84 years 1 month 25 days old
Legal name on birth certificate is Francis Warren Ouellette
His mother died when he was 1 year, 3 months and 24 days in the great Flu epidemic of 1918. His father was left with 3 young children to raise so his Dad left his young family with their maternal grandparents and went to San Francisco to get a job.
In San Francisco in 1923 his father remarried and went on to San Diego, CA and the family was finally reunited about 1924.
Warren graduated from Herbert Hoover High School where he would meet his 1st wife, Mary Lydia Powers Walker. They married in July of 1939 and their daughter was born in March 1940.
The strain of an overbearing mother-in-law and the death of Mary's 1st child Donald Eugene Walker in Sept 1942 were some of the reasons the marriage ended in divorce.
Warren had a job as a Tool and Die Maker at North Island a job that he would retire from, that was a lot of years riding the nickel snatcher...
He was in the US Army starting in May 1945.
Warren would meet his 2nd wife Maude Hunley about 1950 at the apartment complex where he lived, she would come to visit her sister Billy. Warren became a regular at Glenn's diner on University Ave where Maude worked. They married April 5, 1952. They were 6 months shy of their 50th wedding anniversary when Warren passed away of complications from diabetes.
Maude was unable to have children, coming from a family of 20 children she wanted to be a mother and they adopted 1st Ricky Warren Ouellette in 1960 and then Renee Ouellette in 1963. Warren was 43 years 3 month old when becoming a father for the 2nd time but it was a roll he relished.
After his retirement from his civil service job, they live in Goodlettsville TN, Petaluma Ca, Santa Maria CA and finally Santa Rosa CA
And oh how he love woodworking...
He was 5' 8" with brown wavy hair, brown eyes and he was right-handed.
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Father-Daughter and the Movies
My Dad after the divorce from my Mom became a Saturday Dad, I would see him every Saturday when he would come to give my Mom the child support $5 a week (I think) when I came back from Connecticut he started taking me out with him and a lot of those Saturday's we spent at the movies and until I got the roller skating bug at about age 11 (I roller skated from the time I was 5 but at 11 I wanted to go to the roller rink).
We still went to the movies post roller skating, just not as much...
We enjoyed many a movie dates together and I am so happy Dad you enjoyed them as much as I did...
And of course the highlight of the movies would be the Looney Tunes, oh how we enjoyed them, my dad's favorite was Daffy Duck and the Road Runner and I always loved Bugs Bunny...That's All Folks
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Dirge Without Music
BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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Legal name on birth certificate is Francis Warren Ouellette
His mother died when he was 1 year, 3 months and 24 days in the great Flu epidemic of 1918. His father was left with 3 young children to raise so his Dad left his young family with their maternal grandparents and went to San Francisco to get a job.
In San Francisco in 1923 his father remarried and went on to San Diego, CA and the family was finally reunited about 1924.
Warren graduated from Herbert Hoover High School where he would meet his 1st wife, Mary Lydia Powers Walker. They married in July of 1939 and their daughter was born in March 1940.
The strain of an overbearing mother-in-law and the death of Mary's 1st child Donald Eugene Walker in Sept 1942 were some of the reasons the marriage ended in divorce.
Warren had a job as a Tool and Die Maker at North Island a job that he would retire from, that was a lot of years riding the nickel snatcher...
He was in the US Army starting in May 1945.
Warren would meet his 2nd wife Maude Hunley about 1950 at the apartment complex where he lived, she would come to visit her sister Billy. Warren became a regular at Glenn's diner on University Ave where Maude worked. They married April 5, 1952. They were 6 months shy of their 50th wedding anniversary when Warren passed away of complications from diabetes.
Maude was unable to have children, coming from a family of 20 children she wanted to be a mother and they adopted 1st Ricky Warren Ouellette in 1960 and then Renee Ouellette in 1963. Warren was 43 years 3 month old when becoming a father for the 2nd time but it was a roll he relished.
After his retirement from his civil service job, they live in Goodlettsville TN, Petaluma Ca, Santa Maria CA and finally Santa Rosa CA
And oh how he love woodworking...
He was 5' 8" with brown wavy hair, brown eyes and he was right-handed.
********************************
Father-Daughter and the Movies
My Dad after the divorce from my Mom became a Saturday Dad, I would see him every Saturday when he would come to give my Mom the child support $5 a week (I think) when I came back from Connecticut he started taking me out with him and a lot of those Saturday's we spent at the movies and until I got the roller skating bug at about age 11 (I roller skated from the time I was 5 but at 11 I wanted to go to the roller rink).
We still went to the movies post roller skating, just not as much...
We enjoyed many a movie dates together and I am so happy Dad you enjoyed them as much as I did...
And of course the highlight of the movies would be the Looney Tunes, oh how we enjoyed them, my dad's favorite was Daffy Duck and the Road Runner and I always loved Bugs Bunny...That's All Folks
*******************************************
Dirge Without Music
BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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84 years 1 month 25 days old
Legal name on birth certificate is Francis Warren Ouellette
His mother died when he was 1 year, 3 months and 24 days in the great Flu epidemic of 1918. His father was left with 3 young children to raise so his Dad left his young family with their maternal grandparents and went to San Francisco to get a job.
In San Francisco in 1923 his father remarried and went on to San Diego, CA and the family was finally reunited about 1924.
Warren graduated from Herbert Hoover High School where he would meet his 1st wife, Mary Lydia Powers Walker. They married in July of 1939 and their daughter was born in March 1940.
The strain of an overbearing mother-in-law and the death of Mary's 1st child Donald Eugene Walker in Sept 1942 were some of the reasons the marriage ended in divorce.
Warren had a job as a Tool and Die Maker at North Island a job that he would retire from, that was a lot of years riding the nickel snatcher...
He was in the US Army starting in May 1945.
Warren would meet his 2nd wife Maude Hunley about 1950 at the apartment complex where he lived, she would come to visit her sister Billy. Warren became a regular at Glenn's diner on University Ave where Maude worked. They married April 5, 1952. They were 6 months shy of their 50th wedding anniversary when Warren passed away of complications from diabetes.
Maude was unable to have children, coming from a family of 20 children she wanted to be a mother and they adopted 1st Ricky Warren Ouellette in 1960 and then Renee Ouellette in 1963. Warren was 43 years 3 month old when becoming a father for the 2nd time but it was a roll he relished.
After his retirement from his civil service job, they live in Goodlettsville TN, Petaluma Ca, Santa Maria CA and finally Santa Rosa CA
And oh how he love woodworking...
He was 5' 8" with brown wavy hair, brown eyes and he was right-handed.
********************************
Father-Daughter and the Movies
My Dad after the divorce from my Mom became a Saturday Dad, I would see him every Saturday when he would come to give my Mom the child support $5 a week (I think) when I came back from Connecticut he started taking me out with him and a lot of those Saturday's we spent at the movies and until I got the roller skating bug at about age 11 (I roller skated from the time I was 5 but at 11 I wanted to go to the roller rink).
We still went to the movies post roller skating, just not as much...
We enjoyed many a movie dates together and I am so happy Dad you enjoyed them as much as I did...
And of course the highlight of the movies would be the Looney Tunes, oh how we enjoyed them, my dad's favorite was Daffy Duck and the Road Runner and I always loved Bugs Bunny...That's All Folks
*******************************************
Dirge Without Music
BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
**********************************
Legal name on birth certificate is Francis Warren Ouellette
His mother died when he was 1 year, 3 months and 24 days in the great Flu epidemic of 1918. His father was left with 3 young children to raise so his Dad left his young family with their maternal grandparents and went to San Francisco to get a job.
In San Francisco in 1923 his father remarried and went on to San Diego, CA and the family was finally reunited about 1924.
Warren graduated from Herbert Hoover High School where he would meet his 1st wife, Mary Lydia Powers Walker. They married in July of 1939 and their daughter was born in March 1940.
The strain of an overbearing mother-in-law and the death of Mary's 1st child Donald Eugene Walker in Sept 1942 were some of the reasons the marriage ended in divorce.
Warren had a job as a Tool and Die Maker at North Island a job that he would retire from, that was a lot of years riding the nickel snatcher...
He was in the US Army starting in May 1945.
Warren would meet his 2nd wife Maude Hunley about 1950 at the apartment complex where he lived, she would come to visit her sister Billy. Warren became a regular at Glenn's diner on University Ave where Maude worked. They married April 5, 1952. They were 6 months shy of their 50th wedding anniversary when Warren passed away of complications from diabetes.
Maude was unable to have children, coming from a family of 20 children she wanted to be a mother and they adopted 1st Ricky Warren Ouellette in 1960 and then Renee Ouellette in 1963. Warren was 43 years 3 month old when becoming a father for the 2nd time but it was a roll he relished.
After his retirement from his civil service job, they live in Goodlettsville TN, Petaluma Ca, Santa Maria CA and finally Santa Rosa CA
And oh how he love woodworking...
He was 5' 8" with brown wavy hair, brown eyes and he was right-handed.
********************************
Father-Daughter and the Movies
My Dad after the divorce from my Mom became a Saturday Dad, I would see him every Saturday when he would come to give my Mom the child support $5 a week (I think) when I came back from Connecticut he started taking me out with him and a lot of those Saturday's we spent at the movies and until I got the roller skating bug at about age 11 (I roller skated from the time I was 5 but at 11 I wanted to go to the roller rink).
We still went to the movies post roller skating, just not as much...
We enjoyed many a movie dates together and I am so happy Dad you enjoyed them as much as I did...
And of course the highlight of the movies would be the Looney Tunes, oh how we enjoyed them, my dad's favorite was Daffy Duck and the Road Runner and I always loved Bugs Bunny...That's All Folks
*******************************************
Dirge Without Music
BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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