Biography by User 47279242: Dad was born in Possum Hollar, just outside of Greenville, Wayne Co., Missouri. In 1919 his family migrated to Grays Harbor County, Washington, via train. He lived in Hoquiam and attended school there through high school. He loved baseball, but enjoyed all sports and lettered in football, basketball, track and baseball.
He graduated from Linfield College in Oregon, and started teaching in the Hillsboro, Oregon High School trigonometry, chemistry , calculus. He assisted with all the sports training. At the beginning of WW2 just as he was signing his Navy Ensign papers, the government exempted all chemists for the war effort and we moved to Vancouver, Washington working as a chemist with Alcoa until the end of the war.
Due to the lost of his best friend drowning in the Columbia River during a rescue operation, it made dad
refocus on his life and he then moved the family to Berkley, California while he went into the seminary. Upon graduating from the Berkeley Baptist Divinity College, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan for him to finish his year of training and being ordained. He focused on Youth ministry and stayed with the ministry till he finally retired and they moved to Prescott, Arizona. Health matters made selling their home and moving close to the family in Sparks, Nevada a necessity. God called him home in 2001.
Place of death from Nevada death index. Parents, place of birth from SS application/claims index.
Biography by User 47279242: Dad was born in Possum Hollar, just outside of Greenville, Wayne Co., Missouri. In 1919 his family migrated to Grays Harbor County, Washington, via train. He lived in Hoquiam and attended school there through high school. He loved baseball, but enjoyed all sports and lettered in football, basketball, track and baseball.
He graduated from Linfield College in Oregon, and started teaching in the Hillsboro, Oregon High School trigonometry, chemistry , calculus. He assisted with all the sports training. At the beginning of WW2 just as he was signing his Navy Ensign papers, the government exempted all chemists for the war effort and we moved to Vancouver, Washington working as a chemist with Alcoa until the end of the war.
Due to the lost of his best friend drowning in the Columbia River during a rescue operation, it made dad
refocus on his life and he then moved the family to Berkley, California while he went into the seminary. Upon graduating from the Berkeley Baptist Divinity College, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan for him to finish his year of training and being ordained. He focused on Youth ministry and stayed with the ministry till he finally retired and they moved to Prescott, Arizona. Health matters made selling their home and moving close to the family in Sparks, Nevada a necessity. God called him home in 2001.
Place of death from Nevada death index. Parents, place of birth from SS application/claims index.
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Eugene Hughes Duncan
March 4, 1915
February 12, 2001
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