THE SPIDAL FAMILY

(prepared by Annie Jarrell)

THE SPIDAL FAMILY

JACOB SPIDAL

Father of Don, Norman, and Ted, was a charter member of Mt. Olive.

CHILDREN:
	1. John Spidal – killed in Korean War
	2. Don Spidal
	3. Norm Spidal
	4. Ted Spidal
	5. David Spidal – works in N.Y. State with a PHD in speech therapy.

DON AND RHODA SPIDAL

Gaston, OR 97119

CHILDREN:
	1. Dennis Spidal – 46 years old, married, two boys, lives in Beaverton. He is retired from the Marine Corp and works as a Operation Director for the Portland Children’s Museum.
	2. Glen Spidal – 45 years old, married, two boys lives in Hillsboro. He works for the Hillsboro School District in Information Services.
	3. Donette Reis – 43 years old, married, two children, a boy and girl, lives in Kelkhein, Germany. She is a stay-at-home Mom and substitute teacher.
	4. Tim Spidal – 40 years old, married, 1 dog, 2 cats. He lives in McMinnville and teaches school in Dayton.

Don was born in Gaston 73 years ago in 1933 and lived on the family farm at Wapato outside of Gaston. He graduated from Gaston High School and joined the Air Force as a jet mechanic. He was an Airman 2^nd class.

Rhoda was a Lutheran Minister’s daughter. Part of her Father’s career was spent at the Zion Lutheran Church. Rhoda was born in Toledo, Oregon, seven miles inland from Newport. She attended Junior College at Concordia. She taught school for one year in Oregon City. After Tim was older, Rhoda worked as a secretary at the Gaston School for thirty years; this plus being a busy “farm wife” and very active member at Mt. Olive teaching Sunday School, belonging to the LWML where she is the President now. She also played the Church Organ for many years. Now she is retired – sort of.

Don’s and Rhoda’s first date was after a church skating party and after she asked her Father for permission to go. They were married December 1958. He farmed two farms in partnership with his Mother, then bought the farms and built his new house in 1969. They basically were “Strawberry” farmers and did some general farming, too. Don also drove the Gaston school bus for 43 years, the last ten years as Transportation Supervisor, a full time job plus being a full time farmer. When his children were younger he coached softball and taught Sunday School.

HOBBIES: Rhoda sends “greeting cards” to her family and Mt. Olive members. She reads, decorates cakes, travels, and loves to take care of grandchildren. Don gardens, travels, and collects “post cards”, and has thousands of them dating back to the early 1900’s.

This past year Don and Rhoda were Grand Marshalls for the Gaston “Good Old Days” parade. There was a big family turn-out for the event.

NORMAN AND RAEDENE SPIDAL.

Forest Grove, OR 97116

CHILDREN:
	1 John Spidal – 47 years old, married, two children, a boy and a girl. He works for Toledo Scales, technician supervisor.
	2 Andy Spidal – 44 years old, married, two daughters. Andy is in the Air National Guard, a Mission Systems Branch Chief.
	3.Michelle Perrine – 38 years old, married, two boys. She is a Medical Transcriptionist.

The Spidals have one great grandchild.

Norman was born at the Wapato farm outside of Gaston in 1936. He went to Gaston High School. He served two years in the Navy, then came home and worked at various jobs; in a sawmill and as a milker. He also had his own dairy farm in Scoggins Valley. He worked 25 years at Tektronics and later Merix and retired in 1989.

The Spidals have always attended Mt. Olive and Norm was baptized the same day the cornerstone was laid for the new church.

He and Raedene built the house they are now in, in Dilley in 1967.

Raedene was born in Forest Grove in 1941 and grew up on the family farm in Patton Valley. She attended all eight grades of school at the one room school called “Seth” in Patton Valley and her teacher the entire time was Mary Kurtz. The school building is still standing. She then attended Gaston High School.

Raedene got Norman’s address while he was in the Navy from a girl friend and so they became pen pals. They were married in June of 1958 and have been married six months loner than Don and Rhoda.

Raidene worked for Tektronics after her boys were in school, for thirty years. She left in 1995 and worked for a medical company for ten years, then retired in 2004.

HOBBIES: Norm and Raedene’s hobbies are reading and yard and garden work. She plants and he waters. They were campers when the children were younger. Their favorite hobby is grandkids. Raedene also is a caregiver for her extended family.

TED AND ALICE SPIDAL

Banks, OR 97106

CHILDREN:

	1. Bob Bonin – 40 years old, married, three children
	2. Dennis Bonin – 38 years old, married, two children
	3. Thomas Bonin, 38 years old, married, four children

Ted and Alice have nine grandchildren!

Ted was born at Gaston and lived at the family farm at Wapato near Gaston. He went to school in Gaston and then to Concordia High School. His original plan was to be a minister, but each year when spring came, he had a need to get back to the soil. He worked as a farmer, logger and for a nursery. The last fifteen years he worked for Squires Electronics and retired in 2003.

Alice was born in Tillamook. She lived with her family there on a dairy farm. She graduated in 1951 from Tillamook Catholic School. Alice worked four years for an insurance company there, married, and had three sons. Then her husband passed away.

For twenty-five years Alice worked as a Food Service Manager at the Banks school handling all the responsibility that position entailed. Now she is a cook at Yamhill School.

Although they have dated for twenty years, Alice and Ted just married on March 25, 2006. Ted let it be understood that he was not only marrying Alice, but the whole family and so all of the seventeen family members were included in the wedding party.

HOBBIES: Ted and Alice’s hobbies are camping, walking, reading. Ted also feeds his wild life friends; birds, squirrels, and whatever else appears.

(prepared by Annie Jarrell)