Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino County, CA
Published in the "Big Bear Grizzly"
File uploaded 18 Feb 2005

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Henry Page York
90, owner of York Cycle Sales in Big Bear City, passed Feb. 11. 
He ran his store full time until a week before his death. Page was 
born in San Francisco in 1914. When he was 5 years old, his family 
moved to Sydney, Australia. At the age of 24, Page returned to the 
U.S. to study aircraft design at Curtis Wright Aircraft School in 
Los Angeles. He worked in the aircraft industry for several years 
and then in aerospace for companies such as Lockheed, McDonnel-Douglas 
and Rockwell. His last job before retirement in 1980 was as a liaison 
engineer on the Apollo 1 space shuttle. He always sold motorcycles on 
the side and at several points had his own motorcycle shops in Sacramento, 
Oakland and Boulder, Colo. He was the national distributor for Panther 
Motorcycles for a number of years. Page opened York Cycle Sales in the 
1970s and went into the business full time after 1980. His is preceded 
in death by his wife, Harriet Janet York.

Page is survived by his daughter, Pamela York Emberg; sister, Betty York 
of Vancouver, B.C., and his dear friend, Elizabeth Provis, and three grandchildren.

The memorial service will be Friday, Feb. 18, at 2 p.m. at St. Columba's 
Episcopal Church, Northshore Dr., Big Bear Lake.