Founded in the early 1900s to serve the pioneer farmers of the lower Stillaguamish River Valley, about 45 miles north of Seattle, the Silvana Grain Company was acquired in 1930, by P.C. Wick and his wife, Marie. The company remained in the family for the next 50 years, and was managed for more than two decades by Vincent Stuller, who married Stella Wick, one of P.C. and Marie’s four children.

Jay Stuller learned to drive in a Silvana Grain Company delivery truck. The business also put him through college. A Snohomish County landmark, the Silvana Grain Company building is currently being used to warehouse aircraft parts. Although thee decades have passed since it was last used as a feed and farm supply operation, the building still retains its sweet and memorable aroma of straw, rolled oats, barley and molasses.