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Webley 'has loved being a mother'
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From left to right: Breck, Mary Anne, Bruce, Kory and Keaton Webley.
MaryAnne Webley doesn’t usually like to receive a lot of attention. When asked to talk about herself, she’ll prefer to talk mostly about her family instead.
“My husband has been the man that has made it all happen,” she said. “His dream was to live where his family was in Quincy and to work as a farmer. He supported my role as a mother and has been an excellent provider. I’m sure the future will give us more opportunities to stretch ourselves and be grateful.
“Our kids have taken us all over the world. They’ve given us some neat experiences, so it’s been a really rich life. It’s been a lot of fun. Now I look forward to our grandkids.”
The Post-Register recently sat down with Webley to discuss her life as a mother, car wash owner, and yes, potato truck driver.
QVPR: What keeps you busy these days?
MW: We take care of the car wash. We opened that 12 or 13 years ago.
I also have the great opportunity to spend time each day teaching seminary to the youth of our church. It combines my love of the gospel, our youth, and daily study.
I don’t have an exciting list of accomplishments, but I have loved being a mother. That’s basically all I ever wanted to do. It’s been a lot of fun.
QVPR: What did you do before opening the car wash?
MW: When Bruce and I got married, he wanted to farm, so he worked for different farmers, and then he’d do custom work and I did drive a potato truck and worked for Quincy Farm Chemicals as a truck driver. I learned to drive a diesel truck that was older than myself. I drove for other farmers for a couple of years, and then we got our own truck, and I drove it in the potato harvest and the wheat harvest a little bit.
I think I drove truck for 12 years. I was raised in Wenatchee, and I didn’t understand these roads out here, the grid. When I started driving, I got a map and could see how everything was laid out by numbers, so then I learned how to find my way around.
QVPR: How did you get the idea that you wanted to run a car wash?
MW: We were just trying to look for something different than farm work that would be maybe less labor-intensive. We pursued Super Wash, and we’ve been real happy with them. They’re a great company to work with.
QVPR: What are your six boys up to?
MW: Our oldest son, Shane, is with Parsons, a construction company. He’s working on the bypass job of Sandpoint, Idaho. He’s been there for about four years and has three children with his wife, Jennifer.
Brett is moving back into the area. He’s going to be working at Dr. Klingel’s office. He went to school in Baltimore, the University of Maryland, got his dental degree there. Then he got a scholarship from the Navy and served two years down in Pendleton, Calif., with the Marines.
Cole is a commercial director. He was hired on with a company called Uber Content out of Los Angeles. He graduated from Brigham Young University in the media arts department. He just came back from Spain, shooting a commercial for eTrade. Cole wants to end up in movies, doing that, and he’s followed through. He’s got two little girls and a wife and they’re living in Salt Lake City.
Clint’s a fireman. He’s with the Wenatchee Fire Department. His wife, Maristella, works at the Quincy School District. They’ve got a couple of girls. Clint has done fantastic wherever he’s been. He’s won all kinds of awards for the fire department.
Stace is in college. He’s married to a girl from Moses Lake, who we just love. Her name is the same as mine. He’s going to school for business. He’s got all kinds of ideas running through his head.
Breck and Keaton just graduated this year. Keaton is going to Wenatchee Valley College and Breck has put his paperwork in to go on a mission, and he’s been accepted to the University of Washington, so when he gets home he’ll decide what to do.
Kory’s a junior in high school this year. I’m enjoying having another girl in the house, with the addition of Kory to our family. She is involved in the dance team.
QVPR: Besides good parenting, why do you think your sons have been so successful?
MW: Not only mine, but I’ve seen a lot of other kids do everything. They’ve flown jets, they are computer geniuses, engineers. They’re all over the world, they’re being successful.
I know that Carl Yeates put it this way: In Quincy, you can be a big fish in a little pond, and I think because of the community support and family support in Quincy that our kids have felt really confident in high school and very supported in the community, and they’ve gone out because they’ve believed in themselves and they’ve done whatever they wanted to do. We’ve been really happy living here.
QVPR: Your sons were known around town for their athletic achievements. What was it like growing up as a “sports mom?”
MW: Sports has played a major role in my life. We started youth wrestling with our oldest son, Shane, and have continued until this year to have a wrestler representing Quincy for approximately 24 years.
We have crisscrossed the Little League field many a year to make appearances at one of three games we had sons at, baseball gear littering the back seat of our Suburban.
Maybe my favorite sport has been high school football. We had a great time driving all over the state supporting the Quincy Jacks. Being the mom of a football player, I made some observations, also. You don’t want to smell the practice jersey; there are not too many things that smell worse than that.
Sports taught us personal lessons, along with making us a strong family team.
QVPR: What are your hobbies?
MW: I love the outdoors, hiking, and when the boys were young I was their Cub Scout leader for several years. We’ve explored on scouting adventures some fun places around Quincy. As they got older I’ve taken hiking trips with the boys or our young women’s church groups.
Every fall, Bruce and the boys spend a few weeks hunting, which is a family tradition that began for Bruce and his dad in the hills around Quincy.
Our family loves the outdoors, and though I don’t hunt myself, the girls of the family have fun going along making great memories.
