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Herman E. Klick

Herman E. Klick March 11, 1913-Feb. 20, 1997 Herman E. Klick. former lead singer with the nationally known Singing Sentinels quartet, died Thursday at Heart of the Valley Care Center. He was 83.
He was born in Hebron. N.D., to Conrad and Frieda (lung) Klick. He worked his way through high school and also played on a school basketball team which made the state finals. During the Depression, like many others. he rode the rails to California. He attended Modesto Junior College where he majored in music and met his wife "Billie". They were married 53 years before her death in 1989.
From 1940 to 1952 he was lead singer for a the touring and recording folk quartet The Singing Sentinels. The group got its start at Kaiser Shipyards in Portland. where they sang for 743 ship launchings. In 1949 alone, the quartet made 492 appearances before live audiences, including a concert with Frank Sinatra in the Cotton Bowl, their radio audience that year was an estimated 27 million.
The Klick family moved to Corvallis in 1954. He worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for 20 years and was a soloist for various church and community programs. For the past 20 years he suffered from aphasia as the result of a stroke.
He was area governor of Toastmaster International and a founding member of Adair Village chapter No. 3722 (now Oregon State Toastmasters Club). He was a member of First Presbyterian Church, OSU Beaver Club, People to People, and - while with the quartet - an honorary member of the Washington County Sheriff's Posse. He was a Scottish Rite 32nd degree Mason. and a member of Mary's River Lodge.
He is survived by a son, David Klick of Beaverton; daughters Joan Leslie of Tucson, Ariz., and Ginna Sloan of Tokyo, Japan; two brothers; and seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 12 noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at McHenry Funeral Home Chapel. Funeral Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, at McHenry Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Oaklawn Cemetery.
Contributions in his name may be made to the National Stroke Association in care of McHenry Funeral Home, 206 N.W. Fifth St., Corvallis, OR 97330.
--Corvallis Gazette-Times, Corvallis, Oregon, February 21, 1997 Page 4