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In Memory

Don Crepeau

Don fought a valiant battle but lost it and gained his wings January 4, 2024

 
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01/05/24 09:08 AM #1    

Bruce Markham

Great Guy - Don may you Rest in Peace and enjoy the Afterlife. Thank You for your Service also. You were a true Gentleman !

 


01/05/24 09:18 AM #2    

Leonard Hiibel

Godspeed, Don. 


01/05/24 01:37 PM #3    

Rick Farley

The night before the last day of 9th grade at Olympic Jr High, Don Creapau, Tom Sabo and myself told our parents we wanted to sleep over at each others house. They went along with that but instead we decided to spend the night hanging out in Olympic's courtyard. The janitors were hauling a lot of stuff to the boiler to burn or put in the garbage and some of it was useful so they said take what you want. After the janitors left we're sitting on one of the planters surrounded by the school stuff when roaring into the courtyard is officer Baker who jumps out with this gun drawn. He thinks we've broken into the school so he takes us to the police station. After hearing our stories he contacts one of the janitors who verifies our story so no more problem with the police but, of course, Baker has contacted our parents so I was grounded for most of that summer along with my other partners in crime. We were a trio for several years, when we were not grounded, and sometimes went to the bowling alley. I remember once at the bowling alley Don got mad at me and left but halfway walking to his house he relized he is still wearing the bowling shoes you got at the front desk so he had to come back. Other than that we had a lot of good times together.    

Tom Sabo and his family moved to Auburn from Lead, South Dakota the summer before 7th grade and I first saw him in my first period class on my first day at Olympic. Tom talked different, dressed different and looked different which caused a number of folks to make fun of him. Walking home after the first day at Olympic I see Tom going the same direction I am and, feeling bad for him over how he had been treated that day, I go up and introduce myself so he would know not everyone at Olympic is a jerk. I think most of us at one time or another have been jerks but I never saw that in Tom. He was trully good people and for the next four years Tom was my best friend but after 10th grade his family moved back to South Dakota. After high school Tom joined the Navy and in 1974 while on leave shows up at my front door dressed in his Navy whites.

Tom Sabo died in a motorcycle accident in 1977. He is buried in the Black Hills National Cemetery at Sturgis, SD. 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32229206/thomas-clair-sabo

Mike Smith class of 73, passed away on Dec. 24, 2023. I first met Mike in 1962.


 


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