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IN RETIREMENT – Margaret and Fred Martin lived in La Conner for nearly 60 years, spending more than a half century of those years in the local drug store, where Fred was the town pharmacist. – 2013 file photo by Sue Phillips
When Fred Martin arrived in La Conner on July 23, 1956, with wife Margaret and their children John and Faye, people were already lined up, anxious for the door to open at the drug store the Martins had purchased on First Street.
Word had already spread quickly through town that Mr. Olson’s drugstore had new owners.
That very evening Fred left Margaret settling in to the small living quarters behind the store while he attended his first meeting of the La Conner Rotary Club.
Fred was to remain a Rotarian, taking to heart the club’s motto, “service above self,” as he filled many other important r...
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