Craig Wilson McFarland

Craig Wilson McFarland was a carpenter and museum exhibit builder from Vancouver, Washington, who died on March 19, 2026, at the age of 64. He was not a nationally known public figure. The record of his life comes from a family obituary published through Legacy.com in October 2026, which described a man remembered chiefly for his craftsmanship, his devotion to his family, and his loyalty to his hometown and its sports teams.

McFarland was born on September 6, 1961, in Frankfurt, Germany, where his father was serving in the United States Army Medical Corps. The family settled in Vancouver, Washington in 1965, and Craig grew up there, attending Lincoln Elementary and Shumway Junior High before graduating from Hudson's Bay High School in 1979. According to his obituary, he spent most of his life in the same west Vancouver neighborhood where he had grown up.

Professionally, McFarland worked as a skilled carpenter. His obituary states that he served as the lead exhibits carpenter at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland, and that he later helped establish the Discovery Lab children's museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This hands-on, building trade work, rather than any public role, was the core of his working life, and it is the achievement his family highlighted most prominently when remembering him.

Those who wrote his obituary described him above all as a family man. He was the father of a son, Conor, and the grandfather, known as "Papa," to grandchildren Layne and Charlotte. He coached his son's baseball teams to all-star championships in his younger years, played in a local softball league in Brush Prairie, and later supported his grandson's little league games. He was a lifelong fan of the University of Washington Huskies, a loyalty his family described as unwavering "for better or worse." He was predeceased by his parents, Jack and Katherine "Katch" McFarland, and is survived by his son Conor and Conor's wife Emily, grandchildren Layne and Charlotte, his sister Jane, his brother Wade and Wade's wife Kathy, and his nephews and niece.

No cause of death has been made public. The obituary, published by the family roughly seven months after his death, does not state where he died, whether he had been ill, or whether a funeral or memorial service was held or is planned. There has been no coverage of his death in local or national news outlets beyond the family's own notice, and no public tributes from outside his immediate circle have been reported. This page will be updated if further verified details become available.

Craig Wilson McFarland is remembered by those who knew him as a devoted father and grandfather, a tradesman who helped build places where children learn and play, and a loyal son of Vancouver, Washington who never strayed far from the neighborhood where he grew up.