Posted on: Skagit Co. Wa Obituaries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wa/SkagitObits?read=10 Surname: Dills, Cloer, Swan ------------------------- >From the Macon County (NC) News and Shopping Guide, Thursday, March 19, 1998, p. 17, Deaths and Funerals: Gordon Hez Dills, 81, of Sedro-Woolley, WA died March 4, 1998 at a Mount Vernon, WA care center. Born Feb. 23, 1917 in Macon County NC he was the son of Jerimiah Hez and Hassie Cloer Dills. He was married to the late Irma Swan of Proctor, NC. They had moved to Washington State in 1961. He began logging at 17, hauling timber to his father's lumber mill in North Carolina. He used a two horse team during those years and was perhaps the last original horse logger in the Upper Skagit Valley area. His children and grandchildren remember his many stories of his logging horse team "Pet & Sally". In 1968, Gordon and his son, Gordon R. started the Gordon Dills Logging Co. In later years he was a logging road contractor for the Weyerhauser Company and for the Campbell Group. He was an active member of the Calvary Baptist Church in Burlington for many years. Survivors include his sons, Gordon R. and wife Barbara of Hamilton, Douglas and wife, Barbara, Wade and wife, Kay, Scott and wife, Venie, all of Sedro-Woolley and Michael Steve of Everett; his daughters, Inez and husband Michael Sullivan of Clallam Bay, Bobbie Mayville of Cape Horn and Norma Jean and husband, Chuck Trueman of Lyman; 25 grandchildren, 34 great grandchildren; a brother, Hez and wife Evelyn Dills; sisters, Sylvia Anderson and Beulah Smith, all of Sedro Woolley; sister, Ann Miller of Renton and Ruth Southard of Franklin, NC and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, Irma Swan Dills, daughters, Doris Clark and Carolyn Hein; granddaughter, Tracy Ann Dills; great-granddaughter Tracy Ann Dills; great-granddaughter Lacy Stephens; and brothers Clifford and Elzia; and a sister, Goldie. Services were held Saturday, March 7, at Lemley Chapel in Sedro-Woolley with Rev. Gordon S. Dills of Reno, Nev., officiating.