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SEAN MATTHEW DOYLE
Sean Matthew Doyle, 30, passed away on December 28, 2005, in Sequim.
He was born October 12, 1975, in Lakewood, Washington, the son of Cindy Crooks and Fred Doyle.
He attended Sunset Preschool, University Place Elementary, Charles Wright Academy, Curtis High School and Clover Park.
After high school, he resided in Humptulips and, most recently, Sequim.
He enjoyed soccer, baseball, skiing, Boy Scouts and was active in Cascade Ski School and Junior Golf at Fircrest Golf Club.
He loved skateboarding, his go-kart, swimming in his grandparents' pool and cats.
Sean's fascination with cars started as soon as he held his first Matchbox toy car. He restored vintage cars and did custom painting and body work.
He was an excellent mechanic and could fix anything related to cars. His dream was to have his own body shop.
Sean had a good heart and a desire to help others. If anyone needed or wanted something, he would find a way to give it to them.
His mother was proud and grateful to have been a part of his life.
Sean loved to tease and laugh, and was the apple of his grandparents' eye (Bill and Bobbe Crooks). His grandparents were another set of parents to him and his passing will leave a void in their lives.
Sean was preceded in death by his grandmother, Helen Doyle of Vashon Island, Washington.
He is survived by his mother, Cindy Crooks of Anchorage, Alaska; father, Fred Doyle of Sequim; grandparents, Bill and Bobbe Crooks of Fircrest, Washington; Aunt and Uncle Pam and Wayne Binns, and cousins, Chas and Julia, all of Anchorage, Alaska; Aunt and Uncle Delores and Bill Brice of Vashon, Washington; Aunt and Uncle Joann and David Doyle of Port Orchard, Washington; and Godmother Lynne Rieger of San Rafael, California
He is also survived by special love, Carrie Hoyle of Aberdeen, Washington; brother and sister Galen and Lucy Pazar, originally of Olympia, Washington; and many other relatives and friends who loved him.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, January 5, at 1 p.m. at University Place Presbyterian Church, 8101 27th St. W., University Place.
Arrangements made by Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel in Port Angeles.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Sean's name to a drug prevention program or a rehabilitation clinic for methamphetamine addiction.
Sean is now at peace, but will forever live on in our hearts.
GEORGE P. WOOD
George Patrick Wood of Port Angeles, the son of a British pioneering family, died at home on December 31, 2005, of congestive heart failure. He was 91.
George's working life was spent in the pulp and paper mills of the region, but his life's work was his family.
Born in the district of Poplar, London, England, on May 25, 1914, he came to Port Angeles in 1928 with his father, Capt. George S.J. Wood, and mother, Maryann Brennan Wood.
He attended the then-new Queen of Angels School and Roosevelt High School, where he was a letterman in football, playing both offense and defense.
In high school, he also met his life companion, Darleen Goodrich, with whom he shared 66 years of marriage.
George entered the mills as a laborer in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression in America.
During the following years, he progressed to become a union executive, eventually as president of the regional Pacific Coast Employees Association. He finished his working career in management as Personnel and Safety Supervisor and Public Relations Officer for Crown Zellerbach Corp. in Port Angeles.
For 18 years, he was a member of the Civil Service Commission for the city of Port Angeles.
Although he played cricket and soccer as a young boy in England, he excelled at the sporting life in the United States. Besides his high-school football letter he played shortstop on the mill baseball team.
He also reveled in the outdoor activities the Peninsula provided -- hunting, fishing and camping. For many years the family spent part of every summer at Crescent Beach, Kalaloch, and various West End camping areas.
After his baseball playing days, he became very active in the early Little League organization. He helped in the construction of the local ball fields and five members of one of his teams became league all-stars.
Like many other families, George's parents suffered difficult times during the economic Depression of the 1930s. Often, it was only his skill at hunting and fishing and his physical endurance at odd-job manual labor that put food on the family table for his mother and father.
By 1939, he felt confident that his job on the paint crew at the mill was permanent enough to permit him to marry Darleen on Dec. 22, and for them to take up their own household.
Then Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, changing his life again.
On a wartime emergency basis he went to work at the Bremerton shipyards -- the only period of his adult life when he lived away from Port Angeles.
The war years were followed by a long period of family development. His parents died within a year of each other in 1944 and 1945.
The birth of his children, Gina (1941), Joey (1943), George (1944), Patrick (1948) and Sam (1960) were the focus of family life, but the tumultuous labor-management confrontations at the mill also took up a significant share of George's time.
In 1964, he led the breakaway Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers at the Crown Zellerbach mill. After the resulting strike was settled with George as chairman of the negotiating committee, the independent union won its first contract.
After retirement in August 1976, he wrote occasional articles for the Peninsula Daily News about the lively -- and sometimes illegal -- life of early Port Angeles as a logging and fishing town.
During his lifetime, he was also an active member of the Naval Lodge of Elks, the Eagles, the Lions and Kiwanis clubs and the Knights of Columbus. He was a Past Faithful Navigator of the Father Alcuin Lawrence Assembly.
A skilled woodworker, he made furniture for his family and toys for his grandchildren.
In later years he was a Hospice Volunteer and enjoyed regular coffee sessions with friends at the Senior Center.
During his later years, he compiled for his family a memoir in which he recorded some of his knowledge and experience. He wrote that his joy of life was always tempered by the remembrances of his times.
For his 90th birthday last year, the Wood family children, all of whom were raised and educated in Port Angeles, hosted a celebration of George's life that brought more than 100 friends and relatives to wish him well.
From his own memories of the region, and with his natural gift as a storyteller, he entertained all at the event with reminiscences and humorous anecdotes of his life and times.
Until very recently, he was still active and able to visit friends and relatives. He was happy and competent to be able to renew his driver's license at age 90.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Nell Barclay, in 1988.
George Wood is survived by his wife, Darleen; his daughters and their spouses, Georgina and Mack Campbell and Elizabeth and George Dawson; his sons and their spouses, George and Cheri Wood, Patrick and Demarie Wood and Samuel and Arlene Wood; as well as 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at Queen of Angels Church, 11th and Oak streets, Port Angeles, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 7, 2006.
A reception will follow in the St. Ann Room.
The family requests in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hospice of Clallam County or to the Queen of Angels School.
Dudley Wayne Dunlap
Feb. 6, 1917 -- Dec. 15, 2005
Dudley Wayne Dunlap of Port Angeles died in Chimacum of congestive heart failure at age 88.
A member of the founding family of Carlsborg, Mr. Dunlap was born in Kooskia, Idaho, to Percy and Henrietta Wilfred Sidonia (Keith) Dunlap. The family soon moved to Carlsborg and Dudley became the oldest of nine children.
He graduated from Sequim High School in 1936 and served with the Army at Fort Lewis.
He worked for Port Angeles City Light until retirement at age 55.
Mr. Dunlap, who liked to travel, visited 49 of the 50 states; he also enjoyed hiking and fishing.
He married
Lola May ``Dolly" Fraser on Oct. 28, 1939. She preceded him in death. They had no children.
Survivors include brothers Lynn Dunlap of Carlsborg and Gene Dunlap of Keyport.
Services: At his request, none. Olympic Cremation Association, Port Angeles, was in charge of arrangements.
Reginald Darwin Edwards
Dec. 6, 1928 -- Jan. 1, 2006
Port Angeles resident Reginald Darwin Edwards died of emphysema at age 77.
He was born in Pine City, Iowa, to George and Hazel (Reedy) Edwards.
From 1946-48, he served in the Army, where he was a gunnery sergeant.
Mr. Edwards was the owner of Golden Crown Construction.
In addition to spending time with his family and friends, he enjoyed working on his fully restored 1966 Mercury convertible.
Mr. Edwards was a member of Eagles.
Survivors include sons Bruce Edwards and Mike Edwards, both of Port Angeles; daughter Kathy Stone of Loon Lake; sisters Billy and Carlee; and three grandchildren.
Services: None. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Ruth Hebron
May 5, 1914 -- Jan. 2, 2006
Ruth Hebron died in Sherwood Assisted Living, Sequim, at age 91.
Born in Webster City, Iowa, she was the daughter of Wilbur and Eva Jeanette (Thompson) Northup.
Services: Services will be held in Iowa at a later time, Drennan-Ford Funeral Home, Port Angeles, is in charge of local arrangements.
Nancy K. Leyendecker
March 3, 1953 -- Dec. 27, 2005
Former Forks resident Nancy K. Leyendecker died in Seattle at age 52.
She was born in Forks to Frank and Hazel (Kenoyer) Leyendecker Sr.
She was especially interested in being a friend.
Ms. Leyendecker is survived by brother and sister-in-law Frank and Joy Leyendecker, and brother and longtime companion Clark Leyendecker and Sandra Harrison of Forks; and sister and brother-in-law Patricia and Lakshman DeSilva of Seattle.
Services: Private in spring 2006. Bleitz Funeral Home, Seattle, is in charge.
Memorials: Charity of choice.
Edward Richard `Ed' Mullins Jr.
May 30, 1929 -- Dec. 21, 2005
Edward Richard ``Ed" Mullins Jr. died in Jefferson Healthcare, Port Townsend, of lung disease at age 76.
He was born in Urbana, Ill., to Edward Richard and Loretta N. (Kaler) Mullins.
Services: Thursday, Jan. 5, at 7:30 p.m., memorial in Elks Lodge, 555 Otto St., Port Townsend. Cremains were buried in the family plot at Illinois.
Kosec Funeral Home, Port Townsend, is in charge of arrangements.
Thelma R. Thurber
Dec. 6, 1916 -- Dec. 27, 2005
Port Angeles resident Thelma R. Thurber, 89, died of age-related causes.
She was born in Raton, N.M., to Charles Raymond and Ethel Ellen (Robinson) Blackburn.
During the 1920s, she moved from New Mexico to Port Angeles with her family.
She married
Albert Thurber in Idaho at April 1957. He died in January 2000.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law Robert and Sherrilyn Phillips of Sequim; stepson Lee Thurber of Ohio and stepson and stepdaughter-in-law Don and Ann Thurber of Oregon; daughter and son-in-law Susan Phillips and Daniel Blevins of Port Angeles; sister and brother-in-law Mary and Ed Donahue of Port Angeles; eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, those preceding Mrs. Thurber in death include sisters Helen Ackenhausen and Dorothy Dalton.
Services: At her request, none. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home, Port Angeles, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials: Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
