Wasco-Multnomah-Yamhill County OR Archives Obituaries.....Stultz, Sr., Donald D. December 9, 2003
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The Dalles Chronicle, December 16, 2003
     Donald D. Stultz Sr., 68, a former resident of The Dalles, died at 
Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles, Wash., on Dec. 9, 2003.
     He was born March 11, 1935, in Spokane, to Archie Roscoe and Pollyanna 
(Longfield) Stultz. 
     He attended elementary school in Portland and McMinnville, then graduated 
from high school in The Dalles. He married Maureen E. Sullivan on April 18, 
1992 in Nome, Alaska. 
     One of his greatest memories was a Boy Scout Jamboree that took him 
across Canada and the United States to Valley Forge, Pa., where he met and 
shook hands with then President Harry S. Truman. 
     From the age of 16 he worked as a deck hand on tugs running the Columbia 
River. Ten days after graduation from high school he made skipper. After the 
dams had been put in he felt there was no longer a challenge to running the 
Columbia and moved to Stockton, Calif., hauling dirt for that portion of 
Interstate 5. He attended a maritime college where he studied in order to earn 
his master mariner’s license. 
     From a home base of Tacoma he sailed to Alaska. He also worked on the 
East Coast as supercargo for barges loading and unloading for ports domestic 
and overseas. On July 4, 1976 near Takotna, Alaska, he was in a terrible 
accident that changed his life. Despite the prognosis of never walking again 
he disagreed with the doctors and walked anyway though it took more than two 
years of effort. 
     On retirement, he and his wife, built a home in Port Angeles.
     He is survived by his wife, Maureen E. Sullivan, Port Angeles; his 
daughters, Kelly Stultz, Tacoma, Wash.; Kim Hansen and her husband Joe, 
Medford; stepdaughter, Rita Wilbanks and her husband Brian, Los Angeles; his 
son, Donald ‘DJ’ Stultz Jr., Bremerton, Wash.; his stepson Jon Krier, Seattle; 
his sister, Frances Well, Port Angeles; her children and their spouses and 
children from the Port Angeles area; grandchildren Theresa Suprunowski, 
Highwood, Ill.; William Suprunowski Jr., Tacoma; Tamra Dawn Stultz, Tacoma; 
great-gandson: Lucas Suprunowski, Medford. He was preceded in death by his 
parents and two brothers, Archie Jr. and Richard who died as young children.
     A celebration of his life will be held on Jan. 18 in Port Angeles. 
Memorial contributions may be made in lieu of flowers to Port Angeles Lions 
Club, P.O. Box 466, PA WA 98362 or charity of choice.
     Drennan & Ford Funeral Home of Port Angeles is in charge of arrangements.
     Guest book can be signed at www.drennanford.com


Additional Comments:
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chroicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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