Born August 25, 1901 at Block House, Klickitat County, WA. and died September 4, 1996 at Vancouver, WA.
He was the eldest son of Bernie Rufus Knapp (1871-1966) and Leah Almeta Taylor (1880-1956). Both are buried at Park Hill Cemetery, Vancouver, WA.
He married Verna Mae Reese (1905-1998) at Kelso, WA. November 15, 1926.
He was the father of:
Colleen June Knapp Utt (1928-2004)
Donna Mae Knapp Lindsay (1937-
Ira served with the Headquarters Company, 161st. Infantry, Washington National Guard at Camp Murray. WA. 1921.
He was an auto mechanic most of his life but also a boat builder, a creative wood carver of birds and animals and welder of metal sculptures.
During World War II he served with the Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla #74, patrolling the Columbia River at night and by day he was the Captain of the Bagley Downs Fire Department in Vancouver, WA.
To his grandchildren he was Papa. He was a quiet soft spoken, spiritual and gentle man except when it came to politics. He was loved dearly and whatever he was doing his grandchildren and later his great grandchild could be found hanging out with him.
Papa kept a double barrels shotgun loaded with rock salt close by once filling the backside of a "Peeping Tom" has he was jumping the backyard fence. The intruder was discovered whimpering in the bushes down the road by the police when they came searching for him. Another time he held a burger he caught in his house at shotgun point until the police arrived to arrest the man.
During the latter years of his life beginning in 1986-7 he suffered from Alzheimer's and was lovingly looked after by his daughter Colleen while living in a care facility in Vancouver, WA.
He was the eldest son of Bernie Rufus Knapp (1871-1966) and Leah Almeta Taylor (1880-1956). Both are buried at Park Hill Cemetery, Vancouver, WA.
He married Verna Mae Reese (1905-1998) at Kelso, WA. November 15, 1926.
He was the father of:
Colleen June Knapp Utt (1928-2004)
Donna Mae Knapp Lindsay (1937-
Ira served with the Headquarters Company, 161st. Infantry, Washington National Guard at Camp Murray. WA. 1921.
He was an auto mechanic most of his life but also a boat builder, a creative wood carver of birds and animals and welder of metal sculptures.
During World War II he served with the Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla #74, patrolling the Columbia River at night and by day he was the Captain of the Bagley Downs Fire Department in Vancouver, WA.
To his grandchildren he was Papa. He was a quiet soft spoken, spiritual and gentle man except when it came to politics. He was loved dearly and whatever he was doing his grandchildren and later his great grandchild could be found hanging out with him.
Papa kept a double barrels shotgun loaded with rock salt close by once filling the backside of a "Peeping Tom" has he was jumping the backyard fence. The intruder was discovered whimpering in the bushes down the road by the police when they came searching for him. Another time he held a burger he caught in his house at shotgun point until the police arrived to arrest the man.
During the latter years of his life beginning in 1986-7 he suffered from Alzheimer's and was lovingly looked after by his daughter Colleen while living in a care facility in Vancouver, WA.
Born August 25, 1901 at Block House, Klickitat County, WA. and died September 4, 1996 at Vancouver, WA.
He was the eldest son of Bernie Rufus Knapp (1871-1966) and Leah Almeta Taylor (1880-1956). Both are buried at Park Hill Cemetery, Vancouver, WA.
He married Verna Mae Reese (1905-1998) at Kelso, WA. November 15, 1926.
He was the father of:
Colleen June Knapp Utt (1928-2004)
Donna Mae Knapp Lindsay (1937-
Ira served with the Headquarters Company, 161st. Infantry, Washington National Guard at Camp Murray. WA. 1921.
He was an auto mechanic most of his life but also a boat builder, a creative wood carver of birds and animals and welder of metal sculptures.
During World War II he served with the Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla #74, patrolling the Columbia River at night and by day he was the Captain of the Bagley Downs Fire Department in Vancouver, WA.
To his grandchildren he was Papa. He was a quiet soft spoken, spiritual and gentle man except when it came to politics. He was loved dearly and whatever he was doing his grandchildren and later his great grandchild could be found hanging out with him.
Papa kept a double barrels shotgun loaded with rock salt close by once filling the backside of a "Peeping Tom" has he was jumping the backyard fence. The intruder was discovered whimpering in the bushes down the road by the police when they came searching for him. Another time he held a burger he caught in his house at shotgun point until the police arrived to arrest the man.
During the latter years of his life beginning in 1986-7 he suffered from Alzheimer's and was lovingly looked after by his daughter Colleen while living in a care facility in Vancouver, WA.
He was the eldest son of Bernie Rufus Knapp (1871-1966) and Leah Almeta Taylor (1880-1956). Both are buried at Park Hill Cemetery, Vancouver, WA.
He married Verna Mae Reese (1905-1998) at Kelso, WA. November 15, 1926.
He was the father of:
Colleen June Knapp Utt (1928-2004)
Donna Mae Knapp Lindsay (1937-
Ira served with the Headquarters Company, 161st. Infantry, Washington National Guard at Camp Murray. WA. 1921.
He was an auto mechanic most of his life but also a boat builder, a creative wood carver of birds and animals and welder of metal sculptures.
During World War II he served with the Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla #74, patrolling the Columbia River at night and by day he was the Captain of the Bagley Downs Fire Department in Vancouver, WA.
To his grandchildren he was Papa. He was a quiet soft spoken, spiritual and gentle man except when it came to politics. He was loved dearly and whatever he was doing his grandchildren and later his great grandchild could be found hanging out with him.
Papa kept a double barrels shotgun loaded with rock salt close by once filling the backside of a "Peeping Tom" has he was jumping the backyard fence. The intruder was discovered whimpering in the bushes down the road by the police when they came searching for him. Another time he held a burger he caught in his house at shotgun point until the police arrived to arrest the man.
During the latter years of his life beginning in 1986-7 he suffered from Alzheimer's and was lovingly looked after by his daughter Colleen while living in a care facility in Vancouver, WA.
