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By Paige Norman Anthony Mathew Emmanuel was born June 6, 1924, in Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Mary Emmanuel, their fourth son and seventh child. By 1930, the family had moved to California. After serving on an aircraft carrier during World War II, Tony  returned to California and married Betty (Wing) in 1954, moving to Washington in the 1960s. He was a field representative and store designer for Bel-Square Equipment Company in Seattle, and worked with Duane Isackson at Duane

By Paige Norman Credit: Patsy Rosenbach After growing up in the High Desert of California, Thomas Wilhite moved to Washington in 1995 to...

Now grown in to a global operation,  H&N International  got its start not far from Redmond in 1945 when Arthur “Art” Heisdorf and his...

By Richard Hao, Youth Director At Large Edited by Laura Lee Bennett, Executive Vice President On April 12th, 2025 at 10:30 am at the Old...