Reardan — A graveside service took place Friday, Aug 17, at the Reardan Cemetery for Arthur Lamont Carstens, who died Aug 14, after a short illness. Pastor Phil Falk officiated. A celebration of life took place Monday, Aug 20, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Olympia. Born May 17, 1928, in Spokane, he was raised in Reardan and graduation in 1946 from Reardan high school. He received a bachelors degree from WSU and remained a Cougar fan, despite his earning a masters from the U of W. He served in the 45th Infantry Division of the US Army during the Korean War. He married Dorothy Hodde in 1958. He retired in 1989 after 33 years of public service for the WA Dept of Social and Health Services. He also was a leading force in many political organizations and community associations. An active member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Olympia for more than 30 years, he taught Sunday school and participated in church governance. He was an avid reader throughout his life. In retirement, he enjoyed spending winters in Apache Junction, AZ, hiking the Superstition Mountains, digging on archaeology expeditions, traveling (including a recent trip to Egypt), and collecting various Native American artifacts. His mother and father preceded him in death. He leaves ‘his best friend and mother of his children,' Dorothy Carstens Mead (sic), of Olympia; a brother, George Carstens, of Reardan; a son, Arthur (and Paulette) Carstens, of Kent, WA; three daughters, Joni Clements of Olympia, Lisa Carstens (and David Pagano) of Norfolk, VA, and Tami (and Gordon) Willett of Bellingham; seven grandchildren and a niece and nephew. [Davenport Times: 8-23-2001)
Reardan — A graveside service took place Friday, Aug 17, at the Reardan Cemetery for Arthur Lamont Carstens, who died Aug 14, after a short illness. Pastor Phil Falk officiated. A celebration of life took place Monday, Aug 20, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Olympia. Born May 17, 1928, in Spokane, he was raised in Reardan and graduation in 1946 from Reardan high school. He received a bachelors degree from WSU and remained a Cougar fan, despite his earning a masters from the U of W. He served in the 45th Infantry Division of the US Army during the Korean War. He married Dorothy Hodde in 1958. He retired in 1989 after 33 years of public service for the WA Dept of Social and Health Services. He also was a leading force in many political organizations and community associations. An active member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Olympia for more than 30 years, he taught Sunday school and participated in church governance. He was an avid reader throughout his life. In retirement, he enjoyed spending winters in Apache Junction, AZ, hiking the Superstition Mountains, digging on archaeology expeditions, traveling (including a recent trip to Egypt), and collecting various Native American artifacts. His mother and father preceded him in death. He leaves ‘his best friend and mother of his children,' Dorothy Carstens Mead (sic), of Olympia; a brother, George Carstens, of Reardan; a son, Arthur (and Paulette) Carstens, of Kent, WA; three daughters, Joni Clements of Olympia, Lisa Carstens (and David Pagano) of Norfolk, VA, and Tami (and Gordon) Willett of Bellingham; seven grandchildren and a niece and nephew. [Davenport Times: 8-23-2001)
Inscription
on back of stone:
When the wide field calls
Follow the wheat into the lamp's breath
There drips an autumn's water
Kiss of the beginning on an infant lip
Anguish is hushed, drawn painless
into the middle tree
a stem of silence
Sprung naked from the white womb
Staunch the tree stands before the far sky
Rush of a higher pith
It comes to deny itself
And sounds the canvas the tomb
Fly to the acre the Earth, wakener
Fly until the lamp's last blue
Folds into itself
And is lost in you
-Lisa
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