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This profile is part of the Blanchard Name Study.
Norm was born in 1911 to Norman Blanchard and Millicent Norton.He married Eunice Schall in 1935. [1]
"N. J.'s son, Norman C. Blanchard (1911-2009), had worked alongside his dad from childhood, and when N. J. died in 1954 he took over management of the company and maintained its reputation for high quality. But fiberglass started to dominate the industry in the 1960s, and the end was inevitable. Blanchard's survived on diminishing amounts of repair work until 1969, when the business was sold and became The Boat Yard. In the nearly 60 years since N. J. started on the Duwamish, the Blanchards had built nearly 2,000 boats, many among the finest ever seen on Northwest waters." [2]
Sources
- ↑ Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPM5-DGJS
- ↑ https://www.historylink.org/file/20366
- United States Census, 1920: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHNK-YNQ
- United States Census, 1930: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC3H-C49
- United States Census, 1940: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K936-3P9
- United States Census, 1950: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X1C-JK47
- https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20000827&slug=4039164
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- Earl Grandy
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- Dewitt Jensen
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- Bob Prothero
- Robert Prothero, Jr.
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