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Callie Lynn Garcia Neble 1952 - 1986

Callie Lynn (Garcia) Neble was born in 1952 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico United States, and died at age 33 years old on November 11, 1986 in Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, WA.

Callie Lynn (Garcia) Neble

Callie Lynn Garcia

1952

Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States

November 11, 1986

Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington, 98284, United States

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She was beautiful inside and out. Her husband took her life when she tried to leave him and orphaned her young daughter who witnessed the tragedy. Here is a photo of this lovely friend of our family. Callie's parent's were Oliver Garcia and Joyce Garcia. She had one brother, Kevin. According to an article in the Spokane Chronicle, on November 13, 1986, "In Sedro Wooley Tuesday night, Skagit County deputies found the bodies of Pat Neble, 48, a fifth grade teacher at Stanwood's Church Creek Elementary School, and his wife, Lynn Garcia, 34, a former teacher at the same school. Chief Criminal Deputy Ron Panzero said Neble apparently shot Garcia with a .357-caliber handgun, then took his own life. He said not definite motive had been determined, but added the couple may have been in the process of separating and had a dispute. Deputies were summoned to the rural home after Garcia's 8-year-old daughter from a previous marriage was awakened by fighting, ran to a neighbor's house, and said 'Dad was hurting Mom', Panzero said. The girl, who is now staying with her natural father was unharmed." Lynn's obituary is here Callie Lynn Garcia Neble: Obituary
1952

Birthday

1952

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Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico United States

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Ethnicity & Family History

Lynn was Hispanic American.
Nationality & Locations

Lynn lived in Albuquerque New Mexico, Seattle Washington, and Sedro Wooley Washington in the USA
Early Life & Education

Lynn graduated from Western Washington University in Bellingham Washington with a BA in education. She was working to complete her MA in education administration when she was murdered.
Professional Career

Lynn was a mother and was a teacher at Church Creek Elementary School, Stanwood WA and was working toward an MA when she was killed. She was supposed to begin a position as a principal at an elementary school in Bellingham WA.
Personal Life & Family

Callie Lynn was Miss Seafair 1971 in Seattle WA She was the first Hispanic Miss Seafair. A lover of all of God's creations, she worked for the Special Olympics program and the preservation of sea life. Lynn will be missed by many relatives and friends.
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1986

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November 11, 1986

Death date

Murdered

Cause of death

Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington 98284, United States
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Obituary

She was killed by Patrick Neble when she tried to leave him. From the Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico November 22 1986. Garcia - Callie Lynn Garcia, former resident of Albuquerque, lost her life November 121,1986 in Sedro Woolley Wa. Lynn was born in Albuquerque in 1952 to Oliver (deceased) an Joyce Garcia. She resided her until 1966 and then moved with her parents and brother, Kevin, to Seattle. She was loved by so many, resulting in being chosen to be "Miss Sea Fair" and "Miss West Seattle." She received a BA in education fro Western Washington University and was to complete her MA in Education administration in the spring, whereupon she would assume the position of principal of and elementary school in Bellingham. A lover of all of God's creations, she worked for the Special Olympics program and the preservation of sea life. Lynn will be missed by many relatives and friends.

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Callie Lynn Garcia Neble lived 34 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 34.

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13 Memories, Stories & Photos about Callie

Randy Short

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07/08/2023

Happy Birthday, Lynnie!

Happy 71st Birthday today, Lynn! Lynnie was born on this day 71 years ago in 1952. It was 52 years ago, in late July of 1971, that she was crowned the 22nd Seattle Seafair Queen.

I took a walk by her old family home here in West Seattle early this morning to wish her a Happy Birthday. I arrived at exactly 7:08 AM! I didn't plan to arrive at that specific time at all! Amazing! Of course her birthday is 7-8. Her daughter Terra was born in 1978.

Lynnie's old family home looks almost exactly as it did 54 years ago in 1969! There is a little tree in the front yard today that marks the exact spot she was standing when I had my last meaningful conversation with her probably in 1973 or 1974, a half century ago.

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Randy Short

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07/08/2024

HAPPY 72ND BIRTHDAY LYNN! 7-8-'24

Took a walk in her old neighborhood today with one of her close lady friends from high school, West Seattle High School Class of '69/'70. Recently (June 22) I visited the site of the old Church Creek Elementary School in Stanwood, Wa. where Lynnie taught. Just a grassy field now with two brown patches where the two trees on the grounds were once located.

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Randy Short

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07/30/2023

July 30, 1971

It was 52 years ago today, on July 30, 1971, that Lynnie was crowned the 22nd Seattle Seafair Queen at the Seattle City Center Arena. She was just 22 days past her 19th birthday on this day, and was the first hispanic to be named Seattle Seafair Queen. A name change (from Seattle Seafair Queen to Miss Seafair) took place the following year in 1972; so, essentially, Lynnie was the last winner of the contest to actually be called Seafair Queen.

The following day, on July 31, 1971, Lynnie was featured on the King Neptune Float in the Seafair Parade in downtown Seattle. There is a picture of her that was taken at 2nd & Battery Street where she can be seen waving to the crowd as the float passed through that intersection. Part of the Space Needle can be seen in the background. Eight days later (on August 8) she would present hydroplane legend Billy Schumacher with the Seattle Seafair Trophy in the Stan Sayres Memorial Pits after Billy drove Seattle's Miss Pride Of Pay N' Pak to victory on Seattle's Lake Washington. Hard to believe that 52 years have passed since these events took place. But, they, nor Lynnie, will ever be forgotten. ,

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Randy Short

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07/08/2024

Happy 72nd Birthday Lynn! Walked in her old neighborhood again today with one of her close friends from High School. Visited the old Church Creek Elementary School site up in Stanwood, Wa. on the 22nd of June. She will never be forgotten.

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Randy Short

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11/11/2022

A very somber day today. Certainly because it's Veteran's Day, but more specifically because it's the 36th anniversary of Lynnie's passing. She was murdered on this evening (November 11, 1986) at her home in Sedro Woolley. I honestly don't know exactly how long it was after that I received word of her death. It may have been a few years or more, although I do remember reading something soon after the tragedy in one of our local newspapers about a murder/suicide in that area, but I don't recall if I connected it to her. Of course, her name was Neble at the time of her death.

As I have stated before I am *almost* certain Lynn and I were together on November 11, 1969. I say *almost* because it is possible that it was actually Monday, November 10, the day before. It's possible we had an early dismissal that day from school and walked over to her family home near West Seattle High School to spend the afternoon together. I do remember missing football practice that day. I had been suspended from the team for *allegedly* not passing in the required three subjects to maintain my playing eligibility. I was the quarterback for the West Seattle High School Football Team. Our final game was approaching, on Thursday, November 13. Lynnie and I had attended the previous game with our close mutual friend and classmate Nikki Yeigh on Friday, November 7, at Memorial Stadium in Seattle. I was not allowed to suit up for that game, due to the suspension. I am not certain, but it seems likely that it was Lynnie that encouraged me to challenge the ruling of my ineligibility over the weekend after the Garfield game. She was our student government secretary. I won my appeal and was allowed to play in my final high school game, in which I threw a 69 yard touchdown pass to close out my high school career. That was 53 years ago this week.

I will never forget Lynnie. That magical autumn of 1969 was the most memorable of my life. I have never been happier than I was when I was with her at that "blink of an eye" moment in time. Today, I am married to a wonderful lady who I love very much, but I will always have a special place in my heart, reserved for Lynnie.

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Randy Short

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10/29/2022

I have found this site to be very therapeutic in regards to Lynnie, especially this time of year. As I have stated before, my time spent with her was during the autumn months of 1969. I remember a walk we took, sometime in mid to late October of 1969. It was from her old family home in West Seattle to my grandparents place about six blocks away. I wanted my grandparents to meet her. I was so proud of her. My grandfather took a liking to her instantly, and asked me on at least one occasion, after we stopped seeing each other, what had happened to her. She was easily his favorite of the few girlfriends I had introduced to him. He made that perfectly clear to me, in actual words! I quite often walk this same six block stretch that Lynnie and I walked 53 years ago, especially this time of year. In fact, I walked on those very sidewalks today, step for step, down and back, just as we had done 53 years ago. Even though I walked alone, I didn't feel alone.

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Randy Short

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08/01/2022

The picture of Lynnie above I believe was taken in late July of 1970 when she was crowned Miss West Seattle Hi-Yu Queen. It was a year later, in late July of 1971, that she was crowned the 22nd Seattle Seafair Queen. She was the first hispanic to be named Seafair Queen.

On Sunday, August 8, 1971, Lynnie presented unlimited hydroplane legend Billy Schumacher with The Seafair Trophy, after he drove Seattle's Miss Pride of Pay 'N Pak to victory on Seattle's Lake Washington in The Seafair Trophy Race. Billy was my all time favorite unlimited hydroplane driver and a personal hero of mine. Lynnie knew this.

Sometime, during one of the summer month's in the mid-seventies, as I was passing by her old family home in my car, I noticed her standing in her yard just above a small rockery. I think she may have had a hose in her hand and was watering some flowers. I hadn't spoken to her since our senior year in high school, probably in May or June of 1970. I stopped my car, got out, and walked over to the sidewalk just beneath where she was standing to speak with her. I told her that I had seen her on television a few years prior presenting Billy with the Seafair Trophy. She responded by telling me that when she was presenting Billy with the trophy that she had thought of me. She had remembered what a huge fan I was of Billy. I thought this was pretty cool. It was a moment in time I will cherish forever.

Recently I discovered a video on an unlimited hydroplane history website of Lynnie presenting Billy with the Seafair Trophy in 1971. She only appears for about eight seconds in the video, but I was able to capture many pics of her in that magical eight seconds with my phone camera. I sent some of these pics to her daughter Terra and also to some of her close high school girlfriends.

This coming August 8 (2022) marks the 51st anniversary of that presentation.

Note: A year ago, in late July, on or near the day Lynnie was crowned Seattle Seafair Queen, a half century ago in 1971, the huge Maple Tree that was located in the backyard of the old Garcia family home, and shaded the roof, was removed. The enormous tree could be seen from various locations in West Seattle from up to and slightly beyond one mile. Just six months prior, in February of 2021, Church Creek Elementary (the school Lynnie taught at) was demolished. Some may find this haunting, as I initially did, however, I now find it comforting. Our departed loved ones have their way of speaking to us, sometimes through synchronistic events. I firmly believe that.

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Kathy Pinna

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07/25/2022

Lynn Garcia

A photo of Lynn Garcia Neble, who was Seafair Queen in Seattle Washington

Date & Place: Not specified or unknown.

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Randy Short

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07/21/2022

I am thinking about having a memorial stone made in Lynnie's honor that would read: Callie Lynn "Lynnie" Garcia - Beloved by her students at Church Creek Elementary - Once upon a time located on these hallowed grounds. The "hallowed grounds" being the grass field where Church Creek Elementary was once located in Stanwood, Washington, near Stanwood High School and right next to the new Lincoln High.

There are two trees that remain on the property that we're located in between the two main buildings of the former Church Creek Elementary School. These trees look roughly 35 to 40 years old. I have often wondered if one or both of those trees had been planted in Lynn's memory after her passing in 1986 by her students and the Church Creek faculty. I am going to try and look into this and see if anyone (former teachers, students and faculty) that we're at that school in 1986 know anything about this. I am also, obviously, going to have to seek permission from the school or district to have the stone located on the grounds. I was thinking either near or under those two trees.

This is my favorite location when I want to visit with Lynnie. No doubt teaching was her passion and probably the thing she loved doing most of all in her 34 years of life on this planet.

If anyone has any information that would be in any way helpful in this project please contact me at 206-823-6401. Thank you.

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Randy Short

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07/08/2022

Happy 70th Birthday, Lynn! Lynnie would have been 70 years old today (July 8, 2022). We are the same age each year for only 11 days. My Birthday is on July 19. Met up with our close mutual friend Marsha Brix (it was Marsha who encouraged me to ask Lynn out in the autumn of 1969) today and we took a stroll in her old neighborhood, past her old family home, to visit with her and wish her a Happy Birthday. Marsha is also 70. We were all from the West Seattle High School Class of 1970. Today, in 2022, I view Lynn very much like Judge Roy Bean viewed Miss Lilly Langtry in the 1972 movie The Life & Times Of Judge Roy Bean starring Paul Newman: A Angelic Goddess.

Lynnie was an exceptional/extraordinary human being during her 34 years 4 months & 3 days on this planet. Thirty six years, after her passing from this existence, she is still providing inspiration and love to those that knew her and loved her during her time on earth. Her presence is still felt strongly, even unto today.

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Randy Short

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11/09/2021

Very difficult time of year. Approaching the 35th anniversary of Lynnie's passing this coming Veteran's Day. Miss her so much and feeling a tremendous amount of guilt for being such a jerk/idiot back in high school and pretty much ruining any chance of establishing a lasting friendship with her, beyond the autumn of 1969.

Lynnie was such a forgiving soul, and when we had a brief conversation a few years after high school at her family home in West Seattle, I did walk away feeling strongly that she had forgiven me. That was comforting, but I still hadn't reached a level of maturity, or understanding, at that stage of my life, to deliver a much deserved apology to her. That would come later, much later, but unfortunately, way too late - 25 years after her death, in 2011.

So many emotions come up this time of year. We dated at exactly the half way point of her life. I am pretty certain we were together on Veteran's Day in 1969, exactly seventeen years before her death, to the day. That will haunt me forever. So glad I was finally able to meet her wonderful daughter Terra eleven years ago in 2011. So looking forward to seeing her again when my day comes to cross over to the afterlife. Love you forever, Dear.

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Callie Lynn Garcia Neble 1952 - 1986

Callie Lynn (Garcia) Neble's History: 1952 - circa 1986

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Ethnicity & Family History

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Personal Life & Family

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13 Memories, Stories & Photos about Callie

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