Kirtley and Cole end 27-year partnership

By TERRY STEPHENS
Special to the Journal

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Photos courtesy of Kirtley-Cole Associates
More than just business partners, Ray Kirtley and Gordon Cole often vacationed together.

Over the past 27 years, Kirtley-Cole Associates of Snohomish has become one of the Northwest’s most successful design-build contractors. Now the two Everett High School graduates who started it all are going separate ways, no longer partners but still good friends.

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