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Continued: George Perrine Sutherland was born on Palm Sunday 9 am March 24, 1918 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Vancouver, WA. He was christened at the Presbyterian Church in Vancouver. He started Harney School in Vancouver in Sept. 1924 and started piano lessons June 1925. His mother and grandmother both died when he was 9 years old. Most of his adult life George worked at Tacoma City Light where he went from an electrician working on lines to load dispatcher (most of his 40 year career) and eventually to chief operator. He attended college for approximately 2 years at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. George and Katherine Banfill were married 6 June 1941 in the Chapel of the First Baptist Church in Tacoma, Washington where they remained active all of their adult lives. George built the family home in Tacoma in 1944 and enlarged it in 1950, where he and wife Katherine raised their children.
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