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The Nevada Traverse Vol.51, No.3, 2024 31While living in Nevada, Steve became an active member in the Nevada Association of Land Surveyors (NALS) organization. The Nevada Traverse, a magazine dedicated to the Professional Land Surveyors of Nevada, started a %u201cLiving Legend Edition%u201d to pay tribute to individuals who have given so much to the surveying profession and NALS. In October 2020, Steve was chosen for the first %u201cLiving Legend Edition.%u201d Pictures of family and Steve doing survey work, along with some articles from land surveying friends, were included.Steve made %u201chistory%u201d again by being the first land surveyor to set the first-ever %u201cLiving%u201d final point. Berstein International and the National Society of Professional Surveyors Foundation (NSPSF) created the Final Point Project. This is a joint effort to build an endowment for scholarships while honoring those surveyors who have had a significant impact on the profession.Typically, a final point monument is set after a surveyor passes. Steve has probably set thousands of monuments, and it was only fitting that he set his own Final Point (one last point) and make it a party rather than a eulogy! The monument was placed on the campus of Great Basin College in Elko, NV. Several friends and family members were in attendance on May 20, 2022, when NALS memorialized living legend Steve Parrish. The monument was set on the 237th Anniversary of The Land Ordinance Of 1785, which was the beginning of surveying the public lands in the United States.Steve was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the fall of 2016 and was accepted at the Stanford University Hospital in California in February of 2017. The medical team at Stanford enrolled him in a pancreatic cancer trial. During a five-year period, they were able to reduce the size of the tumor, giving him the ability to continue to work and enjoy life. However, when the decision to move to Idaho Falls was made, a scan at Stanford showed that small tumors in the liver had started growing. Treatment for liver cancer was performed for almost two years by the medical team in Idaho Falls. In the fall of 2023, treatment was stopped, and Steve was placed in Hospice care at his residence. During his seven-year fight with cancer, Steve continued to enjoy working and chatting with friends in the land survey arena. It was an extremely difficult decision for him to stop doing the work he loved. Steve%u2019s family appreciates all the calls, emails, and cards from family, friends and land surveyors during the last two months of his life and after his passing. Steve is survived by his wife Gloria; sons Mike (Aubin) Parrish of Cool, CA and Curtis Parrish of Reno, NV; grandsons Cameron Thorson of Reno, NV, Taylor (Megan) Parrish of Carson City, NV, Jordan Parrish of San Francisco, CA and Oliver Parrish of Cool, CA; granddaughters Tristin Parrish of Carson City, NV and Aryelle Parrish of Idaho Falls, ID; great-grandson Theodore Robert Parrish of Carson City, NV and Sister Christy (Clair) Cox of Clearfield, UT.Steve was preceded in death by his parents, John and FaDora Parrish, brother Terry Parrish, sister Cindy Parrish, and sons, Jamey Lynn Parrish and Robert Louis (Roby) Parrish.Steve%u2019s final resting place is in the small community of Geneva, ID cemetery, beside his two sons, Jamey Lynn and Roby.Thoughts from Carl R. C.de Baca, PLS:In a way, Steve is still mentoring me from beyond. It%u2019s probably like that for some of you, as well. I have 5 years of Steve%u2019s text messages saved on my phone and I can%u2019t imagine erasing them. The last thread, from April 6, of last year was typical of Steve. Let me explain.My daughter, an archeologist, was working on a Native American site south of Hawthorne, Nevada in some desolate hills riddled with old mine diggings. She had pulled the 1881 Township plat for her project area and found Section 18, where she was working, speckled with an odd symbol. Sort of like a capital D, but with antlers. Very strange. She reached out to me to see what the symbol meant but I had no clue. In my travails across Nevada, I%u2019d never seen that symbol on a GLO plat. So, I texted Steve and sent him a snapshot of the plat, figuring his vast experience in public lands would yield an answer. I was not disappointed. His response was this:Carl, you always have interesting questions. Here%u2019s the answer to this one. GLO surveyors often placed ore symbols on their plats and usually noted what kind of ore(s) they represent in their general description near the end of their field notes. Per the screenshot attached, I conclude that the peculiar symbol is for Galena ore, as surveyor Reilly notes on Page 61. Notice that he specifically describes the ores to be in the west half of Sections 18 & 19 and the NW Quarter of Section 30. Something new around every corner. Steve had taken my snapshot and done the follow-up research, pulling seventy-some pages of field notes from the BLM website to answer my question 2 hours later. In a follow-up text the next day he added:Just another example of %u201cWe%u2019ll never know it all.%u201d That%u2019s what keeps me in the profession %u2013 and great friends like you. Enjoy some Easter treats as we honor our Savior%u2019s sacrifices for us.CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE u