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Nile Dow Plaster 1926 - 2009

Nile Dow Plaster of Garibaldi, Tillamook County, OR was born on June 19, 1926 in Garibaldi to Pearl Plaster and Ruth Dow Plaster. They had a brother Glen Plaster. Nile Plaster died at age 82 years old on June 9, 2009 in Tillamook, and was buried at Willamette National Cemetery Section COL-1 Row M Site 119 11800 Se Mt. Scott Boulevard, in Portland.

Nile Dow Plaster
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Garibaldi, Tillamook County, OR 97118
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June 19, 1926
Garibaldi, Tillamook County, Oregon, United States
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June 9, 2009
Tillamook, Tillamook County, Oregon, 97141, United States
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Nile Dow Plaster Nile Plaster (1926 - 2009)
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  • Introduction

    I worked with Nile at the plywood mill in Tillamook, Oregon during the summer of 1979 after my first year in college. The mill was in an old blimp hangar. They said it could hold three football fields. It was filled with wood drying machines the size of houses and it was our job to feed wood into or gather and sort it as it came out of the smoky machines that would regularly catch on fire. I was 18 and Nile was in his early 50s but he seemed older. Nile had worked for years at the mill in Garibaldi and when it closed, he got a job at the Tillamook mill. Despite his decades of experience, we all got the same pay, $8.25 an hour, which at the time was the highest wage in the county. I didn't have a car and Nile always offered me a lift back into town where I lived in the Tillamook Hotel, plagued with cockroaches with a courtyard heaped with garbage. One time Nile told me, "You go back to college, don't be like me." One of the regular political discussions I remember was the men speculating about the next president. Nile would say with enthusiasm, "Kennedy's gonna win it." In the lunch room, Nile kept out of the daily drama as several bullies harassed the one Mexican man we worked with. They threw food at him and called him "wetback" (and called me "small wetback" because I was from Portland). When he finished eating, the Mexican man would stand up and give the same speech nearly every day: "When I'm president, I'm gonna build a bridge to Mexico and bring AAAAAAALLLLLL of my family!" After Nile ate his lunch, he would smoke two Camel straights, lighting the second from the first. He put out the second when the buzzer rang to go back to work. He would stand up and say "hate to do it," and reluctantly return to the floor.
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    1926

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    June 19, 1926
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    Garibaldi, Tillamook County, Oregon United States
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: PFC Wars/Conflicts: Korea

  • Professional Career

    Forklift operator, Oregon Washington lumber mill, Garibaldi, OR Louisiana-Pacific plywood mill, Tillamook, OR

  • Personal Life & Family

    Loaves and Fishes
  • 06/9
    2009

    Death

    June 9, 2009
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    Tillamook, Tillamook County, Oregon 97141, United States
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  • Gravesite & Burial

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    Willamette National Cemetery Section COL-1 Row M Site 119 11800 Se Mt. Scott Boulevard, in Portland, Or 97086
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  • Obituary

    Source: Tillamook Headlight Herald, June 17, 2009. Nile Dow Plaster was born June 19, 1926, in Garibaldi to Pearl and Ruth (Dow) Plaster. He passed away June 9, 2009, in Tillamook at age 82. Nile married Jeannie Torres on March 26, 1966, in Garibaldi. He lived in Portland and Cottage Grove for a short time before settling in Garibaldi, where he worked as a fork lift operator for the Oregon Washington lumber mill for 28 years. He finished his working career at LP Plywood Mill. Nile also volunteered for "Loaves and Fishes." He is survived by his dog, Terry; brothers Bob of Lakeview and Kim of Cottage Grove, Ore.; sister Janice Plaster Weinstock of Portland; and stepsons Jack Arnold and Larry Torres, and Larry's wife, Melinda, and their son, Larry Torres Jr., all of Santa Barbara, Calif. Nile was preceded in death by brother Glen Plaster, who drowned at age 12. Nile will be interred at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland. Arrangements are in care of Waud's Funeral Home.
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In 1926, in the year that Nile Dow Plaster was born, on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).
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In 1940, when this person was merely 14 years old, on November 5th, President Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a third term, defeating Wendell Willkie of Indiana (a corporate lawyer). Roosevelt running for a third term was controversial. But the U.S. was emerging from the Great Recession and he promised that he would not involve the country in any foreign war (which of course changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor). Roosevelt defeated Willkie in the popular vote by 54.7 to 44.8% and in the Electoral College 449 to 82.
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