BOMBER MEMORIAL

PAUL CLAYTON PAGE ~ Class of 1967
August 13, 1948 - December 15, 2017



From the 40-year Class Reunion Booklet in 2007:

"I have no children from two marriages and am currently single. My girlfriend, Gladys, and I are looking for acreage either around the Aberdeen area, which is my pick, or outside of Billings, Montana, which is where she is from.

My older brother, Jim ('59), and his wife, Lou, are both retired and living in North Richland. My younger sister, Janice ('68), and her husband, Jim, are working for the National Park Service on special assignment in Bangor, Maine, and will be retiring to their home in Gunnison, Colorado, shortly.

I was a journeyman welder when I graduated and went to work in the Seattle ship yards and then to Boeing. Within a couple of years, I was in Southeast Alaska where I became self-employed in a variety of crafts, from owning a transport company to construction to being an airline terminal manager.

I love to travel. Any excuse to get me in the car or on a plane will work, and I'm gone. I like to carry a gold pan in the trunk, and I use it a lot. Next up is a leisurely trip along the west coast, as my girl friend, Gladys, has never seen the ocean or the redwoods before.

My work is and always has been a carry over from my interests in art when I was in school. I can design and build you a one-of-a-kind house from the ground up, but I would rather be overboard on the inside finish and trim work with embossed ceilings, custom cut moldings and fireplaces. I also like to do stained glass, and have done a couple of entry ways locally. Currently, I'm a general contractor, certified travel agent and Pilot Car operator. I will be adding a building inspection service for real estate agencies to that list very soon. I have also been involved in Public Radio, oil spill recovery, community government, as well as starting a postal service where I used to live in Hollis, Alaska.

Over the years I've lived in several places. First was Seattle, Redmond, Mount Lake Terrace and Juanita Beach around the Seattle area. After that, I went to Ketchikan, Cordova, Anchorage, Fairbanks, back to Ketchikan and then to Hollis, Alaska before returning to the Tri-Cities to care for my father until he passed a few years ago. Now, I'm looking for the next place to call home.

It took me 27 years to go all over the state of Alaska several times, then there were the trips to British Columbia, Alberta, Washington (of course), Oregon, California and Southern Mexico. Since 1991, I've been to Utah, Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, both parts of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. If a road looks interesting, I'm on it.

Retirement is for people who work too much. I have been having way too much fun doing what I do to stop, and I don't plan to stop any time soon. Life has always been an adventure. Retirement? No thanks.

Didn't we all just graduate a couple of years ago? I'm sure I've only been back from Alaska for a year or two, not fifteen. If you don't do it today, there might not be a tomorrow. Live well, be happy."

Bomber Memorial put together by Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66).