Last Checked and/or Updated on: April 27, 2024

Have you seen the Hollywood Graveyard channel (hosted by Arthur Dark) on YouTube yet?? If you like genealogy you'll love Hollywood Graveyard!! Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/@HollywoodGraveyard

Click on the Cold War Veterans medallion above for more on the time I spent in military service to our country. Wanting to avoid the Selective Service System's Draft that was then in full swing along with a 2 year stint in the US Army, instead I enlisted in the USAF right after high school graduation in July 1972 at age 17. And I was honorably discharged in 1976 just shy of four years of service at age 21 with two of those years served overseas at Bitburg Air Base Germany (it was opened in 1954 and it was closed during the military base realignment and closures at the end of the Cold War in 1995) "one of the busiest air bases (we were told) in USAFE (US Air Forces in Europe)." I love my country and I'm proud of my Vietnam/Cold War era military service.

Unlike some..."busy body" Memorial authors that act like "all knowing overseers", I AUTOMATICALLY APPROVE ALL SUGGESTED EDITS AS SOON AS I SEE THEM TYPICALLY WITHIN HOURS - NOT DAYS OR WEEKS!! They're your family which YOU know better then anyone, including me. And with managing thousands of F.A.G. Memorials, it's impossible to "fact check" every Suggested Edit and I'd never try to. Hence the auto approve method. Also I'm happy to give family members any of those memorials I have authored or currently manage on their family members. Please, just ask and I'll gladly transfer them (with no questions or hassles) right over to you, nothing else needed (except your Find-A-Grave ID #), within a few minutes too. Again, they're YOUR family. So I'm pleased you're interested and I'm glad I could help.

Long time genealogist/family historian here who was born in Elma, Washington (though till April 2017 I never lived here), I grew up first in Puyallup (a few blocks east of the Fairgrounds) and from the 6th grade on, a couple of miles south of Graham on Meridian (SR-161), where my folks owned the local store/gas station (they called J & R Grocery which was the first initial of my parent's first names Janet and Russell). I graduated from Bethel High School in Spanaway, Class of 1972 and then spent four years in the USAF ending in 1976, then into home construction (drywall and insulation mostly) for three or four years. 30 years after that I retired from the City of Tacoma's Street Maintenance Div. (in 2009). I sold my long time home on Whitman Lake near Kapowsin (in 2015) and returned to the local Elma area for good (by myself) to get away from the rat-race that area (southeast Pierce County) has become and to be around family. I first put together our family history in the late 1990's with a Pentium equipped computer, Windows 98, a dial up internet connection and Broderbund's Family Tree Maker software & website all with at that time ZERO online resources. Ancestry dot com is VERY impressive BUT has become expensive though it's among my favorite sources for genealogical info. I use it a lot but not as much as I used to. All things being equal I'd MUCH rather have a subscription to Newspapers dot com which is substantially less expensive and has more of the info I find I'll use here on F.A.G.

Feel free to use any of my pictures. This is genealogy which is meant to be SHARED...

Last Checked and/or Updated on: April 27, 2024

Have you seen the Hollywood Graveyard channel (hosted by Arthur Dark) on YouTube yet?? If you like genealogy you'll love Hollywood Graveyard!! Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/@HollywoodGraveyard

Click on the Cold War Veterans medallion above for more on the time I spent in military service to our country. Wanting to avoid the Selective Service System's Draft that was then in full swing along with a 2 year stint in the US Army, instead I enlisted in the USAF right after high school graduation in July 1972 at age 17. And I was honorably discharged in 1976 just shy of four years of service at age 21 with two of those years served overseas at Bitburg Air Base Germany (it was opened in 1954 and it was closed during the military base realignment and closures at the end of the Cold War in 1995) "one of the busiest air bases (we were told) in USAFE (US Air Forces in Europe)." I love my country and I'm proud of my Vietnam/Cold War era military service.

Unlike some..."busy body" Memorial authors that act like "all knowing overseers", I AUTOMATICALLY APPROVE ALL SUGGESTED EDITS AS SOON AS I SEE THEM TYPICALLY WITHIN HOURS - NOT DAYS OR WEEKS!! They're your family which YOU know better then anyone, including me. And with managing thousands of F.A.G. Memorials, it's impossible to "fact check" every Suggested Edit and I'd never try to. Hence the auto approve method. Also I'm happy to give family members any of those memorials I have authored or currently manage on their family members. Please, just ask and I'll gladly transfer them (with no questions or hassles) right over to you, nothing else needed (except your Find-A-Grave ID #), within a few minutes too. Again, they're YOUR family. So I'm pleased you're interested and I'm glad I could help.

Long time genealogist/family historian here who was born in Elma, Washington (though till April 2017 I never lived here), I grew up first in Puyallup (a few blocks east of the Fairgrounds) and from the 6th grade on, a couple of miles south of Graham on Meridian (SR-161), where my folks owned the local store/gas station (they called J & R Grocery which was the first initial of my parent's first names Janet and Russell). I graduated from Bethel High School in Spanaway, Class of 1972 and then spent four years in the USAF ending in 1976, then into home construction (drywall and insulation mostly) for three or four years. 30 years after that I retired from the City of Tacoma's Street Maintenance Div. (in 2009). I sold my long time home on Whitman Lake near Kapowsin (in 2015) and returned to the local Elma area for good (by myself) to get away from the rat-race that area (southeast Pierce County) has become and to be around family. I first put together our family history in the late 1990's with a Pentium equipped computer, Windows 98, a dial up internet connection and Broderbund's Family Tree Maker software & website all with at that time ZERO online resources. Ancestry dot com is VERY impressive BUT has become expensive though it's among my favorite sources for genealogical info. I use it a lot but not as much as I used to. All things being equal I'd MUCH rather have a subscription to Newspapers dot com which is substantially less expensive and has more of the info I find I'll use here on F.A.G.

Feel free to use any of my pictures. This is genealogy which is meant to be SHARED...