David Lee Hurd

1951 - 2018

David passed away Monday, August 20, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington.

Increasing health complications overcame Dave despite decades of heroically living with challenges related to a life-changing logging accident on June 12, 1972. The extensive injuries he sustained required a month of hospital treatment in Port Angeles and another six months of rehabilitation in Puyallup.

Dave set out on a new life plan completing the accounting program at Peninsula College, earning a bachelor's degree in accounting at Western Washington University, and that led to him becoming a Certified Public Accountant. His new skills were tested out at Leckenby Company, in Seattle, for two years then on to Frost and Company, in Olympia, for about six months before returning to Port Angeles.

At the Port Angeles firm that became Garnero Smith Hurd and Miller, CPA's, where he was a partner for most of his thirty-four years there, Dave valued friendships with staff and coworkers and being entrusted to provide financial services to clients who often became friends. He enjoyed the opportunity to serve as Treasurer of the North Olympic Land Trust for twenty-one years and attending First Presbyterian Church of Port Angeles.

Dave married Martha Hyatt, April 25, 1987, in Clallam Bay, Washington. They spent their wedding night in a tent on the beach at the mouth of the Hoko River. That was just the start of thirty-two years of many memorable adventures together. Martha and Dave explored more distant destinations on a Port Angeles Symphony trip to Peru and Bolivia in 1988. They looked forward to their vacations in Mazatlan.

Sons, Ventsy and Svetlio, were joyously welcomed into the family December 7, 1997.

Dave enjoyed jetskiing, quadding, boating, fishing and huckleberry picking at their "cabin" at Priest Lake, Idaho; and time at the "beachhouse" at Sekiu. Next to his enjoyment of going fishing and hunting, Dave loved "to talk" about those experiences, especially with his best friend Brian Williams and cousin Frank Hurd. Dave also loved to discuss the stock market and ponder which companies might be the next good investments.

Dave's life began in Clarkston, Washington where he was born to Thelma Ernastine Stevens Hurd and Charles August Hurd. His mother developed health issues soon after his birth. Dave's father moved the family to Libby, Montana where Dave attended school until the middle of his junior year of high school. He was on the high school wrestling team. Three families in Libby were especially important when Dave was growing up in Libby: The Dexter and Kathy Williams family, the Les and Pansy Hurd family and the Lawrence and Virginia O'Blennes family. His father's growing health care needs caused Dave to move himself and his father to Port Angeles where they lived with his sister and brother-in-law, Velma and Jim West. Dave graduated from Port Angeles High School in 1969.

In addition to his wife, sons and sister; Dave leaves cherished in-laws, nieces and nephews, and grandnieces and grandnephews.

A graveside service was held Monday, August 27, 2018 followed with his internment at the Libby Cemetery.

Friends and family are invited to gather for a celebration of Dave's life on Saturday, November 17, from 2-5 PM at the Crabhouse Restaurant located at the Red Lion Hotel, 221 N Lincoln, in Port Angeles, the site where Dave and Martha first met.

The family suggests donations in memory of Dave to: the Boys and Girls Club of the Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles Unit, 400 W. Fir St., Sequim, WA 98382 or the North Olympic Land Trust, 602 E. Front St, Port Angeles, WA 98362.