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Lake Tapps cemetery given rightful name By Theresa De Lay Staff Writer
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piece of history was restored on June 4 during a renaming ceremony hosted by the Greater Bonney Lake Historical Society at a 125-year-old cemetery. The cemetery was donated by Daniel Orcutt in 1889 before Washington gained statehood. For many years, the land was known as Lake Tapps Cemetery, but over time the headstones, including Fadola and Lappenbusch family members, were forgotten. A hiker stumbled upon the burial ground in 2008 and referred to it as Dieringer Cemetery, according to the Heritage League of Pierce County. For several more years, it was left unmarked, covered in dense vegetation and in general disrepair, said Bonney Lake historian Winona Jacobsen. A troop of boy scouts adopted the cemetery and cleaned it up, erecting a sign in the process which iden-
tified it as the “Dieringer Pioneer Cemetery” according to the Heritage League. However in 2012, Jacobsen and Roger Hunt, an ancestor of Orcutt, began the task of researching its true history and rightful name. Hunt approached Pierce County and convinced the park board to honor the site’s historical significance and properly name it the Lake Tapps Pioneer Cemetery. The following is Roger Hunt’s family story of the Lake Tapps Pioneer Cemetery: My family, the Orcutts, came west from Kansas over the Oregon Trail in 1882, settling right here. All of the land around this little cemetery north of 40th Street is land that was originally owned by my family. We homesteaded 400 acres and purchased an additional 160 acres from the Northern Pacific Railroad. My family became hop farmers and at that time the Puyallup
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Dennis Bilderback and Spencer Emry from Pierce County Parks drill a new sign into place at the historic Lake Tapps Pioneer Cemetery, which was donated by Daniel Orcutt in 1889. Photo by Dennis Box
Two killed in Buckley plane crash By Kevin Hanson Senior Writer
Rod Richardson and Jim Cawley shared many things – friendship, former careers, a love of flying and even a neighborhood. The two retired commercial pilots perished the afternoon of June 4 when the small, antique airplane they were flying went down in a wooded area not far
from their rural Buckley homes. Each man lived along an airstrip that straddles 112th Street, a neighborhood of small-aircraft enthusiasts. Cawley had recently purchased a vintage military airplane from his friend and the two had gone for a flight that Wednesday morning. When they returned to the sky that afternoon, it was immediately clear some-
thing was wrong. Area residents reported hearing the engine sputtering and losing altitude before it clipped treetops and crashed. The plane went down in a wooded area north of state Route 410, in the 9200 block of 258th Avenue East. The wreckage was removed the following day and the crash is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Richardson was born in East St. Louis, Mo., and eventually flew around the globe. A military veteran, he became a Continental Airlines pilot at the young age of 26. He cockpit career included stops with Galvin Flying Service in Seattle and an international stay with Saudi Arabian Air. His airline career ended when he retired from Boeing as a flight instructor.
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Richardson is known to a younger generation as a bus driver for the White River School District, a post he retired from a year ago. He had long desired to live on an airstrip and he moved to Buckley, with his wife Fran, 13 years ago. Cawley could fly a plane before he could drive a car and went on to log more than 30,000 flight hours during a career with Delta Airlines. He retired in 2012, according to a family state-
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