Occupation: Diamond Match Co./mill worker, Chico Ice & Cold Storage/driver, Grey Eagle Lumber
Affiliation: 50-year member of the Modern Woodmen of America
Died: at age 77; heart failure
Married: Aug 1, 1956, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH "JO" CHAMBERS, Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada
(Roy age 54, Jo age 55)
Children: none
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Headstones, Hearsay, and a Little History:
Roy was shy around everyone except his sweetheart, Jo Chambers. Jo worked with his sisters at Diamond Match and was like family. Roy and Jo were best of friends, more like brother and sister. On Saturday nights they drove to Paradise to dance to the Charleston, Shag, and Swing to the Big Bands.
He proposed to Jo when he was eighteen and she nineteen, but he'd promised his mother Nellie he would stay home and not marry until she died. In return, Nellie promised Roy she'd leave him the house for as long as he lived. Jo had also promised her mother she wouldn't marry until her mother died, and although her mother had passed away some years before, Jo understood Roy's promise. He lived with Nellie until her death in 1956, respectfully waiting six months to marry his beloved. Roy was 55 and Jo, 56. They spent the next twenty-three years of married life in the Boucher Street house until Roy, at the age of 77, died of heart failure. He left the shingle and clapboard Chatfield house to his beloved.
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Occupation: Diamond Match Co./mill worker, Chico Ice & Cold Storage/driver, Grey Eagle Lumber
Affiliation: 50-year member of the Modern Woodmen of America
Died: at age 77; heart failure
Married: Aug 1, 1956, JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH "JO" CHAMBERS, Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada
(Roy age 54, Jo age 55)
Children: none
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Headstones, Hearsay, and a Little History:
Roy was shy around everyone except his sweetheart, Jo Chambers. Jo worked with his sisters at Diamond Match and was like family. Roy and Jo were best of friends, more like brother and sister. On Saturday nights they drove to Paradise to dance to the Charleston, Shag, and Swing to the Big Bands.
He proposed to Jo when he was eighteen and she nineteen, but he'd promised his mother Nellie he would stay home and not marry until she died. In return, Nellie promised Roy she'd leave him the house for as long as he lived. Jo had also promised her mother she wouldn't marry until her mother died, and although her mother had passed away some years before, Jo understood Roy's promise. He lived with Nellie until her death in 1956, respectfully waiting six months to marry his beloved. Roy was 55 and Jo, 56. They spent the next twenty-three years of married life in the Boucher Street house until Roy, at the age of 77, died of heart failure. He left the shingle and clapboard Chatfield house to his beloved.
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Gravesite Details
Buried Jul 14, 1978, in the Garden of Holy Cross
Family Members
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Charles Joseph "Charley" Chatfield
1895–1986
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Leo Willard Chatfield
1897–1956
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Howard Francis Chatfield
1899–1953
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Nellie Mary "Nella May" Chatfield McElhiney
1903–1983
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Gordon Gregory Chatfield
1905–1948
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Verda Agnes Chatfield Day
1908–1978
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Arden Sherman Chatfield
1910–1981
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Ina Jacqueline Chatfield Fouch
1913–1993
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Noreen Ellen "Babe" Chatfield Clemens
1915–1968
