PENDLETON — George Ting never forgot the second chance he received from Joe DeMarsh.
DeMarsh died on Valentine’s Day at age 94. The personable Pendleton man was known as an honorable, compassionate, humble, talkative, humorous, brainy outdoorsman who loved people.
George Ting looks from the pages of the 1963 American School in Japan yearbook. After the 16-year-old stole a wallet, Principal Joe DeMarsh gave him a second chance that Ting never forgot.
Joe DeMarsh served in the Merchant Marines and the U.S. Army in the mid-40s. He lived a colorful life and moved to Pendleton with his family in 1989. DeMarsh died Feb. 14, 2023, at the age of 94.
Joe DeMarsh played football on scholarship for the University of Idaho and later transferred to the University of Oregon.
Joe DeMarsh pilots his boat, Cricket, near Depot Bay in the 1990s.
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