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Homer Scoville Smith Jr.
A memorial service for Homer Scoville Smith Jr., of Port Townsend, was held Nov. 11 at First Presbyterian Church in Port Townsend.
Mr. Smith died Nov. 4, 1999. He was 73.
He was born Nov. 14, 1926, in Seattle, where his father was an insurance agent for Metropolitan Life.
Mr. Smith enlisted in the Navy during World War II, then attended the University of Washington.
He met and married Eleanor Garrett in 1950 and they moved to Quilcene.
He at first worked for her father, Arthur Garrett, at his Jefferson County Telephone Company. He soon tired of stringing phone wire and became a teacher at Quilcene High School. He also started his own insurance agency, which initially operated out of their Quilcene living room.
Mr. Smith opened an insurance and real estate office in a Quilcene commercial building in 1952, continuing to teach school until 1959, when he began focusing full time on insurance.
He moved his insurance office to Port Townsend in 1963 and in 1972 moved his home and family there. He built a new commercial building on Water Street in Port Townsend in 1977, and Homer Smith Insurance remains at that site today.
His son Homer Smith III joined the firm 20 years ago and became chief operating officer of the company, which has expanded into Sequim and Port Angeles. Three of his six children worked with him at times.
Mr. Smith and his agency have been consistently recognized by Safeco Insurance as among their top agents. For many years Mr. Smith was named to Safeco's President's Council and he was called upon to give marketplace advice to Safeco executives through the years. For 24 years in a row, he was awarded the company's Award of Excellence.
Mr. Smith was deeply involved in organizations that helped the developmentally disabled. He was a key financial supporter of Skookum, a sheltered workshop for disabled adults, and founded the East Jefferson County Recreation Club, which supported recreational opportunities for disabled adults.
His favorite pastimes included golf, ballroom dancing and salmon fishing. He was a longtime member and past president of the Port Townsend Rotary Club.
In addition to his wife at the family home, Mr. Smith is survived by daughter Elaine Grimm and sons Homer III, Arthur, Brian and Greg, all of Port Townsend, and daughter Patricia Hohenberg, of the Tri-Cities; and 11 grandchildren.
Memorial gifts may be made to the East Jefferson Recreation Club, c/o Loretta Hamon, 80 Noble Lane, Port Hadlock, 98339.

Bob Benton Shelledy
A memorial gathering for Bob Benton Shelledy was held Nov. 16 at the Everett Elks Club.
Mr. Shelledy died Nov. 8, 1999. He was 83.
He was born July 10, 1916, in White Bluffs, Benton County, Washington, to Loyd and Cora Shelledy. The family moved to Yakima in 1925 where he attended school until returning to White Bluffs High School for his sophomore and senior years. He graduated in 1935.
Mr. Shelledy moved to Everett in 1936, where he worked for the Eclipse Mill prior to joining the Everett Police Department in December 1940.
During World War II, Mr. Shelledy served with the U.S. Army occupation forces in Okinawa as a member of the criminal investigation division. He used his GI Bill benefits to earn pilot certification, and was rated to fly commercial, single-engine/land and sea aircraft.
Mr. Shelledy returned to the Everett Police Department in 1947 and retired in 1966 as captain of the juvenile division. He then went to work for Snohomish County Juvenile Court as superintendent of detention until retirement in July 1977.
Mr. Shelledy was a member of the Olympic Peninsula Association of Retired Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters; Retired Everett Police Officers Association; American Legion Post 6; VFW Post 2100 and Everett Elks Lodge 479. He served with the Washington State Juvenile Officers Association; International Juvenile Officers Association; Washington State Probation and Parole Association; Everett Drug Abuse Council; United Good Neighbors admissions and distributions committee; Snohomish County Health, Welfare and Recreation Council; Snohomish County Boys Club board of directors; Snohomish County Office of Economic Opportunity; Everett PTA Council and Footprinters, Inc. - Tacoma Chapter.
He married Helen Gilfillan in February 1939, and they had two children, Donald Shelledy, of Tacoma, and Eileen Knaus, of Stanwood, who survive him. In January 1985, Mr. Shelledy moved to Sequim and married Alma W. Houtrouw. He also is survived by stepsons John Houtrouw, of Port Orford, Ore., and David Houtrouw, of Sacramento, Calif.; brother William Shelledy, of Medford, Ore.; and sister Marjean Wold, of Everett; and six stepgrandchildren.
Memorial gifts may be made to the American Cancer Society or Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, 98362.
Sequim Valley Chapel was in charge of arrangements.

Jerrold P. Dawes
At his request, no service is planned for Jerrold P. Dawes, of Sequim. Mr. Dawes died Oct. 24, 1999. He was 69.
He was born June 22, 1930, in Seattle.
Mr. Dawes attended Edmonds High School and served overseas during the Korean War.
He opened an auto repair business when he returned home from the service. After a trip to Alaska, Mr. Dawes accepted a job with Nordling Engineering in Juneau, Alaska.
When his father "Doc" Dawes died in 1977, he moved to Sequim to assist his mother.
For the past 22 years he lived in the Dawes' home overlooking Dungeness Spit and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. He often spoke of how lucky he was to live in such a beautiful spot.
No flowers, please.

Valleria M. 'Val' Grant
A memorial service for Valleria M. "Val" Grant, of Sequim, is scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at Sequim Seventh-day Adventist Church, 30 Sanford Lane.
Mrs. Grant died Feb. 9, 1999, of respiratory failure from complications following a liver transplant. She was 60.
Her body was donated to the University of Washington School of Medicine for scientific study. Burial will follow at a later date at Dungeness Cemetery.
She was born Nov. 10, 1936, in Little Rock, Ark., to Benjamin and Dorothy Province Morgan and grew up in San Antonio, Texas.
She graduated from Ozark Academy in Gentry, Ark., in 1957. She took additional classes at Durham's Business College in San Antonio, Texas, and obtained her nursing home administrator's license from Presentation College in Aberdeen, S.D.
She and Walter W. Grant married Oct. 1, 1957, in San Antonio, Texas.
Mrs. Grant assisted Bill Littlejohn in Sherwood Manor nursing home administration for three years before taking the emergency medical technician course in 1975 at Peninsula College. In May 1980, she graduated from Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine's paramedic program and became paramedic coordinator for the city of Keene, Texas' paramedic program.
In 1981 she returned to Sequim and became Sequim Fire Department's first woman firefighter and paramedic, under the supervision of emergency room physician David Chase at Olympic Memorial Hospital. She continued to work part time for Olympic Ambulance.
Mrs. Grant enjoyed traveling and had been to Europe, Australia, China and the Holy Land.
In 1988 she traveled through the islands of Hawaii and then worked as a paramedic in the Johnston Island Atoll Health Clinic, 700 miles southwest of Honolulu.
She returned to Sequim in 1992 and worked for Olympic Ambulance in Port Angeles and Sequim.
Mrs. Grant was a member of Sequim Seventh-day Adventist Church.
In addition to her husband at the family home, Mrs. Grant is survived by daughters Twyla Luke, of Sequim, and Robin Pimentel, of Houston, Texas; brothers Benjamin Morgan, of Marble Falls, Texas, and JP Morgan, of Albany, Ga.; sisters Barbara Crews, of Blackshear, Ga., and Betty Lou Fickes, of Adelphi, Md.; and five grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her grandparents Howard and Anna Province and Wilson and Zenobia Morgan.
Memorial gifts may be made to Weimar Institute, Lifesteps Program, (Immune function enhancement), P.O. Box 486, Weimar, Calif. 95736. or Clallam County Fire District 3, 323 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim, 98382.

Lyle H. Chandler
No service has been scheduled for Lyle H. Chandler, of Sequim.
Mr. Chandler died Feb. 3, 1999. He was 77.
He was born May 4, 1921, in Mouston, Wis., to Guy Frederick and Ruby Irene Hogeboom Chandler.
He and Mary Louise Caldwell married June 26, 1948, in Schenectady, N.Y.
Mr. Chandler served with the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a major in May 1981. He also retired from 20 years of service with the 3M company of St. Paul, Minn.
Mr. Chandler was a member of the Congregational Church.
In addition to his wife at the family home, Mr. Chandler is survived by a son, Jeff Chandler, of Coronado, Calif.; daughters Janet Blodgett, of San Antonio, Texas, and Lois Chandler, of Encinitas, Calif.; a sister, Helen Scott, of Kalamazoo, Mich.; and two grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Russell Chandler, in 1970, and a daughter, Lynn Chandler, in 1969.
Sequim Valley Chapel was in charge of arrangements.

Hazel Johnson
No service has been scheduled for Hazel Johnson, of Sequim.
Mrs. Johnson died Feb. 3, 1999. She was 91.
She was born Jan. 14, 1918, in Raymond, to Everett and Anne Waltrip.
She and Robert F. Johnson married in 1942. Mr. Johnson preceded her in death in 1986.
Mrs. Johnson is survived by a son, David Johnson, of Lacey, and three grandchildren.
Sequim Valley Chapel was in charge of arrangements.

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