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Name: Gail Millan <gailmillan@yahoo.com> Date: 2008-03-23 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because Relocating from Nevada How did you find this website? Sister lives in Sammamish Where are you from? Fernley, Nevada Comments:
My sister and her family love living in Washington! Been there 5 years and have invited us to stay with them as we look for a place to live.
The scenery is gorgeous and we can't wait. We will be there mid-April.
Name: Dale Davidson <Islanddale@centurytel.netBorn > Date: 2007-11-25 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because Born and attended school there How did you find this website? a friend Where are you from? Lopez Island Washington Comments:
I miss the Bums
Name: Paul M. Herrera <paul.herrera1@us.army.mil> Date: 2007-10-06 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I grew up there How did you find this website? On line Where are you from? Puyallup Comments:
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Name: alyssa <alyssa_albert@hotmail.com> Date: 2006-10-22 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because i live right next to it. How did you find this website? www.live.com Where are you from? washington Comments:
i like this site, its pretty neat!!
Name: Kay Davis <kaydavis@xtn.net> Date: 2005-10-03 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I think my uncle died there. How did you find this website? Where are you from? TN Comments:
I'm trying to locate information on Theodore H. Blevins. Any help would be appreciated.
This is his death and SS# information.
Name: Theodore H Blevins
Place of Death: King
Date of Death: 21 Dec 1993
Residence: King
Age: 69 years
Gender: M
SSN: 229-12-5093
Certificate: 036925
Name: Theodore H. Blevins
SSN: 229-12-5093
Last Residence: 98065 Snoqualmie, King, Washington, United States of America
Born: 12 Jul 1924
Died: 21 Dec 1993
State (Year) SSN issued: Virginia (Before 1951 )
Name: Vicki DeBoer <wannadanc@earthlink.net> Date: 2005-04-16 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I grew up in Upper Preston - and although I graduated from Issaquah High School (1957), I did work summers of my high school yea How did you find this website? Search engine looking up name of former teacher - James Satterlee Where are you from? Olympia Comments:
This certainly is one of the nicer community web sites I have happened upon! Of course it helps that have some connections - even though all blood lines have evaporated. My parents, Ray and Ruth DeBoer, passed away in 1987 - several months apart - and just short of their 50th. anniversary. My only sibling - John - lives in Indianapolis.
The only Mt. Si students that I met were ones that either worked at the hospital (Don Grinna, Barb Iness) - or those who found themselves as patients in the hospital.
Thank you for providing this wonderful site - full of nostalgia and appreciation for those days when life somehow seemed quite simple by comparison. Maybe it was simple, though, because I was a "kid" - and my only "job" then was to enjoy life. I am happy to say that I am in my second childhood now - retired and enjoying life.
Vicki
Name: Dian Babcock Talbott <KaianaDeeLorri@msn.com> Date: 2005-04-04 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I grew up on Highland Drive and I am collecting information about the people that lived there during the 40 and 50 mostly and hi How did you find this website? Searching for information about Snoqualmie Falls info. Where are you from? Camas, WA, Portland, OR and Snoqualmie Falls, WA and Seattle, WA Comments:
I decided a few years ago that I would like to collect information and history about Highland Drive and put it in a book with fun humerous stories about growing up there. My older brother, Alan and I were raised on H.D. by our grandmother and father. I have collected some fun stories and would also like to obtain some old Snoqualmie Records if anyone has some. And any information that anyone would like to share with me about people that have lived there also. P. O. Box 78514, Seattle, WA 98178 Mostly names, dates and what house they lived in. Thanks
Name: Janice Eby Barbeau <gwamma38@aol.com> Date: 2005-04-01 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because Lived there for 60 years. How did you find this website? Stumbled into it. Where are you from? Snoqualmie Gal Comments:
Just wanted to let people know that I only live in Kent. My mother, Martha "Marrie" Whipp Eby just passed, 21 Nov 04.My father, Walter "Ted" Eby passed in January 2001.
Name: Jody Wallace <jodylwallace@dslextreme.com> Date: 2004-11-16 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because My Grandparents lived there, and I'm ISO How did you find this website? GenWeb Where are you from? Norwalk, California Comments:
I was surprised to find a website for this town! Great!! My Dad was born there in 1929. Thanks and God Bless
Name: Frederick L Reinig <flnjhr@charter.net> Date: 2004-08-05 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because Of the Reinigs in that area How did you find this website? Friend sent it Where are you from? Bay City-Saginaw, Mich area Comments:
The Reinigs in the Valley came from Seattle, WA. Where did they come from before then---New York, Wisconsin or Michigan or ?????
Name: Larry Hoveland <larryhoveland366@msn.com> Date: 2004-07-08 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I grew up in North Bend How did you find this website? Just surfing Where are you from? Edmonds Wa Comments:
North Bend will always be home to me even though it's not the small cozy little town I remember growing up in during the mid 50's and early 60's. In fact I had a hard time finding the house my parents had built out past silver creek the first time I went looking for it. There were only a few houses on that road at that time and one was the Lutheran Church. I hope the Blue Hole is still unchanged, what a great place for a kid to swim and spend a warm summer afternoon.
Perhaps one of my old friends and or classmates will recognize my name and e-mail me. That would be nice.
Name: Kathy Kerr <kerrjk@earthlink.net> Date: 2004-04-13 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I attended schools and grew up here. How did you find this website? Sent web address by Jack Webber Where are you from? Highland Drive, Snoqualmie Comments:
Wonderful website!! Hope to see lots more info here. Can anyone send you information for it? Kathy
Name: Jack Webber <jackawebber@comcast.net> Date: 2004-04-12 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I live, work and play here How did you find this website? webmaster emailed my website Where are you from? Wyoming,Wash. North Bend,Snoq. Comments:
Great site. I will place a link to it from my Friends of Snqoualmie Valley www.friendsofsnoqualmievalley.org
Thanks for all your effort. Let's collaborate!
Jack
Name: Nichole Willhight <NicnGreg@comcast.net> Date: 2004-04-03 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I grew up there and so did my family Where are you from? North Bend Comments:
I need more information on the Berkebiles and the Willhights for genealogy.
Name: Frederick L. Reinig <flnjhr@charter.net> Date: 2004-01-01 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because Reinig Family from where?MIch?orNY How did you find this website? Someone sent it to son Where are you from? Michigan Comments:
Interested in Reinig Family, have info back to Germany, willing to share....Fred
Name: Lesa L. Robison - Hanners <robhan59@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-10-24 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because Born in Fall City 1959 How did you find this website? serfing the web Where are you from? Oregon Comments:
I was born in Fall City, fifth and youngest child of my father, and an identical twin. My father helped to deliver my sister and me in a small clinic there. Our doctor was Dr.Worthman a lady doctor. All of my other siblings were delivered at Nelms Memorial Hospital by Dr.Whitaker,with the exception of my youngest who was born in Belvue. My siblings born at Nelms were: Angelina Marie, Blaine Gerald, and Cheri Kay Robison. Also my half brother from my mothers second marriage was also born at Nelms. His name was Brent Madison Still. He was adopted by my mothers third husband and his name was changed to Brent Madison Thomas.
My parents, Wesley Gerald Robison and Yvonne Mary Genson were both of the "Valley", my mother being born there and my father arriving with his parents, Gerald "Shorty" Dawson Robison and Lillie Thompson-Robison, in the 1930's. My Robison grandparents owned a mink farm on the lower Cedar Falls Road and my grandfather also worked for the State of Washington Game Department trapping troublesome wild animals. He also worked as a logger. My maternal grandparents, George Elroy Genson and Edna Emogene Larson-Genson, lived in several different homes in and around Snoqualmie. He was a logger, she a housewife. They even lived for a time in a little tiny house behind his brothers, on the main road through Snoqualmie. His brother was Harry Nathaniel Genson with wife Ella Loise Sanford. I remember living there with all of my brothers and sisters and my widowed mother and how cramped it was living in a one bedroom house with my grandparents. I had five brothers and sisters by this time and what with the three adults it was very over crowded. I slept with my twin sister on a folded down couch in the tiny living room.
We had been living on the Cedar Falls Rd.,just a few houses south of my paternal grandparents place. The Beroseks and Angavines were our neighbors. Blaine "Slim" Berosek owned a business called Beroseks Repair, his wifes name was "Butch" they had a son Kenny that was my age and I and my sister often played with him.
Some time in the early 60's my mother purchased a house from some other part of North Bend and they moved it up the highway to its location on our property. I can still remember standing in the road as a big truck and trailer brought the house along very slowly and men went along moving the phone lines and power lines out of its path.
I was a resident of the Valley from 1959 until 1973 when the illness of my step-father, Richard Duane Thomas, forced our removal to Eastern Washington near. Before moving we had resided in a small house that he had puchased from a Mr.Sample, on the upper Cedar Falls Rd. I remember such good times we had in this home. It sat on a single acre and was surrounded by forest. The woods near our house were not old growth but had the remnants of old cedar stumps left over from logging in the 1800's. One big old stump was well over 8 ft thick and so my step-father built my twin sister, Linda Lee, and I a play house on top of it. We would use the loggers old cut outs and spring board knotches to climb up and down, as it sat a good 8 to 10 ft off the ground. Countless hours were spent in this play house and in the surrounding woods. We had friends in the neighborhood also that we rode our ponies with, there being miles of powerline trails to ride upon.We had a cow which was my sister and my chore to milk. We had chickens and ducks and the usual amount of cats and dogs. Our nearest neighbor there was just across the road, the Rufcorns. They had a small son named Toby and as this was also the nickname of my brother Brent, they liked to play together.
Our property ajoined that of Dr. Berkabile a what my mother called a "self proclaimed" chiropractor. I know that she and some of my siblings went to him for "treatments." I never did but I do remember that they seemed to have a jillion cats that all lived out doors and one big dog that they kept on a chain. The smaller chain around his neck was attached to a big cable that was strung up between the trees and this dog would spend all day running up and down that cable. It was so loud you could hear it at our house even though the woods separated us. The cats used to drive that dog crazy by sitting just out of reach and licking their paws. They also had, had a huge red chow dog. It was very gentle and was getting old when we moved there. It would often wander over to our house to be played with.
Just down the road and around the corner was a small group of houses. In the first one there was a family of black people by the name of Freeman. We had such fun with them and visited with them often. They had a little pony that they would ride and we used to laugh something fierce when their big boys would try to ride it because their legs almost drug the ground. Since my eldest brother looked the same when riding our Shetland pony he would sometimes try to ride it like they did do, on purpose just to make all of us laugh.
We children didn't know what racial prejudice was in those days as our folks and the Freemans got along fine. We played at there house and they played at ours and the only difference I could ever see was that they had a pet pig that lived on their porch. I envied them that as I thought it was very cool and mom wouldn't let us have one.
My great grandparents on my mothers maternal side, Albert Alfred Larson and his wife Ellen "Nellie" Theresa O'Donnell - Larson, owned the land that bordered the north line of the North Bend Cemetary. There used to be a junk yard there as well. My great grandfather built a big house there but as it has been so many years since I have been to the Valley I do not know if it is still there. I do recall that just up the road from it was a little Motor Hotel with a swimming pool out front and when I was about 10 or so they came and filled the pool full of dirt and paved over it. We children thought it just awful, but I suppose it was because the pool was to close to the highway.
My grandmother, Lillie Thompson-Robison worked as a cook at the Mar T Cafe. After grandpa died she tried to keep the mink farm going and it was still running in 1965, but she said the foreign markets were making it to dificult so some time in that period she quite and sold her mink. I remember as a child helping her to raise some of them on a hot water bottle and eye dropper, as their mothers sometimes abandoned them. I also helped her feed the adult mink and went with her into the big sheds where they were kept. All of us children were warned about keeping our fingers away from the cages as the mink were vicious and would bite and not let go. This was no exageration for my grandmother herself once had one get ahold of a lose end of her shirt and she was ablidged to strip it off over her head in order to get free.
There are so many things I remember about growing up in the Valley maybe that is why I have settled in a valley here in Oregon that reminds me very much of my old home town. Instead of Fall City, Snoqualmie, North Bend and Cedar Falls. Here there is Hood River, Odell, Parkdale and Mt. Hood. I haven't the wonderful Snoqualmie River, instead I have the great Columbia River. Likewise I no longer see Mt. Si but from my house I can look south at Mt. Hood and north to Mt. Adams.
I count it most fortunate to have lived in such a lovely place as the Snoqualmie Valley and I count it also a blessing that I could raise my children in a beautiful place like it, the Hood River Valley in Oregon.
Name: Dott (Shinner) Thayer <mochadott@earthlink.net> Date: 2003-06-11 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I was born and raised in Snoqualmie, youngest daughter of William (Bill) Shinner of "Shinner Electric" fame. How did you find this website? sister Eileen (Shinner) George sent it to me and my siblings Where are you from? SNOQUALMIE, WA (and PROUD of it!) Comments:
William Shinner's wife Johanna (Jo) has maiden name of Grosser. Offspring of William Shinner: Katherine (now Kathie Esson); Roberta Louise (Bobbie Lou) Prentice; Edward (Eddie) Shinner; Theodore John (Jack) Shinner; Eileen George; and myself: Dorothy (DOTT!) Thayer. All born and raised in Snoqualmie. We have many offspring ourselves, however I stayed "closest to the Valley" the longest of any of my siblings and taught my kids, Todd Thayer and Elizabeth (Thayer) Rahm, to swim in and love the Snoqualmie River. Todd and Lizzie also worked at Ken's Gas & Grocery (TruckTown, North Bend)for a period of about 5 years, despite our having moved to Redmond and Issaquah.
Name: Alice Burnett <theburnetts@centurytel.net> Date: 2003-05-21 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I recently found out my grandparents were from there. How did you find this website? search engine Where are you from? Sweet Home, OR Comments:
What a wonderful web site! I recently discovered that my grandparents, George L. & Esther Rogers Smyth, were from Snoqualmie. (Great-grandparents: Guy & May Rogers, Joanna Van Horn) I am looking for whatever information I can find on them. I will be checking back in the future to see if you have added any more info.
Name: Valerie Thomas <sabb_1974@yahoo.com> Date: 2003-04-15 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I was born there and wanted info on the hospital that use to be there How did you find this website? wrighting the town name Where are you from? Enderby B.C Canada Comments:
if any one remembers my family that use to live there email me my family name was Thomas my brothers who where named Doug,Glen,Robert & sisters names are Dena,Sherry,Sandra,Crystal I was born there but my family moved here to canada I think in 1979 or 80's my parent's are ethel and Leonard my dad work at the mill my mom a nurse so thank you for your time emaile sabb_1974@yahoo.com
Name: AUSTIN FURY II <AUSTINFURY@HOTMAIL> Date: 2003-03-15 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because FAMILY Where are you from? SNOQUALMIE Comments:
MORE HISTORY ON FURY'S AND SWENSON'S
Name: Barbara Jones <barb1103@frontiernet.net> Date: 2002-11-26 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I lived in Fall City for 15 years How did you find this website? websurfing Where are you from? Ellensburg Wa/ Golden Valley AZ Comments:
If you need any info on the Fall City area or Meadowbrook, write my husband Bob Jones, hes lived in that area since 1930+ first in the old mill town of Meadowbrook and then running a mill in Fall City. He is 75 and has lots of stories about this area that he can still remember
Name: Heather (Depew) Drog <hdrog@vcn.com> Date: 2002-11-17 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because My great grandmothers social security death index lists this site. How did you find this website? ss death index Where are you from? Sheridan, WY Comments:
I am looking for references to Ollie Depew
Name: Vane (Reedy) Speer <None> Date: 2002-10-20 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I grew up in Carnation between the years of 1960 throught 1971. How did you find this website? "Just Surfing" Where are you from? I was born in Barker, Oregon Comments:
I attended school with Chip and John Firth, sorry to find out about the passing of their father Chuck.
Name: Julia Joaquin <juliajoaq@aol.com> Date: 2002-09-03 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I was born in Duvall and lived in the area How did you find this website? usgenweb Comments:
It is a lovely site. I was searching for a historical or genealogical society in Duvall to share some information. One particular source is my grandfather's Justice Docket record from 1924-1940 when he served as Justice of the Peace and was an attorney in Duvall and Seattle. His name was Edward H. Wright. Do you know of such a society in the area? Thank you.
Name: John Monnot <johnconabc@aol.com> Date: 2002-07-01 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I lived there for 15 years Where are you from? I now live in Calif. Comments:
I would like to find out about class reunions. My class was the class of "49" at Snoqualmie High School. Can you tell me when and where the next reunion will be?
Name: Andy Wedgwood <thebristonboys@dialstart.net> Date: 2002-06-30 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because Geological interest How did you find this website? surfed in Where are you from? briston norfolk uk Comments:
Is it possible to obtain a photograph of the Snoqualmie
Falls, I collect waterfall photographs.
Do you have any available and what would the costs be.
Thank you for any information you can provide.
Andy Wedgwood e mail thebristonboys@dialstart.net
Name: Kathi Kirschner <kirsch@aptalaska.net> Date: 2002-05-03 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because becasue my husband and I grew up there. and we both graduated from Mt. Si How did you find this website? I was looking for Snoqulamie Valley Record and this site was on a search engine. Where are you from? I was raised in the Valley but we live in Wrangell, Alaska Comments:
I love your site! It is so interesting. I am in to genealogy so I think it will be good for anyone that needs information. Thanks so much for making this site. I have enjoyed going through everything and look forward to the updates. I would like to see you put names of all the people who are buried in the cemetaries in the Valley. I know that would be alot of work though. Well thanks again.
Kathi Kirschner (Hullinger) I married Mike Kirschner
Name: Kathie Esson <kbesson@juno.com> Date: 2002-03-30 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I grew up there. Where are you from? Shelton Comments:
The Snoqualmie Valley was a great place to grow up.
Name: Ron Judd <juddad@aol.com> Date: 2002-02-07 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I live in the valley How did you find this website? surfed in Where are you from? Duvall Comments:
Interesting!
Name: Rhonda Solberg <tolt5bergs@aol.com> Date: 2001-08-22 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because My husband's grandfather homesteaded the land betweenW SNoq. Vlly. Rd. NE & Ames Lake Rd. We've been given the original home How did you find this website? Through a website "Marsha" that dealt with homesteads Where are you from? Carnation Comments:
Rhonda Solberg
Name: James Adcox <JmsAdcx@aol.com> Date: 2001-08-03 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because I grew up there How did you find this website? Search Engine Where are you from? Good Old Snoqualmie Comments:
What a beatifull town. The pictures are great but they do no justice to what you really get to see. I have never seen any other place that is as green and peacefull as Snoqualmie, even with 60,000 new homes introduced it is still the place to live. If people would like information about Snoqualmie, pop me an email. I am the grandson of E.E. Adcox (Marshall Buck, he hated his first name) and Edna Adcox and that of the Blaisdell family who built about half of the homes and the original Snoqualmie Lodge. Edna is still going strong and (being the wife of the town marshall) knows a great deal about peoples and landmarks of Snoqualmie in its early days.
Name: Marcia Johnson <mjohnso@frontiernet.net> Date: 2001-08-02 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because researching a family How did you find this website? genweb site Where are you from? Minnesota Comments:
A friend from Sweden sent me copies of postcards that he found with the notation on the back of the picture of a house and family of "Junction Wash" and it is from "Peter Anderson". No date is given. I have been unable to find any information about Junction, however, Mapquest showed that it was/is located just east of Pleasant Hill. Maybe the house is still there. Do you have any information about that town and the history of it or where I could check. This Swedish friend assumes this was his family who came to America but had no more information than the postcards. Thanks for your help.
Marcia
from hot Minnesota!
Name: Paul Reinig <Paul.Reinig@t-online.de> Date: 2001-05-31 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because Reinig family Where are you from? Germany Palatinate Comments:
I searches for descendants of Leonhard Reinig born 1839 in Diedesfeld, Palatinate. He went 1865/66 to USA. At first he was in Seattle and then in Snoqualmie. Who can help me to find some descendants from this family or can tell something about this family in Snoqualmie. Paul Reinig
Paul.Reinig@t-online.de
Name: Joan Lord Neumann <tantien8@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-05-21 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because Resident of the Valley from birth (1932) to age 12. Father was Keith G. Lord who owned Lord's Radio and Electric Store directly How did you find this website? Where are you from? Bothell, Washington Comments:
It is my desire to have my father, Keith G. Lord included in the list of 'old timers' in the valley.....He was a well known businessman in North Bend for many years. He also worked as a movie projectionist at the Meadowbrook Theater in Meadowbrook.
My father was married in 1926 to Ruth Louise Faulkner. Ruth was my birth mother and she tragically died (when I was only five months old) the day after surgery, (performed by Samuel Max, M.D. at the hospital at Snoqualmie Falls).
In l934 Dad married Helen M. Gustafson of Meadowbrook. She became my mother. She is well at the age of 88 and lives with her second husband in Seattle. They live in their own home and she is an avid gardener and is busy with family and friends. My folks were close friends with all the other business people in North Bend and they entertained in one another's homes often for all the years we lived there. These people included Carl Rud the banker, Dode Gideon, who was a home builder, Carl Edgerly, who owned the drug store, Gene Hill, owner of a grocery store, Walt Glazier who owned the dry goods store, Cecil Thompson, who owned a restaurant (I believe where the MarT Cafe is (or was), Mr. Phillips, the jeweler, Mr. Weisenback, the barber.
We lived in an apartment above my Dad's radio shop across from McGrath's Hotel. The apartment is easy to spot because of the outcropping of the window seat in the living room which faces the main street through town.
Please let me know how to have my father included in the history of North Bend.
Sincerely,
Joan Lord Neumann
Name: Virginia Vaughan <Mach1moma@aol.com> Date: 2001-05-04 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because my grandfather and grandother raised thier family there. How did you find this website? Searching the web. Where are you from? Oregon Comments:
I am looking for help in finding more information on my family. THey lived in Snoqualamie for years. My grandfather was Russell Vaughan, a logger. He owned a lot of Snoqualamie at one time. He lived next door to Kensey, the photographer, behind the train station in the old school house. My grandmother was Anna Vossler/ Best/ Vaughan. She was married To John Best. He was a fireman, and was killed when he fell over the Snoqualamie falls dam at it's making. She did laundry and baking to support her family and was well known too. She owned a large part of Snoqualamie at one time. I am trying to find anyone that may remember them, have pictures of them or the school house, or any other information. I know they are all buried in the Fall City cemetery. I am also looking for someone who might go to the cemetery and get information off the head stones for John Best and his 2 daughters who are buried next to him. They are lcated next to the pump house. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions you can give.
Virginia Vaughan
Mach1moma@aol.com
Name: Cheryl <camrdm@pacifier.com> Date: 2001-04-18 I am interested in the Snoqualmie Valley because resident How did you find this website? n/a Where are you from? North Bend Comments:
The Snoqualmie Valley Scrapbook has been started to share a special place. I hope you enjoy the bits and pieces that make up this site. It's been fun putting it together.