PEOPLE & PLACES: Families beam over accomplishments
Published 11:00 am Wednesday, October 2, 2002
George
P. Taylor, son of the late George
P. Taylor and Mrs. Clasina W. Taylor of Oak Harbor, was pinned as a chief petty officer at Indian Island Naval Ordnance Facility Sept. 16, 2002. Taylor was stationed on the USS Carl Vinson in the legal department until January 2002. He is a reserve police officer in Bremerton. Taylor is the third generation of his family to serve in law enforcement and in the Navy.
Tom Schuler, brother of Sandra Phillips (Mrs. Jim) of Oak Harbor, came to spend a weekend on Whidbey Island, where he “cycled all over” the island, noting beautiful places he had never seen before. “I’ve been all over the island….how beautiful it is!” Schuler’s home is in St. Petersberg, Fla.
Friends and relatives of Jo Balda are invited to join with her in the celebration of her 80th birthday. There will be an open house Sunday, Oct. 6, from 2 -4 p.m., in the Fellowship room of the Christian Reformed Church, 1411 Wieldrayyer Road. No gifts please.
Chuck Dann was the guest of honor of a recent Wednesday afternoon when family and friends gathered at his home to help him celebrate his 89th birthday.
Paul Dann, son of the Chuck Danns, is the principal at an elementary school in Richmond.
Oak Harbor residents Catherine L. Jennings; Dieter Milton Jung; Elizabeth Ann Rice and Toni Roseleen Sumalpong were listed on WSU’s summer honor roll.
Sherry Cater Bodle and twin sons Matthew and Kevin from Orting were recent guests of Chic Schulle. Sherry is the daughter of Charles and Jimme Caror, former Whidbey residents.
Lillian Bucknam recently celebrated her 101st birthday at Whidbey Island Manor in Oak Harbor. She has lived in Oak Harbor for the past eight years and was previously a resident of Laconia, N.H.
She was born Sept. 18, 1901, in Laconia, attended Plymouth Teachers College and taught in a single-room schoolhouse in Belmont for two years. She moved to Manchester, N.H., in the early 1920s, went to Bryant & Stratton Business College and worked for the Mack Motor Truck Company in until 1936. She was married in 1935, had a son, and moved to Concord, N.H., for 35 years where she was a bookkeeper for the State of New Hampshire Department of Education and the New Hampshire Arthritis Foundation. After the death of her husband in 1980 she moved to Laconia, where she was a volunteer at the Lakes Region General Hospital for more than ten years and received the hospital’s Volunteer of the Year Award for 1985.
Her son and daughter-in-law, two granddaughters and their husbands, and three great-grandchildren all live on Whidbey Island. Her grandson lives in Nelson, New Zealand, with his wife and son.
Dustin R. Hassler has enlisted in the Army’s Delayed Entry Program, and will leave for basic training at Fort Knox, Ky., Oct. 3. Hassler attended Skagit Valley College in Oak Harbor. He is the son of Deborah J. and Monte R. Hassler of Oak Harbor.
Oak Harbor resident Daryl E. Hagemann graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale Aug. 3.
