Cowlitz County WA Archives Obituaries.....Stavig, Carl Johan January 2006
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Published in The Daily News on 2/8/2006.    www.tdn.com/obits
 
Carl Johan Stavig was born January 10, 1918 in Minot, North Dakota to the late 
Amanda and Ingrold Stavig, both of Norway. Carl came to Longview after working 
on his parents' farm in Minnesota. He met & fell love with Maxine Staggs, 
daughter of the late Henry and Anna Staggs of Tipton, Oklahoma. They recently 
celebrated their 65th Wedding Anniversary and have two daughters, Barbara Weitz 
of Vancouver and Terri Andrews of Longview. They are blessed with 2 grand 
children, 4 great grand children and 3 great, great grand children. Carl served 
in WWII in 1965. He first worked for the Carpenters Union, building the Plywood 
plant at Weyerhauser, he began to work at Fibre in 1955 as a store clerk, 
worked there for 25 years while building eight custom homes for clients in the 
Longview/Kelso area. Leisure time he spent at the Elks playing golf and became 
Exalted Ruler in 1982-83. Carl and Maxine loved to dance and also spent many 
years traveling after retirement in 1980. Carl was a good man who lived his 
life in integrity and was a long time member at the First Baptist Church of 
Longview and in his last years of life he loved building bird houses in the 
woodshed, giving most of them away to Friends and Relatives. Carl was a devoted 
husband and Father, a hard worker, usually holding down 2 jobs at a time. He 
was a good man and will be greatly missed.


	


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