Melvin Kigar siblings Elvira Chamberlain Paul, Rose Reed, Wayne, LaVon Patton, Margaret Glanz, Nina Deboer, Lucinda Glick, Virgil, Lowell, Homer Harold Kigar and Audra L Blackman Miller.
When the American public voted the Republicans out of office in 1932, they were searching for an end to the economic chaos and unemployment that had gripped the nation. Melvin joined President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps after 1936. He was paid $30 a month, with mandatory $25 allotment checks sent to his Family back in Colton, Ohio, which made life a little easier for them. I never heard him complain, he said "the work at Yosemite, California was very hard and many long days." He worked in fire suppression and California certainly had its share of fires to be fought, both forest fires and structure fires and he worked in constructing fire watch towers.
He met his match on September 25, 1937 when he married Alta Helen Fey. He got a job working as a switchman for the New York Central Railroad at Airline Junction in 1939.
Melvin Kigar siblings Elvira Chamberlain Paul, Rose Reed, Wayne, LaVon Patton, Margaret Glanz, Nina Deboer, Lucinda Glick, Virgil, Lowell, Homer Harold Kigar and Audra L Blackman Miller.
When the American public voted the Republicans out of office in 1932, they were searching for an end to the economic chaos and unemployment that had gripped the nation. Melvin joined President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps after 1936. He was paid $30 a month, with mandatory $25 allotment checks sent to his Family back in Colton, Ohio, which made life a little easier for them. I never heard him complain, he said "the work at Yosemite, California was very hard and many long days." He worked in fire suppression and California certainly had its share of fires to be fought, both forest fires and structure fires and he worked in constructing fire watch towers.
He met his match on September 25, 1937 when he married Alta Helen Fey. He got a job working as a switchman for the New York Central Railroad at Airline Junction in 1939.
Family Members
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Lillian Alvira "Elvira" Kigar Chamberlain
1914–2007
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Wayne Edward Kigar
1916–1939
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Lucinda Irene Kigar Glick
1918–2013
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Nina Virgilene Kigar DeBoer
1920–2005
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Rose Ann Kigar Reed
1923–2010
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Margaret Vivian Kigar Glanz
1927–2017
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PFC Virgil Junior Kigar
1931–1953
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PFC Virgil Junior Kigar
1931–1953
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PFC Virgil Junior Kigar
1931–1953
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Lowell A Kigar
1934–1992
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Lavon Marie Kigar Patton
1936–2018
