Wallace Lyn Gruwell, 61, an Air Force veteran and field service engineer for Getingé USA, died Saturday, June 2, 2007, at a local hospital from injuries he received in a motorcycle accident near Neihart, MT. His memorial service is 10 a.m. Thursday, June 7, 2007, at First Southern Baptist Church. Schnider Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Survivors include his wife, Carol Gruwell, of Great Falls, MT; daughters, Melody (Bret) Vlasie, of Bozeman MT, Sarah Gruwell and Laura Gruwell, both of Great Falls; sisters, Barbara (Ronald) Pumphrey, of Arlington, WA, and Martha (Thomas) Foster, of Bothell, WA; and numerous nieces and nephews. Wallace Lyn Gruwell was born December 19, 1945, in Everett, WA, to Wallace Leroy and Eleanor (Esswine) Gruwell and raised in Silvanna, WA. He graduated from Monroe (WA) High School in 1964 and joined the Air Force. While serving his country he received a BSOE in bio-medical sciences from Wayland Baptist University while stationed at Shepherd Air Force Base in 1980 and an associate's degree in instruc-tion technology in 1983 from the Community College of the Air Force. He retired from the Air Force in 1989 after 23 years of traveling throughout the world as a medical services specialist and a biomedical technician. As a master sergeant stationed in Maine, his love for the outdoors was reflected in his ownership and operation of a Christmas tree farm. He married Michiko Shiina in 1973 in Japan, and they divorced in 1980. He married Carol Rich in 1981, in Anchorage, Alaska. Prior to moving to Great Falls, he lived in Utah, where he worked for Getingé USA from 1989 to 2007 as a field services engineer, travel-ing throughout Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. He was preceded in death by his parents.
Wallace Lyn Gruwell, 61, an Air Force veteran and field service engineer for Getingé USA, died Saturday, June 2, 2007, at a local hospital from injuries he received in a motorcycle accident near Neihart, MT. His memorial service is 10 a.m. Thursday, June 7, 2007, at First Southern Baptist Church. Schnider Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Survivors include his wife, Carol Gruwell, of Great Falls, MT; daughters, Melody (Bret) Vlasie, of Bozeman MT, Sarah Gruwell and Laura Gruwell, both of Great Falls; sisters, Barbara (Ronald) Pumphrey, of Arlington, WA, and Martha (Thomas) Foster, of Bothell, WA; and numerous nieces and nephews. Wallace Lyn Gruwell was born December 19, 1945, in Everett, WA, to Wallace Leroy and Eleanor (Esswine) Gruwell and raised in Silvanna, WA. He graduated from Monroe (WA) High School in 1964 and joined the Air Force. While serving his country he received a BSOE in bio-medical sciences from Wayland Baptist University while stationed at Shepherd Air Force Base in 1980 and an associate's degree in instruc-tion technology in 1983 from the Community College of the Air Force. He retired from the Air Force in 1989 after 23 years of traveling throughout the world as a medical services specialist and a biomedical technician. As a master sergeant stationed in Maine, his love for the outdoors was reflected in his ownership and operation of a Christmas tree farm. He married Michiko Shiina in 1973 in Japan, and they divorced in 1980. He married Carol Rich in 1981, in Anchorage, Alaska. Prior to moving to Great Falls, he lived in Utah, where he worked for Getingé USA from 1989 to 2007 as a field services engineer, travel-ing throughout Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. He was preceded in death by his parents.
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