IN MEMORIAM
throughout his career. He
L LOYD K NUDSEN , a former
served as the Oregon Demo-
political and education director
cratic Party’s labor chairman
for the Oregon AFL-CIO and a
for many years.
longtime member of IBEW
L LOYD B ERNARD K NUDSEN
Local 48, died Jan. 31. He was
was born July 20, 1925 in
88.
McIntosh, South Dakota. His
Knudsen joined IBEW Lo-
family moved to Southwest
cal 48 at age 17 when he took a
Portland when he was young,
job at the Oregon Shipyard in
KNUDSEN
and he grew up in the Garden
St. Johns after graduating from
Tigard High School. At the time of his Home area.
He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and
death, he was a 71-year member of the
saw action in World War II. After boot
union.
He became a business agent for camp in northern Idaho, he was sent to
IBEW Local 48 in 1964. He served as the University of Minnesota for electri-
president of the Portland Building and cal engineering training and played
Construction Trades Council, which football for the Golden Gophers in the
later became the Columbia Pacific Big 10.
Knudsen served six years on the
BCTC.
Knudsen was elected political and board of directors of the Oregon Mu-
legislative director of the Oregon AFL- seum of Science and Industry (OMSI).
CIO in 1969, and held that office until He was a founder of the Oregon Mar-
itime Center and Museum, and he
1975.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he served on the boards of the Rose Festi-
worked as executive secretary-treasurer val, Northwest Regional Educational
of the Portland Metal Trades Council. Laboratory, the American Red Cross,
He also served on the board of the Pa- and the Cascade Pacific Boy Scout
cific Coast Shipyard Health and Wel- Council.
Knudsen is survived by his son,
fare Trust Fund.
He later returned to the field as an Larry, who is a member of Painters Lo-
electrician before retiring in 1984. In re- cal 10. He was preceded in death by his
tirement he operated two used car lots. wife Ann, and longtime companion
Knudsen was involved in politics Peg Dereli.
T OM W ORLEY , a retired business
manager of Portland Iron Workers Lo-
cal 29, passed away at his home in
Ridgefield, Washing-
ton, Jan. 13, a few
weeks shy of his 79th
birthday.
T HOMAS J. W OR -
LEY was born Jan. 22,
1935, to Clarence and
Mary Worley in Seat-
tle. He was the fifth of
WORLEY
eight children.
The family moved
to Portland when Tom was in the first
grade. He attended Central Catholic
High School, then enlisted in the
United States Navy in the Korean War.
He served from February 1952 to Janu-
ary 1956, and spent 18 months on a
ship in wartime waters off the coast of
Korea.
Worley began his career in the Iron
Workers Union when he entered its ap-
prenticeship program on Sept. 1, 1958.
He helped build the Interstate Bridge
connecting Vancouver, Washington,
and Portland across the Columbia
River; and he was the general foreman
on the construction of the Fremont
Bridge over the Willamette River.
Worley served on the union’s Exec-
utive Board and Examining Board, was
vice president, and was president of the
Iron Workers Credit Union.
He worked as an assistant business
agent for nine years while his brother
LeRoy was the business agent and fi-
nancial secretary-treasurer. After
LeRoy moved up to the post of inter-
national representative, Tom later was
elected as Local 29’s business manager.
Tom Worley retired in 1993.
He was named into the Northwest
Oregon Labor Retirees Council’s La-
bor Hall of Fame in July 2002.
Worley is survived by his wife of 60
years, Unette; two daughters, Unette
Marie and Mary Ann; two sons, Tom
Jr. and Douglas; eight grandchildren
and five great-grandchildren. His sons
are members of Iron Workers Local 29.
G ARNER P OOL , a 60-plus year
member of United Food and Commer-
cial Workers Local
555, died Jan. 3 at age
90.
A barber by trade,
Pool served on the Ex-
ecutive Board of Lo-
cal 555, as well as on
the executive boards
of union locals prior to
POOL
a major merger in
1986 that created Local 555. He
worked as a union barber in Albany,
Oregon, until 2012.
Pool was a charter member of the
Linn, Benton, and Lincoln Counties
Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. It
was founded in 1948.
G ARNER P OOL was born in Brent-
wood, Arkansas, on May 30, 1923. His
family moved to Oregon in 1934,
where he graduated from Shedd High
School in 1941.
Pool served in the U.S. Navy from
1942-48. He was active in the Ameri-
can Legion and VFW. He helped cre-
ate the Linn County Veterans Memo-
rial. He was the VFW veteran of the
year in 2001 and 2003, American Le-
gion veteran of the year in 2007, and
grand marshal of the Albany Veterans
Day Parade in 2009.
Pool was preceded in death by his
first wife of 51 years, Myrtle.
He is survived by his second wife,
Arlene; four daughters; two sons; 13
grandchildren and 15 great grandchil-
dren.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contri-
butions can be made to the Linn
County Veterans Memorial or the
American Legion Post 10 Building
Fund in care of Fisher Funeral Home,
306 SW Washington St. Albany Or.
97321.
J ERRY K RAHN , a longtime business
agent for the former Oregon State Dis-
trict Council of Carpenters, Pacific
Northwest District Council of Carpen-
ters, and Carpenters Local 247, passed
away Jan. 13. He was 77.
G ERALD ‘J ERRY ’ D ANIEL K RAHN
was born April 27, 1936 in Rochester,
Minn. After graduation from Lourdes
High School in Rochester, he met and
married Hildegard ‘Peggy’ Benson.
They moved to Portland in 1956.
Jerry worked as a carpenter and was
a member of Carpenters Local 1020,
which later merged into Carpenters
247. When the International Brother-
hood of Carpenters and Joiners
merged all Carpenter locals throughout
the Pacific Northwest in 2011, Krahn
was made an honorary member of Lo-
cal 156.
Krahn is survived by his wife; two
sons, Jay and Jeff; two daughters, Mary
and Becky; 15 grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren. He was preceded
in death by his daughter, Debbe; and
son, David.
J AMES ‘J IM ’ Z UFFREA , a longtime
union representative of United Food
and Commercial Workers Local 555
and Meatcutters Local 143A, died Jan.
14. He was 83.
J AMES G REGORY Z UFFREA was
born Jan. 2, 1931 in New York.
Affectionately known as “Guido” to
his friends, Zuffrea was a union meat-
cutter in New York before moving to
Oregon, where he worked as a meat
cutter at Fred Meyer.
A resident of Gladstone, Oregon,
Zuffrea was an active member of the
Rose City Corvette Club.
Workers mourn labor troubadour Pete Seeger
NEW YORK (PAI) — Iconic folk
singer Pete Seeger, who initially rose to
fame as an outspoken pro-worker trou-
badour died Jan. 28. He was 94.
Seeger never made a secret of his
pro-worker stands, even when they got
him into political trouble in the Mc-
Carthy Era of the 1950s. He was black-
listed by mainstream media, and even
kept out of some union halls, after re-
fusing to name names before the House
Un-American Activities Committee.
But he never lost his love for social
justice, with workers and labor the first
and prime among his causes, said Joe
Uehlein, formerly of the AFL-CIO In-
dustrial Unions Department, and a
folksinger/activist friend of Seeger’s.
With Woody Guthrie, Seeger was
crusading for workers and inspiring
them with his songs long before World
War II. After that, he extended his zeal
to the civil rights movement. After-
wards came the peace movement, the
environmental movement and women’s
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rights, among other causes.
Seeger introduced “We Shall Over-
come” to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in
1957 at an observance in Tennessee.
“That song sticks in your head, doesn’t
it?” the civil rights leader told aides af-
terwards.
“He spoke about labor, the CIO and
the AFL-CIO in glowing terms,”
Uehlein said.
“Which Side Are You On?” “Talk-
ing Union” “There Once Was A Union
Maid” “We’ve Got To Go Down And
Join The Union” and “If I Had a Ham-
mer” are just a few of the many pro-
worker pro-union songs that Seeger ei-
ther authored or popularized during his
70-plus year career.
Seeger’s involvement with unions
extended almost until the day he died.
In Buffalo for an anti-war activists’
conference late last year, he dropped in
at The Newspaper Guild’s joint district
council meeting, where he sang council
members a few songs.
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