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1947
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2024
Gary Trople Obituary
Gary was born March 18, 1947, in Bozeman, MT. The youngest son born to Joseph Eugene Trople "Ted" and Doris Delano Trople-Puryear. They moved to Kelso, along with his older brother, Ted Trople, in 1952.
Gary graduated from Kelso High School in 1966. He enlisted in the United States Marines in May 1967 until March 1973. He served in Vietnam. He was always proud of being a Marine. He moved back to the Kelso area after his service.
Gary worked for Werehauser in the Kalama area for 20 years, retiring in 1986. Around 1990, he moved to Port Angeles, working at The Spa Shop for almost 20 years. Gary decided to sell everything and become a snowbird in 2017 but decided the desert wasn't for him and became a camp host in various RV parks in the Cowlitz / Lewis County area since he enjoyed meeting and visiting with new people. He really enjoyed spending time hunting and fishing, riding motorcycles on and off road and traveling.
Gary battled multiple cancers, had numerous surgeries. Most were successful but he never really recovered from his last surgery.
Gary was preceded in death by his father. He is survived by his mother Doris, his brother Ted, sons Brent and Jason, along with a grandson Jake, granddaughter Karissa and a number of other "grandchildren" that referred to him as "Papa".
Gary requested that there be no funeral or memorial service. There will be a direct burial at Fir lawn Cemetery in Toledo, WA.
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Jim Brown
April 5, 2024
I worked a few times with Gary on the camp Kalama cutting crew, very nice man
Joe Bills
March 31, 2024
Cousin Gary was a special person, since we were cousin´s and a close family, in our younger years we spent a lot of time at there farm, as time went by we went different directions, and reconnected several years ago spending lots of time together have a cocktail or two, well maybe more , Gary never refused to help anyone resolve their problems with anything electrical or mechanical.
I will forever miss our fishing trips together. I´m in a way happy he is no more pain, rest in peace my friend.
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