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 1908 - 2004 (95 years)
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| Name |
Archie K. McLaren |
| Birth |
4 Nov 1908 |
Seattle, Washington, USA  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
13 Aug 2004 |
Oceanside, California, USA [1] |
| Person ID |
I347 |
Heddle fam tree |
| Last Modified |
3 Mar 2013 |
| Father |
Archibald Kerr "Archie" McLaren, b. 31 Oct 1875, Ontario, Canada d. 17 Aug 1947, Seattle, Washington, USA (Age 71 years) |
| Mother |
Amy Dunn, b. Washington, USA d. Bef 1920, (presumably) Hood River, Oregon, USA |
| Family ID |
F119 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Ruth A., b. 28 Jun 1916, McMinnville, Tennessee, USA d. 27 Jan 2003, Oceanside, California, USA (Age 86 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1957 [3] |
| Family ID |
F935 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
3 Mar 2013 |
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| Notes |
- Archie K. McLaren died peacefully at home on August 13, 2004, at the age of 95, preceded in death by his wife Ruth, in January 2003.
Archie was born in Seattle in 1908, and was very proud to have begun working to help his family at the age of eight, selling papers on the Steamer Dawn in Mercer Island, Washington. He began a career at sea in his late teens, completing his first voyage around the world before he was 21. By the end of 1934 he had completed 38 round trips to Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila. He worked for the Dollar Steamship Lines and later for the Military Sea Transportation Service (M.S.T.S.) well into the 1950s, working his way up from Assistant Freight Clerk to Purser. In the mid 1950s he stopped going to sea and began working for the Social Security Administration, first in Washington state, then in San Diego and Escondido. He worked for Social Security for 22 years, retiring in 1978 at age 70. But total retirement didn't appeal to him, so he continued to work part-time for many years, working for the Norman Insurance Agency and giving seminars on Medicare for senior citizens. He was active in the National Association of Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) for many years, serving as President of NARFE Local #63. Archie's interest in travel never waned, and he continue to travel frequently to Europe and to take cruises well into his eighties, visiting Morocco, Russia, Greece and the Alaskan coastline. Archie was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Washington state and Oceanside.
Archie will be greatly missed by many fiends and relatives, including: daughter, Susan Musser; sister, Jean Henry; nieces Jeanne and Elizabeth; grand-nieces and nephews Manu, Jannat, and Matthew; his distant cousin (and sometimes traveling companion) Richard McLaren and family Selagh, Josh, Morgan and Zach; and long-time friend Tamra Ruddeck.
We will miss Archie's wonderful stories and many sea voyages and his very special sense of humor.
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- [S15] Archie McLaren obituary in NC Times, (http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/08/29//obituaries/8_28_0418_25_59.txt
Date: Aug 29 2004).
- [S93] US Social Security death index - Archie McLaren 2004, (Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.).
- [S14] Ruth McLaren death notice in NC Times, (http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/02/02/export2481.txt
Date: 2/2/2003).
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