Father: Perry Edward Wells
Mother: Nellie Violet (Clark) Wells
Wife: Wanda Isabel Croan (married Dec 23, 1939)
Hood River County did not exist until 1907, so this would have been Wasco County, Oregon.
Harold grew up on the family fruit ranch on what is now Wells Drive in the Pine Grove district of the Hood River Valley.
He said that from the time he was born Mt. Hood was always within his sight and he was determined that one day he would stand on top and see the world from that loafty peak. He did attain his wish.........in fact he stood on the summit of Hood over 50 times in his life time.
The great outdoors became his hobby, loved fishing on the East Fork and especially when the giant salmon made their spring and fall run up the Columbia. Many productive days were spent at Celilo Falls.
He became an avid rock hunter by mid life and had quite a lot of wonderful specimans that he had found and worked out himself. Never having had any masonry training he built beautiful rock walls along the creek at his Pine Grove home and for others within the community. Simply had the nack for mastering it.
Photography was another of his hobbies, so his outdoor adventures were remembered with the pictures that he took.
He wrote about many of his adventures in the out of doors, many of which were published in the local newspaper.
But wilderness life and all it offered was his passion. In 1931 or there abouts he joined the Crag Rats, a mountaineering organization and was very devoted to every element that it stood for. He enjoyed the adventures and companionship of his fellow mountineering buddies.
He loved the mountains so much that when Mt. Hood Meadows was in the process of getting operational, he spent one entire summer up there working on the first chair life, "Old Blue" and then spend a few winters as a lift operation before it was time to retire.
No man loved nature and what it stood for that he did. What a legacy he left his children..........which is being carried on in the great out of doors that God has created.
Mother: Nellie Violet (Clark) Wells
Wife: Wanda Isabel Croan (married Dec 23, 1939)
Hood River County did not exist until 1907, so this would have been Wasco County, Oregon.
Harold grew up on the family fruit ranch on what is now Wells Drive in the Pine Grove district of the Hood River Valley.
He said that from the time he was born Mt. Hood was always within his sight and he was determined that one day he would stand on top and see the world from that loafty peak. He did attain his wish.........in fact he stood on the summit of Hood over 50 times in his life time.
The great outdoors became his hobby, loved fishing on the East Fork and especially when the giant salmon made their spring and fall run up the Columbia. Many productive days were spent at Celilo Falls.
He became an avid rock hunter by mid life and had quite a lot of wonderful specimans that he had found and worked out himself. Never having had any masonry training he built beautiful rock walls along the creek at his Pine Grove home and for others within the community. Simply had the nack for mastering it.
Photography was another of his hobbies, so his outdoor adventures were remembered with the pictures that he took.
He wrote about many of his adventures in the out of doors, many of which were published in the local newspaper.
But wilderness life and all it offered was his passion. In 1931 or there abouts he joined the Crag Rats, a mountaineering organization and was very devoted to every element that it stood for. He enjoyed the adventures and companionship of his fellow mountineering buddies.
He loved the mountains so much that when Mt. Hood Meadows was in the process of getting operational, he spent one entire summer up there working on the first chair life, "Old Blue" and then spend a few winters as a lift operation before it was time to retire.
No man loved nature and what it stood for that he did. What a legacy he left his children..........which is being carried on in the great out of doors that God has created.
Father: Perry Edward Wells
Mother: Nellie Violet (Clark) Wells
Wife: Wanda Isabel Croan (married Dec 23, 1939)
Hood River County did not exist until 1907, so this would have been Wasco County, Oregon.
Harold grew up on the family fruit ranch on what is now Wells Drive in the Pine Grove district of the Hood River Valley.
He said that from the time he was born Mt. Hood was always within his sight and he was determined that one day he would stand on top and see the world from that loafty peak. He did attain his wish.........in fact he stood on the summit of Hood over 50 times in his life time.
The great outdoors became his hobby, loved fishing on the East Fork and especially when the giant salmon made their spring and fall run up the Columbia. Many productive days were spent at Celilo Falls.
He became an avid rock hunter by mid life and had quite a lot of wonderful specimans that he had found and worked out himself. Never having had any masonry training he built beautiful rock walls along the creek at his Pine Grove home and for others within the community. Simply had the nack for mastering it.
Photography was another of his hobbies, so his outdoor adventures were remembered with the pictures that he took.
He wrote about many of his adventures in the out of doors, many of which were published in the local newspaper.
But wilderness life and all it offered was his passion. In 1931 or there abouts he joined the Crag Rats, a mountaineering organization and was very devoted to every element that it stood for. He enjoyed the adventures and companionship of his fellow mountineering buddies.
He loved the mountains so much that when Mt. Hood Meadows was in the process of getting operational, he spent one entire summer up there working on the first chair life, "Old Blue" and then spend a few winters as a lift operation before it was time to retire.
No man loved nature and what it stood for that he did. What a legacy he left his children..........which is being carried on in the great out of doors that God has created.
Mother: Nellie Violet (Clark) Wells
Wife: Wanda Isabel Croan (married Dec 23, 1939)
Hood River County did not exist until 1907, so this would have been Wasco County, Oregon.
Harold grew up on the family fruit ranch on what is now Wells Drive in the Pine Grove district of the Hood River Valley.
He said that from the time he was born Mt. Hood was always within his sight and he was determined that one day he would stand on top and see the world from that loafty peak. He did attain his wish.........in fact he stood on the summit of Hood over 50 times in his life time.
The great outdoors became his hobby, loved fishing on the East Fork and especially when the giant salmon made their spring and fall run up the Columbia. Many productive days were spent at Celilo Falls.
He became an avid rock hunter by mid life and had quite a lot of wonderful specimans that he had found and worked out himself. Never having had any masonry training he built beautiful rock walls along the creek at his Pine Grove home and for others within the community. Simply had the nack for mastering it.
Photography was another of his hobbies, so his outdoor adventures were remembered with the pictures that he took.
He wrote about many of his adventures in the out of doors, many of which were published in the local newspaper.
But wilderness life and all it offered was his passion. In 1931 or there abouts he joined the Crag Rats, a mountaineering organization and was very devoted to every element that it stood for. He enjoyed the adventures and companionship of his fellow mountineering buddies.
He loved the mountains so much that when Mt. Hood Meadows was in the process of getting operational, he spent one entire summer up there working on the first chair life, "Old Blue" and then spend a few winters as a lift operation before it was time to retire.
No man loved nature and what it stood for that he did. What a legacy he left his children..........which is being carried on in the great out of doors that God has created.
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Shares headstone with Wanda Isabel Wells (1915-1998).
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