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Location: Coos Bay, Oregon, United States

Born in 1915,in North Bend, Oregon. I will be 93 years old on Aug 8, 2008. I graduated in 1940 from Colorado School of Mines as a Geologist. My first job out of college was working for an oil cdompany in the swamps out of Morgan City, Louisiana. In December 1940, I was drafted into the U.S. Army as a buck private. My year was almost up, when Pearl Harbor hit. They sent me to Officer Candidate School, where I became an officer at Ft. Belvoir in the Army Engineers., 4 years later, I left the service as a Captain. I then worked for HYumble Oil (Now Exxon-Mibil) in the Houson, Tx. office as a specialist in the study of underground oil and gas reserrves. In 1947 I returned to Coos Bay, Or. spent 19 years in the restaurant business, built a bowling alley, owned 3 service stations and 17 years in the real estate business. I retired at age 65 in 1980. I then got involved with the mining business in gold silver and zinc. Like the old saying, "what goes around, comes around." I started with mining and end up with mining. My wife, Kay and I celebrated our 65th Wedding Anniv. We have 3 fine kids, One girl and two boys.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

HOLY REDEEMER CATHOLIC CHURCH 100 YEARS

THE "THEME" HERE IS
GETTING TO KNOW MORE
ABOUT HOLY REDEEMER PARISH
IN NORTH BEND, OREGON
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This slide show is in honor of the 100th anniversary of the North Bend Holy Redeemer Catholic Church 1906 to 2006. It was made by George E. Gebhardt. Be sure to save it on your FAVORITES, for future recall. We call this a "blog". or a series of pictures with accompanying stories. A blog is also an abbreviation of a "web log" or some call it a "book log". To open the show, when you get the e-mail, click on the colored so called blog, The beauty of the program, enables you yo forward this e-mail anywhere in the whole world and show these same pictures. Also, click on the picture to ENLARGE IT., then click on GO to return to the show. Note: it may not work on some slow computers. Posted by Picasa

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