DHS Class of '63 Newsletter

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The following have been gleaned from the "Class Family Tree" web form found on this site, as well as numerous emails sent to Mary Burslie Davis regarding this project. If you have not yet filled out the form, please do so. Your classmates would love to read about your roots (or lack of same) in The Dalles. These are presented in no particular order, and hopefully are complete and as intended by the various respondees. Candy Smith Larreau Bothell, WA I was the youngest of 4 kids all born & raised in The Dalles, in fact my grandmother on my dad's side was born and raised in The Dalles. I was always quite shy as a kid but at the age of 31 I decided to get over that- I'm now quite outgoing. I met Randy Larreau, from Moses Lake, before my Sr. year and we were married 2 1/2 weeks after I graduated from TDHS. We have lived in various parts of WA. state since leaving The Dalles in '63. As we got pg right away and had our first a little over 9 months after we got married, we decided to continue and have our family young - all 6 kids were born by the time I was 29. Now we have 24 grandchildren and figure we will probably have 8 more before the kids are done. Our children have worked hard and we have 2 attorneys, 1 Dentist (a Capt. in the Airforce), 1 boss in the building trade, 1 a top underground operator, and 1 full time mom (the 10th kid on the way). For years we had our own construction companies, from Landscaping to land development, to house building so I usually worked from our home in our own businesses, thus never having to put our kids in any kind of daycare. Mostly I was the bookkeeper/accountant, but checked grade, drove dumptruck, purchases materials, whatever I was needed for. Randy & I spent a lot of years working hard raising kids and running businesses, after the kids were all grown and out of the house Randy and I have continued to be close. In 1995 we decided to buy a 30' sailboat and for a few years spent a lot of time sailing in the San Juan Islands, although we still had a construction business. We love to sail, and decided to build a steel sailboat. Randy and I are still building our 39' steel sailboat and will live aboard and cruise when it is done. It has taken 4 years so far as we closed out our construction business and Randy works long hours as a construction boss for another company. (We closed the business so we would have more time to boatbuild - that didn't work too good) We build on the boat whenever we have a few minutes. We are hoping to have her finished within another 2 years. I don't work out of the home as my job right now is to help on the boat building - when Randy is home we work together on lots of things but when he is working, besides being a go-for, I chip, brush, grind, and clean, etc. - on the boat, whatever I can do. Although I don't weld, I am getting quite good at finish grinding with my 4 1/2" DeWalt grinder. Besides boat building I enjoy the grandkids which live in this area - talking on the phone with the ones out of town, visiting/talking with our kids, mowing the lawn, gardening, crocheting, reading, shopping, my church callings, ironing, emailing, and all the many things a housewife does.

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