Final Flight – Obituary
Edgar Ward O’Meara
May 21, 1929 – May 21, 2021
Edgar Ward O’Meara was born on May 21, 1929 in Chaffee, Missouri and died on his 92nd birthday. He was the youngest of three children, living with his mother Ruth O’Meara and his stepdad Vincent O’Meara. Ed joined the Navy at 17 starting his 20-year military career.
Ed met Phyllis at […]
Message from the President
Shifting from the rearview mirror to the road ahead! With the vaccine rollouts, there is finally reason for optimism. A challenging year still lies ahead. It will demand of us the same adaptability, perseverance and generosity that stood us well last year.
After three months, the museum’s doors opened again on 17 February. While visitor counts are relatively low, […]
First Visitors
Caption: Welcome! Our first three first visitors at our reopening on February 17, 2021!!!
Pictured are Bruce, Mary and Ben Guenzel from Woodinville, WA. (Photo by George Love)
Clayton Hively
Museum volunteer Clayton Hively catches up on some off-season maintenance on the Museum’s Nimitz-Class parade aircraft carrier. This is quite an undertaking and anyone with wood building skills is invited to join us as a volunteer to help complete the project. (Photo by George Love)
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) History
BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE
By CW4 Michael M. Alberich, US Army (Retired)
This series of articles, covering the history of the BRAC in general and BRAC as it affected selected bases and NAS Whidbey in the past, will be issued over the 2021 CAT-CHAT publications in remembrance of the 1991 round of BRAC in […]
President’s Corner
2020 in the rearview mirror! For most of us it is a good thing. 2020 was a tough, challenging year that brought out some of the best in people, including adaptability, generosity and perseverance.
Washington State closed museums from March through June and again from mid-November to early January 2021. A “new normal” was needed to keep the museum […]
Chairman’s Report
The Holiday Season: Christmas, New Year’s, Kwanzaa, et al, are completed and now, onward to a new year, new adventures and responsibilities.
COVID-19 is still with us, which is where the ‘responsibilities’ part comes in. Washington State Gov. Jay Islee is slow/cautious to re-open shuttered businesses. Depending on such variables as vaccines and treatments, small businesses, like our very […]
Restoring the Quonset Hut
Museum volunteer John Love sealing more openings, inside and out, and doing some pest control which will include poison, traps, and fumigation on the Museums’s Quonset Hut. (Photo by John Hughes)
Desk of Onee & Richard
Even though the Museum was closed for much of 2020, the year ended with many new members joining us.
A warm welcome to new members Sally Mulcahy, Richard Tolley, Claudia and Steven Talmadge, Mary I. Ruiz, David P. Ruiz, Daniel Theriault, Susan and Mike Waller, T. Tveil, and John A. Rooke from Oak […]
Working on carrier
Museum volunteer Clayton Hively catches up on some off-season maintenance on the Museum’s Nimitz-Class parade aircraft carrier. This is quite an undertaking and anyone with wood building skills is invited to join us as a volunteer to help complete the project. Photo by George Love
Thank You!
Our most sincere appreciation to Matson Navigation for their generous donation of $1,000 to the PBY Memorial Foundation. They are our newest business partner.
Christmas Parade
Longtime Museum volunteer and Navy veteran Richard Rezabek represented the Museum in the Oak Harbor drive-by Christmas parade.
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