A Personal Note
I'll be okay as long as I don't have to talk about this in person or on
the phone. Email is okay. Bob called me yesterday, Sunday, 23 Feb, to
tell me that Dad died Saturday evening. We both expected it because we
could see he was failing, but it is still a shock. Before I went to Grand
Coulee in January, Bob thought that I may even be attending Dad's funeral
while I was there.
So with the Spring Breakers coming to Tampa, the only plane I could get
out on is Thursday, 27 Feb, which leaves at 8 a.m. and gets me to Spokane
at 1 p.m.
I wrote the following obituary and emailed it to Jim Pachosa so they can
get it in the local paper.
OBITUARY
Metz Stanley Pachosa ,92, of Grand Coulee died Saturday, February 22,
1997, in Grand Coulee.
He was born in Krosno, Poland, on November 1, 1904, and came to
America through Ellis Island in April 1910 with his mother, Dorothy
and brother, Adolph. His father, Stanley had preceded them to America.
He lived in Davis, West Virginia, before working in the construction of
dams both on the United States East and West coasts.
In 1933 he and his two brothers, Adolph and Jack, started working on
Hoover Dam in Nevada. Two other brothers, Harry and Stanley, joined
them there and all five arrived in Grand Coulee in May of 1936 to work
on the Grand Coulee Dam.
When construction was finished on Grand Coulee Dam, Metz travel to
work on Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport, Noxon Dam in Montana, Vantage Dam
at Vantage Washington, and Yellowtail Dam in Montana; he retired in 1965.
Survivors include his sons, Matthew Pachosa of Largo, Florida, and
Robert Pachosa of Grand Coulee; grandsons James Pachosa and his
girlfriend Jean Comstock of Grand Coulee and Dean and his wife Dianne
Pachosa of Bothell, Washington, and his granddaughter Theresa Inman of
Los Angeles, California; his brothers Stanley Pachosa of Grand Coulee,
Harry and his wife Lenora Pachosa of Spokane, Albert and his wife Esther
Pachosa of Topeka, Kansas; his sisters Stella Zalatoris of Cincinatti,
Ohio, and Adella and her husband Calvin Harper of Gadsden, Alabama.
He was preseded in death by his daughter, Mary Jo Inman in 1966, his
wife, Anna in 1979, his brothers Jack in 1990; Andrew in 1991, and Adolph
in 1992, and his grandson, Cory in 1996.
A Rosary will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 27, in the Strate
Funeral Home Chapel in Grand Coulee. Funeral services will be held
Friday, February 28 in St. Henry's Catholic Church in Grand Coulee at
10 a.m. with Father Anthony King officiating. Burial will be in the
Spring Canyon Cemetery. If desired, memorials may be made to the
American Heart Association, Washington State Chapter. Strate Funeral
Home is in charge of arrangements.
This is Matt 55 Pachosa and I just discovered that the Davis High School Alumni Webmaster has included this site on that webpage for the information it contains from my Dad Metz Obituary that I wrote in 1997 for printing in the Star Weekly Newspaper. The Webmaster has done a great job on the geocities web page for the Davis High School web page. Click here to see it: : : : : : : : (This paragraph added Wed 9 March 2005.)