Ida Barstad Bey and William Bey had their 3rd child, DeWayne Mathias Bey during a blizzard with a temperature of 40 degrees below zero, on January 4, 1924 in Sedan, MN. The family lived in a railroad section house as Bill was the section foreman on the SOO Line Railroad. The doctor came from Annandale by train to make the delivery. His name was DeWayne Townsend and dad was named after him.   On August 31,1924, on his grandpa's farm in Nome, ND, he was baptized by Rev. Edward Struxness   The family moved to a farm near Sanborn, ND before he turned one year. His father became a farmer. When he was about 3 years old they moved to a farm near Nome, ND. They lived on 3 different farms. DeWayne's first grade was spent in a one room country school house that contained all 8 grades. During this time the family were members of St Petri Lutheran Church, a rural congregation in the Nome Parish. Pastor Gustav Hegg died the year that DeWayne was in confirmation. The class continued their instruction with Pastor PJ Mykland of Fort Ransom and his class was confirmed in the Waldheim Lutheran Church near Kathryn, ND in 1938.   After first grade, the family moved inside the Nome School District and DeWayne attended the Nome public school from second grade through high school; he graduated in May of 1941. The family continued to be members at St Petri Lutheran Church near Nome.  In the fall of 1942 he enrolled in Concordia College, Moorhead, MN. In September 1943 he began serving in the U.S. Navy as a V-5 cadet. In April 1945 he was commissioned as an ensign and designated a Naval Aviator. The war ended August of 1945 and DeWayne was discharged in November 1945.  Dad resumed classes at Concordia, graduating in 1948.   The next fall he began seminary classes at Luther Seminary in St Paul, MN. Seminary was four years. He served an internship during his third year of seminary training at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus for the Lutheran Student Foundation.   During this time there was a meeting of the National Lutheran Student Association of America. The meeting was called an Ashram, and was held in Asheville, North Carolina. Two counselors and three students drove with him in his car from Minneapolis to Asheville.   At that time, Mary Jean Qualle was an officer in the National Lutheran Student Association of America, while attending UCLA. It was at the Ashram MJ and DeWayne met. (During MJ's grade school years she and her mother lived in a house near the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus). After the Ashram, MJ made trips to Minneapolis on LSAA business. Dad would meet her at the train station. They began corresponding. Dad was to finish the seminary in the spring of 1952. Mary Jean was living in Los Angeles and was a member, with her mother, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church. Easter Sunday of '52 was to be the last service for the church to make room for a new freeway. On Monday of Holy Week, while the seminary and public schools were Easter break, Mary Jean and DeWayne were married at Our Savior's. Mary Jean stayed in California to finish her first year of teaching in San Carlos. She had earned her teaching credentials from UCLA. DeWayne went back to the seminary to finish up the year. Dad was ordained at St Petri Lutheran Church on Pentecost, June 1,1952, with his mother present. DeWayne's first call was to Zion Lutheran Church in McGregor, ND and the country church nearby, Scandia Lutheran of Battle View. As soon as MJ finished teaching her first year in San Carlos, she hopped the train and DeWayne once again picked her up from the train station. She arrived in Williston, ND on the Empire Builder, to begin wedded life. DeWayne and Mary Jean had two children during this call. Trygve Mathias, who was born 100 years to the day of DeWayne's grandfather, Mathias, on whose farm DeWayne was baptized, and Kirsten Johanna. A few years ago Trygve, Kirsten, Sigrid and DeWayne were able to attend Zion's 100th anniversary.   His secondcall was to Libby, MT. There two more children were born. Haakon Peder and Sigrid Kristina. In 2014, Christ Lutheran in Libby celebrated their 100th anniversary and Trygve, Kirsten, Sigrid and DeWayne were able to attend.   The third call was to First Lutheran in West Seattle, WA. No more children were born, but DeWayne and Mary Jean had their hands full with kids climbing out the second story parsonage windows onto the roof, rolling down the big hill next to the church parking lot in a cardboard barrel, walking to shops in West Seattle by themselves and other dangerous exploits. First Lutheran of West Seattle will be celebrating their 100th anniversary in 2018.   The fourth call was to Peace Lutheran, Portland, OR. All the kids were in school now. The kids all finished high school in Portland and still consider it home, even though they aren't all here. DeWayne confirmed all 4 kids in Portland, with the almost exception of Trygve who ended up with an emergency appendectomy on the day of confirmation. Peace celebrated their 100th anniversary in 1991.   The fifth call was to Petersburg Lutheran Church in Petersburg, AK. All the kids had flown the coop and MJ and DeWayne were solo once again. Lots of fun in "little Norway" for DeWayne and Mary Jean. MJ started rosemaling in Petersburg. Once a member left a giant live king crab in the hallway of the parsonage. I think this is where he came to know gout. DeWayne went to Petersburg's 100th anniversary with Kirsten in 2013.   Since retirement around 1988, one grandchild has been born, Dustin Allen Clark, July 31, 1989. Kirsten, Haakon and Sigrid married.     Dad has had five calls in five different states, and has served several interims in 4 different states: Heppner and Valby, Oregon, Ocean Park, WA, Tulelake, CA and Nome, Alaska.   DeWayne passed away peacefully at Sigrid's home in Estacada, Thursday, November 12 about noon.   He is preceded in death by his parents William and Ida Bey, sister Mildred who died at the age of 1 and his brother Wallace, one son, Haakon and his beloved wife Mary Jean, to whom he credits much of his success in his minstry for her uncanny ability to remember names and faces beyond compare and prayed for all.