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Obituary: Hyslop, Victor R.

Age 93

HYSLOP, Victor R. (Age 93) Lover of family, trees, maps, and all things mechanical died November 23, 2013, in Kirkland at the age of 93.

He was born April 17, 1920, in Tacoma to Victor Russell Hyslop Sr. and Esther Hatch Hyslop and raised in Deep Creek Falls, WA., on the ranch that his grandparents had homesteaded.

He and his brother drove a horse and buggy to the Mason Country School, a one-room school house on the West Spokane Plains.

He graduated from Reardan High School and Washington State University with a degree in mechanical engineering.

He served his country in the United State Army in North Africa, East India and Washington, D.C., where he was a member of the Corps of Engineers.

He was an expert marksman and competed on the WSU rifle team.

He and his wife Doris, who predeceased him in 2003, raised two children in Seattle, Donald Hyslop of Deep Creek Falls, and Nancy Hyslop Way of Sammamish.

Vic and Doris, who met at a dance at Natatorium Park in Spokane after the War, loved to travel, making trips all over the West and to Alaska.

They created a family life full of outdoor activities and love and respect for nature.

The family settled in Seattle after the War, and Vic worked for Boeing as a drafter and engineer.

He retired from the City of Seattle’s engineering and mapping department in 1977.

He spent his retirement actively involved in conservation projects at the family farm in Reardan and assisting his son with farming the land which has been in the family for the past 135 years.

He loved the land of his fathers.

Vic was life-long learner and creative thinker.

He collected clocks and watches and hooked his bicycle up to the ranch’s ice cream maker as a boy to make cranking ice cream easier.

He was working his way through the encyclopedia in this 90’s.

His one true goal was to get the irrigation system at the ranch functioning.

He is survived by his son and daughter and four grandchildren, Russell and Ramona Hyslop of Spokane, David Way of Bellevue, and Cecily Way and her husband Andres Santos of San Diego.

He was predeceased by his brother, Thomas Hyslop of Spokane.

Donations can be made to Washington State University in the name of the Victor and Doris Hyslop Endowment.

A memorial is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, December 23, at the West Deep Creek Grange with interment at the West Greenwood Cemetery in Reardan.