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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,