Richard Ernest Hertzog died Oct. 31, 2006, at the age of 80 at the Franciscan Systems Hospice House in University Place after several months battle with multiple myloma (bone cancer).

Mr. Hertzog was born Aug. 14, 1926, in Salem, Ore., and as the son of a Methodist minister attended school in a variety of eastern Oregon and southern Idaho communities.

In 1945 he quit school to join the Navy and received his GED from Twin Falls High School following his discharge.

Mr. Hertzog spent his working life as an aeromechanic for Boeing and later as a joiner at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton.

Mr. Hertzog moved to Vashon Island with his wife Nanci in October 1956 and built a home on the beach at Dockton, where they resided until it was destroyed in a winter storm in January 1997.

A man who loved to fly, be it in little airplanes or down ski hills, Mr. Hertzog will be remembered by family and close friends sometime later this winter at Seventh Heaven at the Stevens Pass Ski Area.

Survivors include his wife Nanci of Orting, one brother, Donald of Lacey, one sister, Hellen Johnson of Des Moines, Wash. and numerous nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to Hospice House, 290I Bridgeport Way, 98466-4631, University Place, Wash.