Submitted by Dee Holland Clifford “Cliff” Jackson, NFMS Past President in 1971, passed away in Burley, Idaho on November 30, 2003. Cliff had been in ill health for many years, but despite this, was still an active part of the NFMS. In 1985 when no club …

Contributed by Bonnie Glisman Carl Mitford Unruh, 75, died Dec. 2, 2003 in Port Townsend Wash. He was born April 28, 1928 in Hutchinson, Kansas, He moved with his family to Wichita, Kansas, where they lived for a number of years. He attended the Univer …

1925 – 1997 Submitted by Robert H. Long Norm was born and raised in Seattle, WA, living in the Green Lake area. He was known to his family as “Bill”, but to his friends and associates he was “Norm”. In WWII he served in the US Army, mostly in Australia …

I was born on August 6, 1924, in Norfolk, Nebraska, the “Hub of Northeast Nebraska”, population then of 10,717. This is also the town that Johnny Carson called home. My father was a machinist, and my mother was a retired school teacher (retired because …

by Charlie Moon Fred Van Sant was a man of many surprises. Not only was he one of the world’s finest and most creative gem designers, he was a poet, a musician, and an original, deep thinker on many subjects especially regarding his philosophy on how m …