Patricia Rohrer-Bartlett:
CLASS OF 1968
Puyallup High SchoolClass of 1968
Puyallup, WA
Mt. Tahoma High SchoolClass of 1968
Tacoma, WA
Patricia's Story
After graduation I went to business college, graduated and went to work as a Secretary (as it was called back in those days) at Television Service Center. I worked with a gal by the name of Janet and we became good friends. I was the maid of honor in her wedding where I met my first husband who was the best man. Once we were married I quit my job as we moved to Auburn Washington where he was an Air Traffic Controller at the Auburn Control Center. Since I was not employed I would assist in giving tours at the Control Center and was actually one of the first woman to give directions to a pilot in flight giving him his coordinates and directions to land where the control tower would take over (this is a big no no now a days). We were married for seven years when we divorced.
I escaped to Aberdeen Washington where I went back to work and was employed by an Attorney in the town of Montesano. From there I was hired by the State of Washington working for DSHS for one year. When there was an opening at Department of Game I transferred my employment to the Aberdeen Regional office.
I was a member of the Washington Federation of State Employees Union where I met Tom Bartlett who was a Union Representative representing state employees known as 'Blue Eyes'. Three years later we were married. He was a single parent raising four boys. Hence the reason it took me three years to marry him.
I moved to Olympia Washington transferring to the Olympia Headquarters office working for the Department of Game when we were married. While working for the Department of Game, the agency went through a name change to Department of Wildlife. In 1994 the agency merged with Department of Fisheries becoming Department of Fish & Wildlife. I worked for the agency for 30 years through many transitions as an Administrative Assistant.
Our boys are raised and have their own children giving us nine grandchildren. Three of our boys live in Washington, Seattle, Renton & Fircrest. Our oldest son is a construction superintendent for a large international constructi...Expand for more
on company. Our second son owns his own free lance computer business. He specializes in graphic design and animated computer graphic productions. Our third son lives on Maui and works as an ER Trauma Nurse at Maui Memorial Hospital. Our fourth son is the used car sales manager for Car Pros Kia in Tacoma. My husband retired February 28, 2001, the day of the big earthquake. Nothing like going out with a BANG!
When our boys were young I went back to college to get my degree in Computer Programing since the computer world was all new and I thought it would be a better paying job then an Administrative Assistant. It didn't take me long to realized I couldn't be the perfect wife, the perfect mother and be perfect in my job plus go back to school and be perfect there too. So I settled for being the perfect wife, perfect mother and perfect AA.....hahaha!
Working 30 years for a wonderful agency and having exciting awesome adventures such as bird banding of sea gull baby chicks and cormorants; seal capturing, tagging, and taking statistics with Marine Mammal Investigations (MMI) on McNeil Island to monitor the seals and their habitat. On one occasion when we were located on the water at the Marine Station, the Navy picked me up in a float plane and flew me to an area known as Sea Lion Rock, for a report I was working on for MMI (computers were not in place yet so I typed this extensive report on an electric typewriter). Once we surveyed the area I was taken to lunch by the Navy landing the float plane at Lake Quinault. I was fortunate to be able to work with biologists on the spotted owl and marbled murrelet projects; being able to participate in field surveys in eastern Washington on the Shrub-Steppe Project just to name a few of my adventures with the department. It was very rewarding having a job that you were able to make a small contribution on the wildlife and the environment of the State of Washington.
I retired October 1, 2010 and moved to the Island of Maui and now live in Wailuku. So far it is Heaven living here in Paradise.
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