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Born in 1944, Gary was the third out of five boys in his family; George, Johnny, Gary, Jim and Charlie. Gary attended Cedar Hills Grade School. He started at Sunset High School but moved to Salem, Oregon at the end of his sophomore year and finished his high school education at North Salem High School. He married in 1962 and has three children; Karlene, Jonathan and Stuart; five grandchildren and one great grandson. He became an electrician and worked as an Electrical Inspector for the City of Portland. He also taught Electric Code at PCC. He died in Salem in 2006 from heart failure. He was preceded in death by his younger brother, Jim, who died in 1970.
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Jean Elizabeth Speckman (Eves)
Gary was already attending Cedar Hills Grade School when I arrived in the 6th grade. Gary, along with most of us in the 7th grade began taking dance lessons from Mr. & Mrs. Scofield in the basement of Barnes School. Gary enjoyed dancing and I remember that the two of us were in a dance contest on the TV show, "High Time" which was formatted after American Bandstand. We had a great deal of fun going with our classmates to this show. Sadly, we did NOT win the contest. Gary was a great guy. I am sorry to say I lost touch with him during HS but I do know that he was living in Salem at one time because he stopped at my parent's house. I will always have fond memories of our dance classes and just goofing off with Terry Trachsel, John Tomas, Greg Rasmussen and others in the neighborhood.