They called him Speed. Richard Douglass Hammons sprang into the world quickly, arriving April 19, 1941, one mile east of Lyman, in the car, as his dad punched the gas. Nurses at Sedro-Woolley's hospital gave the bright-eyed lil' whippersnapper the nickname and it hung on, following him through life in Coupeville, where he was part […]

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