The "Bear Man" is gone. Ralph Flowers of Central Park, a world-class hunter who developed an innovative non-lethal bear feeding program now used throughout Western Washington and in other countries as well, is dead at 75.
Flowers died on Easter Sunday of leukemia in the Capital Medical Center at Olympia.
For years, Flowers worked as a bear hunter for the Washington Forest Protection Association in order to keep damage to tasty young saplings to a minimum.
His book, "The Education of a Bear Hunter", chronicles his career hunting the bruins of the Northwest. But Flowers is better known, and esteemed, because of the feeding program he developed, a totally new approach to saving as many as 60 trees a day per bear, not to mention bears.
A sequel released last year, "Bears & Flowers", is the story of Flowers' tremendously successful feeding program.
Ralph Herbert Flowers was born Nov. 6, 1928, at Hancock, Md., to John William and Jessie (Spade) Flowers. He attended Hancock High School and served in the Army in 1946-47.
On March 2, 1947, he married Velma Schimelpfenig in Aberdeen, WA. They lived on the Harbor since that time. She survives at their home.
Flowers also worked for Grays Harbor Paper for 10 years, and wrote a column for The Daily World, "Ahead of the Game."
He was a member of the Central Park Baptist Church.
He enjoyed wood carving, painting, taxidermy, fishing and tree farming. He cleared his property and built his home and shops, his family said.
Survivors also include two daughters, Sylvan Celich of Dallas, Ore., and Jacky Flowers of Aberdeen; two foster sons, Primitivo and Silvino Lara; a brother, Ken of White Lake, Mich.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Two brothers Leonard and Dale, died previously.
Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 14 and 15, at the Whiteside Family Mortuary.
A memorial service at Christian Life Fellowship in Central Park is pending. Private burial will be in the Wynooche Cemetery at Montesano.
Source: The Daily World
Flowers died on Easter Sunday of leukemia in the Capital Medical Center at Olympia.
For years, Flowers worked as a bear hunter for the Washington Forest Protection Association in order to keep damage to tasty young saplings to a minimum.
His book, "The Education of a Bear Hunter", chronicles his career hunting the bruins of the Northwest. But Flowers is better known, and esteemed, because of the feeding program he developed, a totally new approach to saving as many as 60 trees a day per bear, not to mention bears.
A sequel released last year, "Bears & Flowers", is the story of Flowers' tremendously successful feeding program.
Ralph Herbert Flowers was born Nov. 6, 1928, at Hancock, Md., to John William and Jessie (Spade) Flowers. He attended Hancock High School and served in the Army in 1946-47.
On March 2, 1947, he married Velma Schimelpfenig in Aberdeen, WA. They lived on the Harbor since that time. She survives at their home.
Flowers also worked for Grays Harbor Paper for 10 years, and wrote a column for The Daily World, "Ahead of the Game."
He was a member of the Central Park Baptist Church.
He enjoyed wood carving, painting, taxidermy, fishing and tree farming. He cleared his property and built his home and shops, his family said.
Survivors also include two daughters, Sylvan Celich of Dallas, Ore., and Jacky Flowers of Aberdeen; two foster sons, Primitivo and Silvino Lara; a brother, Ken of White Lake, Mich.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Two brothers Leonard and Dale, died previously.
Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 14 and 15, at the Whiteside Family Mortuary.
A memorial service at Christian Life Fellowship in Central Park is pending. Private burial will be in the Wynooche Cemetery at Montesano.
Source: The Daily World
The "Bear Man" is gone. Ralph Flowers of Central Park, a world-class hunter who developed an innovative non-lethal bear feeding program now used throughout Western Washington and in other countries as well, is dead at 75.
Flowers died on Easter Sunday of leukemia in the Capital Medical Center at Olympia.
For years, Flowers worked as a bear hunter for the Washington Forest Protection Association in order to keep damage to tasty young saplings to a minimum.
His book, "The Education of a Bear Hunter", chronicles his career hunting the bruins of the Northwest. But Flowers is better known, and esteemed, because of the feeding program he developed, a totally new approach to saving as many as 60 trees a day per bear, not to mention bears.
A sequel released last year, "Bears & Flowers", is the story of Flowers' tremendously successful feeding program.
Ralph Herbert Flowers was born Nov. 6, 1928, at Hancock, Md., to John William and Jessie (Spade) Flowers. He attended Hancock High School and served in the Army in 1946-47.
On March 2, 1947, he married Velma Schimelpfenig in Aberdeen, WA. They lived on the Harbor since that time. She survives at their home.
Flowers also worked for Grays Harbor Paper for 10 years, and wrote a column for The Daily World, "Ahead of the Game."
He was a member of the Central Park Baptist Church.
He enjoyed wood carving, painting, taxidermy, fishing and tree farming. He cleared his property and built his home and shops, his family said.
Survivors also include two daughters, Sylvan Celich of Dallas, Ore., and Jacky Flowers of Aberdeen; two foster sons, Primitivo and Silvino Lara; a brother, Ken of White Lake, Mich.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Two brothers Leonard and Dale, died previously.
Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 14 and 15, at the Whiteside Family Mortuary.
A memorial service at Christian Life Fellowship in Central Park is pending. Private burial will be in the Wynooche Cemetery at Montesano.
Source: The Daily World
Flowers died on Easter Sunday of leukemia in the Capital Medical Center at Olympia.
For years, Flowers worked as a bear hunter for the Washington Forest Protection Association in order to keep damage to tasty young saplings to a minimum.
His book, "The Education of a Bear Hunter", chronicles his career hunting the bruins of the Northwest. But Flowers is better known, and esteemed, because of the feeding program he developed, a totally new approach to saving as many as 60 trees a day per bear, not to mention bears.
A sequel released last year, "Bears & Flowers", is the story of Flowers' tremendously successful feeding program.
Ralph Herbert Flowers was born Nov. 6, 1928, at Hancock, Md., to John William and Jessie (Spade) Flowers. He attended Hancock High School and served in the Army in 1946-47.
On March 2, 1947, he married Velma Schimelpfenig in Aberdeen, WA. They lived on the Harbor since that time. She survives at their home.
Flowers also worked for Grays Harbor Paper for 10 years, and wrote a column for The Daily World, "Ahead of the Game."
He was a member of the Central Park Baptist Church.
He enjoyed wood carving, painting, taxidermy, fishing and tree farming. He cleared his property and built his home and shops, his family said.
Survivors also include two daughters, Sylvan Celich of Dallas, Ore., and Jacky Flowers of Aberdeen; two foster sons, Primitivo and Silvino Lara; a brother, Ken of White Lake, Mich.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Two brothers Leonard and Dale, died previously.
Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 14 and 15, at the Whiteside Family Mortuary.
A memorial service at Christian Life Fellowship in Central Park is pending. Private burial will be in the Wynooche Cemetery at Montesano.
Source: The Daily World
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