NOTE: This is not a cenotaph.
This is not a duplicate ~ DO NOT MERGE!
Actual burial location, 62417780
St. Elizabeth Cemetery, Wellsville, Columbiana County, Ohio
Do NOT post St. Elizabeth Cemetery headstone photos here!
Do NOT post the memorial plaque photo to any other memorial!
The names of 57 people who died from the eruption of Mt. St. Helens are on a plaque in the "Mount Saint Helens Memorial Grove", at the former Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center (now Havilah Retreat Center), 15000 Spirit Lake Hwy, Toutle, WA 98649. The building, memorial grove and plaque are in COWLITZ Co.
Died during eruption of Mount St. Helens, he lived in Moscow, Idaho
Jim attended the University of Akron; graduating in 1970, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force through the AFROTC program. Jim earned a B.S. in geology, went on to get his M.S. from University of Idaho, and was working on his Ph.D. in Vulcanology at the time of his death. At the of his death he was engaged in field work for his doctoral dissertation as a graduate student at the University of Idaho.
Every weekend from late March until the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, Pullman resident Barry Johnston watched the volcano with his then-wife, Trixie Anders, a Washington State University doctoral student in geology.
On May 16, 1980, Johnston and Anders camped out on Spud Mountain with their friend Jim Fitzgerald, another geology student. The couple opted to stay at a motel in Toutle, Wash., the next night, while Fitzgerald again camped on the mountain.
The next morning, after stopping for breakfast, the pair arrived at the Spud Mountain turnoff to see Mount St. Helens erupting. After taking a couple photos, they hightailed it down mountain roads, chased by a cloud of volcanic debris and escaping with their lives. James Fitzgerald's body was later recovered from his blue Datsun.
In 1995, Trixie Anders constructed a monument to her friend Jim Fitzgerald at the Spud Mountain site where he was killed in the Mt St. Helens blast.
This is not a duplicate ~ DO NOT MERGE!
Actual burial location, 62417780
St. Elizabeth Cemetery, Wellsville, Columbiana County, Ohio
Do NOT post St. Elizabeth Cemetery headstone photos here!
Do NOT post the memorial plaque photo to any other memorial!
The names of 57 people who died from the eruption of Mt. St. Helens are on a plaque in the "Mount Saint Helens Memorial Grove", at the former Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center (now Havilah Retreat Center), 15000 Spirit Lake Hwy, Toutle, WA 98649. The building, memorial grove and plaque are in COWLITZ Co.
Died during eruption of Mount St. Helens, he lived in Moscow, Idaho
Jim attended the University of Akron; graduating in 1970, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force through the AFROTC program. Jim earned a B.S. in geology, went on to get his M.S. from University of Idaho, and was working on his Ph.D. in Vulcanology at the time of his death. At the of his death he was engaged in field work for his doctoral dissertation as a graduate student at the University of Idaho.
Every weekend from late March until the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, Pullman resident Barry Johnston watched the volcano with his then-wife, Trixie Anders, a Washington State University doctoral student in geology.
On May 16, 1980, Johnston and Anders camped out on Spud Mountain with their friend Jim Fitzgerald, another geology student. The couple opted to stay at a motel in Toutle, Wash., the next night, while Fitzgerald again camped on the mountain.
The next morning, after stopping for breakfast, the pair arrived at the Spud Mountain turnoff to see Mount St. Helens erupting. After taking a couple photos, they hightailed it down mountain roads, chased by a cloud of volcanic debris and escaping with their lives. James Fitzgerald's body was later recovered from his blue Datsun.
In 1995, Trixie Anders constructed a monument to her friend Jim Fitzgerald at the Spud Mountain site where he was killed in the Mt St. Helens blast.
NOTE: This is not a cenotaph.
This is not a duplicate ~ DO NOT MERGE!
Actual burial location, 62417780
St. Elizabeth Cemetery, Wellsville, Columbiana County, Ohio
Do NOT post St. Elizabeth Cemetery headstone photos here!
Do NOT post the memorial plaque photo to any other memorial!
The names of 57 people who died from the eruption of Mt. St. Helens are on a plaque in the "Mount Saint Helens Memorial Grove", at the former Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center (now Havilah Retreat Center), 15000 Spirit Lake Hwy, Toutle, WA 98649. The building, memorial grove and plaque are in COWLITZ Co.
Died during eruption of Mount St. Helens, he lived in Moscow, Idaho
Jim attended the University of Akron; graduating in 1970, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force through the AFROTC program. Jim earned a B.S. in geology, went on to get his M.S. from University of Idaho, and was working on his Ph.D. in Vulcanology at the time of his death. At the of his death he was engaged in field work for his doctoral dissertation as a graduate student at the University of Idaho.
Every weekend from late March until the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, Pullman resident Barry Johnston watched the volcano with his then-wife, Trixie Anders, a Washington State University doctoral student in geology.
On May 16, 1980, Johnston and Anders camped out on Spud Mountain with their friend Jim Fitzgerald, another geology student. The couple opted to stay at a motel in Toutle, Wash., the next night, while Fitzgerald again camped on the mountain.
The next morning, after stopping for breakfast, the pair arrived at the Spud Mountain turnoff to see Mount St. Helens erupting. After taking a couple photos, they hightailed it down mountain roads, chased by a cloud of volcanic debris and escaping with their lives. James Fitzgerald's body was later recovered from his blue Datsun.
In 1995, Trixie Anders constructed a monument to her friend Jim Fitzgerald at the Spud Mountain site where he was killed in the Mt St. Helens blast.
This is not a duplicate ~ DO NOT MERGE!
Actual burial location, 62417780
St. Elizabeth Cemetery, Wellsville, Columbiana County, Ohio
Do NOT post St. Elizabeth Cemetery headstone photos here!
Do NOT post the memorial plaque photo to any other memorial!
The names of 57 people who died from the eruption of Mt. St. Helens are on a plaque in the "Mount Saint Helens Memorial Grove", at the former Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center (now Havilah Retreat Center), 15000 Spirit Lake Hwy, Toutle, WA 98649. The building, memorial grove and plaque are in COWLITZ Co.
Died during eruption of Mount St. Helens, he lived in Moscow, Idaho
Jim attended the University of Akron; graduating in 1970, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force through the AFROTC program. Jim earned a B.S. in geology, went on to get his M.S. from University of Idaho, and was working on his Ph.D. in Vulcanology at the time of his death. At the of his death he was engaged in field work for his doctoral dissertation as a graduate student at the University of Idaho.
Every weekend from late March until the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, Pullman resident Barry Johnston watched the volcano with his then-wife, Trixie Anders, a Washington State University doctoral student in geology.
On May 16, 1980, Johnston and Anders camped out on Spud Mountain with their friend Jim Fitzgerald, another geology student. The couple opted to stay at a motel in Toutle, Wash., the next night, while Fitzgerald again camped on the mountain.
The next morning, after stopping for breakfast, the pair arrived at the Spud Mountain turnoff to see Mount St. Helens erupting. After taking a couple photos, they hightailed it down mountain roads, chased by a cloud of volcanic debris and escaping with their lives. James Fitzgerald's body was later recovered from his blue Datsun.
In 1995, Trixie Anders constructed a monument to her friend Jim Fitzgerald at the Spud Mountain site where he was killed in the Mt St. Helens blast.
Inscription
THIS MEMORIAL GROVE IS
DEDICATED
TO THOSE WHO LOST THEIR
LIVES IN THE MAY 18, 1980
ERUPTION OF MOUNT ST. HELENS
"LOOWIT"
57 names on the plaque, including "JAMES FITZGERALD"
DEDICATED MAY 18, 2000
