Lionel Youst
Retired: June 1975
Wife: Hilda
Children: Oliver, Julia, Alice
Lionel Youst
Jobs / Assignments
1961 Lackland AFB, TX Officer Candidate School
1961-62 Chanute AFB, IL Aircraft Maintenance Officer School
1962-65 Wheelus AB , Libya Field Maintenance Officer, 7272 ABW (USAFE)
1965-67 Selfridge AFB, MI Commander, 1 st Field Maintenance Sq ( ADC ); Quality Control Officer
1966 Maxwell AFB, AL Squadron Officer School
1967-69 Clark AB , PI Chief, Management & Plans Division, 13 th AF Hq; Received Regular AF appointment
1970 Tan San Nhut AB,RVN Chief, Logistics Readiness Center , 7 th AF Hq.
1971 Omaha , NE Operation Bootstrap: University of Nebraska
1971-73 Offutt AFB, NE Field Maintenance Officer, 55 th Strat Recon Wing (SAC)
1973-75 Norton AFB, CA Maintenance Inspector, AirForce Inspection and Safety Center (AFIG)1 Jun 1975 Retired, USAF, Major (22 years)
1975-Present Coos Bay, OR Live in my boyhood home far up in the woods near Coos Bay,OR. Owner/operator of Youst Charter Vans, providing Group transportation throughout Oregon , 1978-92.
Managed programs for various local governmentalEntities, 1976-92.
Avocations: Theater acting and Directing, research and writing regional history and Biography.
Biography
Born at Woodland, Washington, January 19, 1934; claimed Coos Bay, Oregon, as home since 1937. Worked in logging camps from 1950 to 1953. Served in the Air Force as a jet engine technician and as an aircraft maintenance officer, stationed at various places around the world, until June, 1975. Returned to boyhood home near Coos Bay at that time to pursue strong avocational interests in regional history and ethnography. Attracted to the power of biography as an approach to those subjects, had two books published by the University of Oklahoma.
Press in its Civilization of the American Indian series:
She’s Tricky like Coyote: Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian Woman (1997),
and with William R. Seaburg, Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness: a Cultural Biography (2002).
A third book, Above the Falls: An Oral and Folk History of Upper Glenn Creek, Coos County, Oregon, based on oral interviews and family histories of remote wilderness homesteads in western Oregon, was self published in 1992 with a second, revised edition in 2003.
Selected Works
by Lionel Youst
Ethno-biography
She’s Tricky Like Coyote: Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian Woman
The story of a Coos Indian woman born on a tidal slough on the Oregon Coast in 1860.
Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness: A Cultural Biography
The compelling life story of an Upper Coquelle Athabaskan Indian who lived almost 100 years.
Local History
Above the Falls: An Oral and Folk History of Upper Glenn Creek, Coos County, Oregon. Second Edition.
Local wilderness homesteads, 1875 to 1955. 160 photos, verbatim interviews.
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E-mail the Author: lionel@wildblue.net