Seems Like Yesterday

Published 9:00 pm Thursday, November 27, 2003

Frank Pendleton, the last of Everett’s pioneer logging operators, died at his Seattle home. He began logging here in 1899 and continued until 1951 when he closed the doors on the firm of Pendleton-Gilky in the First National Bank Building. Originally from Oconto, Wis., he first came here to cruise timber. Preceded by his older brother, Ira, both built homes on Grand Avenue hill south of downtown.

B.G. Wilder, manager of the Washington Co-operative Farmers Association here, and Alton Funk, manager of the Arlington station, met to complete plans for the association’s District 3 trustee nomination dinner meeting at Normanna Hall.

Marci Karr, 18, wrote the music and lyrics for the show musicians and singers at Edmonds Community College were putting on. The 15 numbers were just a sampling of the 70 songs she had written in six years.

Four members of Western Conference champion Cascade High School earned berths on the first team of the 1978 all-opponent soccer teams. They were Susie Plymale, Nancy Harley, Tami Horn and Laura Sultze. Wesco runners-up Everett and Meadowdale placed Debbie Petitcler and Kathy Lewis and Lori Yarbrough and Joan Baratto.

By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library.