Wayne Robert KLETSCH

Characteristics

Type	Value	Date	Place
name	Wayne Robert KLETSCH
education	Graduation	until June 1938	Kelso, Cowlitz, Washington, USA Find persons in this place
occupation	He went to work at the Long Bell Lumber Company (which later became International Paper). Wayne worked there for 40 years, retiring as manager of the Flakeboard plant in 1978.	from 1938 to 1941	Longview, Cowlitz, Washington, USA Find persons in this place
occupation	After the war, he returned to work in the Long Bell cabinet division's laboratory where he helped develop Flakeboard - the world's first particle board mill was built in Longview.	from 1946 to 1978	Longview, Cowlitz, Washington, USA Find persons in this place

Events

Type	Date	Place
death	19. December 2012	Longview, Cowlitz, Washington, USA Find persons in this place
birth	21. May 1920	Kelso, Cowlitz, Washington, USA Find persons in this place
Military Service	from December 1941 to 1945

Parents

Charles Frederick KLETSCH

Evelyn Mary ALLEN

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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float:none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important;background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;" align="left">Wayne Robert Kletsch, 92, died Dec. 19, 2012, at his Longview home. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;" align="left">He was born May 21, 1920, in Kelso, as the second-youngest of ninechildren born to a pioneer Cowlitz County family. His family farmed the fields along the Columbia River where industrial mills now stand. He attended grade school at Wallace Elementary and graduatedfrom Kelso High School in 1938. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial,sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;" align="left">Wayne joined the Marines in December 1941 and served in the Pacific region for four years during World War II. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;"align="left">He worked at Long-Bell Lumber Company, which later became International Paper Company. He retired after approximately 40 years of service as manager of the flakeboard plant. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;" align="left">He loved to fish, hunt, camp and garden. The outdoors was where he was the happiest. He was a Boy Scout leader for many years and took large troops on camping trips at least once a month, even in the winter. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a former member ofToastmasters.   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;"> Wayne is survived by his wife of 68 years,Norma; two children, Merrilee Bauman and Doug (Melody) Kletsch; three grandchildren, Jeff (Pam) Bauman, Brad (Heather) Bauman and Heidi (Andrew) Keimig; four great-grandchildren, Eric, Alex, Josiah and Myia Bauman; and many nieces, cousins and extended relatives. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;">He was preceded in death by his siblings. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;" align="left">A private family service has been held. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222;float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;" align="left">In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Community Home Health & Hospice, P.O. Box 2067, Longview, WA 98632. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;" align="left">Arrangements are by Cascade Northwest Funeral Chapel at Green Hills Memorial Gardens & Crematory. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;" align="left">  <p style="width: 478.796875px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin:0px !important; padding: 0px !important; border: none !important; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;">This story about Wayne Kletsch appeared in the Sunday edition of The Longview Daily News on December 30, 2012: <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border:0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;" align="left">  <p style="width: 478.796875px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; border: none !important; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat:initial !important;">  <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; float: none !important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;" align="left">        <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">Wayne Kletsch’s family helped forge Longview history.   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">    <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">“ He couldlook at places and say what used to be there,” said his son Doug. “He knew all the back roads. ... He knew every river in the area.”  The Kletsch family owned a farm near Fowler’s Slough, the future Lake Sacajawea, and one of Wayne’s older brothers drove a team of horses that scraped away the earth to make way for the foundation of the Monticello Hotel.  After Wayne and Norma, his wife of 68 years, were married, “You couldn’t walk down the street ... unless you meta relative by the dozen,” she said.   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">    <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">Wayne Robert Kletsch, 92, died Dec. 19 at his home in Longview.   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">    <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit;float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">One of his family’s treasures is a circa 1921 map with the name Kletsch appearing numerous times. Real estateagent Charles Kletsch — Wayne’s father — was one of the major landowners before R.A. Long built Long-Bell.   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">    <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">Charles and Evelyn (Allen) Kletsch were married in 1898 at the courthouse in Kalama and had nine children spread over the next 25 years. Wayne was their eighth child, born May 21, 1920, in Kelso.   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">    <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">After selling his land to Long-Bell, Charles moved his family to South Kelso, but lost all his money —and a fox farm in Alaska — during the Great Depression and died in 1936, when Wayne was 15 years old.  “Then he worked, washing dishes or whateverhe could to help the family,” said Wayne’s daughter, Merrilee Bauman. “He went to work for Long-Bell when he was 18,” in 1938, the year he graduated from Kelso High School. <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">    <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">Kletsch joined the Marine Corps in December 1941 and served four years in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, hewent back to Long-Bell, working in the laboratory in the cabinet division.  “They were experimenting and built the Flakeboard,” said his wife, Norma. “He made a doghouse that lasted forever.”  “It was the first particle board plant in the world,” his son said.  Long-Bell later became International Paper, from where Wayne retired in 1978 as manager of the Flakeboard plant.   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">    <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">Kletsch get-togethers were filled with laughter and reminiscence, the family said.  “When Wayne and I were married, his oldest sister was a grandmother,” Norma said. “I could not get over that.”  She said the extended family got along well and loved to share “remember when” stories. But they also liked to play practical jokes on each other, his children added.  “There was a lotof laughing,” Merrilee said.   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">    <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">Wayne was happiest outdoors, and he went hunting, fishing and camping inany weather, even snow and rain, his family said.  “He was a Boy Scout leader,” Norma said. “His troops were 40 and 50 kids. I don’t know how he did it.”  “And they went camping once a month. Period,” Doug said.   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">Kletsch’s memberships included the Longview Veterans of Foreign Wars and Toastmasters.  “He was opinionated, too,” his daughter said. “He would go to City Council meetings and write letters to the editor.”   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">    <p style="margin:0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">Gardening was another passion. Kletsch kept a large vegetable garden in the back yard.  “My dad was always a very hard worker,” Merrilee said. “Even when he was sick, he loved to hand hoe. He would sit in a chair and hoe. Everything had to look just perfect in the garden.”   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">   <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; width: 478.796875px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: inherit; float: none !important; position: static !important; background: none !important;">Wayne was so deeply rooted in the Longview-Kelso area that he rarely left it, his wife said.  “He was not one to travelmuch,” she said. “I always said whenever I got past Kalama, I got excited. There were lots of places he didn’t want to go, and I did.”  But she did get him to take a cruise to Alaska, and he finally got a glimpse of Bushy Island, where his family had once owned the fox farm, she said.  “They woke him up in the middle of the night and showed him where the island was,” she said.         <p style="width: 478.796875px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; border: none !important; float: none!important; position: static !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important;">

Sources

1	1930 United States Federal Census, http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10134/1930-united-states-federal-census?s=228435931&itemId=265034368-&groupId=063fda118911a63f82e393017c1dbcaa&action=showRecord&indId=individual-228435931-3505089 Publication: MyHeritage
	<p>Waine R Kletsch<br />Gender: Male<br />Birth: Circa 1921 - Washington, United States<br />Residence: 1930 - Kelso, Cowlitz, Washington, USA<br />Age: 9<br />Marital status: Single<br />Race: White<br />Language: English<br />Father: Charles F Kletsch<br />Father's birth place: Indiana, United States<br />Mother: Evelyn M Kletsch<br />Mother's birth place: Iowa, United States<br />Siblings: Jesse C Kletsch, Charles F Kletsch, Jr<br />Census: Township:KelsoEnum. District:0020Line:54 County:CowlitzSeries:T626Image:423 State:WashingtonRoll:2487 Date:1930Sheet:1-B See household members<br /><a id="household"></a>Household<br />Relation to head; Name; Age<br />Head; <a href="1930-united-states-federal-census?s=228435931&itemId=265034365-&groupId=063fda118911a63f82e393017c1dbcaa&action=showRecord">Charles F Kletsch</a>; 58<br />Wife; <a href="1930-united-states-federal-census?s=228435931&itemId=265034366-&groupId=063fda118911a63f82e393017c1dbcaa&action=showRecord">Evelyn M Kletsch</a>; 50<br />Son; <a href="1930-united-states-federal-census?s=228435931&itemId=265034367-&groupId=063fda118911a63f82e393017c1dbcaa&action=showRecord">Jesse C Kletsch</a>;20<br />Son; <a href="1930-united-states-federal-census?s=228435931&itemId=265034368-&groupId=063fda118911a63f82e393017c1dbcaa&action=showRecord">Waine R Kletsch</a>; 9<br />Son; <a href="1930-united-states-federal-census?s=228435931&itemId=265034369-&groupId=063fda118911a63f82e393017c1dbcaa&action=showRecord">Charles F Kletsch, Jr</a>; 4<br />Boarder; <a href="1930-united-states-federal-census?s=228435931&itemId=265034370-&groupId=063fda118911a63f82e393017c1dbcaa&action=showRecord">G Walter Beck</a>; 20</p> The 1930 Census determined the population of the United States to be 122,775,046. This is an increase of almost 16 percent over the 1920 Census, which reported a population of 106,021,537. This was the 15th decennial census conducted in the United States under authority granted by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution. It was conducted in April 1930, except in Alaska, where it wasconducted in late 1929. Until 2012 the 1930 Census is the latest available to the public, due to 72-year privacy laws. It is based on actual counts of persons living in residential structures.
2	Social Security Death Index, http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10002/us-social-security-death-index-ssdi?s=228435931&itemId=100166862-&action=showRecord&indId=individual-228435931-3505089 Publication: MyHeritage
	<p>Wayne R Kletsch<br />Birth: May 21 1920<br />Death: Dec 19 2012<br />Last residence: USA</p> Begun in 1935 by the Social Security Act signed into law by FDR, more than thirty million Americans were registered for the economic security sanctions by 1937. From 1937 to 1940, payments were made in one-lump sums amounts with the first amount being seventeen cents. Following amendments in 1939, the payments turned into monthly benefits and increased. Following further amendments in 1950, cost-of-living increases were awarded to those who were receiving benefits. From 1950 to the present, benefits have increased yearly in response to inflation concerning the costs of living.

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