PLASS COMMUNICATIONS - Key Persons

Maria Plass came to America from Kleinmallowa in Western Bohemia with their first two sons, Andreas and Wenzel in 1885. They settled near Boyd, Wisconsin where they farmed. Their son John moved to Oregon and began farming near the community of Roy. John and his wife Lela welcomed twin boys, Francis and Frederick, on December 28th, 1925. Francis and Frederick graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1943, where they were both Eagle Scouts and three-year varsity football lettermen. They knew how to pull their own weight, especially during tough times. Francis made the University of Oregon football team as a seventeen year old but had to forgo a college football career when The West Coast League closed down for the war.