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‘Good genes and good luck’: Washougal’s Ken Shold shares secrets to long, happy life ahead of 100th birthday

Community invited to party honoring longtime Camas mill superintendent from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Bethel Community Church in Washougal

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Ken Shold, of Washougal, who will turn 100 on Jan. 23, 2023, is pictured throughout his life (clockwise from upper left): in basic training for the United States Army in 1942; at his home in Washougal in January 2023; as an infant with his mother, father, three brothers, sister and the family dog in Port Townsend, Wash., in 1923; during his first trip to Alaska at the age of 18, in 1941; and at the Camas pulp and paper mill, where he worked as a superintendent for more than three decades, in the 1960s. (Photos courtesy of Gayle Ann Jarvie)

Good genes and good luck. If there’s a secret to living a long, happy life, says Washougal resident Ken Shold, those two things are definitely involved.

“You have to have good genes, but you also have to be lucky — especially if you had to go through combat. You have to be lucky to get through that,” Shold, a World War II veteran who will celebrate his 100th birthday later this month, on Monday, Jan. 23, said.

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