Skip Van Ness

In Memory Chapter 430 fondly remembers "Skip" Van Ness
High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long delirious, burning blue, I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew - And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untresspassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God. Author Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee No 412 squadron, R.C.A.F. Killed 11 December 1941	Skip and Rachel Van Ness Chapter 2005 Christmas Party

What could be better, Food, Friends, and FLYING machines! Chapter BBQ at W28 Sequim Valley Airport.


(as published in the Peninsula Daily News 3/22/006) Allen T. Van Ness July 29, 1937 -- March 1, 2006 Allen T. ``Skip'' Van Ness died in his Port Angeles home of pancreatic cancer. He was 68. Born in Everett to Martha (Stockdale) and Albert Steuber, he was close to his stepfather, Roy ``Van'' Van Ness. He graduated from Sequim High School in 1955. Mr. Van Ness was a technician with Boeing Electronics in Seattle in 1960-68, a sawmill operator in Port Angeles in 1973-79, and employed by Rasco Rings in Port Angeles in 1984-89 and 2005. In Sequim, he was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Model Railroaders and the Personal Computer Users Group. In Sequim and Port Townsend, he belonged to chapters of the Experimental Aircraft Association. Mr. Van Ness' marriage to Julianne Keith ended in a 1965 divorce. He married Rachel Ann Huard in Port Angeles in 2001. In addition to his wife, survivors include parents-in-law Gary and Carol Huard; brother-in-law John Huard and sister-in-law Cindy Bidegary. Services: To be announced. Drennan-Ford Funeral Home, Port Angeles, is in charge. Memorials: Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362; or Swedish Cancer Institute, 1560 N. 115th, Suite G-16, Seattle, WA 98133.

High Flight