:in the Iskut area. © to them the next. day,” “said” Ronald Wells carrying loggers, geologists dd | : : ». granddaughters .and seven 7 Black first met Wells'in Elkins. trainers,” said construction crews, tourists great granddaughters. Vance Hadley :° 1969 when he flew into Is- Gene. Storey, an owner employer Storey. “They and “anglers: to ‘anywhere “{ bruised up a few air- On being MEE SET Damen eating tenn fof SR a ae EH \ i { { « working as aregistered nurse A10 - The Terrace Standard, Weanescay, 6 May 10, 2006 Bush Plc ilo ~ Ronald Wells known for skill and patience A FORMER northwestern plane down safely. ~ bush. pilot who. spent an “He flew so much | and _ estimated 40,000 -hours in = knew the area’so well, he. the air over a flying career ‘just knew where he could ‘that spanned - five: decades . land,” she recalled. has died. » -” On one such. occasion Ronald Gladstone Wells Wells had on-board an Eng- lish nurse and a dentist.from Telegraph Creek. who suf- feredaheartattack, = = “Ron brought the, plane down and they nursed him in‘a cabin until we could get | was 94 when he passed away ‘April 16 in 100 Mile House.’ “He was a fabulous per- “gon, just fabulous,” said - Jean Black, who spent years t LUS2NM (A) Monthly fe - kut in the midst of a measles > epidemic to take five sick children ‘to Mills Memorial “Hospital. - “It was. very stressful, ” ‘said Black of the epidemic and of the trip south. She _- brought, her husband ‘with her -as- two of the children ..were very. small and needed. ‘St «tobe held while on the ait. _ was ~eraft. “: great’ man, a "Diana ‘Elkins, , who worked as a dispatcher for Wells’... employer | Provincial ‘Air Services, de- , scribed him as a very calm "person, ‘known ‘for. his pa- tience as well as ‘being -an accomplished pilot. “Nothing: ever ruffled him and the people’i in Iskut; . Telegraph Creek and Deas Lake just loved him. He was just part of their. life,” she~ ‘said. > Wells” ‘flew, at.< ° various: “times up here, Beavers and Otters. The latter. aircraft was known. for’ having an _engine «that . would quit in “mid-air. 4 - That . happened - several - - times to Wells, said Elkins, but he always brought the of Trans Provincial, remem- bered a time when an Otter’s- engine quit on. Wells while “he was above the clouds. “When he broke. down flew up and down the. Fraser Canyon; 50 feet off the river © _to. sharpen up the young fel- lows. There wasn’t a lot, of? . time to train and the training pilot whose air work added The couple was able to re- _ considerably to the. high alize a long-standing dream standard of training carried . when they established a fish- out,” read part ‘of.the com- mendation citation. ; After the war, Wells flew - Valley and then in the far north, becoming’known not ° only for his. flying but for his still and movie photog- raphy. . . Wells moved to Terrace _ for various commercial op- _ erations, first’ in the Fraser _ to work for Trans Provincial : ing and hunting lodge at Ed- dontenajon Lake near Iskut. Wells also” operated a _float plane . base" from that. - location. . He. and his wife ran.the. . lodge for the nexi decade. Wells did not renew ‘his flying licence after he turned 65. He preferred to fish. The. couple moved south to a retirement home in 100 in: 1964 and from here flew Mile House in 1996. ° _ Beavers on floats and Otters throughout the northwest, Wells is survived by his : they needed to go. = « planes but they all flew again ‘His work included. fly- . ing ‘people building | the © ‘Stewart. Cassiar. Highway, once wrote. : _and nobody got hurt,” Wells 7 “My accumulated time I estimate at about 40,000. - Many daily Specials! Free Mother's Day gifts and more! .‘ Northwest’ s Largest Selection of Baskets — “Closed Saturdays” - SKEENA VALLEY NURSERY is located on Hwy 16, 3 Mi. west of Kitwanga across from Seven Sisters Mountain. . - (HOURS: Sunday - Thursday 2am-9pm ° Friday 9am-6pm '. We reserve the right to lienit quantities while supplies last, . rm "TOP SELLER wife, his two children, two. Royal LePage Terrace Congratulates ~ “Top Producer” For e month of April - Royal LePage Terrace - _Skeena a Valley Nursery t Bacopa, Geraniums, Wave Petunias .89¢ Tomatoes; Herbs and Peppers 39¢ - it ~ e ° _ actly where he put down the plane, on that riverbed, ” said Trans. - Wells received his pilot’s li- crafts. in the Fraser Valley. .. force in 1940 and,. ‘because ia ‘number of places includ- ing the Lower Mainland, the now known as Highway 37 North. is my Married to Irene (Rene) “in 1937, the couple had two © children, Nancy Vera and Ronald Blaine. through’ the clouds’ there was a riverbed and that’s ex- hours .in, over 40 different | types of aircraft. Works ‘out -to be about five years in the air, doing what I loved to do. How lucky can you get.” they did was pretty intense.” ‘Wells received the Air . Force Cross commendation for his instructor’ s work. “|” “He is a’cool and capable Our Growth in sales means - i—7 cess Terrace & Kimara Wet re ) Moved: -:4724 Lazelle Avenue - » Behind McDonald's ¢ on: Lazelle a Storey. 3." “He. was :in my hind. ao a “good. teacher, ae ‘and a good friend.” “Born in New ‘Westmin- ye ster, B.C.,.on July 26,1911, ° cence in 1930 at, the ge. of “a [ He flew open-cockpit tair- ‘and started a radio: station” with his brother, Casey, .us- ing his knowledge of thearea for transmitter locations. +. .-/ Casey also operated - ean” aerial photo service, and. : Wells was his chief pilot. . Wells enlisted i in the air- » of his flying experience, be- ° came an instructor based in Prairies and the Maritimes. ~- : _ “They .. flew .. Harvards, — lease with $2,868 down k. Federal and Provincial sales taxes" - lified retail lessees / purchasers. . - nth walk away 32, k. 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