b. Aug. 13, 1901, Ukiah, OR
d. Mesa, AZ

m. June 23, 1930
Honolulu, HI

b.
d. Mesa, AZ

March 1933
Honolulu, HI

Charles Failing

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October 19, 1936
Grants Pass, OR

Pamela Miller

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When our parents moved to Banks, I was a sophomore in high school and since there was no high school in Banks until a couple of years later, my parents sent me to Monmouth to live with my grandparents (my Mother's parents, Amos Naham King Halleck and Emma Halleck.) I graduated from Monmouth High School the following year, in 1919.

After completing high school I enrolled at Pacific University in Forest Grove and finished my four-year term in 1924. My major was journalism and political science.

Following college I worked as advertising manager of a daily newspaper in Bend, Oregon, then in December 1929 decided to move to Hawaii. There I was employed at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin until 1933 when I returned to the mainland. While in Hawaii, I married Jessie Mae Fraser on June 23, l930, whom I had met while in Bend. When we returned we brought back our first child, a daughter, Donna, who was only three months old at the time.

In 1933 we purchased the Grants Pass Bulletin, a weekly newspaper, and published it until 1937 whe we sold and moved to Ontario, California and purchased the Ontario Herald, another weekly newspaper. In the meantime William Rodman, our son had been born in Grants Pass on October 19, 1936.

After eight years in Ontario, we again moved back to Hawaii where we remained until l958. In 1945 when we returned to Hawaii the war was still on with Japan and it was necessary for me to take a separate ship from my family since security precautions were very strict and there was considerable zig-zagging to avoid possible submarine attacks.

In Hawaii for the second time, I became publisher of the Hilo Tribune Herald a six-day daily in Hilo, on the Big Island. In 1952 we were transferred back to Honolulu where I became vice-president and general manager of the Star-Bulletin Printing Company and a member of the executive committee of the parent company.

Arthritis caught up with me in l958 and after seeking a drier climate we settled in Mesa, Arizona, where we are still living now, on March 20, 1974. During the past 16 years I have been a Newspaper broker, covering the Western States for the industry, buying and selling newspaper properties. I am still partially active now at 72.

Our daughter Donna, married Charles Failing, a military career man, and is living in Hawaii and is the mother of six children: Manu (Irene), Charles, John, Ellen, Imi and Sara. Will, our son, is living in New Zealand with his wife Pamela (Miller), and their daughter Trina, and son Rodman William, the last descendant of the immediate line of the Sellers ancestry. Without him, our line will disappear from the genealogy records. Bill has just launched a yacht which he built from kauri trees in New Zealand.. He follows the sea, is a boat builder and designer and artist. He studied arichecture at the University of Washington.

Sorry to write more about me and my family than the others, but I seem to know more about us.