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DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2018
146TH YEAR, NO. 96
ONE DOLLAR
MARY LOUISE FLAVEL
Flavel’s death
closes a chapter
on a long and
complex history
A daughter
in a famous
maritime family
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ and
ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Mike Phillips, far right, rings a bell at the Doughboy Monument in Astoria to commemorate the end of
World War I.
Locals honor veterans,
mark end of Great War
Bells rang out
at 11 a.m.
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
‘N
ation Mad With Joy,”
read the headline across
the top of The Morning
Astorian a century ago, announcing
the end of World War I.
Locals gathered Sunday to honor
veterans and the centennial of the
armistice. More than 30 Clatsop
County lives were lost in the war.
The armistice took effect at 11
a.m. Nov. 11, 1918. At 11 a.m. Sun-
day, bells at churches and fire sta-
tions across Astoria and around
the U.S. rang in honor of the war’s
ending.
At the same time, Charles Scott
Parker, a Vietnam War veteran who
lost his great-uncle in World War I,
placed a poppy wreath at the foot
of the Doughboy Monument, sur-
rounded by veterans and other
locals. Also known as the Asto-
ria Victory Monument, it was ded-
icated in 1926 in honor of local vet-
erans who served and died. Mike
Phillips, an adjutant with Clatsop
Post 12 American Legion, rang his
group’s bell 21 times at the Dough-
boy in a re-creation of the custom-
ary gun salute.
Later in the day at the Asto-
ria Library’s Flag Room, Phillips
See VETERANS, Page 7A
City of Astoria
The front page of the Nov. 12, 1918, Morning Astorian was covered in
stories about the end of World War I.
Mary Louise Flavel, a
scion of Astoria’s famous
maritime family and the last
descendant of Capt. George
Flavel with direct ties to the
city, died of natural causes in
October.
The captain’s 93-year-
old great-granddaughter, a
patron of musical arts, had
been living in a nursing home
outside of Portland when
her health began to fail. She
died on Oct. 20 and was bur-
ied in the Flavel family plot
at Ocean View Cemetery in
Warrenton.
During her life, the afflu-
ent and influential Flavels
became polarizing figures in
the community and, increas-
ingly, a source of curios-
ity, gossip and ire. Her death
closes a chapter in a long,
complex history where fact
and fiction often tangle in
messy, difficult knots.
“I’m going to miss her,”
said Randy Stemper, a con-
tractor who befriended
Mary Louise Flavel and her
brother, Harry, in the late
1980s. “I really just enjoyed
the time I had with her. She’s
at peace now, and she needs
to rest.
“The good that they did
needs to be remembered. Not
the stories and the fiction.”
Over the years, the
neglected family mansion
on Franklin Avenue and 15th
Street, where Mary Lou-
ise and Harry Flavel grew
up, became a symbol of the
family’s decline even as their
ancestors’ well-preserved
Queen Anne-style Victo-
rian-era home, the Flavel
House Museum on Eighth
Street, continued to welcome
wide-eyed tourists.
Mary Louise Flavel aban-
doned her hometown in
1990, but felt for the rest of
her life that the community
had long ago abandoned her.
“Life in Astoria was great,
unless you were a Flavel,”
she told a reporter for The
Daily Astorian in 2012.
Life in Astoria
Mary Louise Flavel was
born in Astoria in 1925, the
first child of Harry M. Fla-
vel and his second wife,
Florence. She belonged to
a family whose surname
was famous throughout the
Columbia-Pacific
region,
reaching back to the mid-
1800s in Astoria.
Her
great-grandfather,
Capt. George Flavel, moved
to Astoria as a young man in
1849 and became the city’s
See FLAVEL, Page 8A
Astoria moves
homeless from
wooded camps
A dozen outposts
in the woods
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
People surround the Doughboy Monument during a ceremony to re-
member the end of World War I.
‘AS THE HISTORIAN FOR THE AMERICAN LEGION, I FEEL
IT IS MY JOB TO INFORM US OF OUR PAST SO THAT WE
DON’T MAKE THE MISTAKES IN OUR FUTURE.’
Jimmy Pearson | library director and historian for the American Legion
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
Astoria work crews
moved nearly two dumpsters
filled with trash, mattresses,
bicycles, bike parts and other
belongings from homeless
camps on Friday.
Few campers remained,
but those who did tried to
cooperate with the city while
also having no idea where
they would sleep.
The city had delayed
moving on the camps, first
identified in August, after
police posted cleanup notices
at nearly a dozen. Police
Chief Geoff Spalding hoped
to give homeless campers
more time to connect with
social services and figure out
other living arrangements
now that the city’s amended
“no camping” ordinance
includes city forestland.
See HOMELESS, Page 4A
Local enters the world of nutrition bars
Sultan creates
a new healthy
snack company
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
L
iving an active lifestyle,
Ivan Sultan has been eat-
ing snack bars most of his life.
One day, while eating a Lar-
abar wellness snack, he had an
epiphany.
“I felt like they finally had
something that was both tasty
and nutritious without a ton
of additives, but after a while
I realized I could make that
same thing in my kitchen fairly
easily,” he said.
Sultan began experiment-
ing with flavors at home, and
this May quit his job as a reha-
bilitation manager at Colum-
bia Memorial Hospital in
Astoria to run his new snack
company, The Columbia River
Bar, full time.
Sultan creates small snack
packets of between 250 and
300 calories using dates as a
binder, along with nuts, other
dried fruits, cacao nibs, teas,
vanillas and other natural
ingredients. The snacks are
sold at several local vendors,
including the Astoria Co-op
Grocery, 3 Cups Coffee House
and Good to Go, and through
his website, thecolumbiariver-
bar.com. He also has an agree-
ment to supply the Warrenton
Fire Department.
For the past 15 years, Sul-
tan had been a practicing phys-
ical therapist, but hadn’t seen
it as a path to a decent retire-
ment, he said. He still works
part time with the Astoria
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
See SULTAN, Page 4A
Ivan Sultan has started a new snack company, The Colum-
bia River Bar.