Leo Willard Chatfield

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Leo Willard Chatfield

Birth
Ten Sleep, Washakie County, Wyoming, USA
Death
20 Jul 1956 (aged 58)
Grass Valley, Nevada County, California, USA
Burial
San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, USA Add to Map
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2nd of 10 children of CHARLES HENRY CHATFIELD & NELLIE BELLE CHAMBERLIN
Military: 1914/15; Company I, Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA; sent to Mexican border
1916: WWI, Private U.S. Army, Co I, 1st Republic Regiment, American Expeditionary Force; served in England (the ship he was on was bombed off the Irish coast by a German U-Boat; confined to a military hospital in England)
Occupation: Rice rancher, miner, forest service ranger, Cal-Ida Lumber Co. log scaler
Affiliation: Veterans of Foreign Wars
Died: age 58; heart attack

Married: abt 1933, ETHEL HELEN (STIREWALT) ZORNES
No children

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Jul 24, 1956, Chico newspaper obituary:
LEO W. CHATFIELD
Funeral services were held yesterday morning in the Camptonville (Yuba County) Catholic Church for Leo W. Chatfield, 58, a former Chico resident. Burial was held today in the Golden Gate Cemetery in San Bruno.

Mr. Chatfield was born Oct. 23, 1897, in Ten Sleep, Wyo. He was a veteran of World War I, and had lived in Chico for two years after the war. He was a forest ranger at Camptonville, and had been a lumber company worker there until his death.

Survivors include his wife, Ethel, of Camptonville; three brothers, Roy and Arden, of Chico, and Charles, of South San Francisco; and three sisters, Mrs. Verda Day, of Chico, Mrs. Ina Fouch, of Yuba City, and Mr. Noreen Haynee, of San Jose.
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2nd of 10 children of CHARLES HENRY CHATFIELD & NELLIE BELLE CHAMBERLIN
Military: 1914/15; Company I, Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA; sent to Mexican border
1916: WWI, Private U.S. Army, Co I, 1st Republic Regiment, American Expeditionary Force; served in England (the ship he was on was bombed off the Irish coast by a German U-Boat; confined to a military hospital in England)
Occupation: Rice rancher, miner, forest service ranger, Cal-Ida Lumber Co. log scaler
Affiliation: Veterans of Foreign Wars
Died: age 58; heart attack

Married: abt 1933, ETHEL HELEN (STIREWALT) ZORNES
No children

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Jul 24, 1956, Chico newspaper obituary:
LEO W. CHATFIELD
Funeral services were held yesterday morning in the Camptonville (Yuba County) Catholic Church for Leo W. Chatfield, 58, a former Chico resident. Burial was held today in the Golden Gate Cemetery in San Bruno.

Mr. Chatfield was born Oct. 23, 1897, in Ten Sleep, Wyo. He was a veteran of World War I, and had lived in Chico for two years after the war. He was a forest ranger at Camptonville, and had been a lumber company worker there until his death.

Survivors include his wife, Ethel, of Camptonville; three brothers, Roy and Arden, of Chico, and Charles, of South San Francisco; and three sisters, Mrs. Verda Day, of Chico, Mrs. Ina Fouch, of Yuba City, and Mr. Noreen Haynee, of San Jose.
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Buried Jul 25, 1956

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