Locals in the Limelight; Sam and Donna Mullins and granddaughter Ivory Rose

Sam Mullins was born in 1961, the son of Ruby Music and Toby Mullins. He grew up in Packwood and Randall in southwest Washington. His father was a logging truck driver. We laughed about a caption I once saw on a photo in the newspaper of a logging truck that had spilled logs on the highway. "How much wood can a wood truck chuck?" it read. Even though his father was 15 years older than his mother, they died within two weeks of one another about 25 years ago. He was not surprised that his mother, who was already ailing, went quickly after his father's funeral. Sam was the second oldest and had f...