Account Established - 2004

Purpose...
  To assist a Bothell High School senior in pursuing vocational studies.

Criteria...
  Graduating senior at Bothell High School who is a resident of the Northshore School District

Selection...
  By scholarship committee at Bothell High School with input from members of the Beckstrom family.

Coordinated by
Northshore Rotary Club, the family and vocational and occupational faculty at BHS.

The memorial...
   Rudy and Inez Beckstrom were long-time Bothell residents and operators of Rudy's Towing for many years.

   Rudy was born and raised in Bothell, one of 16 children of a pioneer family. Rudy's parents, Augusta and Andrew Olaf Beckstrom moved to the Seattle area from Topeka, Kansas in 1883 and established their home in Bothell the same year. They arrived by rowboat with all their belongings, two children and Mrs. Beckstrom's father and landed at what was then called Brackett's Landing.
   The original "slab" house in which the Beckstrom's made their home until 1895 was restored and is located next to the Bothell Historical Museum at the Park at Bothell Landing. 
   In 1983, or 100 years after the Beckstrom family located in Bothell, more than 100 descendants gather at Blyth Park on the Fourth of July for a family celebration.
   Rudy and his brothers operated the Melrose Dairy in Ballard during the 1930s until he established the Beckstrom Mill on Beckstrom Road in Bothell (now 100th Ave. NE) north of the downtown. A lifelong resident of Bothell, Rudy was a longtime volunteer fireman and served as a dispatcher for the fire and police departments from his towing truck office on Bothell Way.