Friday, August 21, 2009

The Coakley's Fire


Jim & Jorjie Coakley experienced a great tragedy in their lives recently...a house fire. Fortunately, no one was home, but EVERYTHING is gone. Here's an email from sister Chris Derbyshire. (Both women are daughters of Esther Myhren Derbyshire...their other sister is Patty Curry.)


By now you've heard the news about Jim & Jorjie's house. I thought you might put something on the Blog about it. They lost EVERYTHING including all the pictures from our childhood from Mom & Dad's house. My project for the upcoming year is to try to assemble as many replacements as possible and would appreciate any help from relatives. I have the capability to reproduce copies and will gladly pay to reimburse postage.

Since the fire, they have cleared off the site of the house; and while they can't rebuild on the existing foundation for safety reasons, they left it standing. Loggers are coming today to remove all the burned trees Jim & Jorjie bought a 5th-wheel RV which is parked on the driveway pad. They will move into it once they get water & sewage and electrical hook-ups Whether or not they'll rebuild is still a question. They are running into all kinds of code issues. They are currently living in a house in town provided by one of Jim's co-workers so they've been running back and forth between there and their place.


Also, here's a link to the coverage by the Corvallis paper:
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2009/06/05/news/top_story
3aaa00_housefire060509.txt

If any of you have family pictures that you think would help Chris reconstruct a scrapbook for the Coakleys, please let her know at c.derbyshire@comcast.net


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