Whidbey Crosswind, October 31, 2014

The Puget Sound Veterans’ Monthly | NOVEMBER 2014

SERVING WHIDBEY ISLAND’S VETERANS, RETIRED MILITARY PERSONNEL AND FAMILIES

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Veterans DayRemembering those who served z pg. 4

By RON NEWBERRY

After a half century in the funeral service business, Gary Wallin thought he had seen it all.

Two years before Eileen Brown’s passing this fall, she had furnished Wallin with an obituary only to resubmit a revised copy about every six months.

“She was the consummate planner,” said Wallin, owner of Wallin Funeral Home in Oak Harbor. “That’s just who she was.”

But it wasn’t until shortly after Brown’s passing on Sept. 27 when the scope of Wallin’s statement was truly revealed.

At Brown’s memorial ser-vice, Marcus Cushway spoke before a large gathering of friends and family and shared how his mother had left behind a thick, three-ring binder, detailing how she wanted her personal affairs to be handled. Cushway told the group that as he turned the pages of the binder and got near the end, he found a document he didn’t expect to see but was amusing nonetheless.

It was his obituary.“I told Marcus, ‘That’s a

first,’” Wallin said. “I’ve been doing this 52 years. Never have I seen a mother who left her son’s obituary. When he shared that with the group here, it brought the house down. Everyone was roaring.”

And that, Wallin said, was how Brown would have want-ed her service to be.

“She wanted it to be a party,”

he said.Brown died at the age of 73

after a battle with Parkinson’s disease and other health issues.

For more than 30 years, she wrote columns that appeared in Whidbey Island newspapers, starting with the base newspa-per at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, the Crosswind, where she became editor in 1985. She later worked for the Whidbey News-Times and Whidbey Weekly.

Through her writing, she shared human-interest stories about people in the commu-nity and promoted causes that she believed benefitted Oak Harbor and Whidbey Island.

One of those causes was the creation of a historic center that would showcase the his-tory of the PBY Catalina and other aircraft based at NAS Whidbey.

In 1998, Brown was one of 13 original members who started the PBY Memorial Foundation, which brought the naval air museum to Oak Harbor. She was still on the board of trustees when she died.

“Eileen Brown had a lot to do with nurturing the concept of creating a memorial of some kind for the veterans who flew the PBY and aviators who flew out of NAS Whidbey,” said Wil Shellenberger, the founda-tion’s president.

Shellenberger said when he first started as president of the foundation three years ago, he met with Brown monthly for advice.

“She was very insightful and

I felt one of those rare indi-viduals who really put the community above all else,” Shellenberger said. “She always looked for ways to improve the world around her. I just thought she was a model citizen. I think there is a lot to be learned just from knowing Eileen Brown and how she lived.”

Brown was recognized as NAS Whidbey Island Civilian of the Year in 2001 and received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award when she retired from working for the base newspaper in 2004.

She would continue to write

weekly columns about people and causes in the community for another decade.

“Eileen was the perfect reporter because she had so much heart,” said close friend Helen Chatfield-Weeks. “She always did it with kindness and thoughtfulness and that was part of her whole personal-ity. She was one of the kindest ladies I think I’ve ever known.”

“She was so attuned to the community,” Wallin said. “She had her ear to the ground and she just knew everything that was going on. She was such a compassionate person. She befriended anybody. She was always taking care of somebody else, just totally unselfish.”

Even in her weakened con-dition, Brown stayed involved with the naval air museum as much as she could.

She joined fellow original PBY Memorial Foundation members Win and Donna Stites at the grand opening of the museum’s new location on Pioneer Way in July.

“Eileen was always giving of herself and always had time to talk and was never too busy to help a friend,” Win Stites said. “Eileen was always there, so it is hard to believe she is not with us anymore.”

On Sept. 23, four days before her death, Brown attended the foundation’s monthly luncheon at the Chief Petty

Officers Club on Ault Field Road.

“We didn’t know this then, but we know now that she knew the end was near,” Shellenberger said. “She came into that meeting asking how things were going and offering encouragement with absolutely no mention of her health prob-lems. Right up to within a few days of her passing, she was still interested in how the organiza-tion was doing and asking how individual people were doing and offering encouragement.

“That spoke volumes of her as a person.”

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Ron Newberry photoEileen Brown, right, listens to a speaker in late July at the grand opening of the PBY-Naval Air Museum at its new downtown Oak Harbor location on Pioneer Way. Brown, one of the founders of the PBY Memorial Foundation, died Sept. 27 at the age of 73.

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Roughly 26 percent of post-9/11 veterans have a service-connected disability compared to only 14 percent of the total veteran popula-tion, Pfannenstiel said.

Veterans ages 18 to 30 are more than twice as likely to be homeless compared with non-veterans of the same age. In addition, the number of homeless women veterans has increased 141 percent between 2006 and 2010.

“As a result of the myriad of challenges already here and/or on the immediate horizon, we must be com-pelled to meet these chal-lenges with as much fire-

power as we possibly can; we owe them that much,” Pfannenstiel told commis-sioners last week.

The local coalition comprises Island, San Juan, Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish and King coun-ties.

Island County has the largest veteran population per capita in the state.

Island County Veterans Services provides emergen-cy financial assistance, case management and other sup-portive services to indigent veterans and their depen-dents. Financial assistance may consist of paying for rent/mortgage and/or utility bills that may be in arrears or at risk of being shutoff.

The office provides vouchers for food, fuel, work specific clothing and/or school clothing and supplies for dependent children. We also provide assistance with Department of Veterans Affairs claims for compen-sation, pension, health care

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By JANIS REID

The award-winning film “Soldiers’ Sanctuary” tells a story of combat veterans healing from the scars of war.

The Whidbey Veterans Resource Center, operating out of the American Legion Post 141, will be hosting a fundraiser and screening of the film at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Clyde Theater in Langley.

“It’s really an extraordi-nary overview of the heal-ing that can go on,” said Greg Stone, president of the WVRC board. “The film describes the wonderful heal-ing power of bringing people from the battle together.”

The film follows a group of American veterans of

the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam wars who return to the battlefield of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, where they meet with veterans of the People’s Army of Vietnam to plant trees on the site of the war-time combat base.

The donation-only event the is be one of the criti-cal events in the WVRC’s fundraising campaign, Stone said. Lucas Jushinski, a vet-eran himself and owner of Island Alternative Medicine in Freeland, has offered to match up to $10,000 in dona-tions.

“We’re trying to encour-age people (to donate) but the main thing is to see this wonderful film,” Stone said.

The Khe Sanh Garden that was created in the course

of this film is a world sanc-tuary dedicated to honoring the memory of fallen soldiers from all sides of armed com-bat and reconciling in peace with former enemies.

“My hope is that this film will help many who are interested in moving through personal struggle by way of reconciliation within themselves and forgiveness towards their enemies,” said filmmaker Luke Hansen in a news release. “While the Khe Sanh Peace Garden proj-ect is helping veterans of war in a very moving way, this film really applies to all who are looking to find personal peace and reconciliation.”

The film was award-ed earlier this year Best Documentary Feature by the 2014 American Movie

Awards. The news came just weeks after the film celebrat-ed its World Premiere in Khe Sanh, Vietnam and its U.S. Premiere in Seattle in April.

Hansen said Seattle was selected for the film’s U.S. premiere because it is the hometown of many partici-pants of the 2012 Vietnam trip that serves as the film’s subject. Additionally, PeaceTrees VietNam is head-quartered in Seattle, an orga-nization providing support to the film and the Khe Sanh Peace Garden project.

More information about the file and the Khe Sanh Peace Garden project can be found at www.soldierssanc-tuary.com and www.khesan-hgarden.org

Veterans film to be screened at fundraiser

Contributed photoA veterans documentary created by filmmaker Luke Hanson will be screened at a fundraiser for the Whidbey Veterans Resource Center at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Clyde Theater in Langley.

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Whidbey Island residents will have a number of oppor-tunities to celebrate Veterans Day this year.

While Veterans Day is officially Tuesday, Nov. 11, local events are being held the weekend prior.

“A Musical Tribute to our Veterans” will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Oak Harbor High School Performing Arts Center.

This year’s ceremony will feature musical performances by the An-O-Chords barber-shop chorus, the Daybreak Trio, the Oak Harbor High School Harbor Singers and Treble Choir, the All-Island Community Band, and the Oak Harbor High School

NJROTC Color Guard.

The guest speaker will be Chief Petty Officer Gabriel Zaldivar.

This marks the 10th year of this community-wide event, which is sponsored by the Oak Harbor Area Council, Navy League of the United States.

The third annual Oak Harbor Veterans Day Parade will begin later that day at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8., in downtown Oak Harbor along Pioneer Way.

World War II veterans Eva Brown, Francis Skinner and Pat Ricketts will serve as the Grand Marshals.

The parade will include local leaders, along with both veteran and active duty per-sonnel and organizations.

The American Legion Auxiliary Post 141 will be handing out “buddy” poppies at the Mukilteo ferry dock 11

a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, and again at the Clinton ferry dock 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9.

The poppy is the offi-cial memorial flower of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and “buddy” poppies are assem-bled by disabled and needy veterans in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.

All donations received for the poppies will be used in the support of veterans and their families.

Veterans Day is traditional-ly celebrated on the same date as the former Armistice Day, inaugurated to commemorate the end of World War I, Nov. 11, 1918. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year marks the occasion. Each year, communities across the United States honor those who have served our coun-try, under the broad theme of “Honoring our Nation’s Heroes.”

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By MICHELLE BEAHM

The key ingredient to a good cookbook is variety.

That’s something Debbie Garcia knows well.

Garcia is president of the Navy Wives Club of America Whidbey Island.

The club recently created “What’s Cooking in Whidbey Island,” which members are sell-ing to raise money for scholar-ships and charities.

“We have a lot in here, really,” Garcia said. “It’s a good cook-book. We’re really happy with it.”

With about 50 recipe con-tributors and more than 300 recipes, the cookbook is divided into sections including appetiz-ers, main dishes and desserts.

“We just went wild,” Garcia said. “We didn’t try to limit it or steer anybody in a certain direction.”

This isn’t the first time the Navy Wives Club of Whidbey Island has published a cook-book. About 20 years ago, they tried selling one. That one didn’t work out well.

This time, however, less than

a month after the cookbooks arrived printed and bound, the club is considering a second order.

The group started with 220 cookbooks. After members pur-chased copies for friends and family, Garcia estimates there are only 80 copies left. They plan to sell the books at various holiday bazaars on the island, including at the Independent Order of Odd Fellows’ Rebekahs table.

Though the official divvy-ing of profits won’t be decided until after all the proceeds are in, Garcia knows where they plan to put it.

After using the proceeds to pay off the cost of printing — which Garcia says they’ve already raised enough for — proceeds will go to scholarships, North Whidbey Help House and toward taking care of a sec-tion of Maple Leaf Cemetery

adopted by the club.

That area of the cemetery, “Babyland,” is where children who died are buried.

Years ago, Garcia said, mili-tary families moving away asked the club to take care of their children’s graves. Eventually, the club started taking care of the entire area.

The annual scholarship is awarded to a military depen-dent graduating from Oak Harbor High school.

“Our scholarship is small … We’re giving $300,” Garcia said. “We kind of look at it like, whatever we can do to help.”

The cookbook sells for $12.50, plus shipping, if neces-sary.

Garcia said she is hoping the group will sell out the first printing by year’s end.

“Hopefully it’s a hit,” she said. “It’s got a lot of really good reci-pes in it.”

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Michelle Beahm / photoDebbie Garcia, president of the Navy Wives Club of America Whidbey Island, looks at the cookbook the club recently had printed. Proceeds from the book’s sales will go towards the club’s scholarship and charities.

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It will be 5-9 p.m. at the Oak Harbor VFW Post at 3037 North Goldie Road.

The cost is $10 for singles and $18 for couples. There will be both a silent and a live auction.

The group reports having many nice items this year, so the members urge residents to bring a friend.

The auction is the auxiliary’s main source of income for its programs. The nonprofit group helps veterans and their fami-lies; it supports the National Home Program, cancer aid and research, Adopt-A-Unit and much more.

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By KATE DANIEL

Janet Howard Zuvela’s grandmother never spoke of her family.

She speculates that perhaps, buried somewhere deep in the annals of family history, lies a secret, a quarrel, or a figurative skeleton in the closet respon-sible for her grandmother’s silence.

It was only four years ago that Howard Zuvela walked into her best friend’s kitchen and, unbeknownst to her, encountered one of her mater-nal relatives, Wickliffe Guy Newell III, for the first time.

“She didn’t know she had a family … when we all showed up just a few years ago, she was overwhelmed,” said Wickliffe Guy Newell III.

Since then, Howard Zuvela has embraced her newfound family and has hosted regular reunion barbecues, relishing in the group’s inclusivity.

On Tuesday, Sept. 30, Howard Zuvela and sev-

eral fellow Newell relations and friends gathered to pay respects to their ancestors interred at Bayview Cemetery

in Langley and to express gratitude for the recent instal-lation of their great-great-grandfather’s marble head-

stone — his grave had previ-ously been unmarked.

Among the family mem-bers were several residents of

Skagit and Island County including Audrey Spencer Newell of Clinton and her sister Laurie Newell as well as fourth and fifth generations of Wickliffe Guy Newells.

“It’s an amazing thing, I met all of this wonderful fam-ily,” Howard Zuvela said.

Howard Zuvela’s grand-mother’s father, Wickliffe Guy Newell I, was born on May 22, 1846, in Trumbull County, Ohio. At the out-break of the Civil War, he attempted to enlist in the 7th, 8th and 23rd Wisconsin regi-ments but was rejected due to his young age. When he turned 18, he finally succeed-ed, enlisting as a private.

According to Daniel Newell, his great-great grand-father was nothing if not per-sistent.

Wickliffe Guy Newell III noted that in 1865 his great-great-grandfather became a scout for the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and the wagon trails full of European settlers. Eventually, he and his wife Mary Ellen relocated first to Colorado and later to Whidbey Island where he built a fish hatchery near Maxwelton Road, established a post office and Masonic lodge and worked as census taker for Island County.

He died Jan. 30, 1932, in Everett.

Wickliffe Guy Newell III said he learned of his name-sake’s life story through the family’s stories and research on the Internet — the same way by which he and Howard Zuvela were able to connect, with the additional aid of mutual friends and acquain-tances on Whidbey. He first began trying to find his great-great grandfather’s burial site about seven years ago.

Armed with the knowledge that his great-great-grandfa-ther was buried at one of two Pacific Northwest Bayview Cemeteries, he mounted his bike and rode to Whidbey where he visited Langley City Hall and informed staff of his desire to find his ances-tor’s grave, which he supposed would be located at Langley’s Bayview Cemetery. Much to his surprise, he said, he received an answer almost immediately; a former mayor of Langley was present and said he had gone to school with members of the Newell family.

Due in part to work by the Genealogical Society of South Whidbey Island, records regarding Bayview cemetery graves had been established. Moments later, the two were driving to Bayview Cemetery where Wickliffe Guy Newell III laid eyes on the place where his great great-grandfather had been laid to rest; a num-bered marker rose from the ground, no name was present.

“I always wanted to make sure he had a nice headstone so family could go there and find him,” said Wickliffe Guy Newell III.

With help from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a veterans memo-rial program, Visser Funeral Home and friends in Island County, Wickliffe Guy Newell III saw to it that his ancestor received a proper marble headstone in mid-Sep-tember of this year.

“I felt a lot of relief; it felt pretty good,” said Wickliffe Guy Newell III, adding that it appears that many individuals are unaware of their deceased relatives’ burial places, or sim-ply don’t care to find them. “It is kind of a sad thing. I didn’t want that to happen. I wanted one of my grandkids or great grandkids to find out [where Wickliffe Guy Newll I and other ancestors were bured].”

Surrounding Wickliffe Guy Newell’s grave are nine other Newell family mem-bers, some of whom have also been interred without proper headstones. According to family members, plans are in the works to ensure that all of the deceased, including Wickliffe Guy Newell’s first wife, receive their own mark-ings.

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