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Al Peffley
Lopez Island was my favorite place to camp when on a bicyle trip with my family in the late 1970's. Unlike Orcus, it was very flat and the traffic was less dangerous. I took my fishing gear and caught rainbow trout with flies at a small lake resort on the island. The rest of the family crew wanted a portion of the trout meal that I cooked over an open pit fire grate. It is still a wonderful trip memory. Later we did several boating trips with church friends around the San Juans.
I think Jody Allen (Paul's sister) still owns the property. She is the chief Executor of the Allen Family Estate assets. I wonder if she will also sell the Portland Trailblazers? All proceeds after sales costs of the professional sports teams will go to charities, according to Paul's will.
Paul was somewhat of a recluse and never married. I only met him once when he visited Andrews Space in his Seattle office building (when I worked there as contract marketing support labor after retiring from Boeing.) He was a more decent and giving person than Bill Gates ever was. Melinda Gates was the more honest person in the Gates family; I worked for her father at LTV Aerospace in Texas in the mid 1980's on a NASA STS payload program bid (that was terminated after the Shuttle launch explosion disaster.)
Paul was also interested in Marine Biology (my minor in college) and Human Brain Research sciences. He was the catalyst business man in developing and funding the Moda Center in Portland and the new sports field (Mariners, NFL and FIFA games, etc.) ,orinially named Safeco, now T-Mobile Field in Seattle. He was devoted to supporting the PNW culture, WAZOO, professional sports, and many advanced technology businesses in the region. It is reported that he died of sepsis (a sequential vital organs attack by a dysregulation of the immune system and resulting organs shutdown) after several severe bouts with lymphoma cancer.
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