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Richard “Rick” Wall

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1000 E. Jewett Blvd.P.O. Box 1116White Salmon WA98672

Office 509 493-2921FAX 509 493-1345

Lanz & Trummel

“ Wall Street “As told by Geneva (Wall) Meyers

Known to some of us as Bud Wall’s sisterKnown to others of us as John, Tom, Phil, Rick,

or Bob Wall’s older sisterKnown to them as the Wall Family Historian

AndTo us as our loyal Alumnus of the 1958 class and

Past Editor of this newsletterAll and all these classmates have crossed our school years

with us from 1946 through 1975.

The folks, Melville “Mel” and Sarah Wall, moved to WhiteSalmon in the summer of ‘46 from Vancouver. Actually theybought their very first home just south of Husum on what wasoriginally part of the old road that wound its way north fromWhite Salmon and into Husum. There were 5 children at thetime. Bud (Melville, Jr.) was the oldest, next came the twinsGenevieve & Geneva, then Bob, and Rick was thebaby. Phil, Tom, and John were born later in White Salmon.

Mel, along with his father Jesse, and his twin brother Elville,started a small “gypo” logging company, cutting trees up inthe forest around Trout Lake and hauling them down to localmills. Elville and Hazel Wall lived in BZ Corners with their sonKenny. All the Wall kids attended school in Husum, which wasgrades 1-6 in the early days, and traveled to White Salmonfor the higher grades. This includes cousin Kenneth “Kenny”Wall, who graduated in 1952. Kenny has since passed away.

Geneva’s First teacher in Husum was Mrs EneidaBrown. In Feb 1947, Geneva and Genevieve gave a lovelyvalentine card to Mrs. Brown. In Feb 2010 it came back toGeneva from her teachers daughter, Nadine (Brown) Mc-Cracken and the card now sits in a lovely frame.

Buds first teacher was Mrs. Rosalyn Ternahan. By the timethe youngest, John, was in school, only one grade for thewhole area was sent to Husum, and all other grades were inWhite Salmon.

When Bill Manly was going around naming streets in thecounty, he stopped by the Meyers home to discuss namesfor their road. It turns out this chunk of old highway had beenarbitrarily named Hewitt road for someone who had livedthere a short time and worked for the County. Bill let themknow that if all the residents along that road got togetherand sent in a signed petition they could get the namechanged to whatever they chose. A short time later,Geneva saw an ad on TV for “Wall Street”, said “aha!!!” Thepetition filed and the road became Wall Street. John Wall isthe only family still on Wall Street.

Bud, Genevieve, Geneva, Robert H., Richard, Phil,Tom & John Wall

Phil Wall

Cheryl Wall & Geneva(Wall) Meyers

Bud Wall & Genevieve(Wall) DeLay

Phil, Tom & John Wall

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