--PULLMAN HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1969--
Gary Edward Oman Cenotaph
Gary Edward Oman was born to Florence Nadine and Glenn Edward Oman. He was the first born of three children:
(1) Gary Edward
(2) Gail Marie
(3) Karen Nadine (b. 3/11/1956, d. 2/23/1970)
Gary was a 1969 graduate of Pullman High School, Pullman, Washington.
At age 21, Gary disappeared in the waters of Washington State's Puget Sound with six other students out for a sail. Among the missing was fellow Pullman High School graduate and Washington State University student, James Robert Dickinson, and fellow WSU student & Intercollegiate Knight Brian Bernard Wilson.
The search for the seven missing students was, at the time, the most extensive search in Washington State history, and included the U.S. Coast Guard, the Washington State Patrol, Canadian Search & Rescue, and the F.B.I.
No remains or debris were ever found, and this case remains one of Washington State's biggest unsolved mysteries.
--BLENDED NEWSPAPER ARTICLE--
Search widened for seven aboard sailboat.
A search was expanded today for six young men and a young woman who left the Tacoma Yacht Club in a 22 foot sailboat at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and have not been heard from since.
The Coast Guard said planes, helicopters and boats were covering all waters from Olympia to the Canadian border and west to Port Angeles.
Harbor Checks were made in all harbors in the Puget Sound area.
The rescue center at Victoria conducted a similar check in British Columbia.
About 30 boats from four divisions and two flotillas of the Coast Guard Auxiliary were expected to provide boats for the search.
The Coast Guard said it had received about 200 calls of persons offering information. Cross-checks with other boats eliminated most of the leads.
A Coast Guard spokesman said that they received an anonymous call of a boat that had been seen in distress Wednesday night and would like to talk with the informant again.
The search already had ranged from the south end of Puget Sound to Port Townsend and off Camano and Whidbey Islands, with the areas covered two or three times, the Coast Guard said.
The woman aboard the boat is Barbara Komorek, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Komorek.
Five of the men are Washington State University students, in Seattle for a convention of the Intercollegiate Knights at Seattle University and the Edgewater Inn.
They included Jim Dickinson, son of Dr. John O. Dickinson, professor of veterinary medicine at W. S. U., and Gary Oman, son of Glenn E. Oman, Assistant Director of Athletics.
The other W. S. U. students were Brian Williams of Tacoma, owner of the boat; Brian Wilson of Loon Lake, Stevens County, and Robert C. Sherwood of Toppenish, Yakima County.
The other man is Dennis Newton, Potlatch, Idaho, a student at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
The group had planned to sail in the vicinity of Commencement Bay, Dalco Passage; south of Vashon Island and possibly as far north as Seattle, the Coast Guard said.
Blended articles from the Seattle Times, April 16 & 19, 1971
--END NEWSPAPER ARTICLE--
Gary Edward Oman Cenotaph
Gary Edward Oman was born to Florence Nadine and Glenn Edward Oman. He was the first born of three children:
(1) Gary Edward
(2) Gail Marie
(3) Karen Nadine (b. 3/11/1956, d. 2/23/1970)
Gary was a 1969 graduate of Pullman High School, Pullman, Washington.
At age 21, Gary disappeared in the waters of Washington State's Puget Sound with six other students out for a sail. Among the missing was fellow Pullman High School graduate and Washington State University student, James Robert Dickinson, and fellow WSU student & Intercollegiate Knight Brian Bernard Wilson.
The search for the seven missing students was, at the time, the most extensive search in Washington State history, and included the U.S. Coast Guard, the Washington State Patrol, Canadian Search & Rescue, and the F.B.I.
No remains or debris were ever found, and this case remains one of Washington State's biggest unsolved mysteries.
--BLENDED NEWSPAPER ARTICLE--
Search widened for seven aboard sailboat.
A search was expanded today for six young men and a young woman who left the Tacoma Yacht Club in a 22 foot sailboat at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and have not been heard from since.
The Coast Guard said planes, helicopters and boats were covering all waters from Olympia to the Canadian border and west to Port Angeles.
Harbor Checks were made in all harbors in the Puget Sound area.
The rescue center at Victoria conducted a similar check in British Columbia.
About 30 boats from four divisions and two flotillas of the Coast Guard Auxiliary were expected to provide boats for the search.
The Coast Guard said it had received about 200 calls of persons offering information. Cross-checks with other boats eliminated most of the leads.
A Coast Guard spokesman said that they received an anonymous call of a boat that had been seen in distress Wednesday night and would like to talk with the informant again.
The search already had ranged from the south end of Puget Sound to Port Townsend and off Camano and Whidbey Islands, with the areas covered two or three times, the Coast Guard said.
The woman aboard the boat is Barbara Komorek, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Komorek.
Five of the men are Washington State University students, in Seattle for a convention of the Intercollegiate Knights at Seattle University and the Edgewater Inn.
They included Jim Dickinson, son of Dr. John O. Dickinson, professor of veterinary medicine at W. S. U., and Gary Oman, son of Glenn E. Oman, Assistant Director of Athletics.
The other W. S. U. students were Brian Williams of Tacoma, owner of the boat; Brian Wilson of Loon Lake, Stevens County, and Robert C. Sherwood of Toppenish, Yakima County.
The other man is Dennis Newton, Potlatch, Idaho, a student at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
The group had planned to sail in the vicinity of Commencement Bay, Dalco Passage; south of Vashon Island and possibly as far north as Seattle, the Coast Guard said.
Blended articles from the Seattle Times, April 16 & 19, 1971
--END NEWSPAPER ARTICLE--
--PULLMAN HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1969--
Gary Edward Oman Cenotaph
Gary Edward Oman was born to Florence Nadine and Glenn Edward Oman. He was the first born of three children:
(1) Gary Edward
(2) Gail Marie
(3) Karen Nadine (b. 3/11/1956, d. 2/23/1970)
Gary was a 1969 graduate of Pullman High School, Pullman, Washington.
At age 21, Gary disappeared in the waters of Washington State's Puget Sound with six other students out for a sail. Among the missing was fellow Pullman High School graduate and Washington State University student, James Robert Dickinson, and fellow WSU student & Intercollegiate Knight Brian Bernard Wilson.
The search for the seven missing students was, at the time, the most extensive search in Washington State history, and included the U.S. Coast Guard, the Washington State Patrol, Canadian Search & Rescue, and the F.B.I.
No remains or debris were ever found, and this case remains one of Washington State's biggest unsolved mysteries.
--BLENDED NEWSPAPER ARTICLE--
Search widened for seven aboard sailboat.
A search was expanded today for six young men and a young woman who left the Tacoma Yacht Club in a 22 foot sailboat at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and have not been heard from since.
The Coast Guard said planes, helicopters and boats were covering all waters from Olympia to the Canadian border and west to Port Angeles.
Harbor Checks were made in all harbors in the Puget Sound area.
The rescue center at Victoria conducted a similar check in British Columbia.
About 30 boats from four divisions and two flotillas of the Coast Guard Auxiliary were expected to provide boats for the search.
The Coast Guard said it had received about 200 calls of persons offering information. Cross-checks with other boats eliminated most of the leads.
A Coast Guard spokesman said that they received an anonymous call of a boat that had been seen in distress Wednesday night and would like to talk with the informant again.
The search already had ranged from the south end of Puget Sound to Port Townsend and off Camano and Whidbey Islands, with the areas covered two or three times, the Coast Guard said.
The woman aboard the boat is Barbara Komorek, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Komorek.
Five of the men are Washington State University students, in Seattle for a convention of the Intercollegiate Knights at Seattle University and the Edgewater Inn.
They included Jim Dickinson, son of Dr. John O. Dickinson, professor of veterinary medicine at W. S. U., and Gary Oman, son of Glenn E. Oman, Assistant Director of Athletics.
The other W. S. U. students were Brian Williams of Tacoma, owner of the boat; Brian Wilson of Loon Lake, Stevens County, and Robert C. Sherwood of Toppenish, Yakima County.
The other man is Dennis Newton, Potlatch, Idaho, a student at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
The group had planned to sail in the vicinity of Commencement Bay, Dalco Passage; south of Vashon Island and possibly as far north as Seattle, the Coast Guard said.
Blended articles from the Seattle Times, April 16 & 19, 1971
--END NEWSPAPER ARTICLE--
Gary Edward Oman Cenotaph
Gary Edward Oman was born to Florence Nadine and Glenn Edward Oman. He was the first born of three children:
(1) Gary Edward
(2) Gail Marie
(3) Karen Nadine (b. 3/11/1956, d. 2/23/1970)
Gary was a 1969 graduate of Pullman High School, Pullman, Washington.
At age 21, Gary disappeared in the waters of Washington State's Puget Sound with six other students out for a sail. Among the missing was fellow Pullman High School graduate and Washington State University student, James Robert Dickinson, and fellow WSU student & Intercollegiate Knight Brian Bernard Wilson.
The search for the seven missing students was, at the time, the most extensive search in Washington State history, and included the U.S. Coast Guard, the Washington State Patrol, Canadian Search & Rescue, and the F.B.I.
No remains or debris were ever found, and this case remains one of Washington State's biggest unsolved mysteries.
--BLENDED NEWSPAPER ARTICLE--
Search widened for seven aboard sailboat.
A search was expanded today for six young men and a young woman who left the Tacoma Yacht Club in a 22 foot sailboat at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and have not been heard from since.
The Coast Guard said planes, helicopters and boats were covering all waters from Olympia to the Canadian border and west to Port Angeles.
Harbor Checks were made in all harbors in the Puget Sound area.
The rescue center at Victoria conducted a similar check in British Columbia.
About 30 boats from four divisions and two flotillas of the Coast Guard Auxiliary were expected to provide boats for the search.
The Coast Guard said it had received about 200 calls of persons offering information. Cross-checks with other boats eliminated most of the leads.
A Coast Guard spokesman said that they received an anonymous call of a boat that had been seen in distress Wednesday night and would like to talk with the informant again.
The search already had ranged from the south end of Puget Sound to Port Townsend and off Camano and Whidbey Islands, with the areas covered two or three times, the Coast Guard said.
The woman aboard the boat is Barbara Komorek, 22, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Komorek.
Five of the men are Washington State University students, in Seattle for a convention of the Intercollegiate Knights at Seattle University and the Edgewater Inn.
They included Jim Dickinson, son of Dr. John O. Dickinson, professor of veterinary medicine at W. S. U., and Gary Oman, son of Glenn E. Oman, Assistant Director of Athletics.
The other W. S. U. students were Brian Williams of Tacoma, owner of the boat; Brian Wilson of Loon Lake, Stevens County, and Robert C. Sherwood of Toppenish, Yakima County.
The other man is Dennis Newton, Potlatch, Idaho, a student at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
The group had planned to sail in the vicinity of Commencement Bay, Dalco Passage; south of Vashon Island and possibly as far north as Seattle, the Coast Guard said.
Blended articles from the Seattle Times, April 16 & 19, 1971
--END NEWSPAPER ARTICLE--
Inscription
Gary's quarter of the grave marker:
"Son
Gary Edward
1950 Lost at Sea 1971"
Gravesite Details
This grave marker is a Cenotaph. Gary disappeared in a boating accident in Washington State's Puget Sound. His remains were never recovered.
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