The Daily News-November 1982 DOUMIT, Mitchell John Memorial services were Saturday in the Cathlamet Grade School multipurpose room. Julia Butler Hansen, Rev. Everett L. Groves, Dr. E. G Chuinard, G. Robert Kerstetter and Frank Hallet officiated. Everyone was invited to the Elochoman Grange after the service. Age 76, a longtime Cathlamet attorney and civic leader, died in a Longview hospital. He was born at Cathlamet, where he attended grade school, graduating from Kelso High School. He was a graduate of the University of Washington and the University of Washington Law School, passing the Washington bar exam in 1928. He lived his entire life in Cathlamet, except for five years. From 1945 to 1946 he was deputy prosecutor of Pierce County and from 1955 to 1956 he was assistant attorney for Pierce County. For more than 40 years, he was a Cathlamet city attorney. He was a city councilman and had been manager of the Wahkiakum County PUD District 1. For several years, he was the Wahkiakum County prosecuting attorney. He organized the Cathlamet Fire Department and was its chief for more than 40 years, was president of the Washington State Association of Fire Chiefs and chairman of the state board of volunteer firemen from 1955 to 1979. During those years, he was appointed to the board by three governors--Arthur B. Langlie, Mon Wallgren and Dan Evans. He was a 33rd degree ninth commander of the Court of Honor of Scottish Rite, a life member of the Longview Elks, an honored member of Tall Elks, past master of Pentalpha Lodge No. 276, past state chairman of the Washington State Lewis and Clark Trail Committee, past president of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage National Foundation, member of the Board of Directors of Lower Columbia College Foundation, past president of the Lower Columbia Council on Alcoholism, past and present master of Elochoman Grange and member of the Cathlamet Little Theater. He was instrumental in forming the Cathlamet Cemetery District, which was the first one formed in the state. He also organized the Pioneer Church Association. Through his efforts, the Pioneer Church was saved and not demolished. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, at home; one daughter, Mary Thomas of Cathlamet; three grandchildren, Libby Thomas of Washington State University, Pullman; Mike Thomas of the United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., and Michelle Thomas of Cathlamet; two brothers, Eli G. and George J., both of Cathlamet; five sisters, Rose Kiblan of St. Helens, Ore., Sally Bloomquist of Port Orchard, Wa., Marian Peterson of Seaside, Ore., Leona Boyer of Cathlamet and Helen Wampler of Fresno, Calif.; and numerous nieces and nephews. Dowling Funeral Home was in charge. Greenwood Cemetery-Cathlamet, Wa. 06 Dec 1905-12 Nov 1982 (As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society 2005 from original newspaper collection.)