http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs....UPDATE/70731023
I am not really sure what to say. I hesitated all day to post this but feel like I must say something. I didn’t know him as much as I remember him from when I was a kid. Family get-togethers and such. I know that over the last 20 to 25 years he has really only been in contact with my dad as far as family goes. He would call my dad about every 5 years or so just to say he was fine and see how everybody else was. Both his mother and father and his sister have all passed away years ago and he never had any kids that my dad knows about. He is survived by a couple aunts and an uncle and a couple more cousins. My dad is one of the youngest at age 69. I have talked to my dad a little more about him tonight and it appears that he just loved to travel. He never liked to be tied down to one place very long, and once his family was gone, he just went on a long trip. My dad told me that he had been thinking about him over the last few months and was trying to locate him at several of his favorite places in Alaska and Seattle. He obviously had no luck. My dad also said that he was shocked to find out that he was in Salem because he always went to Alaska for the summer. My father was notified w/in 1.5 hours of the accident…….