~ IN MEMORY ~
WA/DL Capt. Sterling M. Wetzsteon
January 18, 1941 ~ April 9, 2013
News has been received with the passing of WA/DL
Captain Sterling McDonald Wetzsteon, age 72. Captain Wetzsteon hired on
with Western 04-07-1969 and retired with Delta at the mandatory age 60 in 2001.
He was based LAX and at the time of his retirement was noted as First Officer
based ATL/031.
To sign the online guestbook please visit the funeral home
website at www.ponderosavalleyfunerals.com/Share
Captain Wetzsteon is survived by his wife Paula, and his daughters
Jill, Julie and Keri. Personal condolences may be sent to
the home address:
2522 McCrea Road , Thousand Oaks CA 91362-1124 ... (805) 529-0745
A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Final resting place
will be in Sula, Montana.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Ponderosa Valley Funeral
Services of Parker CO.
From: Dick Deeds Sent:
Friday, April 12, 2013 12:20 PM To: pilots@wallybird.com
Subject: Passing of WAL/DAL Captain Sterling
Wetzsteon
Dick
Sterling Wetzsteon passed away Tuesday
(4/09/2013).
No services, a party is pending at his ranch in
Montana!
Cards would be nice for his wife of 50+
years!
Paula Wetzsteon
2522 McCrea
Road
Thousand Oaks, Ca. 91360
Sorry for the sad news
Bruce
Preserving the land: Bitter Root Land Trust
works with Sula family for largest-ever conservation easement
Sterling
Wetzsteon poses next to his favorite East Fork of the Bitterroot River fishing
hole with his three daughters, Keri Churchich, Julie George and Jill Applebury.
The family is working to put together a conservation easement on their historic
Sula area ranch that will protect it forever from
development.
To read the complete story please go to
http://www.ravallirepublic.com/news/local/article_76706930-9ef2-11e2-ac6d-001a4bcf887a.html
April 8, 2013 SULA – On a hillside
overlooking meadows just down the road from the wide spot in the road called
Sula is a small farmhouse with a big picture window. For years, Edgar
Wetzsteon, kept watch over the Lazy J Cross Ranch from there.
“He knew every car in the county who
came down that road,” said Edgar’s granddaughter, Julie George. “With his
binoculars, he oversaw everything that was going on down
below.”
And when something needed tending, he’d
hop in his green Ford pickup truck with the shovel stuck straight up in the air
from its bed and zoom down through the field.
His three grown granddaughters couldn’t
help but smile when they remembered that.
The old truck had a long-handled shifter
and whoever had the misfortune of sitting in the middle had to keep close watch
to avoid a bruised knee.
On a fine spring morning last week, the
three traveled the same dirt two-track road across the meadow to the favorite
fishing hole on the East Fork of the Bitterroot.
They remembered catching grasshoppers
and putting them in old Band-Aid cans for bait or turning over cow pies to find
the worms that worked well too.
They remembered family outings, float
trips and things about their grandfather that made them laugh.
They made the ride with their father,
Sterling Wetzsteon, who sat in the front to enjoy the view.
“That’s where I grew up,” Wetzsteon
said. “Right up there. This has always been home.”
The Sula Basin has been home to the
Wetzsteon family since 1888, when a passel of them gave up on the mines at
Marysville and decided to try to their luck with
agriculture.................................................................
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