FACES FROM THE WALL

VIETNAM WAR

SAN JUAN COUNTY WASHINGTON

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Orcas Island

John Michael "Mick" O'DELL Orcas Island High School Olga WA Senior Class of 1960: Basketball 4 yrs, Baseball 4 yrs, Football 3 yrs, Editor of Annual, Fres. Treas., Lettermen's Club 1 yr, Band 4 yrs, "One Mad Night", Captain Basketball Team 1 yr., Christmas Play 2 yrs, Ambition: None Biography

Lloyd Palmer STEARNS Orcas Island High School Olga, Orcas Island 1968 yearbook dedicated to him Biography

Full Obituary

Viet Nam Casualty
    Sgt. Lloyd Palmer Stearns, 1st Cav. Div., USA, was killed in action 8 Apr (1967) at An Khe, Viet Nam.
    Burial services with full military honors were held 19 Apr (1967) in Eastsound on Orcas Island. Interment was at the Olga Cemetery at Olga WA.
    Sgt. Stearns was born at Providence Hospital in Everett 13 Apr 1946, at which time his parents were living in Granite Falls. He went into service 25 Oct 1965, and took his training at Fort Carson CO. He had been serving in Viet Nam for nine months. Sgt. Stearns expressed himself many times as strongly believing in what he was fighting for.
    He is survived by his wife, Mary; his parents, Palmer and Inez Stearns; and brother, Edwin, all of Olga; two sisters, Martha Gusdal of Everett, Edith Wickberg of Seattle; his grandmother, Helen Wiley of Granite Falls; and a number of aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews.
    Friends were asked to omit flowers, but if they do desired to contribute to a memorial to Sgt. Stearns which has been set up. Any one interested could leave his contribution at the Olga store.
    Lloyd's father was born in this area and went to school here when classes were held in what is now the Granville Grange. as a young man he went to California where he met and married Inez Wiley. They returned to Granite Falls in 1941 with two small daughters. They had lived on the James place, on the River Road, and on the Russian Road. Mr. Stearns worked in the rock quarry here until it ran out of good rock. The family then moved to Maple Falls and, when Lloyd was six months old, to Orcas where Mr. Stearns is still employed at the rock quarry.
    Lloyd was on the Orcas basketball team and played against Granite Falls several times. His parents hosted part of Granite Falls team when they played at Orcas. Lloyd was a frequent visitor at his grandmother's home in Granite Falls and became well acquainted with the students on Granite Falls High School that time.
    Lloyd graduated from Orcas High School in 1964.
Granite Falls Press, Granite Falls WA, Thursday 11 May 1967