Logan Dent Garrison died Jan. 21, 2013.

He was born March 31, 1914, in Hastings, Neb., the second oldest of nine children raised by Robert and Vera Garrison. He spent his first eight years of schooling at a country school in Juanita, Neb., and graduated from Hastings High School 1931. He played basketball and was on the track team that won Hastings High its first state championship. After graduation he served an apprenticeship in auto mechanics, getting his mechanics license in 1933. He moved to Grand Island, Neb., in 1933, going to work for Central Chevrolet. It was there that he met Thelma Willoughby, a beauty operator. They married on March 14, 1937. They moved to Wyoming and, in 1942, moved to Renton, Wash. where he went to work for Boeing, making parts for the B-17 Bomber. He eventually spent 34 years with Boeing, retiring in 1976 as operations manager in the Commercial Airplane Division. After retirement he and his wife spent their summers at their home in Renton, gardening and managing their thoroughbred horse business. They spent the winters in California, Arizona, Mexico and Hawaii. He raced horses in Yakima, at Longacres, at Emerald Downs and in California. When his wife died in 1996, he moved to Savario Farm in Enumclaw where he spent the rest of his life helping his son Terry and his wife Diane with their horses.

He is survived by son terry and wife Diane; brother Bill; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Donations may be made to Franciscan Hospice in his behalf.