Jeffrey Dale Mailer: May 4, 1947 – Feb. 19, 2021

Jeffrey Dale Mailer, 73, passed away Friday, February 19 in Cottage Grove, Ore. Jeff was born May 4, 1947 to Sally Toner Mailer and James Mailer of Everett, Wash.

Jeffrey (Jeff) graduated from Kalani High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he majored in surfing. At 14 years old, he was hired by the newly built Colony Surf Hotel to paddle out every evening at dusk to light the torches on the reef. After high school,…