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Shortly before noon on May 28, 2022, Formo and several family members were aboard his 53-foot motor yacht, Nor’Wester, in the larger of the two locks, waiting for the gate to open.

The gate had just started opening, Formo and other boaters say, when the Pamina, a 64-foot yacht directly ahead of Nor’Wester, gunned its engines and went hard in reverse.

Amid the roar of diesels and the snapping of mooring lines, Pamina slammed into Nor’Wester “like a bulldozer,” striking with such force that Nor’Wester’s bow went over Pamina’s stern and into a rear cabin, Formo says.

Memorial gifts to the Bill Holm Center may be sent to the Burke Museum at Box 353010, Seattle, WA 98195 or made online at burkemuseum.org, or to Camp Nor’wester at PO Box 1055, Edmonds, WA 98020 or online at norwester.org/support.

It was his parents, aunts and uncles who were at the heart of one of Holm’s most enduring contributions: Camp Nor’wester, where Holm first became a camp counselor in 1942.