Lawrence C. Ames
Funeral services for Maj. Gen. Lawrence Coffin Ames retired commander of the California Air National Guard and strockbroker will be held at 4.p.m. today at the First Unitarian Church 14th and Castro streets, Oakland. He died Wednesday at the age of 84.
Gen. Ames was a native of West Newton, Mass. After attending Newton High School, the Berkshire School and graduating from Amherst College, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in World War I. A transfer to become a U.S. Army pilot kindled a lifelong interest in aviation.
He became a general partner of the Irving Lundborg & Co. brokerage in 1936 and remained active with the firm now merged with Kidder, Peabody & Co over the last 55 years.
In 1940 he was recruited to attend the Industrial War College and retired to duty with the Army Air Force in World War II., assisting Marine assault forces in the South Pacific. He later served with the War Department general staff and assisted in planning such facilities as Hamilton Air Force Base and Treasure Island.
Following the war he organized the 61st Wing of the California National Guard, retiring in 1957 as chief of the state air guard service.
He was a former director of Lockheed and the National Ice & Cold Storage Co. and was a director of Continental Air Lines, River Farms and Kingwell Brothers. He was president of Pierce Rodolph Storage.
When Gen. Ames and his wife, Helen Rodolph, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1974, the Horace Heidt band played, as it had at their wedding.
He is survived by his wife, Helen; a son of Piedmont; a daughter of Smith Valley, Nev.,; a sister, Katherine Ames George of Peterboro, N.H.; and 7 grandchildren. Donations to charity are preferred.
Obituary courtesy of Lawrence Ames Jr Dec 29, 2008
Additions and corrections to original obituary courtesy of Georgia Ames Fulstone Jan 2009.
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Ames, Lawrence Coffin, 2nd Lt, USAS. Born on 9 February 1897 in West Newton, MA. Served in the American Field Service in France, October 1917-April 1918 and enlisted in the Signal Corps Aviation Section in Paris on 28 April 1918. Received preliminary flying training in the Maurice Faram at the French Flying School, Ecole de Voves on 30 May 1918. Received his Brevet 25 July 1918 and commissioned a 2nd Lt 30 Aug 1918. Received advanced combat flying training in the Bleriot, Sopwith and Nieuport servies at Avord, 5 August - 14 Sept 1918; and 3rd AIC, Issoudun, 15-27 September 1918, when his training was interupted by influenza. Discharged at Garden City, L.I., N.Y., 14 Feb 1919. WWI Decorations: WWI Victory Medal and 1 gold overseas chevron. Continued flying in the Reserve Corps, served in WWII*, and retired from the CA ANG in the grade of Major General with Command Pilot rating, 30 April 1957. He died on 6 May 1981 and was interred in Mr Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
Source : "American Aviators in the Great War 1914-1918, published by Glasebrook Foundation 1984.
Dec 29, 2008 - The photograph published with this article is not that of Lawrence C Ames, but that of his brother Charles Burton Ames (1892-1942) per Lawrence Ames Jr. who has provided further on the WWII service to follow:
*Service in WWII" included six years of military service in Washington, DC, in the Pentagon, in Downey, CA, in Long Beach, CA, in San Pedro, CA, on the beach at Iwo Jima, in the Philippines, in Germany, etc., etc.
He was the Founder of the Northern California Wing of the
California Air National Guard Later it moved to Hayward, and it now still serves in Fresno. Served as the Assistant for Air to Curtis O'Sullivan, the then Adjutant General of the California National Guard under Governor Earl Warren.
A Google search The California National Guard you will see Maj General Lawrence C Ames included in a group photo of Gov. Warren and others upon the Return of the National and Regimental Colors to California on November 11, 1946.
(will attempt to get the web address for reference)
Further research:
s/o Charles Ames b Feb 1848 NH and Henrietta Hunt b Jan 1862 b. Mass. Sibings: Katharine Ames George b 1889, Helen Ames Lameyer b 1894 and Charles B.(Burton)Ames b 1892.
Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Newton Ward 3, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T623_664 Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 899.
update researcjer July 4, 2010 :
Changed title from "Maj Lawrence Coffin Ames" to "Maj. Gen. Lawrence Coffin Ames".
Under "Further research: Siblings:" add Katharine Ames George b 1889, and change Helen Ames b about 1905 to Helen Ames Lameyer b 1894.
Note: Major General is/was not a title option in year 2000 when memorial created ( offered bybFind acgrave in scroll down menu) however title updated to "General". MG is an option we used.
Funeral services for Maj. Gen. Lawrence Coffin Ames retired commander of the California Air National Guard and strockbroker will be held at 4.p.m. today at the First Unitarian Church 14th and Castro streets, Oakland. He died Wednesday at the age of 84.
Gen. Ames was a native of West Newton, Mass. After attending Newton High School, the Berkshire School and graduating from Amherst College, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in World War I. A transfer to become a U.S. Army pilot kindled a lifelong interest in aviation.
He became a general partner of the Irving Lundborg & Co. brokerage in 1936 and remained active with the firm now merged with Kidder, Peabody & Co over the last 55 years.
In 1940 he was recruited to attend the Industrial War College and retired to duty with the Army Air Force in World War II., assisting Marine assault forces in the South Pacific. He later served with the War Department general staff and assisted in planning such facilities as Hamilton Air Force Base and Treasure Island.
Following the war he organized the 61st Wing of the California National Guard, retiring in 1957 as chief of the state air guard service.
He was a former director of Lockheed and the National Ice & Cold Storage Co. and was a director of Continental Air Lines, River Farms and Kingwell Brothers. He was president of Pierce Rodolph Storage.
When Gen. Ames and his wife, Helen Rodolph, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1974, the Horace Heidt band played, as it had at their wedding.
He is survived by his wife, Helen; a son of Piedmont; a daughter of Smith Valley, Nev.,; a sister, Katherine Ames George of Peterboro, N.H.; and 7 grandchildren. Donations to charity are preferred.
Obituary courtesy of Lawrence Ames Jr Dec 29, 2008
Additions and corrections to original obituary courtesy of Georgia Ames Fulstone Jan 2009.
***
Ames, Lawrence Coffin, 2nd Lt, USAS. Born on 9 February 1897 in West Newton, MA. Served in the American Field Service in France, October 1917-April 1918 and enlisted in the Signal Corps Aviation Section in Paris on 28 April 1918. Received preliminary flying training in the Maurice Faram at the French Flying School, Ecole de Voves on 30 May 1918. Received his Brevet 25 July 1918 and commissioned a 2nd Lt 30 Aug 1918. Received advanced combat flying training in the Bleriot, Sopwith and Nieuport servies at Avord, 5 August - 14 Sept 1918; and 3rd AIC, Issoudun, 15-27 September 1918, when his training was interupted by influenza. Discharged at Garden City, L.I., N.Y., 14 Feb 1919. WWI Decorations: WWI Victory Medal and 1 gold overseas chevron. Continued flying in the Reserve Corps, served in WWII*, and retired from the CA ANG in the grade of Major General with Command Pilot rating, 30 April 1957. He died on 6 May 1981 and was interred in Mr Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
Source : "American Aviators in the Great War 1914-1918, published by Glasebrook Foundation 1984.
Dec 29, 2008 - The photograph published with this article is not that of Lawrence C Ames, but that of his brother Charles Burton Ames (1892-1942) per Lawrence Ames Jr. who has provided further on the WWII service to follow:
*Service in WWII" included six years of military service in Washington, DC, in the Pentagon, in Downey, CA, in Long Beach, CA, in San Pedro, CA, on the beach at Iwo Jima, in the Philippines, in Germany, etc., etc.
He was the Founder of the Northern California Wing of the
California Air National Guard Later it moved to Hayward, and it now still serves in Fresno. Served as the Assistant for Air to Curtis O'Sullivan, the then Adjutant General of the California National Guard under Governor Earl Warren.
A Google search The California National Guard you will see Maj General Lawrence C Ames included in a group photo of Gov. Warren and others upon the Return of the National and Regimental Colors to California on November 11, 1946.
(will attempt to get the web address for reference)
Further research:
s/o Charles Ames b Feb 1848 NH and Henrietta Hunt b Jan 1862 b. Mass. Sibings: Katharine Ames George b 1889, Helen Ames Lameyer b 1894 and Charles B.(Burton)Ames b 1892.
Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Newton Ward 3, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T623_664 Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 899.
update researcjer July 4, 2010 :
Changed title from "Maj Lawrence Coffin Ames" to "Maj. Gen. Lawrence Coffin Ames".
Under "Further research: Siblings:" add Katharine Ames George b 1889, and change Helen Ames b about 1905 to Helen Ames Lameyer b 1894.
Note: Major General is/was not a title option in year 2000 when memorial created ( offered bybFind acgrave in scroll down menu) however title updated to "General". MG is an option we used.
Lawrence C. Ames
Funeral services for Maj. Gen. Lawrence Coffin Ames retired commander of the California Air National Guard and strockbroker will be held at 4.p.m. today at the First Unitarian Church 14th and Castro streets, Oakland. He died Wednesday at the age of 84.
Gen. Ames was a native of West Newton, Mass. After attending Newton High School, the Berkshire School and graduating from Amherst College, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in World War I. A transfer to become a U.S. Army pilot kindled a lifelong interest in aviation.
He became a general partner of the Irving Lundborg & Co. brokerage in 1936 and remained active with the firm now merged with Kidder, Peabody & Co over the last 55 years.
In 1940 he was recruited to attend the Industrial War College and retired to duty with the Army Air Force in World War II., assisting Marine assault forces in the South Pacific. He later served with the War Department general staff and assisted in planning such facilities as Hamilton Air Force Base and Treasure Island.
Following the war he organized the 61st Wing of the California National Guard, retiring in 1957 as chief of the state air guard service.
He was a former director of Lockheed and the National Ice & Cold Storage Co. and was a director of Continental Air Lines, River Farms and Kingwell Brothers. He was president of Pierce Rodolph Storage.
When Gen. Ames and his wife, Helen Rodolph, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1974, the Horace Heidt band played, as it had at their wedding.
He is survived by his wife, Helen; a son of Piedmont; a daughter of Smith Valley, Nev.,; a sister, Katherine Ames George of Peterboro, N.H.; and 7 grandchildren. Donations to charity are preferred.
Obituary courtesy of Lawrence Ames Jr Dec 29, 2008
Additions and corrections to original obituary courtesy of Georgia Ames Fulstone Jan 2009.
***
Ames, Lawrence Coffin, 2nd Lt, USAS. Born on 9 February 1897 in West Newton, MA. Served in the American Field Service in France, October 1917-April 1918 and enlisted in the Signal Corps Aviation Section in Paris on 28 April 1918. Received preliminary flying training in the Maurice Faram at the French Flying School, Ecole de Voves on 30 May 1918. Received his Brevet 25 July 1918 and commissioned a 2nd Lt 30 Aug 1918. Received advanced combat flying training in the Bleriot, Sopwith and Nieuport servies at Avord, 5 August - 14 Sept 1918; and 3rd AIC, Issoudun, 15-27 September 1918, when his training was interupted by influenza. Discharged at Garden City, L.I., N.Y., 14 Feb 1919. WWI Decorations: WWI Victory Medal and 1 gold overseas chevron. Continued flying in the Reserve Corps, served in WWII*, and retired from the CA ANG in the grade of Major General with Command Pilot rating, 30 April 1957. He died on 6 May 1981 and was interred in Mr Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
Source : "American Aviators in the Great War 1914-1918, published by Glasebrook Foundation 1984.
Dec 29, 2008 - The photograph published with this article is not that of Lawrence C Ames, but that of his brother Charles Burton Ames (1892-1942) per Lawrence Ames Jr. who has provided further on the WWII service to follow:
*Service in WWII" included six years of military service in Washington, DC, in the Pentagon, in Downey, CA, in Long Beach, CA, in San Pedro, CA, on the beach at Iwo Jima, in the Philippines, in Germany, etc., etc.
He was the Founder of the Northern California Wing of the
California Air National Guard Later it moved to Hayward, and it now still serves in Fresno. Served as the Assistant for Air to Curtis O'Sullivan, the then Adjutant General of the California National Guard under Governor Earl Warren.
A Google search The California National Guard you will see Maj General Lawrence C Ames included in a group photo of Gov. Warren and others upon the Return of the National and Regimental Colors to California on November 11, 1946.
(will attempt to get the web address for reference)
Further research:
s/o Charles Ames b Feb 1848 NH and Henrietta Hunt b Jan 1862 b. Mass. Sibings: Katharine Ames George b 1889, Helen Ames Lameyer b 1894 and Charles B.(Burton)Ames b 1892.
Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Newton Ward 3, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T623_664 Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 899.
update researcjer July 4, 2010 :
Changed title from "Maj Lawrence Coffin Ames" to "Maj. Gen. Lawrence Coffin Ames".
Under "Further research: Siblings:" add Katharine Ames George b 1889, and change Helen Ames b about 1905 to Helen Ames Lameyer b 1894.
Note: Major General is/was not a title option in year 2000 when memorial created ( offered bybFind acgrave in scroll down menu) however title updated to "General". MG is an option we used.
Funeral services for Maj. Gen. Lawrence Coffin Ames retired commander of the California Air National Guard and strockbroker will be held at 4.p.m. today at the First Unitarian Church 14th and Castro streets, Oakland. He died Wednesday at the age of 84.
Gen. Ames was a native of West Newton, Mass. After attending Newton High School, the Berkshire School and graduating from Amherst College, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in World War I. A transfer to become a U.S. Army pilot kindled a lifelong interest in aviation.
He became a general partner of the Irving Lundborg & Co. brokerage in 1936 and remained active with the firm now merged with Kidder, Peabody & Co over the last 55 years.
In 1940 he was recruited to attend the Industrial War College and retired to duty with the Army Air Force in World War II., assisting Marine assault forces in the South Pacific. He later served with the War Department general staff and assisted in planning such facilities as Hamilton Air Force Base and Treasure Island.
Following the war he organized the 61st Wing of the California National Guard, retiring in 1957 as chief of the state air guard service.
He was a former director of Lockheed and the National Ice & Cold Storage Co. and was a director of Continental Air Lines, River Farms and Kingwell Brothers. He was president of Pierce Rodolph Storage.
When Gen. Ames and his wife, Helen Rodolph, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1974, the Horace Heidt band played, as it had at their wedding.
He is survived by his wife, Helen; a son of Piedmont; a daughter of Smith Valley, Nev.,; a sister, Katherine Ames George of Peterboro, N.H.; and 7 grandchildren. Donations to charity are preferred.
Obituary courtesy of Lawrence Ames Jr Dec 29, 2008
Additions and corrections to original obituary courtesy of Georgia Ames Fulstone Jan 2009.
***
Ames, Lawrence Coffin, 2nd Lt, USAS. Born on 9 February 1897 in West Newton, MA. Served in the American Field Service in France, October 1917-April 1918 and enlisted in the Signal Corps Aviation Section in Paris on 28 April 1918. Received preliminary flying training in the Maurice Faram at the French Flying School, Ecole de Voves on 30 May 1918. Received his Brevet 25 July 1918 and commissioned a 2nd Lt 30 Aug 1918. Received advanced combat flying training in the Bleriot, Sopwith and Nieuport servies at Avord, 5 August - 14 Sept 1918; and 3rd AIC, Issoudun, 15-27 September 1918, when his training was interupted by influenza. Discharged at Garden City, L.I., N.Y., 14 Feb 1919. WWI Decorations: WWI Victory Medal and 1 gold overseas chevron. Continued flying in the Reserve Corps, served in WWII*, and retired from the CA ANG in the grade of Major General with Command Pilot rating, 30 April 1957. He died on 6 May 1981 and was interred in Mr Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
Source : "American Aviators in the Great War 1914-1918, published by Glasebrook Foundation 1984.
Dec 29, 2008 - The photograph published with this article is not that of Lawrence C Ames, but that of his brother Charles Burton Ames (1892-1942) per Lawrence Ames Jr. who has provided further on the WWII service to follow:
*Service in WWII" included six years of military service in Washington, DC, in the Pentagon, in Downey, CA, in Long Beach, CA, in San Pedro, CA, on the beach at Iwo Jima, in the Philippines, in Germany, etc., etc.
He was the Founder of the Northern California Wing of the
California Air National Guard Later it moved to Hayward, and it now still serves in Fresno. Served as the Assistant for Air to Curtis O'Sullivan, the then Adjutant General of the California National Guard under Governor Earl Warren.
A Google search The California National Guard you will see Maj General Lawrence C Ames included in a group photo of Gov. Warren and others upon the Return of the National and Regimental Colors to California on November 11, 1946.
(will attempt to get the web address for reference)
Further research:
s/o Charles Ames b Feb 1848 NH and Henrietta Hunt b Jan 1862 b. Mass. Sibings: Katharine Ames George b 1889, Helen Ames Lameyer b 1894 and Charles B.(Burton)Ames b 1892.
Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Newton Ward 3, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T623_664 Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 899.
update researcjer July 4, 2010 :
Changed title from "Maj Lawrence Coffin Ames" to "Maj. Gen. Lawrence Coffin Ames".
Under "Further research: Siblings:" add Katharine Ames George b 1889, and change Helen Ames b about 1905 to Helen Ames Lameyer b 1894.
Note: Major General is/was not a title option in year 2000 when memorial created ( offered bybFind acgrave in scroll down menu) however title updated to "General". MG is an option we used.
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Lawrence Coffin Ames
Major General U.S.A.F.
Born February 9, 1897
Died May 6, 1981
Helen Randolph Ames
Born May 7, 1897
Died November 27, 1998
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