The Brays 1978

Back row (L to R): Phyllis, Alyce, Aladeen, Fran
Front row (L to R): Larry, Pearlee, Walt, and Nellie
Not pictured: Lyle (Butch and Lloyd, Sr.

Elsie, Dora, Gladys, and Dorthy

Pennsylvannia Smiths

The Pavilion at Priest Point Park, Olympia, Wa. Dan Snith was the caretaker of the park. Dan and his family lived on the top story. Robert Grant Smith in a photo below was standing at the top of the long main stairway. Many of the photos of the teenage Pearlee Smith were taken at the park. This swiss chalet style building was originional built as the Olympia Brewing Company's pavilion for the Lewis and Clark Centenial Exposition in Portland Oregon in 1905. It was donated to the City of Olympia for use at Priest Point Park by the brewery's founder, Leopold Schmidt. The Pavilion sat on top a high point of the park overlooking Ellis Cove and Budd Inlet of Puget Sound. It had spectacular views of Olympia, the Olympic and Cascade Mountains, including Mount Rainier. The Pavilion was a popular locale for major social events in the Olympia. It was here that Larry Bray would be bounced on politicians' knees and where he learned,

"If a politician has his mouth open, he's lying."

Larry spend a great deal of time at his grandparents' home. He used to wrestle with a bear cub at the little zoo in the park (until the bear got too big). The park was noted for its peafowl. Eventually, Olympia sold the zoo animals to the Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Wa. and the Pavilion was torn down in the 1960s.

The Bray family early March 1943, Burien Washington just before Larry left for the US Army.

Back Row L to R:

Aladeen, Walt, Pearlee (holding Lloyd), Larry, and Fran.

Front Row (Left to Right):

Lyle "Butch," Nellie, Phyllis, and Alyce (twins).

Henry and Hannah Amelia Smith

Parents of Will, Ed, Dan, Jake, et al.

Mariel, Laura, & Francis Smith, Jake's children

Logging Smiths of Pennsyvannia
(Left to Right)Jake Smith, Cecil, and a Smith from Sinnemahoning.

Pearlee Smith, 8th grade graduation, Olympia, Washington

Walt and Pearlee, mid-1970s at farm in Cederhome near Stanwood, Wa.

Larry and Bee Bray, 1971 Pacific, Wa. Larry was the Chief of Police of the City of Algona.

Larry's Heaven on Earth, fishing surrounded by the North Cascades (The American Alps), on Baker Lake. Mount Baker (10,410 ft elevation) is in the background. Larry used to say,

"When God perfected His creative powers, He finished-up in Puget Sound."

Back from a patrol in New Guinea, Larry's squad of Intelligence and Reconnaissance, Headquaters Company, 20th Infantry, 6th Division, US Army, late 1943.

(Larry 2nd from the right).

July 1943 Larry Bray on furlough from Camp Roberts Ca at home in Burien, WA

Larry Bray, nature boy at Woodland, Washington. This wasn't the last time that Larry would be naked in the woods. The Ifagao tribe in northern Luzon in the Phillipines asked Larry to go with them on a night headheading raid against the Japanese. Larry was permitted to take only his knife and shoes. They were naked to distinguish themselves from the enemy. If a body was clothed, they killed it. This prevented them from killing each other.

Pearlee Smith and Walt Bray and friends on the beach by Puget Sound. Pearlee wrote,

"In the Spring a young man's fancies lightly turn to thoughts of love."

Walt is dressed in his uniform as a member of the Coastal Artillary Corps. He was stationed at nearby Camp (now Fort) Lewis. He had been previously stationed at Fort Casey on Whidby Island, Washington.

Larry Bray at Highline High School south of Seattle, 1941.

2 of Dan Smith's grandchildren

Larry and "Tyke" Tyke was Larry's nickname for his younger sister, Stella Aladeen Bray. Aladeen was the first of 5 younger sisters for Larry. Larry was the oldest surviving child of Pearlee. The oldest, Benton Daniel Bray died in infancy. Larry passed away on Feb. 9, 2006. He would have been 82 on May 6th.

Dan Smith's Grandson

Larry Bray, (aka Sarg) Sargent on the Milton, Washington Police Department ( 1966).

Pearlee Smith and Walter Oscar Bray, 1920

The Late Great Pearlee Smith Bray

Dan Smith, Griz, Pearlee, & Larry Bray 1947

Pearlee, Dan's daughter at 15

Vick, Violet, Francis, and Jake Smith

Jake and son, Francis or "Smitty" Smith

Jake's Children: Violet, Mariel, Laura, & Francis Smith

Jake and son, Francis or "Smitty" Smith

Jacob Harrison Smith or Jake was Dan Smith's younger brother.

Dan Smith's Children

Top: Olive Frances Smith at 11 months at Olympia.

Bottom: Robert Grant Smith. Taken at the Pavillion at Priest's Point Park over looking southern Puget Sound. Dan Smith was the caretakeer of the Park.

Both Olive and Robert, along with their sister, Avis Rose Smith, would die in childhood. Only the oldest, Pearlee, would live to marry and have a family.

Dan Smith Family

Back row L to R:

Mignonette Marsella May King "Minnie" Smith;

sitting, Daniel Osmar "Dan" Smith

Front Row L to R:

Pearlee Ida Gretrude Smith (PIGS!!!)

Robert Grant Smith

Picture taken in Olympia, Washington on Minne's birthday (May 8).