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Ruth Elsie Noreide died on December 5, 2011. Ruth was born in Ferndale, Wash., on March 24 1926 and raised in Sequim, Wash. on a small farm. She recalled her childhood as lots of chores, riding the cow around the barnyard as they had no horse, and the sound of her mother’s lovely piano playing. Ruth received her degree in nursing in 1947. She possessed the gifts for nursing, and her upbeat, outgoing charms were not lost on her family, friends or patients. Always ready to lend a hand, she led daughter Kristi’s Girl Scout troop and carted Ala...
Everett Gustav (Gus) Nelson, age 76, passed away unexpectedly, but peacefully, in his sleep on December 5, 2011 at his home in Sierra Vista, Ariz. Gus was born to Henrietta and Gustav Nelson on March 11, in Brainerd, Minn. Two months after his birth, Gus’s father died leaving Henrietta alone to raise Gus and his four older brothers and sisters, Donald, Carol, Shirley and Kenneth until she married Henry Gehweier in 1943. Growing up at ‘Camp Nelson’, their small fishing camp and summer resor...
