I come from a
devout Presbyterian family. My Dad’s parents, the
Alexanders,
came from Flora, Illinois, to homestead on Cedar
Ridge, east of
Kendrick, in 1886. They arrived by train to Moscow,
and then relied on
an agent to find the homestead.
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- I was born in Stockton, California on
July 7, 1919.
When I was about two years old, my father died. My
Mother went to work
on a cattle ranch because she could keep me
with her. After
numerous scares, like me wandering in among the
cattle, trying to see
the bottom of the well, and other events, she
decided that wasn’t
a place to raise an inquisitive youngster. more
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I
started attending First Presbyterian Church with my
parents when I
moved to Clarkston in the fall of 1943, but because of
the uncertainty
in local employment, did not join until June 1949.
Dr. David Brown was
pastor at the time. After he’d been here
for probably 25 years, he
retired, and the Rev. George Hendrick
followed. more>>
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110 years, the people of First Presbyterian Church have been faithful
to the Lord, to the Church, and to each other. In this
series, in
their own words, individuals write about events that shaped their lives. |
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Clyde Wilson
came to Clarkston in 1926 at the age of five, and grew up as
one of
seven siblings. His mother’s family was from Iowa,
and his
Dad’s from Idaho. His father worked on the early Potlatch dam
and
then at th e Potlatch mill and his mother was a housewife .
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I can’t really call myself a long-time member of First
Presbyterian Church of Clarkston, nor am I a newcomer. My husband Dick
and I with our five children, Russell, Richard, Peggy, Chuck, and Dean,
arrived here from California in 1963. Dick had just retired from the
Air Force and was persuaded to join his two sisters and their families
who were living here at that time. They had come from Montana some
years earlier. more »
Walt
Schroeder grew up
with five siblings in Methuen and Lawrence, Massachusetts, in a
German-ancestry family. His father sold life insurance for
John Hancock
and his early memories of the depression were that the family still had
a decent income from the premiums people paid for insurance.
Walt’s early job was working at Pacific Mills in Lawrence as a
“filling” clerk for the weaving looms. more>>
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Mary
Kincaid’s church experience started in a bassinet at the
Clearwater Presbyterian Church in Paramount, CA. Her paternal
grandparents emigrated from Holland, and settled in a large Dutch
community in Clearwater, California. Her parents (Beth
& Bill
Verburg) headed up the young married group in the church, a practice
they would replicate in one form or
another
everywhere they moved. more
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Don
Poe was born in Pomeroy, Washington in 1935, his parents’ only
child. The family moved to Clarkston in 1940 so he attended all 12
years in the Clarkston school system and fondly remembers the 13th
Street neighborhood gang of kids he grew up with. Don’s
mother,
Mary Rice, was a school teacher in Pomeroy and met her husband, Ernie
Poe there, who was in construction. Ernie and his brother bought a sand
pit in Clarkston in 1940 at 16th and Chestnut and operated that for
several years as well as doing small construction jobs. In
1953, Ernie
bought into a paving business with George Knapp. They paid $37,000 for
the company. more » |
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