TO BECOME THE MOON ...

 

Remembering “BOB’s BURGER BARN” and its founder/owner/operator, Bob Briem

 

Remembering “BOB’s BURGER BARN” and its founder/owner/operator, Bob Briem

 

BOB'S BURGER BARN ADVERTISING

Burger Barn ad with illustration, 18 Nov 1966, Catholic NW Progress, Seattle

Burger Barn listing, 20 Sept 1968, Catholic Northwest Progress, Seattle

Burger Barn Drive square ad 19 Dec 1969, Catholic Northwest Progress

Burger Barn “Season’s Greetings,” 26 Dec 1969, Catholic NW Progress, Seattle

 

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OBITUARY: Robert H. Briem

Oct. 11, 1994, Longview (Lewis County), Wash., Daily News, with edits made in 2022

Robert Harold Brim, age 76 of 2416 Meadowlark Lane, Kelso, died Oct. 6, 1994, in a Longview nursing home.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Oct. 22, at the Kelso Elks with Floyd Carpenter officiating. Inurnment will be at Mountain View Cemetery, Tacoma (Lakewood).

He was born June 2, 1918, in Seattle to Bjartmar Briem and Marie Briem. He attended grade school in Chehalis and was a 1937 graduate of Kelso High School.

During World War II, he served in the Navy as a boatswain mate.

While in Lakewood, Wash., he operated three drive-in restaurants called Bob’s Burger Barn, and when he moved to Chico, Calif. in 1963 he built and operated two more Bob’s Burger Barns there. He also had been a wine salesman in Seattle and a Realtor for Sun Realty until he retired.

His favorite hobby was building and flying airplanes, and he was a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association. Of his six planes, the Great Lakes was his pride and joy. He also was a Scoutmaster for 10 years and a member of the Elks for 21 years.

His wife of 45 years, Elizabeth Jean Fires Briem, died in February 1987. In June of that year he attended his 50^th class reunion and renewed acquaintances with Lucille Mellein Moffitt. They married in Reno, Nev., on Sept. 8, 1987. They lived in Chico, Calif., for six years before returning to Kelso in 1993.

Survivors include his wife, Lucy, at home; a son, Robert Briem Jr., of Old Saybrook, Conn.; a daughter, Marilyn Vallery, of Tacoma; a stepson, John T. McIntyre of Herndon, Va.; two sisters, Lona Marie Briem of Riverside, Calif. and LuAnne Zinzer of Longview; four granddaughters and two great granddaughters.

Friends wishing to express sympathy may contribute to the American Cancer Society, Box 1, Longview, Wash.

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ELIZABETH JEAN BRIEM

Tacoma News Tribune, March 17, 1987

“Betty” Briem, 71, died Friday, Feb. 27, 1987, in Chico, California.

Briem was born in Portland on January 29, 1916, to Parmele and Minerva Fries.

She married Robert H. Briem, May 30, 1942, in Hoquiam, Washington.

Mr. & Mrs. Briem operated Bob’s Burger Barns in the Tacoma area for several years before moving to Chico in 1963.

In addition her husband, she is survived by her son, Robert, of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, and a daughter, Marilyn Vallery, of Sumner and four grandchildren.

Memorial donations may be made to the Heart Association. 

 

Robert E. Marsh and the U.S. Forest Service

 Robert E. Marsh and the U.S. Forest Service

 

=Robert E. Marsh attended North Pacific Dental College in Portland, Ore. He started at the college in 1929 and graduated in 1934. What was then North Pacific Dental College became the University of Oregon Dental School and is now the Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry.

 

=During the summers, between terms at North Pacific, Robert Marsh worked for the U.S. Forest Service fighting fires in the Salmon (Idaho) National Forest. The idea for doing this came from a fellow dental student from Carmen, Idaho. Work Robert Marsh did for the Forest Service included using a crosscut saw, making trails and fighting fires. His horse was named, “Red.”

 

=Robert Marsh and his classmate from Carmen, Idaho, traveled from Portland to Salmon, Idaho, drove Dr. Marsh's Model T Ford touring model (without a top). The Model T cost about $19. To save money, he learned how to replace the Model T’s wooden transmission bands.

 

=“The top speed of this car was 41 miles an hour, otherwise it would boil over (it had no water pump),” Dr. Marsh said. In the car were two water bags and a five gallon can of cheap oil. It took him and his classmate three days to drive from Portland to Idaho, via Pendleton, Oregon. Once in Salmon, Dr. Marsh jacked up his Model T and put it on blocks and it sat all summer. He took the battery out of the car and sent it to Salmon, which had one store. Don't know why he sent the battery to Salmon where, “Mr. Sweeney” was Salmon’s postmaster.=

 

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Note: Photo of a 1925 Ford Model T Touring was found on Internet. This is not a photo of Dr. Marsh's car.

Bill Lemmon coached high school boys' basketball: Bellfountain, Eatonville, Clover Park, Stadium

Bill Lemmon coached Bellfountain of Oregon to the 1937 state boys’ basketball championship

(There is no claim of originality in this article. it was pieced together using info found on the Internet.)

In 1936-1937 season, the boys’ basketball team at Bellfountain High School won the Oregon state championship. (Bellfountain is in Benton County, about 18 miles from Corvallis, home of Oregon State University).

Burton "Bill" Lemmon (a graduate of Tacoma’s Stadium High School and Willamette University in Salem) was the coach. Bellfountain High had a total of 27 students, its basketball team had eight boys, none over 6-foot tall.

At that time Oregon had two classifications for high school athletic teams. Enrollment numbers determined if a school was Class A (larger) or Class B (smaller). Uniquely, if a basketball team won the B championship it could challenge the Class A teams to play for the Class A title in basketball. In 1937, Bellfountain did that: It won the B championship and then won the A title.

Playing at Willamette U in Salem, Oregon’s capital city, the Bellfountain “Bells” won the Class B Championship. Then, in the A competition it beat Portland's Franklin High School  in the semi-finals, then, for the Class A title, defeated Lincoln High School of Portland by 14 points – Bellfountain’s closest game of the season. For the season, the Bells had a 24-2 win-loss record.

To realize the size differential between the two contenders, consider that Lincoln High in 1937 had almost twice as many teachers as Bellfountain had students.

In his education career Bill Lemmon would go on to coach boys’ basketball at Stadium of Tacoma and Clover Park of Lakewood. He didn’t coach his children in high school, but sons Dennis (Class of 1962), and Pat (Class of 1966), played high school basketball at Clover Park High and Lakes High respectively.

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BELLFOUNTAIN, EATONVILLE, CLOVER PARK, STADIUM

After the 1937 school year Bill Lemmon left Bellfountain to be head boys’ basketball coach at Eatonville, Washington. After three years with Eatonville he went on to Clover Park, where he stayed five years and where one of his players later coached Lemmon's sons at the same school, From Clover Park, Lemmon moved to Stadium High in Tacoma, where in 1931 he was a member of the Washington state champions playing March 11-14, 1931, in U of W Pavilion (later named for Hec Edmundson) in Seattle. He coached for 12 years at Stadium.

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BURTON C. LEMMON

TNT/Tacoma News Tribune Aug. 17, 1999 with editing and additional info added in 2022

Burton Carlyle (Bill) Lemmon, age 87, went to be with the Lord, August 11, 1999. Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, April 9, 1912, he spent most of his childhood years in Tacoma, Washington, where he died.

Always a diligent student and inspiring athlete, he helped lead the Stadium High School in Tacoma boys’ basketball team to a Washington state championship, completed college at Willamette University with a degree in teaching foreign languages, married the love of his life, Isobel M. Morehouse, and began a lifelong career as father, teacher, coach and community leader.

Bill carried the ability to motivate and inspire academically, athletically and morally to all who touched his life.

In his first school year of teaching, 1936-1937, he led Bellfountain, a small B school basketball team, to win the all schools Oregon State Championship. He continued to coach and teach at Eatonville, Stadium, Clover Park and Mt. Tahoma high schools in Washington.

Family was paramount in his life, and he worked several jobs to provide a great home and environment on Steilacoom Lake for his wife and five children.

With amazing energy, he always spent time building personal relationships with his children, working, coaching, and maintaining a home, yet never abandoning his many other interests which included reading, prolific writing, humor, all manner of music and dance, philosophy, poetry, languages and travel.

He took his family with him when he traveled overseas to teach in Cardiff, Wales, Madrid, Spain and Puerto Rico, and an additional year each in Torremolinos (Spain) and in the Philippines, once the family was grown. Bill was always much more than a tourist, because he mixed right in with the people, communicating, learning and sharing.

Everywhere he went, people asked him to be the master of ceremonies, to speak of his travels, of living life to the full, and of sound character. This he did well, lifting spirits with his beautiful singing and speaking voice, his crisp sense of humor, dramatic presentations and intelligent dialogue. His speeches carried the theme of God is love and power, the blessing of freedom of speech, thought and will, sportsmanship, strong moral character, thankfulness, optimism, spontaneity, and generous living. These qualities he demonstrated by his life.

Burton C. Lemmon was a remarkable man with a tremendous contribution. Those who knew him will be saddened by his departure, but will understand and appreciate how their lives were enriched by his lively presence and outstanding character.

As Bill joins Izzy (Isobel M. Morehouse) in heaven, his five children, Michael, Rosemary, Dennis. Patrick and Sally, their spouses, 12 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and many friends will miss him. The family is holding a private memorial service.

Izzy and Bill met at Willamette U. They married in 1936 in Salem, Oregon. Isobel Montague Morehouse Lemmon was born May 3, 1912, Snohomish County, Wash.  She died at age 66 on Aug. 12, 1978, in Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash.

PHOTOS

=Coach Bill Lemmon on the far left with his 1937 Oregon state high school championship “Bells” boys’ basketball team of Bellfountain, Oregon.

=Bill Lemmon photo from his 1999 obituary in the TNT/Tacoma News Tribune.

=If the newspaper "clippings" below are hard to read, click on each one for a larger version.

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Nike missile site at Midway, Washington

 “SPACEMEN” … JUNIOR SIZE

DAVID ROWLANDS, Jr., 13 (left), son of Tacoma’s City Manager and Mike Steele, 11-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M, Steele, decked out in some special NIKEman’s protective clothing, appear ready for a flight to outer space. The boys accompanied their fathers on a tour of the Nike site at Midway, Washington last week where they had a first-hand opportunity to observe the futuristic, supersonic missile from close range.

Source: The Times-Journal of Parkland (Pierce County, near Tacoma), Washington, Thur. Aug. 8, 1957/Page 14

Unlimited hydro planes

1958 Queen Anne High School Seattle Grizzly yearbook cover Times-Journal of Parkland (Pierce County), Washington

Aug 1,1957 (Thriftway) Times-Journal of Parkland (Pierce County), Washington