Plow Handle Charlie, Long Colorful Madera Character, Succumbs
MADERA (Madera Co.), Feb. 2 - Woo Jue Chong, 75, for a quarter of a century a familiar figure on Madera streets, died last night in his cabin in the oriental section of Madera.
Burial services were conducted in the Chinese Cemetery at Borden to-day.
Woo, a resident of Madera County fifty years, had been partially crippled by an attack of paralysis twenty-five years ago. He walked with the aid of a cane made from a plow handle, which earned him the name Plow Handle Charlie, by which he was generally known.
He had no relatives here.
~ Fresno Bee Republican, Sat., 2 Feb 1935
MADERA (Madera Co.), Feb. 2 - Woo Jue Chong, 75, for a quarter of a century a familiar figure on Madera streets, died last night in his cabin in the oriental section of Madera.
Burial services were conducted in the Chinese Cemetery at Borden to-day.
Woo, a resident of Madera County fifty years, had been partially crippled by an attack of paralysis twenty-five years ago. He walked with the aid of a cane made from a plow handle, which earned him the name Plow Handle Charlie, by which he was generally known.
He had no relatives here.
~ Fresno Bee Republican, Sat., 2 Feb 1935
Plow Handle Charlie, Long Colorful Madera Character, Succumbs
MADERA (Madera Co.), Feb. 2 - Woo Jue Chong, 75, for a quarter of a century a familiar figure on Madera streets, died last night in his cabin in the oriental section of Madera.
Burial services were conducted in the Chinese Cemetery at Borden to-day.
Woo, a resident of Madera County fifty years, had been partially crippled by an attack of paralysis twenty-five years ago. He walked with the aid of a cane made from a plow handle, which earned him the name Plow Handle Charlie, by which he was generally known.
He had no relatives here.
~ Fresno Bee Republican, Sat., 2 Feb 1935
MADERA (Madera Co.), Feb. 2 - Woo Jue Chong, 75, for a quarter of a century a familiar figure on Madera streets, died last night in his cabin in the oriental section of Madera.
Burial services were conducted in the Chinese Cemetery at Borden to-day.
Woo, a resident of Madera County fifty years, had been partially crippled by an attack of paralysis twenty-five years ago. He walked with the aid of a cane made from a plow handle, which earned him the name Plow Handle Charlie, by which he was generally known.
He had no relatives here.
~ Fresno Bee Republican, Sat., 2 Feb 1935
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