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1. David Alvin Blocher
(1) (photo)
was born on 16 Jun 1963 in Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington.
(2) David Alvin Blocher was born on Father's Day of June 16, 1963,
in the defunct Deconess Hospital in Wenatchee, Washington. There has been confusion
of the actual date of his birth, for the newspaper, The Wenatchee World, printed
that he was born on Father's Day, June 15, 1963. His birth certificate stated
that he was born on the 16th of June. The final decision was made when tracing
back to a 1963 calender and seeing what day was Father's Day, and the result
was on June 16, 1963. The error was in of the newspaper. David was born measuring
as 24 inches long and weighing 8 pounds. Dr. Young, who delivered him, needed
to use a technique called "Force Ups" to deliver him. As a result,
David was left with minor damage to the motor part of his brain, which left him
with speech difficulties. He Military Servic on 27 May 1982 in U.S. Navy.
(3) He was baptized on 3 Aug 1984.
(4) His baptisism was performed aboard the aircraft carrier "USS
Carl Vinson, CVN-70" soon after Midnight of August 3, 1984, which was also
the celebration of the ship's third anniversary from its commision. The baptisism
took place in the tub in the Medical Department of the ship. At that time, David
was of the Penticostal faith. He attended to Rock Island Elementry School, starting
in Kindergarden in 1969 until he finished the 3rd grade in June of 1973. In
September of 1974, he was transfered to Eastmont Elementry School, which was
for Special Education students, and he was taken out the following year. In September
of 1974, after being rejected from attending the 7th Day Advent School, he was
accepted in The Wenatchee Valley Christian School, a private school with a strong
Christain atmosphere, where he began in the 5th grade until finishing the 9th
grade when the school closed down. He return to public school for his High School
years where he graduated from Eastmont High School on June 12, 1982.
He played Football during his Sophmore year in High School, but decided that
it wasn't his "bag" and didn't rejoin the team in the succeeding years.
In his Junior year of High School he decided not to pursue the Wrestling Team
anymore. He started wrestling in the 9th grade and won his first 8 matches,
pinning his very first opponent named Richard Derting. In the following season
his lost 40 lbs. going from 230 lbs. to 190 lbs. in one month in order to be
ellegible for the 190 lbs weight class. Half way through the season he was missed
due to a shoulder seperation he received while praticing with the team's Heavyweight,
John "Jay" Kytle, who was weighing in at 270 lbs. at the time of this
event.
While he was in High School, David was very active in the Drama Club, and participated
in about 95% of all the plays performed during his school years. Some of the
plays that he did participate in were: "Haunting of the Hathaway House"
were he played the evil nephew called Victor Hathaway; "Penelope and the
Pride of the Pickle Factory", "It Happened One Summer", "Saga
of Sage Brush Sal", and there have been several others.
He enlisted into the United States Navy in May of 1982, and went to Boot Camp
on September 1, 1982, the Summer after finishing High School at Eastmont High
in East Wenatchee, Washington. When finished with Boot Camp, his first assignment
was to what was then the second oldest Aircraft Carrier, The USS Coral Sea, CV-43.
The ship was then stationed in Alameda, California, but sailed to a new homeport
in Plymouth, Virginia. In route to its new home port, the ship sailed around
the entire World first stopping at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which was David's first
time ever to visit Hawaii. One month later went to Pusan, Korea, which was very
memorable for David, as he meet so many kind people, who don't speak English.
In May of 1983, the ship pulled into Olongapo, Philippines, where David has
meet and fell in love with a Filippina that he meet working as a waitress in
a restruant called "The Manila Disco". Her name was Josephine Lopez,
who was then age 18. David never wanted to leave The Philippines after meeting
Josephine, but swore that he would return for her, which he never did! In September
of 1983, he transfered to the newest Aircraft Carrier at that time called, The
USS Carl Vinson, CVN-70. He stayed with that ship until his seperation from
active duty on August 31, 1985.
When he seperated from The Navy in 1985, he returned to his parents home for
one year, then moved into the home of his maternal uncle, Thomas Arthur "Ozzie"
Wilsey, on Whidby Island, while he was attending Skagit Valley College in Oak
Harbor, Washington. He he majored in Graphic Arts program, but decided not to
return for the second year for the reason that he believed that the college was
instructing with equipment that was very obsolete.
After he left the college, he returned to the home of his parents in June of
1997, and three months later he went to work for the Swing Shift at Stemilt Growers
as a Segregator, which hand stacked boxes of processed apples and seperated them
according to size and grade. One month later he was laid-off and started working
for Northern Fruit Company in East Wenatchee as a Segregator, where he remained
until the July of 1989. After he quit Northern Fruit Company, he worked as a
Laborer with Lowry Construction in Marysville, Washington building houses. After
the first project was near finished, he had no more contact with Robert E. Lowry,
owner of Lowry Construction. Robert Eugene Lowry was also David's Junior High
School teacher at the Wenatchee Valley Christain School, teaching Health, Science,
and Physical Education.
In September of 1989, he attended to Trend College for the Business Information
Management program, which he learned the skills of computer processing and bookkeeping.
He graduated in July of 1990, but his education in this institute did not help
him pursue a job in his field of study. This trade school was more of a money-making
gimmick than a vocational school, and never lived up to its promise to assist
its graduates to find job placements. David made certain that word-of-mouth
would get around in the area about how bogus the school was and did his best
to prevent anyone else from being taken for the ride. The college went under
during the early 1990s.
In the September of 1990, after graduating from Trend College, he worked as a
Delivery Driver for Abbey's Pizza in Wenatchee. He didn't get along with most
of the teen-age employees there that pretty much dominated the job and tried
making an example out of David, who was then 27 years old.
When he quite Abbey's Pizza, he went to work for Cascadian Fruit Shippers as
a Dumper for their cherries. He was happy there and got along well with his
co-workers there, but it seemed as though the employer was only interested in
keeping him there during the cherry and pear seasons, which left him unemployed
for the majority of the year. David then move on to work for Glico Apple Corperation
as a Press Operator. He lasted the first 9 month season, but when it was time
to return for the next season, he got a surprising letter from Glico giving last
minute notice stating "We regret that you did not fit the criteria for recall!"
David was an accomplish photographer, and his prize photo was "Lil' Wet-Back",
which was taken on May 17, 1985 in Honolulu, Hawaii. It featured a little girl
sitting in the water with emphasis on the water-beeds dripping down her back.
He had many noted work for photography, most of them featured children, which
were his best subjects, but also been credited for photos of bridges, ducks,
and other scenic objects. He gave up photography in 1994 due to public controversary.
He collects comic books as a hobby, which he began in 1979. The first comic
book he recalls to obtain was World's Finest Comics #106, which featured Batman
and Superman together in four reprinted stories. He and his father, Thomas,
were leaving the old South End Drugs store in Wenatchee, when he asked "Daddy,
can I have one of these [refering to the comic book rack]?" and his father
generously agreed to buy one for him. He still has that same book to this day,
and it brings back such a precious memory of that event. Today his collection
would amount to over 15,000 comics in total.
He got hot and heavy into Genealogy in 1995, which he always had an interest
since he got his start in 1988 when he obtained the "Blocher" records
of Lowell H. Beachlor, and he has been picking up information where one left
off and bringing the lineages up to date and/or filling in the blanks like middle
names, dates, places of events.
David started working as a Laborer for Bethelham Construction in Cashmere, Washington
on October 7, 1997. He was terminated on August 5, 1998 for promoting a Union
movement for the plant. He was discovered for his activities when he inadvertantly
tried to recruite a newcomer by the name of Aaron Addleman, unaware that he was
the son of the owner, Mike Addleman. David continued to work with the Labors
Union Organizers and played a strong role in unionizing the plant even after
he was terminated. On October 1, 1998 he acted as the observer for the Labors
Union during the election. The Union had won the election, but David choosed
not to return to Bethleham Construction, knowning that the owner and office staff
will make the job more difficult for him due to his activities. On Octobor 5,
1998, David attempted to relocate to Seattle to work as a dispatched worker for
the Labors Union, but had a very bad start only being dispatched on two job orders
that made a total of 31 hours in 4 days.
On November 4, 1998, he was involved in an automobile accident at Oak Harbor
on Whidbey Island, at the fault of an 18 year old boy named Nicholas Scott Moulton,
driving a 1989 Dodge B2 van. With no more transportation, David return to the
home of his parents in Rock Island and moved back to Seattle on April 7, 1999
to make another attempt for securing a job with the Laborers Union getting a
Flagger's job with Sellen Construction in early May. He only worked a total
of 6 days with Sellen Construction, but on September 29, 1999 he worked for City
Transfer, Inc. (CTI) flagging during the escalation for the new "112th On
12th" building. The job ended in early March, co-inciding with the death
of his father.