» Dale I Nye Dale Pearce Nye was born May 22-, 1931 in . Centralia, Washington to Donald D. Nye and Agnes O. (Pearce) Nye, who in addition to Dale, I had two older sons, Roy . DI. Nye and Eugene II (Gene) D. Nye. The Nye? boys were descendants ~ on both sides of the fam- ily of long time Western ' Washington pioneer families. Dale was pre- ceded in death by his‘be- '; j loved parents and broth- ers. Following a long bout with‘.Parkinson’s that Dale bore bravely V and without complaint, Dale passed away peace- fully surrounded by his family at 12 Noon on August 4, 2017. A Catholic Mass of Burial was held on Fri- day, August 11 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Edward’s Catholic Church with burial to follow at Shel-V _ ton Memorial Park at I Noon, then a reception at St Edward’s Catholic Church Reception Hall I. , at1:00p.m Familya‘nd. friends are invited to attend any or all of the above gatherings and to' share memories and re- V freshments V Dale is surVived by his devoted wife of 67 years, Rose Mary (Makoviney) Nye. He V .. is also survived, bthisI I son Daniel Nye, Seattle; daughter Wendy Kram- er (Scott), Olympia; grandsons Joshua Gay andIGeoffrey Gay, step- V grandson Cary Kramer, granddaughters Ingrid 5.5.: Nye and Ellen Nye; and great-grandchildren, Brodie, Spencer, and Hannah, along with V many nieces and neph- I‘ ews, cousins, family 1.. . and friends, all of whom were an important part of Dale’ s world. Dale was I a dedicated and loving family man, successful and respected worker and businessman and alongside Rose, par- ticipated actively in his community, including bringing welcomenew enterprise to Shelton by building, and operating for years, the Franklin Plaza Theatre and Shel- ton Athletic Club... Dale’sI'residen'ce in Mason County began in 1936, when, during the Depression, the Nye family moved fromII I the Centralia area to Matlock, Washington Creek. --_«:,.,-to build and operate a cedar shingle mill on the East Fork of the Satsop . River. In the woods, V and on the riVer that .7‘ I, Dale like other locals always called “The Still-I .g-I-f waters,” Dale spent his early years learning to work hard, garden; tend cows, and to hunt and fish and gather berries, . mushrooms and any other. natural products I he could find to feed the I family, or make money. :- Dale continued to be a 1 hard worker, gatherer, . hunter andfisherman all his life, and was known for his remarkable abil- ' ity to spot bucks and to pull “lunkers” (native run cutthroat trout) out of the Stillwaters, Other favorite places were the V Dryabed Lakes, Lake _. Nahwatzel, and the hills . around Camp Govey II including his so—called “game farm” up Vance , During World war I ' ' II the family moved closer to the DeckervilleI. .V.I Mathck Store area, and Dale attended Matlock Grade School and spent» his adolescence help- ing around the family farm on Dry bed Creek where he, as he Often put it “milked a lot of .. . cows. ”From the time Dale’s father: put a hack and trowel' ni his hand at age 14, Dale also be- , TI 2 .I gan learning the family ’2 yplasterin'g business, and -: . ryapprenticed and became , a journeyman plasterer before he graduated ”.I II from high schOOl Dale V _ _~ graduated from Mary M 'Inght School in 1950 I 3 where, as he would al- l ways say he was in the (top three of his class” Vandthen-would add with a grin and a twinkleI“of . course there were only . three in the Class.”Dale. 2 also was proud of having played basketball for the MMK owls. Somewhere ‘ along there he also de- veloped a life-long devos ', I tion to the music of “old VI I Al Jolson” Go figure. II Dale retained many ties to Matlock his en- tire life and, with Rose, _. was a member for many , years at the Matlock . I._[Grange, Cloquallum Hall and later after " their move to Cole Road, Rose expanded their Toperations as Nye Plas- , Itering Company by also —_purchasing the Nye . at Little Skookum Hall. 2 Dale enjoyed attending country dances at all of ; these places with Rose, .. and particularly loved ‘ I to polka. At times other V dancers wmild clear the . fiber to watch them kick 'I . up their heels . . In fact, it was Ia coun~ V try dance that changed retired from the plaster-~ .ing business due to foot . injuries that preVented Dale’s life forever when II an early July, 1948, Dale: ,dreve his old blue Model A coupe to Cloqual- Vlum Hall and met the VV=_romance, over the next 3-,,I'VjSVVijcouple years and though fi‘fithey were surely much, much Too Young (their ~. favorite song) this girl .2 Wendy in 1954 I Nye retired for health reasons. Dale and ’Rose girl that. wasto become the love of hislife (and later wife, ~mother of I his children and savvy business partner) After that dance, and a fine Rosemary Makovmey (Nye) had the good sense _-.to marry Dale on April . 22, 1950 at St. Edward’s V . - Catholic Church in Shel- ,I ton. They then toasted their marriage With family and friends at a reception next door at Shelton’ 3 grand Colomal House After that Colonial House send off, Dale and Rose began real --wedded life with _a brief residence in 2a teeny tiny apartment in Shelton. Moving up, Rose and I Dale then remodeled and moved into a 16’): 2 . . 24’ former manganese ' I plant laboratory into a one-bedroom house they Called “The Cracker BOX. ” This was located V at the head end of the ' _ "Hill Creek Canyon south; of Hoodsport, where the x] i N ye family operated V Nye’ s TroiitIFarm for V .. many years Dale began .Vworking for his parent’s. '72 31 business as Ia plasterer“! and remained a union-V I member With What teday __ V is Cement Masons and _ 23;'V;}2-V.:Plasterers Local Nr I528 V_ i-Ifor many years even af- ter he became “the boss I_ While. liwng in “the Can-If in 1952, and daughter In 1956, Dale and area when they moved to Shelton and built their ' first home on Cole Road I They sold that home in , , 1961 and built anOther I heusefurther out Cole Road in 1962. In 1963, Dale and Rose acquired the Nye family plaster- ing business when Don operated that business I.; ,Vandbuilt a further new home on Cole Road‘in , 1965 where the couple I -- 25*“;9.has re31ded ever since In 1968, Dale and family building supply business on Cole Road. They ran both ventures I as Nye Company Build- I vVi'Iing and Plastering Sup- EV V“ < ply until closing them in 1984 when Dale him working as he once had. On the way to re- . tireinent, Dale trained . old telephonecompany 'IIfhursday. AugI 17, 2017 Shelton-Mason .::II:.a number of plasterers in the trade who remain V'III‘§;»'VaIIctive to this day, Dale V ' and his loyal crew be— came known as among V the very best plasterers in the area, and many res1dences and commer-V~ V, . ‘Cial buildings through- . _2 out the MaSon-ThurStonV- Lewis-Pierce and Grays Harbor county areas still . contain his Work. WOrk highlights for plaster damage in the V Governor VsV Mansmn fol-gs..- j__VT. lowmg the- 1965- Puget ,. Sound Earthquake, and -: then later for the Man- ‘ I SiOn’ s extens1ve remode1,V,_’ I He was also very proud Church. at the remodeling of theV' original Olympia Brew-V I cry. He was also glad . to have the Opportunity . to see to the plastering 5;; of his plastering work of both his son’s and daughter’s homes and to help other family and VfIIjI [.I2 friends and long time customers with patch In‘ 1984 Dale and Rose then converted an which they operated un— til its sale in 1997 Dale , and Rose. also-Converted the Old Lumberyard Inn Restaurant (on the III; .2 site of the former Grant .: ' Lumber Company) to ,V; the Shelton Athletic Club, which they operat- .. ..ed Iuntil its sale in 2001. I31 Dale particularly loved VI . -I to do stucco Work, and RIoseI began their 61-year9..i' , residence in the Shelton smglehandedly stucc0ed ,. the entire exterior of the I Shelton Athletic Club _. creating a permanent andVbeautiful surface on. the’ building. Since retirement, I Dale and Rose have enjoyed traveling, gar- dening, walking in the I I woods and spending qui- I et time together while I ' also looking after their other business interests and spending time with- their grandchildren and then great-grandchil- ' dren. In 1990, Dale and I Rese planted a foot back near that first house in , the Hill Creek Canyon . when they bought the old Bearden place south . of Hoodsport. That i-‘I-{~;V‘«IV_-V,.j_' wonderful house then 2 became the site of many family gatherings and , events, and for Dale to continue to pursue his love IoIfI. fishing and to acquire new hobbies of III'IIVVI crabbmg, shrimping and?" oystering on his beloved Hood Canal. V Dale was very proud to be asked to serve 0n the building board of . see the planning, sit-V - I I I .I [the advancmg complica- :III‘I Alpine Way in Shelton V _r—i’where he was cherished 'fIfaby all and received excel- f lent care: from the care- signers;- ass1sted by Rose 2 2» IV and his other family ' jobs and helpful adv1ce ' and as a teacher of the trade.-- I I' II St Edward’s Catholi Church, to help over~ ting, Iandi censtruction Of the new church. In . 2007 Dale was received , by baptism into the. Catholic Church Dale ' said many times that VV.,VII;Vbecoming a member of .-the Church was the best thing that ever VhaVIpI- .V 1 pened to him and that .. I _Vr‘the people he met there I Dale were being cho- sen to repair extensive 2- were the most wonderful I folks he had known _A V . proud day for Dale was VIII!” V the day ISeveI'ral- years ago Iwhen he get- to see his name on the plaque Id? en St. Edward’s that honors his and his boIardIiIf members’ service to the II Dale spent the last , months of his life due to V tions of Parkinsbn’ s at members , OCR Text: » Dale I Nye Dale Pearce Nye was born May 22-, 1931 in . Centralia, Washington to Donald D. Nye and Agnes O. (Pearce) Nye, who in addition to Dale, I had two older sons, Roy . DI. Nye and Eugene II (Gene) D. Nye. The Nye? boys were descendants ~ on both sides of the fam- ily of long time Western ' Washington pioneer families. Dale was pre- ceded in death by his‘be- '; j loved parents and broth- ers. Following a long bout with‘.Parkinson’s that Dale bore bravely V and without complaint, Dale passed away peace- fully surrounded by his family at 12 Noon on August 4, 2017. A Catholic Mass of Burial was held on Fri- day, August 11 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Edward’s Catholic Church with burial to follow at Shel-V _ ton Memorial Park at I Noon, then a reception at St Edward’s Catholic Church Reception Hall I. , at1:00p.m Familya‘nd. friends are invited to attend any or all of the above gatherings and to' share memories and re- V freshments V Dale is surVived by his devoted wife of 67 years, Rose Mary (Makoviney) Nye. He V .. is also survived, bthisI I son Daniel Nye, Seattle; daughter Wendy Kram- er (Scott), Olympia; grandsons Joshua Gay andIGeoffrey Gay, step- V grandson Cary Kramer, granddaughters Ingrid 5.5.: Nye and Ellen Nye; and great-grandchildren, Brodie, Spencer, and Hannah, along with V many nieces and neph- I‘ ews, cousins, family 1.. . and friends, all of whom were an important part of Dale’ s world. Dale was I a dedicated and loving family man, successful and respected worker and businessman and alongside Rose, par- ticipated actively in his community, including bringing welcomenew enterprise to Shelton by building, and operating for years, the Franklin Plaza Theatre and Shel- ton Athletic Club... Dale’sI'residen'ce in Mason County began in 1936, when, during the Depression, the Nye family moved fromII I the Centralia area to Matlock, Washington Creek. --_«:,.,-to build and operate a cedar shingle mill on the East Fork of the Satsop . River. In the woods, V and on the riVer that .7‘ I, Dale like other locals always called “The Still-I .g-I-f waters,” Dale spent his early years learning to work hard, garden; tend cows, and to hunt and fish and gather berries, . mushrooms and any other. natural products I he could find to feed the I family, or make money. :- Dale continued to be a 1 hard worker, gatherer, . hunter andfisherman all his life, and was known for his remarkable abil- ' ity to spot bucks and to pull “lunkers” (native run cutthroat trout) out of the Stillwaters, Other favorite places were the V Dryabed Lakes, Lake _. Nahwatzel, and the hills . around Camp Govey II including his so—called “game farm” up Vance , During World war I ' ' II the family moved closer to the DeckervilleI. .V.I Mathck Store area, and Dale attended Matlock Grade School and spent» his adolescence help- ing around the family farm on Dry bed Creek where he, as he Often put it “milked a lot of .. . cows. ”From the time Dale’s father: put a hack and trowel' ni his hand at age 14, Dale also be- , TI 2 .I gan learning the family ’2 yplasterin'g business, and -: . ryapprenticed and became , a journeyman plasterer before he graduated ”.I II from high schOOl Dale V _ _~ graduated from Mary M 'Inght School in 1950 I 3 where, as he would al- l ways say he was in the (top three of his class” Vandthen-would add with a grin and a twinkleI“of . course there were only . three in the Class.”Dale. 2 also was proud of having played basketball for the MMK owls. Somewhere ‘ along there he also de- veloped a life-long devos ', I tion to the music of “old VI I Al Jolson” Go figure. II Dale retained many ties to Matlock his en- tire life and, with Rose, _. was a member for many , years at the Matlock . I._[Grange, Cloquallum Hall and later after " their move to Cole Road, Rose expanded their Toperations as Nye Plas- , Itering Company by also —_purchasing the Nye . at Little Skookum Hall. 2 Dale enjoyed attending country dances at all of ; these places with Rose, .. and particularly loved ‘ I to polka. At times other V dancers wmild clear the . fiber to watch them kick 'I . up their heels . . In fact, it was Ia coun~ V try dance that changed retired from the plaster-~ .ing business due to foot . injuries that preVented Dale’s life forever when II an early July, 1948, Dale: ,dreve his old blue Model A coupe to Cloqual- Vlum Hall and met the VV=_romance, over the next 3-,,I'VjSVVijcouple years and though fi‘fithey were surely much, much Too Young (their ~. favorite song) this girl .2 Wendy in 1954 I Nye retired for health reasons. Dale and ’Rose girl that. wasto become the love of hislife (and later wife, ~mother of I his children and savvy business partner) After that dance, and a fine Rosemary Makovmey (Nye) had the good sense _-.to marry Dale on April . 22, 1950 at St. Edward’s V . - Catholic Church in Shel- ,I ton. They then toasted their marriage With family and friends at a reception next door at Shelton’ 3 grand Colomal House After that Colonial House send off, Dale and Rose began real --wedded life with _a brief residence in 2a teeny tiny apartment in Shelton. Moving up, Rose and I Dale then remodeled and moved into a 16’): 2 . . 24’ former manganese ' I plant laboratory into a one-bedroom house they Called “The Cracker BOX. ” This was located V at the head end of the ' _ "Hill Creek Canyon south; of Hoodsport, where the x] i N ye family operated V Nye’ s TroiitIFarm for V .. many years Dale began .Vworking for his parent’s. '72 31 business as Ia plasterer“! and remained a union-V I member With What teday __ V is Cement Masons and _ 23;'V;}2-V.:Plasterers Local Nr I528 V_ i-Ifor many years even af- ter he became “the boss I_ While. liwng in “the Can-If in 1952, and daughter In 1956, Dale and area when they moved to Shelton and built their ' first home on Cole Road I They sold that home in , , 1961 and built anOther I heusefurther out Cole Road in 1962. In 1963, Dale and Rose acquired the Nye family plaster- ing business when Don operated that business I.; ,Vandbuilt a further new home on Cole Road‘in , 1965 where the couple I -- 25*“;9.has re31ded ever since In 1968, Dale and family building supply business on Cole Road. They ran both ventures I as Nye Company Build- I vVi'Iing and Plastering Sup- EV V“ < ply until closing them in 1984 when Dale him working as he once had. On the way to re- . tireinent, Dale trained . old telephonecompany 'IIfhursday. AugI 17, 2017 Shelton-Mason .::II:.a number of plasterers in the trade who remain V'III‘§;»'VaIIctive to this day, Dale V ' and his loyal crew be— came known as among V the very best plasterers in the area, and many res1dences and commer-V~ V, . ‘Cial buildings through- . _2 out the MaSon-ThurStonV- Lewis-Pierce and Grays Harbor county areas still . contain his Work. WOrk highlights for plaster damage in the V Governor VsV Mansmn fol-gs..- j__VT. lowmg the- 1965- Puget ,. Sound Earthquake, and -: then later for the Man- ‘ I SiOn’ s extens1ve remode1,V,_’ I He was also very proud Church. at the remodeling of theV' original Olympia Brew-V I cry. He was also glad . to have the Opportunity . to see to the plastering 5;; of his plastering work of both his son’s and daughter’s homes and to help other family and VfIIjI [.I2 friends and long time customers with patch In‘ 1984 Dale and Rose then converted an which they operated un— til its sale in 1997 Dale , and Rose. also-Converted the Old Lumberyard Inn Restaurant (on the III; .2 site of the former Grant .: ' Lumber Company) to ,V; the Shelton Athletic Club, which they operat- .. ..ed Iuntil its sale in 2001. I31 Dale particularly loved VI . -I to do stucco Work, and RIoseI began their 61-year9..i' , residence in the Shelton smglehandedly stucc0ed ,. the entire exterior of the I Shelton Athletic Club _. creating a permanent andVbeautiful surface on. the’ building. Since retirement, I Dale and Rose have enjoyed traveling, gar- dening, walking in the I I woods and spending qui- I et time together while I ' also looking after their other business interests and spending time with- their grandchildren and then great-grandchil- ' dren. In 1990, Dale and I Rese planted a foot back near that first house in , the Hill Creek Canyon . when they bought the old Bearden place south . of Hoodsport. That i-‘I-{~;V‘«IV_-V,.j_' wonderful house then 2 became the site of many family gatherings and , events, and for Dale to continue to pursue his love IoIfI. fishing and to acquire new hobbies of III'IIVVI crabbmg, shrimping and?" oystering on his beloved Hood Canal. V Dale was very proud to be asked to serve 0n the building board of . see the planning, sit-V - I I I .I [the advancmg complica- :III‘I Alpine Way in Shelton V _r—i’where he was cherished 'fIfaby all and received excel- f lent care: from the care- signers;- ass1sted by Rose 2 2» IV and his other family ' jobs and helpful adv1ce ' and as a teacher of the trade.-- I I' II St Edward’s Catholi Church, to help over~ ting, Iandi censtruction Of the new church. In . 2007 Dale was received , by baptism into the. Catholic Church Dale ' said many times that VV.,VII;Vbecoming a member of .-the Church was the best thing that ever VhaVIpI- .V 1 pened to him and that .. I _Vr‘the people he met there I Dale were being cho- sen to repair extensive 2- were the most wonderful I folks he had known _A V . proud day for Dale was VIII!” V the day ISeveI'ral- years ago Iwhen he get- to see his name on the plaque Id? en St. Edward’s that honors his and his boIardIiIf members’ service to the II Dale spent the last , months of his life due to V tions of Parkinsbn’ s at members , Mason County Genealogical Society,Obituaries,Other Obituaries,N Last Name,Nye, Dale.jpg,Nye, Dale.jpg, Nye, Dale.jpg