Garnet Lee Burgess, age 70, a lifetime resident of the Harbor, died on Friday, November 16, 2012, at Grays Harbor Health & Rehabilitation Center in Aberdeen. Mr. Burgess was born in Aberdeen on March 29, 1942, to Lester E. and Ruby R. (Morton) Burgess.
In 1960, he graduated from Weatherwax High School. He began working at ITT Rayonier Paper Mill and continued there until being drafted in 1967. After serving in the US Army, stationed in Berlin, he returned to the Harbor and work at ITT Rayonier. He remained there until its closure, and then went to work for the mill when it was opened by Grays Harbor Paper, retiring in 2007.