His family had moved to the United States and one day he decided to search the internet for his father’s name. It was Vilmos Fekete’s son, now a grown man with children of his own. Photo by Diane GravleeĪbout a year later, Diane received an email from a very excited man. Vilmos Fekete’s memorial in the Wards Pass Cemetery. Being avid Find a Grave® contributors, they took a day, photographed the graves and added them to the site, including the grave of Vilmos Fekete. In 2013, while passing through Stewart on their way home from a trip to Alaska, Diane Gravlee and her husband noticed a small 116 burial cemetery. They were just left to wonder why they never heard from him again. The Fekete family in Hungary hadn’t known Vilmos was at the mine and had no news of the disaster.
Their bodies were returned to Vancouver and are buried in the Mountain View Cemetery. Photo from – click to view articleĪn extensive rescue operation got underway at the camp site while, in Vancouver, the Rose family waited eagerly for news of their boys’ fate and were later heartbroken to learn that both boys were among the dead. Tragically, on February 18, 1965, just months after the mining began and only a week after Blake and Rod Rose arrived at the portal camp, a massive avalanche poured off the surrounding hills, destroying the camp, killing 26 men and trapping others under the snow and in the still-shallow mine tunnel. Vilmos and Iren Rozgonyi Fekete (photo courtesy of Vilmos’ son)
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