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David Lettau
May 19, 1954 - September 5, 2020
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2020-09-08 06:06:47 View / Comment (0)
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2020-09-08 05:47:40 View / Comment (0)Matt Lettau
Linda, Joe (nice hair) and David, who came down for my graduation, 2003.
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2020-09-08 05:41:09 View / Comment (0)Matt Lettau
David and Linda, hamming it up at Ran and Di's, 2005.
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2020-09-07 23:53:59 View / Comment (0)Dianna Lettau
David in the middle of telling one of his animated stories during their September 2019 visit to North Bend Lettau's family gathering! It usually took David a while to get wound up for a good story but once warmed up, everyone loved his exuberance.
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2020-09-07 23:37:00 View / Comment (1)Dianna Lettau
David seemed to have an extra measure of wisdom, insight, and knowledge, but it's his hospitality that I so appreciated. In years past, when our kids were young, it seemed our family spent all major holidays at David and Linda's house in Richland, not for just an overnight stay, but for one to two weeks at a time (and an unexpected third week one year due to severe snow storm on I-90). Fond memories for us. David would always greet us at our car when we pulled into their driveway and helped us unload and carry our stuff up the steep stairway. He showed us to our rooms and gave us the idiosyncrasies of the house we needed to know regarding the toilet use, or parking guidelines... It wasn't what he said, but how he communicated to us that made us feel very welcome and a part of his family. I had the pleasure of witnessing his hospitality from a different perspective last year during David and Linda's most recent visit to Washington State. David accompanied me to pick up our grandson. After loading Elias into his car seat in the rear seat of my car, David told me that he was going to ride in the back seat and not up front with me because he always felt sorry for kids riding in the back seat all by themselves. He then spent the next 45 minutes in the back seat entertaining a shy one year old by wearing an orange sweatshirt over his head! Elias made a new friend that day.
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2020-09-07 22:11:04 View / Comment (0)Matt Lettau
The boys, and Dad. Pat's funeral 2010. David in his ZZ-top era...
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2020-09-07 22:14:55 View / Comment (0)randy lettau
October 1965 brought our sister home from the hospital for the first time! David got to do the honors of holding her for this great picture! David was less clumsy than we were and viewed a safer gamble as we would routinely knock over our milk at the table.
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2020-09-07 22:21:07 View / Comment (0)randy lettau
When I saw this tree stump at the same lake, I thought it would be a great place to have David framed inside of it but hesitated asking him because I didn't think he would do it. I was wrong and he climbed right in!
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2020-09-07 22:19:21 View / Comment (0)randy lettau
David enjoying a beautiful day at Rattlesnake lake in North Bend, Wa. Linda and David were up from Arkansas visiting in September 2019. The lake is low and the old growth tree stumps that are usually under water were visible. This was a rare time for just the two of us were up there and he was allowing me to take some pictures of him.
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2020-09-07 22:19:45 View / Comment (0)randy lettau
Many years later we decided to pose like the 1964 image while David and Linda were visiting in September of 2019. We had a rather large group of family meet at the Sage Cafe for breakfast in the Tri-Cities! It was a GREAT time of visiting with each other and David was full of stories which everyone enjoyed!
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2020-09-07 21:37:53 View / Comment (0)randy lettau
David in the center back with Jeff in front and Ralph and Randy on the sides. This was our backyard in Citrus Heights, Calif. about 1964.
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2020-09-07 21:14:21 View / Comment (1)Matt Lettau
David always did things his own way. This was a tree in our oldest's nursery. Everyone we could get we had them put a handprint as a leaf on the tree. David insisted on a footprint! He didn't think it through though. He had to hop on one foot around the corner to a bathroom sink to clean it off!
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2020-09-07 21:07:57 View / Comment (0)Matt Lettau
David, Linda and I. I think probably about 4 years ago on a visit to Arkansas.
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2020-09-07 20:53:42 View / Comment (1)
randy lettau
David was a genius at fixing anything, but especially if it was connected by wires! Lightening and thunder storms can do strange things and it was after this kind of event that I seriously considered getting a surge protector for all our electronic appliances in the house. Our town is nestled up against the Western Cascade Mountain range of Washington State where electric thunder storms are common. After one of these events our microwave oven ceased working. We were very disappointed because we used it all the time! We just figured it had lived a good life and was ready for the great scrap heap that all dead appliances go to. But on the next visit by David and Linda we learned otherwise. It only took him seconds to have that thing apart and after a brief investigation he says to me "See that capacitor right there? Well it is not supposed to be in two pieces! Your last electric storm caused a surge of electricity to come backwards up the power line and boom, that is what happens!" He didn't have the part with him but he did on his next visit and after a quick solder job of the new part, the microwave had a new life. We are the same way, but that new resistor for us is Jesus Christ! David had Jesus Christ and because of that, he is only temporarily gone from us believers, for we shall meet him again in heaven! Love you David!
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2020-09-07 04:35:06 View / Comment (1)
Matt Lettau
In the summer of 1990, a just out of high school boy (me) somehow convinced David to help him rebuild the engine of my car. David had rebuilt many engines over the years and had all of the tools and such. My car probably didn't really need a rebuild and he knew it. But he agreed. He spent countless of his evenings and weekends showing me what to do and letting me do it. I learned so much about tools and mechanics and cars and life. And when we realized too late that the rings we were sold were not quite right for that car, we rebuilt it again. (second time went much faster, and I was able to do most of it myself). He knew the value of time invested in people and loved to teach and share his knowledge and I'm forever grateful.
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The Garage: Not long after moving into their Richland house, David built a garage. There are many good memories from the construction of that garage, and here are just a few from my perspective. I don't even remember what year, but I would guess early 80s. \ --(1)-- I would have been maybe 10. With a family full of carpenters there was lots of help. They found lots of good jobs for a 10 year old to do. I did a lot of hammering nails and such. David had me use a hammer where the other end was an axe. His theory being that I would learn quickly to be very respectful of the tool and not make mistakes. Guess it worked. --(2)-- Before laying the concrete for the garage floor, there was some requirement to pack the soil to a certain pressure. Most people rent some equipment to do this. David instead calculated that if all of us guys wore boots or heeled shoes, and walked around on the heels, it would be the right pressure. So we compressed all that soil by doing that... --(3)-- The earth moved for the foundation and leveling and such was dumped in a pile in the yard behind the garage. It was left there forever, and the kids loved playing in it in their younger years. David always joked that the pile got a little smaller each year, because it was coming in the house in their jeans and shirts and being flushed through the washing machine. --(4)-- David knew all the loopholes. He knew he didn't have to get an electrical inspection if the garage wasn't permanently wired. So the feed to the garage was a heavy duty extension cord... --(5)-- I'm sure there are many more, those are the ones that stick out from that building experience from the memory of a 10 year old..
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