My Family Tree

During Basil's junior and senior years of high school, he
served as the driver of a Model A Ford "school bus". After graduation,
he worked a series of odd jobs before migrating to Alaska for work and
adventure in 1937. He hauled salmon in Yakatat, and lived in Kodiak and
Anchorage, where he built a log cabin and lived for a year before
returning to his hometown in 1941.
He helped make airplane wings for Boeing, worked as a
radio operator for the State Patrol, and a field warden for the state
Department of Natural Resources. His lifetime hobby was lapidery work,
and he was known as the ' Rockhound who wore the metal hat ', [ his
foresters helmet ].
Funeral was held December 3, 1993 at Olympia, Washington.