obituary, 2003-11-12
CURTIS EUGENE DAWLEY
In loving memory of Curtis Eugene Dawley, who passed away Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003, in Sequim at the age of 67.
He was better known as Gene, his shortened middle name, because his father, L. Curtis Dawley, was known by his middle name, Curtis.
Gene was born Sept. 20, 1936, to Fern Louise Nelson and L. Curtis Dawley in Sequim General Hospital, which was located on Washington Street in the same building where Prime Time Nursing Home now operates.
Both of his parents were from families who pioneered the Sequim-Dungeness Valley in the early 1900s. He spent his early years in a small cabin on Sequim Bay.
The family also lived in Port Angeles, Magnolia and Bellevue, before ending up in Redmond, where in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, Gene helped his parents to run the very first movie theater to operate there.
Gene graduated from Lake Washington High School in Kirkland in 1954, and that very summer enrolled at the University of Washington. Shortly before his graduation, he married Patricia Kelly. He graduated in 1959 with a bachelor's in psychology.
Soon after receiving his diploma, they both went to work for The Boeing Company. The couple moved to New Orleans when Boeing transferred them to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, and they lived in the historic French Quarter. They divorced in the late 1960s with no children.
While in New Orleans, Gene worked on the Saturn V Rocket for the Apollo Program. Later, Gene was transferred to Boeing's Redstone Arsenal facility in Huntsville, Ala., where he assisted with the building of the first Lunar Rover for NASA's Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971.
In that same year, Gene married Jacquelin Talazac Batiansila. Shortly thereafter, they were transferred to Huntsville, Ala., and then back to the Pacific Northwest, relocating to Redmond.
Eventually, Gene tired of corporate life, and moved the family to Sequim onto the old Elmer Briley dairy farm now located between Highway 101 and the Bypass and between 7th and 9th Avenues. He found employment at Peninsula Plywood (now known as K-Ply) in Port Angeles, where he worked until his retirement in 1997. The couple divorced in 1977.
Gene is survived by his father, L. Curtis Dawley, and his two children, Elizabeth Louise Frankfurth and Norman Eugene Dawley, all of Sequim; uncle Cecil Dawley and aunt Helen Dawley, also both of Sequim; aunt Kathleen Nelson of Bellevue; and numerous cousins.
The family would like to thank Jackie and Jerry Hines and their daughter, Felina, of Country Living Adult Family Home, Judy Sensintaffar of The Wild Rose Senior Residence, all their hardworking staff, Dr. Donald C. Manuele, and all the staff at North Olympic Family Practice, Olympic Medical Center, and Olympic Care and Rehabilitation Center, who lovingly cared for Gene in his final years and days.
A graveside funeral will be held Saturday, Nov. 15, at 10 a.m., at Sequim View Cemetery.
CURTIS EUGENE DAWLEY
In loving memory of Curtis Eugene Dawley, who passed away Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003, in Sequim at the age of 67.
He was better known as Gene, his shortened middle name, because his father, L. Curtis Dawley, was known by his middle name, Curtis.
Gene was born Sept. 20, 1936, to Fern Louise Nelson and L. Curtis Dawley in Sequim General Hospital, which was located on Washington Street in the same building where Prime Time Nursing Home now operates.
Both of his parents were from families who pioneered the Sequim-Dungeness Valley in the early 1900s. He spent his early years in a small cabin on Sequim Bay.
The family also lived in Port Angeles, Magnolia and Bellevue, before ending up in Redmond, where in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, Gene helped his parents to run the very first movie theater to operate there.
Gene graduated from Lake Washington High School in Kirkland in 1954, and that very summer enrolled at the University of Washington. Shortly before his graduation, he married Patricia Kelly. He graduated in 1959 with a bachelor's in psychology.
Soon after receiving his diploma, they both went to work for The Boeing Company. The couple moved to New Orleans when Boeing transferred them to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, and they lived in the historic French Quarter. They divorced in the late 1960s with no children.
While in New Orleans, Gene worked on the Saturn V Rocket for the Apollo Program. Later, Gene was transferred to Boeing's Redstone Arsenal facility in Huntsville, Ala., where he assisted with the building of the first Lunar Rover for NASA's Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971.
In that same year, Gene married Jacquelin Talazac Batiansila. Shortly thereafter, they were transferred to Huntsville, Ala., and then back to the Pacific Northwest, relocating to Redmond.
Eventually, Gene tired of corporate life, and moved the family to Sequim onto the old Elmer Briley dairy farm now located between Highway 101 and the Bypass and between 7th and 9th Avenues. He found employment at Peninsula Plywood (now known as K-Ply) in Port Angeles, where he worked until his retirement in 1997. The couple divorced in 1977.
Gene is survived by his father, L. Curtis Dawley, and his two children, Elizabeth Louise Frankfurth and Norman Eugene Dawley, all of Sequim; uncle Cecil Dawley and aunt Helen Dawley, also both of Sequim; aunt Kathleen Nelson of Bellevue; and numerous cousins.
The family would like to thank Jackie and Jerry Hines and their daughter, Felina, of Country Living Adult Family Home, Judy Sensintaffar of The Wild Rose Senior Residence, all their hardworking staff, Dr. Donald C. Manuele, and all the staff at North Olympic Family Practice, Olympic Medical Center, and Olympic Care and Rehabilitation Center, who lovingly cared for Gene in his final years and days.
A graveside funeral will be held Saturday, Nov. 15, at 10 a.m., at Sequim View Cemetery.
obituary, 2003-11-12
CURTIS EUGENE DAWLEY
In loving memory of Curtis Eugene Dawley, who passed away Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003, in Sequim at the age of 67.
He was better known as Gene, his shortened middle name, because his father, L. Curtis Dawley, was known by his middle name, Curtis.
Gene was born Sept. 20, 1936, to Fern Louise Nelson and L. Curtis Dawley in Sequim General Hospital, which was located on Washington Street in the same building where Prime Time Nursing Home now operates.
Both of his parents were from families who pioneered the Sequim-Dungeness Valley in the early 1900s. He spent his early years in a small cabin on Sequim Bay.
The family also lived in Port Angeles, Magnolia and Bellevue, before ending up in Redmond, where in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, Gene helped his parents to run the very first movie theater to operate there.
Gene graduated from Lake Washington High School in Kirkland in 1954, and that very summer enrolled at the University of Washington. Shortly before his graduation, he married Patricia Kelly. He graduated in 1959 with a bachelor's in psychology.
Soon after receiving his diploma, they both went to work for The Boeing Company. The couple moved to New Orleans when Boeing transferred them to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, and they lived in the historic French Quarter. They divorced in the late 1960s with no children.
While in New Orleans, Gene worked on the Saturn V Rocket for the Apollo Program. Later, Gene was transferred to Boeing's Redstone Arsenal facility in Huntsville, Ala., where he assisted with the building of the first Lunar Rover for NASA's Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971.
In that same year, Gene married Jacquelin Talazac Batiansila. Shortly thereafter, they were transferred to Huntsville, Ala., and then back to the Pacific Northwest, relocating to Redmond.
Eventually, Gene tired of corporate life, and moved the family to Sequim onto the old Elmer Briley dairy farm now located between Highway 101 and the Bypass and between 7th and 9th Avenues. He found employment at Peninsula Plywood (now known as K-Ply) in Port Angeles, where he worked until his retirement in 1997. The couple divorced in 1977.
Gene is survived by his father, L. Curtis Dawley, and his two children, Elizabeth Louise Frankfurth and Norman Eugene Dawley, all of Sequim; uncle Cecil Dawley and aunt Helen Dawley, also both of Sequim; aunt Kathleen Nelson of Bellevue; and numerous cousins.
The family would like to thank Jackie and Jerry Hines and their daughter, Felina, of Country Living Adult Family Home, Judy Sensintaffar of The Wild Rose Senior Residence, all their hardworking staff, Dr. Donald C. Manuele, and all the staff at North Olympic Family Practice, Olympic Medical Center, and Olympic Care and Rehabilitation Center, who lovingly cared for Gene in his final years and days.
A graveside funeral will be held Saturday, Nov. 15, at 10 a.m., at Sequim View Cemetery.
CURTIS EUGENE DAWLEY
In loving memory of Curtis Eugene Dawley, who passed away Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003, in Sequim at the age of 67.
He was better known as Gene, his shortened middle name, because his father, L. Curtis Dawley, was known by his middle name, Curtis.
Gene was born Sept. 20, 1936, to Fern Louise Nelson and L. Curtis Dawley in Sequim General Hospital, which was located on Washington Street in the same building where Prime Time Nursing Home now operates.
Both of his parents were from families who pioneered the Sequim-Dungeness Valley in the early 1900s. He spent his early years in a small cabin on Sequim Bay.
The family also lived in Port Angeles, Magnolia and Bellevue, before ending up in Redmond, where in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, Gene helped his parents to run the very first movie theater to operate there.
Gene graduated from Lake Washington High School in Kirkland in 1954, and that very summer enrolled at the University of Washington. Shortly before his graduation, he married Patricia Kelly. He graduated in 1959 with a bachelor's in psychology.
Soon after receiving his diploma, they both went to work for The Boeing Company. The couple moved to New Orleans when Boeing transferred them to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, and they lived in the historic French Quarter. They divorced in the late 1960s with no children.
While in New Orleans, Gene worked on the Saturn V Rocket for the Apollo Program. Later, Gene was transferred to Boeing's Redstone Arsenal facility in Huntsville, Ala., where he assisted with the building of the first Lunar Rover for NASA's Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971.
In that same year, Gene married Jacquelin Talazac Batiansila. Shortly thereafter, they were transferred to Huntsville, Ala., and then back to the Pacific Northwest, relocating to Redmond.
Eventually, Gene tired of corporate life, and moved the family to Sequim onto the old Elmer Briley dairy farm now located between Highway 101 and the Bypass and between 7th and 9th Avenues. He found employment at Peninsula Plywood (now known as K-Ply) in Port Angeles, where he worked until his retirement in 1997. The couple divorced in 1977.
Gene is survived by his father, L. Curtis Dawley, and his two children, Elizabeth Louise Frankfurth and Norman Eugene Dawley, all of Sequim; uncle Cecil Dawley and aunt Helen Dawley, also both of Sequim; aunt Kathleen Nelson of Bellevue; and numerous cousins.
The family would like to thank Jackie and Jerry Hines and their daughter, Felina, of Country Living Adult Family Home, Judy Sensintaffar of The Wild Rose Senior Residence, all their hardworking staff, Dr. Donald C. Manuele, and all the staff at North Olympic Family Practice, Olympic Medical Center, and Olympic Care and Rehabilitation Center, who lovingly cared for Gene in his final years and days.
A graveside funeral will be held Saturday, Nov. 15, at 10 a.m., at Sequim View Cemetery.
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