Wasco-Hood River-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Utley, Harlan K. October 28, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle, November 24, 2004
     Harlan K. Utley, 87, a former Hood River Valley resident, died in Port 
Arthur, Texas on Oct. 28, 2004, just seven days before his 88th birthday.
He was born to Merrell and Ethel Utley on Nov. 6, 1916 in Bourbon County, Kan.
     His early years were spent going to school and helping his parents and 
grandparents on their homestead on the Kansas prairie.
     He married his first wife, Christine Kastl on May 26, 1936. He worked 
with his father-in-law drilling water wells for a couple of years. In 1938 he 
and his wife joined his parents and siblings, who had sold their farm in 
Kansas in the spring of 1937 and migrated to the Hood River Valley, where they 
pursued orchard-related work.
     He enjoyed the outdoors, fishing and hunting.
     When World War II started in 1941, he moved to Portland and worked as a 
riveter building navy war vessels on Swan Island. He took a home 
correspondence course that got him involved in heavy construction with 
Morrison/Knudson Construction Co. in Boise, Idaho. after the war, his first 
assignment was on Guam Island, which began a lifelong career of heavy 
construction around the world.
     His work included building the Basra Highway in Iraq, the Kandahar 
Airport in Afghanistan and a complete city in the Arabian desert in Saudi 
Arabia as well as dams, highways, airports and other projects.
     Survivors include his second wife, Mihn Ly; daughter, Karen Do, Port 
Arthur, Texas; sons, Joseph, Gilbert, Ariz.; John, Fullerton, Calif.; Richard, 
Kennewick, Wash.; and Ronald, Payson, Ariz.; 11 grandchildren, nine great-
grandchildren; sisters, Lyndall Loken, The Dalles; Doris Sharkey, Bend; and 
Lorraine Cooper, Portland, and brother, Harold Utley, The Dalles.
     Memorial services were held in Port Arthur before cremation. His family 
will hold a remembrance in conjunction with placement of ashes in an Oregon 
location next spring.


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Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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