Morty Comix # 2644

Morty Comix # 2644 was left in a dead phone booth at a long dead grocery/gas mart in Satsop, Washington, a town in danger of becoming extinct, along with several other villages and municipalities in eastern Grays Harbor County, including my town, McCleary.

A local asked me what I was doing and I said I was recording places soon to be gone. Out here everyone wants to know your family connection, and I told him I was no connection to the well known dairy family around here with the same surname. My Willis family relatives migrated to Grays Harbor and Pacific counties early in the 20th century and many of them engaged in a variety of nefarious activities. I am the sole surnamed Willis left from my branch still living in either county. So I guess I should photograph myself to fit in with the rest of the subjects I capture.

Phone photo 1740

No, that isn't me. The only elected office I ever sought to gain was for Democratic Precinct Committeeman for Mud Bay Precinct in Thurston County, Washington, in 1974, which has just dawned on me it was ALMOST 40 YEARS AGO! And I beat the incumbent only because I filed first and my name topped the ballot. But before my term was up I moved so I had to resign.

The Willis currently running for re-election as Grays Harbor County Commissioner is no relation to me, so far as I can ascertain from conversations with members of that family. I did vote for her when she first ran. But the brain cell jury is still out on whether or not I'll re-elect. Still gathering data.

There used to be a lot of Dickenson County, Virginia (Clintwood, Va.)-traced members of the Willis family in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties in the last century, but as far as I know, as of 2006 I am the last one of us left out here in this corner of the world between the two jurisdictions.