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Article: RETIREMENT OF PETE CAMPBELL, GREAT-GRANDSON OF THEA AND ANDREW FOSS, BRINGS A CLOSE TO A FAMILY'S LEGACY ON THE STORIED SEATTLE WATERFRONT TUGBOAT ANNIE, SHED A TEAR - IT'S END OF AN ERA FOR FOSS EXECUTIVE IS THE LAST FAMILY MEMBER TO BE INVOLVED WITH THE COMPANY.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 20, 2001
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For more than a century Thea and Andrew Foss and later their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren helped build Seattle.
Foss Maritime Co.'s tugs and barges hauled away dirt when Denny Hill became Denny Regrade in the early 1900s. They were there again hauling landfill to help shape Harbor Island in the 1930s.
And when work on Seattle's floating bridges began in the 1940s, again it was Foss' fleet that huffed and puffed and transported the decks and pontoons.
When Pete Campbell, the great-grandson of Thea and Andrew Foss, left the company's Seattle headquarters yesterday for the last time as an employee, the family's legacy of ...