{"id":1153,"date":"2017-03-19T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:31:27","slug":"david-e-long-55-dvm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/david-e-long-55-dvm\/","title":{"rendered":"David E. Long, &#8217;55 DVM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 19, 1925 &#8211; March 19, 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. David E. Long joined Jesus on March 19, 2017, surrounded by his family. Born August 19, 1925, to Tom and Helga Long in Blaine, WA and graduated Blaine High School in 1943. David served in the Coast Guard from 1943 &#8211; 1946. He earned his Dr. of Veterinarian Medicine diploma from Washington State University of which he practiced at Long&#8217;s Veterinary Hospital in Bellingham for 25 years. David&#8217;s passions were God, family, animals, singing, hockey, playing any fun game and a really great meal. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He is preceded in death by his parents, first wife Dorothy, brothers, Pete, Gene, Tom and grandchildren; Ty and Shay. David is survived by his wife, Angie; sister, MaryAnn; children, Stephanie (Ron) Robillard and Patrick Long; stepdaughter\/son, Sherri and Gary; and an abundance of grand and great grandchildren of which he loved dearly. David will be remembered for his determination, integrity and commitment. He blessed us with 91 years of memories that will forever live in our hearts and minds. Thank you, Hospice, for your passionate care and love. Please join us for a graveside service at Enterprise Cemetery in Ferndale on Friday, March 31, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 19, 1925 &#8211; March 19, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10199,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[74],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.wsu.edu\/in-memoriam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}