Helga's sister, Svea, told her, "You can have him - he's too short for me!" He was quite short - barely five feet three - but Helga thought he was handsome in his uniform and they began dating, eventually marrying in 1918 when he came home from France. Arvel was a soldier training at Fort Stevens during World War l. This People's History of the Settles family as keepers of the light is by Jan Anderson, daughter of Agnes Settles Murray and granddaughter of Helga and Arvel Settles.Īrvel Amos Settles and Helga Christina Linnea Lindquist met at church in Hammond, Oregon. Helga and Arvel lived the rest of their lives on the island, where several of their children raised families, and many of their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren still call the island home.
After he retired from the Lime Kiln Lighthouse in 1942, the family moved across the island to Friday Harbor. Lime Kiln was the last of five West Coast lighthouses, including the Grays Harbor Lighthouse in Westport, where the family lived and worked from the time Arvel joined the United States Lighthouse Service in 1919.
Located on the west side of the western-most major island in the San Juans, the lighthouse faces across Haro Strait to Canada. Arvel and Helga Settles, with their five children, spent seven years (1935-1942) as keepers at the Lime Kiln Lighthouse on San Juan Island, in the Salish Sea between the Northwest Washington mainland and Canada's Vancouver Island.
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