi|
the deceased to a clo
beginning a transition
future. Ideally, funer¢
provide comfort andi
psychological support tO
left behind by sanctifyii
life and relationships
person who has passe€
Those who have expe
the loss of a loved oneCd
solace in the commem¢
• At Me(
of the passing.
FUNERAL HOME, W!
honor your wishes reg
how you want to hon
memory of the decease
detail is too large or rod
for us to handle, Contad
426-4803. We will a
meeting. Let us also at
a tour of our facility €l
Railroad Avenue, WE
honor your requests.
Quote: "Death is the
key that opens the pal
eternity."
Joh,