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- Han tjänstgjorde i 1:a världskriget
Han tjänstgjorde i 2:a världskriget
- Bio: He was the son of Peter Jacob Helgeland and Hanna Katherine Ericksen Helgeland. On June 22, 1921 as Clarence J. Helgeland, he married Bernadine F. McIntosh at King County, Washington.
- The Seattle Times Monday, April 1, 1979
Clarence J. "Pinky" Helgeland
Age 82. Beloved husband of Bernadine. Father of Richard, Bothell. Father in law of Marlys. Grandfather of Cathy Wilson; Jeannie and Linda Helgeland, all Bothell. Also survived by two nieces and three nephews. Gold Card member of Olympic Hills Golf Club. Member of Inglewood Golf Club and Ballard Barracks 2456 World War I Veteran. Lockmaster for 40 years at Chittenden Locks. Services Tuesday, 3PM, Wiggen and Sons Chapel. Interment Pacific Lutheran.
- The Seattle Times Saturday, June 9, 1956
Locks Visited by Man Who Knows Them Well
After more than 40 years as an employee at the Government Locks, Clarence J. (Pinky) Helgeland returned this week as a visitor.
- Like any other sight seer, Helgeland toured the establishment and watched a construction crew install mooring floats in the small lock. Linemen offered him heaving lines so he could help some pleasure boats through the locks, but Helgeland laughingly pushed them aside.
- Helgeland, a native of Lead, South Dakota, began working at the locks as a painter on this 20th birthday anniversary, April 4, 1916. That was during their construction. When the locks opened in July 1917, he became a lineman.
- When he retired last week, Helgeland was senior lockmaster. He had worked at the locks continuously, except for an 18 month furlough, when he went to France as a mechanic for the Naval Air Corps during the First World War.
- The day that stands out most vividly in Helgeland's memory is the time a stunned salmon floated in the big lock. Helgeland grabbed a pike pole and got the hook through the fish's gill. Helgeland was about to flip the fish onto the walk beside the lock when he slipped on the concrete. "The current was so swift, I couldn't turn," Helgeland said. "It just carried me down, down and down. I finally surfaced. If it had been a moment later, though, I would have had to take water. I came up in the middle of the lock and had to swim back to one end."
- The salmon revived and swam away.
- A lot of "big" people have visited the locks during the years. One of them, Crown Prince Olaf of Norway, saw Helgeland's boy, Richard, trying to get in position to take a picture of him. Prince Olaf stopped his party and asked Richard how he wanted him to pose. Richard, now a Navy Lieutenant, junior grade, is Assistant Supply Officer at the Pensacola Naval Air Station.
- Now that Helgeland is "free," he and his wife, Bernadine plan to play golf several times a week. They are members of Inglewood and Jackson Golf Clubs.
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1896 - 1979 (82 år)
