1926
Alfred
2018
Alfred Wayne Jewett
June 13, 1926 — June 7, 2018
Alfred Wayne Jewett was born on June 13, 1926 to Alice and Leon Jewett. His mother passed away in 1930 and his father passed away in 1939. He then went to live with his sister and brother in law , Agnes and Wayne Massie. During high school he helped milk 40 cows, harvested crops, and handled a can milk route on weekends to give the drivers a day or two off.
After graduation from Cheter High School, where he played trombone and was active in the forces, he joined the US maritime Services. He took his boot training at Sheep's Head bay in Brooklyn, New York. While there he applied for radio operator school at Gallups in Mass. and was accepted. He graduated in June of 1945 with a 2nd FCC telegraph Lic. He sailed in the Pacific, after the war was over he enlisted for 18 months in the Air Force.
He became an instructor at Scott Field, Ill in Teletype Maint., Air Traffic Control. Grades came easy in the tech. school and he made grade Staff Sgt. in 15 months.
After his tour of duty, he farmed his parents farm for 4 years. He then took a job at Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle, Wa. He worked as a jig builder on the XB & YB 52 (worlds largest bomber). When they were going into production on the B-52 he quit and went to work for Dr. Eugene Lacroix, a Arabian horse breeder and cattle rancher in Ellensburg, Wa. After a year he went to work for Boeing on the XM99 interceptor missile. In 1959 the Company asked him to go to Long Island, New York for a few weeks, he didn't get back to Seattle until 1964, at which time he quit and bought a bar/motel cafe in Stanley, North Dakota.
He married Ramona Jundt in 1994. In 1995 they sold the bar and Al went back to work for the Boeing Company on the minute man missile project in the central United States. When that was completed he went to work for Boeing at the Hanford Nuclear Plant No. 2. He worked for Pullman Power Products, Kaiser Eng's, and Georgia Power CO, until retiring. In 1993 he came over to Flathead Lake and helped build a super good cents home.
Al is proceeded in death by his sisters, Arlene and Agnes and his one daughter Denise. Al is survived by his wife Ramona, Robin of Chicago, Renee of Ft. Meyers, Fl, Teresa of Kalispell and 7 grand children.
After graduation from Cheter High School, where he played trombone and was active in the forces, he joined the US maritime Services. He took his boot training at Sheep's Head bay in Brooklyn, New York. While there he applied for radio operator school at Gallups in Mass. and was accepted. He graduated in June of 1945 with a 2nd FCC telegraph Lic. He sailed in the Pacific, after the war was over he enlisted for 18 months in the Air Force.
He became an instructor at Scott Field, Ill in Teletype Maint., Air Traffic Control. Grades came easy in the tech. school and he made grade Staff Sgt. in 15 months.
After his tour of duty, he farmed his parents farm for 4 years. He then took a job at Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle, Wa. He worked as a jig builder on the XB & YB 52 (worlds largest bomber). When they were going into production on the B-52 he quit and went to work for Dr. Eugene Lacroix, a Arabian horse breeder and cattle rancher in Ellensburg, Wa. After a year he went to work for Boeing on the XM99 interceptor missile. In 1959 the Company asked him to go to Long Island, New York for a few weeks, he didn't get back to Seattle until 1964, at which time he quit and bought a bar/motel cafe in Stanley, North Dakota.
He married Ramona Jundt in 1994. In 1995 they sold the bar and Al went back to work for the Boeing Company on the minute man missile project in the central United States. When that was completed he went to work for Boeing at the Hanford Nuclear Plant No. 2. He worked for Pullman Power Products, Kaiser Eng's, and Georgia Power CO, until retiring. In 1993 he came over to Flathead Lake and helped build a super good cents home.
Al is proceeded in death by his sisters, Arlene and Agnes and his one daughter Denise. Al is survived by his wife Ramona, Robin of Chicago, Renee of Ft. Meyers, Fl, Teresa of Kalispell and 7 grand children.
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