Alonzo Preston MAYER, 82, passed away peacefully, in his sleep, February 23rd, 2011, in Arlington, Washington. He was born October 4th, 1928, in West Virginia. Alonzo is survived by his three daughters, Jane, Beverly, and Susie, son Gary and his wife Somkuan, son Robert and his partner Gary, and four grandchildren, Karl, Zachary, Kevin and Jennifer. Survived also by his brothers Arthur, Felix and brother in law, Keith “Big Brother” Jenkins, with whom he shared many great memories, aches, and pains, by phone almost every night the past many years. Alonzo was preceded in death by his parents, Mont Almon Mayer and Margaret Bertha Mayer, his kind and generous sister Betty, his brother Bill, and wife of 17 years, Bertha Leona, who bore him their four children and a loving step daughter. Also his second wife of more than thirty years, Bertha Annabelle, who, along with her family, provided him many roller coaster rides of laughter and tears. “Al” as he was known in his later years, or Preston, as most of his family knew him in his early years, was a rough hewn, blue collar man, a child of the Great Depression, who, at 16, worked at setting dynamite charges to blast holes in the Appalachian Mountains for telephone and electric poles, who talked his way into a commercial drivers license at the ripe old age of 17, then went on to become a cigar chomping, long-haul trucker for A&P and Yellow Freight, for more than 40 years and more than a million miles of the highways of America, from Ohio to Texas, the eastern seaboard, and points in between, especially his beloved West Virginia, mountainous coal country, land of his birth and of his forebears, with towns named Hurricane, Wheeling, Ramsey, Beckley, and the town of his birth, Charleston. Alonzo Preston Mayer lived many years in Columbus and Pataskala Ohio, and then moved to Arlington, Washington a few years back, following the passing of his wife, where he lived out his years near his daughter Gale, son Gary, and the friends he made at church, 2 Scoops, and all points in between. Dad seemed to know everyone, wherever he parked his rig, and everyone seemed to know him, he was that kind of guy. His life will be celebrated, with his daughters, sons, family and friends, Saturday, February 26th, at 5:30pm, in a memorial service, at the 1st Baptist Church, 426 North French Avenue, Arlington, Washington 98223 (360) 435-3040, Pastor Bill Walker, presiding. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that those who wish to do so, make a donation to someone in need, or to a charity close to your heart.