Wahkiakum Eagle-May 2001

BLIX, Marvel Henning
	
  Age 86, died at the Longview Hospice.  He was born on Puget Island to 
Sigurd and Sigrid A. Rohlfson Blix and was a life long resident of 
Puget Island.
  He attended Cathlamet schools.  On June 18, 1939 he married Evelyn 
Nilsen at the First Free Lutheran church. He worked for a time at the 
Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, Calif., and designed and built boats 
on Puget Island.  He also fished in Alaska on Prince William Sound
and Cooks Inlet and on the Columbia river. 
  He was a life member of the Sons of Norway and a member of the First 
Free Lutheran Church of Puget Island.
  His interests included gardening, fishing, camping, clam-digging and 
he especially enjoyed his family, his grandchildren and great-
grandchildren and woodcrafts where he built models of Norwegian Viking 
and commercial fishing boats.
  Survivors include his wife at home; three sons, Jerry, Arvid and 
Dennis, all of Puget Island; a daughter, Sharon Gorley of Castle Rock; 
eight grandchildren and 17 great-grand-children and several nieces and 
nephews.
  Graveside services were Friday at the cemetery with Pastor Wood 
officiating.
  Dowling Funeral Home was in charge.


Greenwood Cemetery-Cathlamet, Wa.
01 Apr 1915-30 Apr 2001
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum)