Parker Scott TREFETHEN and Helen

By Win Anderson of The Evening Star of Guemes Island April 2007

Helen and Parker

Parker Meets Helen, Makes Guemes Home

Following the war, Trefethen earned degrees in forestry and wildlife conservation. He worked for the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in Maine before moving to Seattle in the early 1950s, where he met and married Helen Martin.

They raised four children: Debbie, Laurie, Wendy, and Andy. The family began arriving in Guemes in the late 1960s. They built a log cabin on the Homestead Lane property. When Parker retired, he and Helen moved into a house they built on South Shore Drive.

Helen is remembered on the island as a charming performer with her accordion and her crafty ways of drawing audiences to her act. She died in 1996.

Parker had since moved to Chandler’s Square in Anacortes before passing away in 2011.