February 12 1935 February 20 2020
Gerald Norman Guile February 12, 1935 – February 20, 2020 Share this obituary Sign Guestbook| View Guestbook Entries| Memorial Donation Gerald Norman Guile, 85 years of age, died on Thursday, February 2020, at Providence Saint Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington. He was the second son born to Norman and Genevieve Guile. His brother, Ray was born before him in 1930 and his brother Perry was born after him in 1940. Gerald was born on a farm in Elkland, PA, February 12, 1935. When he was two, his family moved to Cooper Plains, NY, then to Monterey, NY when he was 4 or 5. They lived in Monterey, NY until 1943 when he was 8 years old. His father got a job at the Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA so his family moved and first lived in Port Orchard, WA, and then in Viewridge, WA. They lived there until 1944 when they had to move back to New York. They lived in Burdett and Hornby, NY during those years. In October 1947 they moved back out west to Aberdeen, WA. They lived on Forsythe Street in North Aberdeen for 12 years, from 1947 to 1959. In 1957 his parents bought the house and farm out in the Newton area of Hoquiam, WA and they moved out there in 1959. He remained with his parents helping them at the farm and building a very large work shop and garage there. In 1968, when he had just turned 33, he met the love of his life, Phyllis (Pat) Ansandra Turska. They were engaged in 2 weeks and married on June 7th, 1968, 3 months after they met. Pat already had 2 children, Kathleen Carol Murphy and Stephen Thomas Murphy from her previous marriage so Gerald was an instant stepdad. They lived in Aberdeen for a year and then in 1969 bought a house on DeKay Road. They started a family together and raised two children, Travis Christian Guile and Tamara Kay Guile. The family lost their home to a fire on April 25th, 1983 but rose from the ashes and rebuilt where their old house had once stood. They lived on DeKay Road together for 31 wonderful years until Pat passed away on November 5th, 2000. Gerald stayed at the family home and lived there a total of 51 years. Gerald’s first job was a paper route, delivering the Oregonian. When he was 16 he delivered telegrams for Western Union. He worked for about a year at the chair factory on Ontario Street in Hoquiam. He left there and went to work for Safeway in Hoquiam and his brother Ray worked there too. On March 1st 1954, he went to work at Blagens Saw Mill. He left there at the end of 1964 and went to work for Lambs in Hoquiam on May 10, 1965. He retired from Lambs on March 1st, 1997. He was there for 32 years. He said his greatest accomplishment was completing the welding apprenticeship program and he really enjoyed his job as a welder. He loved to work with metal. Gerald had quite a few serious things happen to him in his lifetime and often told the stories of how his scars came to be. He had to have his spleen removed when he was 9 years old. When he was a kid, he was sledding and sliced his head open when his sled went under a barbed wire fence. Another time he cut his knee open when sledding. He injured his hand as a kid when another neighbor kid rolled a large shale rock on it’s edge down a hill and it crushed his hand. He had to have his finger removed years later because it didn’t grow right after it was injured. He slipped and slid down a dam which injured his low back and he ended up having to have his lumbar spine fused as an adult. He had some film and matches in his pocket and the matches caught on fire and burned a large area on his leg. It took a year to heal. He was with 3 of his good friends as a young adult and his friend went very fast around a corner and rolled his car three of four times. Amazingly, no one was seriously injured. He accidentally cut the top of his foot with a hatchet. He was hit in the face with a 2×4 when it came over the top of a conveyor belt. He said it felt like it tore the whole side of his face off. He tore his rotary cuff muscle off when he worked at Lambs and had to have it reattached. In 2006, he fell off the garage roof 9.5 feet down and landed in a trench. He broke his pelvis clear through. And most recently, in 2018, he was attacked by a crazy woman with a hatchet and miraculously lived through 7 blows to his head, a very badly broken arm and lost 3 liters of blood. He defied death quite a few times in his life. About Gerald… The only time he was ever in a play was when he was 14. He played the father in a Christmas play at the Mission Covenant Church. He did have a beautiful singing voice although he only sang around the house. When he was 19, he tattooed his arm by himself. He used Indian Ink and a needle. The first pet of his very own was a white canary. He loved to go camping in the summertime either at the Wynoochee River or Lake area and also Humptulips and Donkey Creek area. He enjoyed getting out into the woods and going off road in his pick up. He loved visiting his friends and he spent a lot of time helping his parents at the farm. Gerald and Pat kept a garden every year. Gerald loved fennel and how it smelled. He loved a fresh lettuce, mayonnaise and sugar sandwich. They had chickens for years and goats too. He said his Grandma Casey would talk about how they were related to Buffalo Bill Cody. His favorite time period of his life was the 1950’s. He loved his wife Pat with all of his heart and missed her terribly when she passed. He said right from the beginning that she was his one and only and he would never remarry. He was so loyal and completely committed to her. He absolutely loved his grandchildren and would see them almost daily. He was extremely proud of them and their accomplishments. He would say how he just can’t get over how well they get along and how loving they are to each other. He was a number and date person. He kept track of the weather and he wrote dates on things he used. He was very organized and kept things in order. Everything had a specific place. He was quite an amazing person that way. For years he went for coffee in the morning with his buddies at the McDonalds in Walmart in Aberdeen. Often he would drive into town twice a day, sometimes 3 times a day. He would stop by his daughters house in Hoquiam and visit most days. He was always willing to help out with his grandkids however he could. He loved his smartphone and the feature of asking Google anything. He kept up with his extended family and cousins on Facebook and made a point to keep in contact with his relatives and friends in New York, Texas, Oregon and Nevada among other states. He loved calling people and talking to them. It meant so much to him when he would get phone calls from his friends and relatives too. It would just light up his world. He was an avid Trump supporter and posted a lot of political posts on Facebook. He was not shy about making his beliefs known. He was a Republican through and through. He didn’t attend church but he did believe in God and I believe that he is in heaven with his beloved wife Pat. They are both with us, watching over us on this earthly plane, until we are all together again someday. Gerald is survived by his daughter, Tammy Darrin of Hoquiam, his son, Travis Guile of Copalis Crossing, his stepson, Stephen Murphy of Seattle; six grandchildren, Caspin Darrin, Lily Darin, Kayla Darrin, Stephen Eickhoff, Amy O’Neill and Sam Murphy He was preceded in death by two brothers, Ray Guile and Perry Guile as well as his stepdaughter, Kathleen Murphy. A funeral service will be held at 1:00 pm, Monday, March 2, 2020, at the Coleman Mortuary Chapel in Hoquiam with the Right Reverend W. Kent Gravley officiating. Concluding service with interment will follow in the Sunset Memorial Park. Direction is by the Coleman Mortuary of 422 – 5th Street in Hoquiam, Washington. Please take a few moments to record your thoughts for the family by signing the on-line register at www.colemanmortuary.net. Print Obituary Sign Guestbook Name: Location: Video: Image: Light A Candle Candle 1 Candle 2 Candle 3 Candle 4 Email: Personal Message: Personal Message (required) Confirm: Submit Guestbook entry
Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Gerald Norman Guile February 12 1935 February 20 2020.
Death notice for the town of: Hoquiam, state: Washington