Phil Schnabel, Sr. was born at Tekoa Washington on July 7 , 1892. Tekoa is about 40 miles south of Spokane & 60 miles north of Lewiston, & just a very few miles from the Idaho border. His family was living in Tekoa because his father was employed by O.W.R. & N. (Oregon, Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.) as a Railroad Engineer.
The family included Philip Fredrick Schnabel, his Father; Ida Regan Schnabel, his Mother; Leslie & Hazel, his Sisters - & before long - his brother, Theron.
The family lived in Tekoa for several years (after moving north from California), & for short times in Washtucna & Lacrosse. They moved to Spokane sometime around 1906 (following Fred's tragic 1902 train accident) & lived in various places for the next 10 years, Spokane, Lewiston, Portland, Klamath Falls, & Sacramento. Everybody ended up back in California during the 1920's except my Dad & his Dad who stayed in the Lewiston Clarkston area.
Dad went to a Seventh Day Adventist school called "College Place" in a little town near Walla Walla. In fact, the school is now called Walla Walla College. He attended some lower grades there, but he graduated from Lewiston High School in 1913. His yearbook inscription reads, "Of higher art, what is the fate - when such as this can graduate?"
He returned to College Place after graduating from High School & studied business & accounting.
He then went to work at Kelly Fruit Ranch at Wawawai - a few miles down the Snake River from Clarkston. He became a strong & efficient box maker, making the boxes used for shipping Kelly Ranch fruit. Angeline Shackelford, Eddeth Shackelford, & Leo Hellings worked there also.
The greatest thing that happened to Dad at the fruit ranch was that he met & eventually married (at Lewiston) the beautiful Miss Angeline Shackelford. More amazing is the fact that Jim, Fran, & I arrived shortly thereafter. That required all the skill, patience, understanding, & attention Phil & Angie could muster.
After saving up his fruit orchard money ($1000.00, I was told), Dad invested in the C. O. D. Laundry & Dry Cleaners in Lewiston. This gave him some security in the delivery job he held for about the next 40 years. During our growing up years, the C. O. D. Laundry played a major role in our lives. It was the source of all our funds. My earliest recollections are that Dad was making $35.00 per week - but Grover Sorey who owned more of the stock & managed the laundry made $100.00 per week. In those days, we figured That was about as far as one could go. Jim used to play "Laundryman" on his tricycle. I remember Dad giving Mom two silver dollars each morning for the days groceries.
Dad was well known & well-liked by all who knew him. He had happy C.O.D. customers. At times, his laundry route included all of Lewiston, the Lewiston Orchards, Clarkston, & Asotin. Most of his customers, however, resided in "Normal Hill" area in Lewiston (Named after Lewiston State Normal).
He was a lifetime member of the Elks Club (like his Father), & spent many happy hours there in the card room breathing first-hand & second-hand smoke. Mom would send all three of us to tell him to come home, & he'd tell the bar-tender to "Give them a malted" (a chocolate malted milk shake). Wow! Those were to die for.
Dad retired from the C.O.D. Laundry during the sixties. For a short time after that, he became doorman at the Elks Club.
He & Mom (& their children) dearly loved their "Swallow's Nest" home & were overjoyed when they were finally able to enlarge & refurbish it. One of Dad's proudest accomplishments (& rightly so) was building terraced rock walls (BIG rocks) around the front & side of their home, & a long similar retaining wall along the north side bank in the back. Over a period of months, he drove to several places along the river loaded the rocks into his laundry truck or into a rented pickup & took them home.
Dad was a writer & a poet - as was my Mother. During that time, Mom & Dad belonged to the Idaho Writer's League.
During his final years, Dad had a heart condition which eventually took his life on July 28, 1974. At the time, he was working on his acreage. Although he felt heart pain, he continued to work so he could get the job done. He died in the Clarkston Hospital Emergency Room. He was a kind, generous & loving Father.
PMS. Jr. 2/6/2007
NOTE: Just found this earlier writeup from our old Commodore files. Started in 1993, completed in July 1996. Amazing: Take your choice:
PHILIP MANSFIELD SCHNABEL: My Father was born in Tekoa, WA July 7, 1893 where his father, Philip Fredrick worked as an engineer for the ORR & N (later to become SP) railroad Co. He had two older sisters, Leslie & Hazel, & a younger brother, Theron. They lived in Tekoa for several years, but we have heard they lived at one or two other small railroad towns in the area also. Two traumatic events entered Dad's life at Tekoa. His little brother, Theron, fell under a train losing a leg. He survived & obtained a wooden leg. But his life was never the same. Then, his father was in a serious train wreck when the train he was driving in 1901 near Hooper, WA (half way between Spokane & Walla Walla) Collided with a team of horses on a trestle. He almost died, but survived after being unconscious for 12 days. Things were never the same after that, but he was able to go back to work at the railroad.
Dad went to various schools while growing up, but the ones we know about are the Seventh Day Adventist grade school at College Place, WA, Lewiston High School - where he graduated in 1913. He went for one or two two years to the Seventh Day Adventist college at College Place taking economics & accounting type courses.
After that, he got a job at Kelly's fruit ranch along the Snake River West of Lewiston where he was a box make & an orchard boss. It was here he met the sweet & lovely Angeline Shackleford who was destined to become his wife. They became married at Lewiston on Sept. 22, 1917 & bought a home at 817 8th Avenue. James, Frances, & Phil, Jr. were all born during the next 4 years. Phil & Angie lived at the old 8th Avenue home for 24 years - until their children had grown, & then moved to their Swallow's Nest home where they lived fot the rest of their lives. Dad died in 1974, & Mom in 1988.
During his working years at Lewiston, Dad worked for the COD Laundry & Cleaners. He had invested money in the business when he moved there, & had a delivery route for many years. He was well known in both Lewiston & Clarkston since his route covered both cities at times. Also, his poems & anecdotes often appeared in the local Lewiston Morning Tribune - ususally in a COD Laundry ad entitled "SUDS". After his retirement in 1957, he continued to work his route when needed, but also obtained a job as doorman at the Elks Club. He & Mom were both members of Lewiston Writer's League, & both really enjoyed that activity.
On a hot July 24th, 1974, he was cutting weeds at his Swallow's Nest acreage & developed chest pains. He came into the house & told Mom she'd better have him taken to the hospital. He was taken to the Clarkston Hospital, but died shortly after his arrival. God rest his soul. He is buried at Vineland Cemetery at Clarkston, Washington.
The family included Philip Fredrick Schnabel, his Father; Ida Regan Schnabel, his Mother; Leslie & Hazel, his Sisters - & before long - his brother, Theron.
The family lived in Tekoa for several years (after moving north from California), & for short times in Washtucna & Lacrosse. They moved to Spokane sometime around 1906 (following Fred's tragic 1902 train accident) & lived in various places for the next 10 years, Spokane, Lewiston, Portland, Klamath Falls, & Sacramento. Everybody ended up back in California during the 1920's except my Dad & his Dad who stayed in the Lewiston Clarkston area.
Dad went to a Seventh Day Adventist school called "College Place" in a little town near Walla Walla. In fact, the school is now called Walla Walla College. He attended some lower grades there, but he graduated from Lewiston High School in 1913. His yearbook inscription reads, "Of higher art, what is the fate - when such as this can graduate?"
He returned to College Place after graduating from High School & studied business & accounting.
He then went to work at Kelly Fruit Ranch at Wawawai - a few miles down the Snake River from Clarkston. He became a strong & efficient box maker, making the boxes used for shipping Kelly Ranch fruit. Angeline Shackelford, Eddeth Shackelford, & Leo Hellings worked there also.
The greatest thing that happened to Dad at the fruit ranch was that he met & eventually married (at Lewiston) the beautiful Miss Angeline Shackelford. More amazing is the fact that Jim, Fran, & I arrived shortly thereafter. That required all the skill, patience, understanding, & attention Phil & Angie could muster.
After saving up his fruit orchard money ($1000.00, I was told), Dad invested in the C. O. D. Laundry & Dry Cleaners in Lewiston. This gave him some security in the delivery job he held for about the next 40 years. During our growing up years, the C. O. D. Laundry played a major role in our lives. It was the source of all our funds. My earliest recollections are that Dad was making $35.00 per week - but Grover Sorey who owned more of the stock & managed the laundry made $100.00 per week. In those days, we figured That was about as far as one could go. Jim used to play "Laundryman" on his tricycle. I remember Dad giving Mom two silver dollars each morning for the days groceries.
Dad was well known & well-liked by all who knew him. He had happy C.O.D. customers. At times, his laundry route included all of Lewiston, the Lewiston Orchards, Clarkston, & Asotin. Most of his customers, however, resided in "Normal Hill" area in Lewiston (Named after Lewiston State Normal).
He was a lifetime member of the Elks Club (like his Father), & spent many happy hours there in the card room breathing first-hand & second-hand smoke. Mom would send all three of us to tell him to come home, & he'd tell the bar-tender to "Give them a malted" (a chocolate malted milk shake). Wow! Those were to die for.
Dad retired from the C.O.D. Laundry during the sixties. For a short time after that, he became doorman at the Elks Club.
He & Mom (& their children) dearly loved their "Swallow's Nest" home & were overjoyed when they were finally able to enlarge & refurbish it. One of Dad's proudest accomplishments (& rightly so) was building terraced rock walls (BIG rocks) around the front & side of their home, & a long similar retaining wall along the north side bank in the back. Over a period of months, he drove to several places along the river loaded the rocks into his laundry truck or into a rented pickup & took them home.
Dad was a writer & a poet - as was my Mother. During that time, Mom & Dad belonged to the Idaho Writer's League.
During his final years, Dad had a heart condition which eventually took his life on July 28, 1974. At the time, he was working on his acreage. Although he felt heart pain, he continued to work so he could get the job done. He died in the Clarkston Hospital Emergency Room. He was a kind, generous & loving Father.
PMS. Jr. 2/6/2007
NOTE: Just found this earlier writeup from our old Commodore files. Started in 1993, completed in July 1996. Amazing: Take your choice:
PHILIP MANSFIELD SCHNABEL: My Father was born in Tekoa, WA July 7, 1893 where his father, Philip Fredrick worked as an engineer for the ORR & N (later to become SP) railroad Co. He had two older sisters, Leslie & Hazel, & a younger brother, Theron. They lived in Tekoa for several years, but we have heard they lived at one or two other small railroad towns in the area also. Two traumatic events entered Dad's life at Tekoa. His little brother, Theron, fell under a train losing a leg. He survived & obtained a wooden leg. But his life was never the same. Then, his father was in a serious train wreck when the train he was driving in 1901 near Hooper, WA (half way between Spokane & Walla Walla) Collided with a team of horses on a trestle. He almost died, but survived after being unconscious for 12 days. Things were never the same after that, but he was able to go back to work at the railroad.
Dad went to various schools while growing up, but the ones we know about are the Seventh Day Adventist grade school at College Place, WA, Lewiston High School - where he graduated in 1913. He went for one or two two years to the Seventh Day Adventist college at College Place taking economics & accounting type courses.
After that, he got a job at Kelly's fruit ranch along the Snake River West of Lewiston where he was a box make & an orchard boss. It was here he met the sweet & lovely Angeline Shackleford who was destined to become his wife. They became married at Lewiston on Sept. 22, 1917 & bought a home at 817 8th Avenue. James, Frances, & Phil, Jr. were all born during the next 4 years. Phil & Angie lived at the old 8th Avenue home for 24 years - until their children had grown, & then moved to their Swallow's Nest home where they lived fot the rest of their lives. Dad died in 1974, & Mom in 1988.
During his working years at Lewiston, Dad worked for the COD Laundry & Cleaners. He had invested money in the business when he moved there, & had a delivery route for many years. He was well known in both Lewiston & Clarkston since his route covered both cities at times. Also, his poems & anecdotes often appeared in the local Lewiston Morning Tribune - ususally in a COD Laundry ad entitled "SUDS". After his retirement in 1957, he continued to work his route when needed, but also obtained a job as doorman at the Elks Club. He & Mom were both members of Lewiston Writer's League, & both really enjoyed that activity.
On a hot July 24th, 1974, he was cutting weeds at his Swallow's Nest acreage & developed chest pains. He came into the house & told Mom she'd better have him taken to the hospital. He was taken to the Clarkston Hospital, but died shortly after his arrival. God rest his soul. He is buried at Vineland Cemetery at Clarkston, Washington.
Phil Schnabel, Sr. was born at Tekoa Washington on July 7 , 1892. Tekoa is about 40 miles south of Spokane & 60 miles north of Lewiston, & just a very few miles from the Idaho border. His family was living in Tekoa because his father was employed by O.W.R. & N. (Oregon, Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.) as a Railroad Engineer.
The family included Philip Fredrick Schnabel, his Father; Ida Regan Schnabel, his Mother; Leslie & Hazel, his Sisters - & before long - his brother, Theron.
The family lived in Tekoa for several years (after moving north from California), & for short times in Washtucna & Lacrosse. They moved to Spokane sometime around 1906 (following Fred's tragic 1902 train accident) & lived in various places for the next 10 years, Spokane, Lewiston, Portland, Klamath Falls, & Sacramento. Everybody ended up back in California during the 1920's except my Dad & his Dad who stayed in the Lewiston Clarkston area.
Dad went to a Seventh Day Adventist school called "College Place" in a little town near Walla Walla. In fact, the school is now called Walla Walla College. He attended some lower grades there, but he graduated from Lewiston High School in 1913. His yearbook inscription reads, "Of higher art, what is the fate - when such as this can graduate?"
He returned to College Place after graduating from High School & studied business & accounting.
He then went to work at Kelly Fruit Ranch at Wawawai - a few miles down the Snake River from Clarkston. He became a strong & efficient box maker, making the boxes used for shipping Kelly Ranch fruit. Angeline Shackelford, Eddeth Shackelford, & Leo Hellings worked there also.
The greatest thing that happened to Dad at the fruit ranch was that he met & eventually married (at Lewiston) the beautiful Miss Angeline Shackelford. More amazing is the fact that Jim, Fran, & I arrived shortly thereafter. That required all the skill, patience, understanding, & attention Phil & Angie could muster.
After saving up his fruit orchard money ($1000.00, I was told), Dad invested in the C. O. D. Laundry & Dry Cleaners in Lewiston. This gave him some security in the delivery job he held for about the next 40 years. During our growing up years, the C. O. D. Laundry played a major role in our lives. It was the source of all our funds. My earliest recollections are that Dad was making $35.00 per week - but Grover Sorey who owned more of the stock & managed the laundry made $100.00 per week. In those days, we figured That was about as far as one could go. Jim used to play "Laundryman" on his tricycle. I remember Dad giving Mom two silver dollars each morning for the days groceries.
Dad was well known & well-liked by all who knew him. He had happy C.O.D. customers. At times, his laundry route included all of Lewiston, the Lewiston Orchards, Clarkston, & Asotin. Most of his customers, however, resided in "Normal Hill" area in Lewiston (Named after Lewiston State Normal).
He was a lifetime member of the Elks Club (like his Father), & spent many happy hours there in the card room breathing first-hand & second-hand smoke. Mom would send all three of us to tell him to come home, & he'd tell the bar-tender to "Give them a malted" (a chocolate malted milk shake). Wow! Those were to die for.
Dad retired from the C.O.D. Laundry during the sixties. For a short time after that, he became doorman at the Elks Club.
He & Mom (& their children) dearly loved their "Swallow's Nest" home & were overjoyed when they were finally able to enlarge & refurbish it. One of Dad's proudest accomplishments (& rightly so) was building terraced rock walls (BIG rocks) around the front & side of their home, & a long similar retaining wall along the north side bank in the back. Over a period of months, he drove to several places along the river loaded the rocks into his laundry truck or into a rented pickup & took them home.
Dad was a writer & a poet - as was my Mother. During that time, Mom & Dad belonged to the Idaho Writer's League.
During his final years, Dad had a heart condition which eventually took his life on July 28, 1974. At the time, he was working on his acreage. Although he felt heart pain, he continued to work so he could get the job done. He died in the Clarkston Hospital Emergency Room. He was a kind, generous & loving Father.
PMS. Jr. 2/6/2007
NOTE: Just found this earlier writeup from our old Commodore files. Started in 1993, completed in July 1996. Amazing: Take your choice:
PHILIP MANSFIELD SCHNABEL: My Father was born in Tekoa, WA July 7, 1893 where his father, Philip Fredrick worked as an engineer for the ORR & N (later to become SP) railroad Co. He had two older sisters, Leslie & Hazel, & a younger brother, Theron. They lived in Tekoa for several years, but we have heard they lived at one or two other small railroad towns in the area also. Two traumatic events entered Dad's life at Tekoa. His little brother, Theron, fell under a train losing a leg. He survived & obtained a wooden leg. But his life was never the same. Then, his father was in a serious train wreck when the train he was driving in 1901 near Hooper, WA (half way between Spokane & Walla Walla) Collided with a team of horses on a trestle. He almost died, but survived after being unconscious for 12 days. Things were never the same after that, but he was able to go back to work at the railroad.
Dad went to various schools while growing up, but the ones we know about are the Seventh Day Adventist grade school at College Place, WA, Lewiston High School - where he graduated in 1913. He went for one or two two years to the Seventh Day Adventist college at College Place taking economics & accounting type courses.
After that, he got a job at Kelly's fruit ranch along the Snake River West of Lewiston where he was a box make & an orchard boss. It was here he met the sweet & lovely Angeline Shackleford who was destined to become his wife. They became married at Lewiston on Sept. 22, 1917 & bought a home at 817 8th Avenue. James, Frances, & Phil, Jr. were all born during the next 4 years. Phil & Angie lived at the old 8th Avenue home for 24 years - until their children had grown, & then moved to their Swallow's Nest home where they lived fot the rest of their lives. Dad died in 1974, & Mom in 1988.
During his working years at Lewiston, Dad worked for the COD Laundry & Cleaners. He had invested money in the business when he moved there, & had a delivery route for many years. He was well known in both Lewiston & Clarkston since his route covered both cities at times. Also, his poems & anecdotes often appeared in the local Lewiston Morning Tribune - ususally in a COD Laundry ad entitled "SUDS". After his retirement in 1957, he continued to work his route when needed, but also obtained a job as doorman at the Elks Club. He & Mom were both members of Lewiston Writer's League, & both really enjoyed that activity.
On a hot July 24th, 1974, he was cutting weeds at his Swallow's Nest acreage & developed chest pains. He came into the house & told Mom she'd better have him taken to the hospital. He was taken to the Clarkston Hospital, but died shortly after his arrival. God rest his soul. He is buried at Vineland Cemetery at Clarkston, Washington.
The family included Philip Fredrick Schnabel, his Father; Ida Regan Schnabel, his Mother; Leslie & Hazel, his Sisters - & before long - his brother, Theron.
The family lived in Tekoa for several years (after moving north from California), & for short times in Washtucna & Lacrosse. They moved to Spokane sometime around 1906 (following Fred's tragic 1902 train accident) & lived in various places for the next 10 years, Spokane, Lewiston, Portland, Klamath Falls, & Sacramento. Everybody ended up back in California during the 1920's except my Dad & his Dad who stayed in the Lewiston Clarkston area.
Dad went to a Seventh Day Adventist school called "College Place" in a little town near Walla Walla. In fact, the school is now called Walla Walla College. He attended some lower grades there, but he graduated from Lewiston High School in 1913. His yearbook inscription reads, "Of higher art, what is the fate - when such as this can graduate?"
He returned to College Place after graduating from High School & studied business & accounting.
He then went to work at Kelly Fruit Ranch at Wawawai - a few miles down the Snake River from Clarkston. He became a strong & efficient box maker, making the boxes used for shipping Kelly Ranch fruit. Angeline Shackelford, Eddeth Shackelford, & Leo Hellings worked there also.
The greatest thing that happened to Dad at the fruit ranch was that he met & eventually married (at Lewiston) the beautiful Miss Angeline Shackelford. More amazing is the fact that Jim, Fran, & I arrived shortly thereafter. That required all the skill, patience, understanding, & attention Phil & Angie could muster.
After saving up his fruit orchard money ($1000.00, I was told), Dad invested in the C. O. D. Laundry & Dry Cleaners in Lewiston. This gave him some security in the delivery job he held for about the next 40 years. During our growing up years, the C. O. D. Laundry played a major role in our lives. It was the source of all our funds. My earliest recollections are that Dad was making $35.00 per week - but Grover Sorey who owned more of the stock & managed the laundry made $100.00 per week. In those days, we figured That was about as far as one could go. Jim used to play "Laundryman" on his tricycle. I remember Dad giving Mom two silver dollars each morning for the days groceries.
Dad was well known & well-liked by all who knew him. He had happy C.O.D. customers. At times, his laundry route included all of Lewiston, the Lewiston Orchards, Clarkston, & Asotin. Most of his customers, however, resided in "Normal Hill" area in Lewiston (Named after Lewiston State Normal).
He was a lifetime member of the Elks Club (like his Father), & spent many happy hours there in the card room breathing first-hand & second-hand smoke. Mom would send all three of us to tell him to come home, & he'd tell the bar-tender to "Give them a malted" (a chocolate malted milk shake). Wow! Those were to die for.
Dad retired from the C.O.D. Laundry during the sixties. For a short time after that, he became doorman at the Elks Club.
He & Mom (& their children) dearly loved their "Swallow's Nest" home & were overjoyed when they were finally able to enlarge & refurbish it. One of Dad's proudest accomplishments (& rightly so) was building terraced rock walls (BIG rocks) around the front & side of their home, & a long similar retaining wall along the north side bank in the back. Over a period of months, he drove to several places along the river loaded the rocks into his laundry truck or into a rented pickup & took them home.
Dad was a writer & a poet - as was my Mother. During that time, Mom & Dad belonged to the Idaho Writer's League.
During his final years, Dad had a heart condition which eventually took his life on July 28, 1974. At the time, he was working on his acreage. Although he felt heart pain, he continued to work so he could get the job done. He died in the Clarkston Hospital Emergency Room. He was a kind, generous & loving Father.
PMS. Jr. 2/6/2007
NOTE: Just found this earlier writeup from our old Commodore files. Started in 1993, completed in July 1996. Amazing: Take your choice:
PHILIP MANSFIELD SCHNABEL: My Father was born in Tekoa, WA July 7, 1893 where his father, Philip Fredrick worked as an engineer for the ORR & N (later to become SP) railroad Co. He had two older sisters, Leslie & Hazel, & a younger brother, Theron. They lived in Tekoa for several years, but we have heard they lived at one or two other small railroad towns in the area also. Two traumatic events entered Dad's life at Tekoa. His little brother, Theron, fell under a train losing a leg. He survived & obtained a wooden leg. But his life was never the same. Then, his father was in a serious train wreck when the train he was driving in 1901 near Hooper, WA (half way between Spokane & Walla Walla) Collided with a team of horses on a trestle. He almost died, but survived after being unconscious for 12 days. Things were never the same after that, but he was able to go back to work at the railroad.
Dad went to various schools while growing up, but the ones we know about are the Seventh Day Adventist grade school at College Place, WA, Lewiston High School - where he graduated in 1913. He went for one or two two years to the Seventh Day Adventist college at College Place taking economics & accounting type courses.
After that, he got a job at Kelly's fruit ranch along the Snake River West of Lewiston where he was a box make & an orchard boss. It was here he met the sweet & lovely Angeline Shackleford who was destined to become his wife. They became married at Lewiston on Sept. 22, 1917 & bought a home at 817 8th Avenue. James, Frances, & Phil, Jr. were all born during the next 4 years. Phil & Angie lived at the old 8th Avenue home for 24 years - until their children had grown, & then moved to their Swallow's Nest home where they lived fot the rest of their lives. Dad died in 1974, & Mom in 1988.
During his working years at Lewiston, Dad worked for the COD Laundry & Cleaners. He had invested money in the business when he moved there, & had a delivery route for many years. He was well known in both Lewiston & Clarkston since his route covered both cities at times. Also, his poems & anecdotes often appeared in the local Lewiston Morning Tribune - ususally in a COD Laundry ad entitled "SUDS". After his retirement in 1957, he continued to work his route when needed, but also obtained a job as doorman at the Elks Club. He & Mom were both members of Lewiston Writer's League, & both really enjoyed that activity.
On a hot July 24th, 1974, he was cutting weeds at his Swallow's Nest acreage & developed chest pains. He came into the house & told Mom she'd better have him taken to the hospital. He was taken to the Clarkston Hospital, but died shortly after his arrival. God rest his soul. He is buried at Vineland Cemetery at Clarkston, Washington.
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