Michael Gribbin

Class of 1963

I was born in Ontario, Oregon at the Holy Rosery Hospital on August 15, 1945 (the end of WW2) and grew up on the Oregon side of the Snake River Bridge across from Weiser.

I attended Jefferson Grade School (1951 -1959) also on the Oregon Side – grades 1-8.

I graduated from WHS in 1963, married in 1967 to a fellow student that I met at Treasure Valley Community College, better known as TVCC, attended WSU and then moved to Seattle to be a programmer, only coming back to Weiser for a few visits.

My parents sold their farm in 1970 and moved away, my sisters were living in Boise and California, so I really didn’t have any reason to return until 1982 for my father’s funeral and 1988 for my mother’s funeral. They are both buried at Fairview Cemetery on the Oregon Side of the Snake River near the old Chandler’s Corner at the Weiser / Ontario / Huntington junction.

My roots run deep in the Treasure Valley soil – my grandfather Frank Gribbin homestead 160 acres on the Oregon Side in 1903, which was then acquired by my father Harold Gribbin in 1936, who farmed it until 1970. 

Not wanting to be a 3rd generation farmer, I looked around Weiser for computers, and upon finding none I went to WSU, learned about them, then went to Seattle, found a programing job and never returned.

They say you can’t go home again, so I’m doing the next best thing – learning all about my “missing 60 years of memories” by asking the people of Weiser who lived it, and then adding their memories to a Searchable, Alphabetized Weiser website.

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