- Date Of Birth: May 18, 1934
- Date Of Death: September 15, 2020
- State: Arizona
Fred Franklin Ribelin Fred “Butch” Ribelin was born on May 18th, 1934, in Prineville, Oregon to Diamond D. Ribelin and Catherine F. Ribelin (Bostanero). His siblings and their spouses are Jack and June (both deceased), Louise and Bob (both deceased), George and Joann, Jim and Dorothy (both deceased), (Fred) and Larry and Judy (Judy deceased). He moved to the Olympic Peninsula and worked as a logger and was especially gifted as a log loader operator. He was known as the second-best loader operator on the Peninsula, second only to his brother Jack. In 1963 he married his sweetheart Carolyn Anne Buchanan, daughter of William “Buck” Buchanan and his wife Dorothy. They lived in Sekiu River and then Clallam Bay and had four amazing children, Timothy and Nesha, Ryan and Kelly, Paul and Michelle, and Christina and Ben (D). On Sunday, July 11th,1965, Fred gave his life to Jesus at a Billy Graham crusade in Seattle, Washington. The transformation was dramatic. He never drank alcohol again and stopped cursing that day.
