Ed Fletcher Jr. oversaw construction in 1924 of the cross and amphitheater atop Mount Helix on land his father had provided the county and founded the Borrego Air Ranch in Borrego Springs in 1945.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - Friday, December 27, 1996
Freshly graduated from the University of California's agricultural school in Davis, Ed Fletcher Jr. was sent by his father to build a 40-acre farm in Blossom Valley.
"Let's just see how much young Ed Jr. ... learned while at Davis," his father, pioneer developer Col. Ed Fletcher, is reported to have said that summer of 1921.
The younger Edward Fletcher apparently learned plenty.
He went on to a long career in real estate development and sales, overseeing the construction of the cross and amphitheater atop Mount Helix and the Borrego Air Ranch, among other projects.
Ed Fletcher Jr. died at his Fletcher Hills home on Christmas Day. He was 96.
"He did quite a lot of things in the business field and the real estate field," said his brother, Ferdinand Fletcher, a founder of the Higgs, Fletcher & Mack law firm. "He was a gracious fellow, always interested in what you were doing. He had a lot of friends."
Thanks to Ed's father, Senator Ed Fletcher, the statue of Juan Cabrillo (a gift of friendship from Portugal) is brought to San Diego from Oakland in 1940 and dedicated in Point Loma.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday in the Salli Lynn Chapel at Greenwood Memorial Park & Mortuary.
Mr. Fletcher was a San Diego native, the oldest of 10 children born to Col. Ed Fletcher and his wife Mary.
Col. Fletcher built several reservoirs that still provide water to the region, and developed parts of Del Mar, Solana Beach, Grossmont, Mount Helix and Fletcher Hills.
Ed Fletcher Jr. attended public elementary schools and the San Diego Army-Navy Academy, then in Pacific Beach. He went to San Diego High School and graduated in 1917.
Later, he enjoyed reminiscing about his youth in the early part of the century, including riding a stagecoach from Lakeside to Pine Hills.
As a teen-ager, Mr. Fletcher worked on the construction of Lake Murray and the dam at Lake Hodges. After high school, he enlisted in the Army Signal Corps and got his first taste of aviation at Ream Field in Imperial Beach in 1918.
With the end of World War I, he was discharged from the Army. At that point, he went to college at Davis.
Mr. Fletcher was active in his father's firm, the Ed Fletcher Co., from 1921 through 1946. He then opened his own business, the Fletcher Realty Center in La Mesa and Fletcher Hills.
Mr. Fletcher married Mildred Anita Burke at Cuyamaca in 1924. She died in 1990.
Despite his early introduction to aviation, Mr. Fletcher did not obtain his private pilot's license until 1946.
The Fletchers made many flying trips together, including one to Alaska in which their plane ran low on fuel and Mr. Fletcher was forced to land on a river sandbar.
"Flying became one of the things he loved most of all," Ferdinand Fletcher said.
Mr. Fletcher and his wife also loved the desert, and he was instrumental in creating the landing field and surrounding subdivision in Borrego Springs.
The Fletchers also were active in many civic organizations, including the Thursday Club.
Family members said Mr. Fletcher was a charter member and the first vice president of the San Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce and a charter member of the Bachelor's Club. He was a member of the San Diego Athletic Club and an avid swimmer for many years.
He also was a Mason and recently was honored for his 75 years of continuous membership in the organization.
Mr. Fletcher is survived by three sons; Edward III, Michael of Carmel, and Lawrence of El Cajon.
Edward Fletcher III is serving a life prison term after being convicted of killing two friends in his Borrego Springs home in 1993.
In addition to Ferdinand of Point Loma, Edward Fletcher Jr. also is survived by his brother Willis, also of Point Loma; two sisters, Mary Louise Glanz of Del Mar and Virginia Hawk of Fletcher Hills; 10 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
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More:
http://library.sdsu.edu/sites/default/files/KPBSFletcherTranscript_0.pdf
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San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - Friday, December 27, 1996
Freshly graduated from the University of California's agricultural school in Davis, Ed Fletcher Jr. was sent by his father to build a 40-acre farm in Blossom Valley.
"Let's just see how much young Ed Jr. ... learned while at Davis," his father, pioneer developer Col. Ed Fletcher, is reported to have said that summer of 1921.
The younger Edward Fletcher apparently learned plenty.
He went on to a long career in real estate development and sales, overseeing the construction of the cross and amphitheater atop Mount Helix and the Borrego Air Ranch, among other projects.
Ed Fletcher Jr. died at his Fletcher Hills home on Christmas Day. He was 96.
"He did quite a lot of things in the business field and the real estate field," said his brother, Ferdinand Fletcher, a founder of the Higgs, Fletcher & Mack law firm. "He was a gracious fellow, always interested in what you were doing. He had a lot of friends."
Thanks to Ed's father, Senator Ed Fletcher, the statue of Juan Cabrillo (a gift of friendship from Portugal) is brought to San Diego from Oakland in 1940 and dedicated in Point Loma.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday in the Salli Lynn Chapel at Greenwood Memorial Park & Mortuary.
Mr. Fletcher was a San Diego native, the oldest of 10 children born to Col. Ed Fletcher and his wife Mary.
Col. Fletcher built several reservoirs that still provide water to the region, and developed parts of Del Mar, Solana Beach, Grossmont, Mount Helix and Fletcher Hills.
Ed Fletcher Jr. attended public elementary schools and the San Diego Army-Navy Academy, then in Pacific Beach. He went to San Diego High School and graduated in 1917.
Later, he enjoyed reminiscing about his youth in the early part of the century, including riding a stagecoach from Lakeside to Pine Hills.
As a teen-ager, Mr. Fletcher worked on the construction of Lake Murray and the dam at Lake Hodges. After high school, he enlisted in the Army Signal Corps and got his first taste of aviation at Ream Field in Imperial Beach in 1918.
With the end of World War I, he was discharged from the Army. At that point, he went to college at Davis.
Mr. Fletcher was active in his father's firm, the Ed Fletcher Co., from 1921 through 1946. He then opened his own business, the Fletcher Realty Center in La Mesa and Fletcher Hills.
Mr. Fletcher married Mildred Anita Burke at Cuyamaca in 1924. She died in 1990.
Despite his early introduction to aviation, Mr. Fletcher did not obtain his private pilot's license until 1946.
The Fletchers made many flying trips together, including one to Alaska in which their plane ran low on fuel and Mr. Fletcher was forced to land on a river sandbar.
"Flying became one of the things he loved most of all," Ferdinand Fletcher said.
Mr. Fletcher and his wife also loved the desert, and he was instrumental in creating the landing field and surrounding subdivision in Borrego Springs.
The Fletchers also were active in many civic organizations, including the Thursday Club.
Family members said Mr. Fletcher was a charter member and the first vice president of the San Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce and a charter member of the Bachelor's Club. He was a member of the San Diego Athletic Club and an avid swimmer for many years.
He also was a Mason and recently was honored for his 75 years of continuous membership in the organization.
Mr. Fletcher is survived by three sons; Edward III, Michael of Carmel, and Lawrence of El Cajon.
Edward Fletcher III is serving a life prison term after being convicted of killing two friends in his Borrego Springs home in 1993.
In addition to Ferdinand of Point Loma, Edward Fletcher Jr. also is survived by his brother Willis, also of Point Loma; two sisters, Mary Louise Glanz of Del Mar and Virginia Hawk of Fletcher Hills; 10 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
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More:
http://library.sdsu.edu/sites/default/files/KPBSFletcherTranscript_0.pdf
Ed Fletcher Jr. oversaw construction in 1924 of the cross and amphitheater atop Mount Helix on land his father had provided the county and founded the Borrego Air Ranch in Borrego Springs in 1945.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - Friday, December 27, 1996
Freshly graduated from the University of California's agricultural school in Davis, Ed Fletcher Jr. was sent by his father to build a 40-acre farm in Blossom Valley.
"Let's just see how much young Ed Jr. ... learned while at Davis," his father, pioneer developer Col. Ed Fletcher, is reported to have said that summer of 1921.
The younger Edward Fletcher apparently learned plenty.
He went on to a long career in real estate development and sales, overseeing the construction of the cross and amphitheater atop Mount Helix and the Borrego Air Ranch, among other projects.
Ed Fletcher Jr. died at his Fletcher Hills home on Christmas Day. He was 96.
"He did quite a lot of things in the business field and the real estate field," said his brother, Ferdinand Fletcher, a founder of the Higgs, Fletcher & Mack law firm. "He was a gracious fellow, always interested in what you were doing. He had a lot of friends."
Thanks to Ed's father, Senator Ed Fletcher, the statue of Juan Cabrillo (a gift of friendship from Portugal) is brought to San Diego from Oakland in 1940 and dedicated in Point Loma.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday in the Salli Lynn Chapel at Greenwood Memorial Park & Mortuary.
Mr. Fletcher was a San Diego native, the oldest of 10 children born to Col. Ed Fletcher and his wife Mary.
Col. Fletcher built several reservoirs that still provide water to the region, and developed parts of Del Mar, Solana Beach, Grossmont, Mount Helix and Fletcher Hills.
Ed Fletcher Jr. attended public elementary schools and the San Diego Army-Navy Academy, then in Pacific Beach. He went to San Diego High School and graduated in 1917.
Later, he enjoyed reminiscing about his youth in the early part of the century, including riding a stagecoach from Lakeside to Pine Hills.
As a teen-ager, Mr. Fletcher worked on the construction of Lake Murray and the dam at Lake Hodges. After high school, he enlisted in the Army Signal Corps and got his first taste of aviation at Ream Field in Imperial Beach in 1918.
With the end of World War I, he was discharged from the Army. At that point, he went to college at Davis.
Mr. Fletcher was active in his father's firm, the Ed Fletcher Co., from 1921 through 1946. He then opened his own business, the Fletcher Realty Center in La Mesa and Fletcher Hills.
Mr. Fletcher married Mildred Anita Burke at Cuyamaca in 1924. She died in 1990.
Despite his early introduction to aviation, Mr. Fletcher did not obtain his private pilot's license until 1946.
The Fletchers made many flying trips together, including one to Alaska in which their plane ran low on fuel and Mr. Fletcher was forced to land on a river sandbar.
"Flying became one of the things he loved most of all," Ferdinand Fletcher said.
Mr. Fletcher and his wife also loved the desert, and he was instrumental in creating the landing field and surrounding subdivision in Borrego Springs.
The Fletchers also were active in many civic organizations, including the Thursday Club.
Family members said Mr. Fletcher was a charter member and the first vice president of the San Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce and a charter member of the Bachelor's Club. He was a member of the San Diego Athletic Club and an avid swimmer for many years.
He also was a Mason and recently was honored for his 75 years of continuous membership in the organization.
Mr. Fletcher is survived by three sons; Edward III, Michael of Carmel, and Lawrence of El Cajon.
Edward Fletcher III is serving a life prison term after being convicted of killing two friends in his Borrego Springs home in 1993.
In addition to Ferdinand of Point Loma, Edward Fletcher Jr. also is survived by his brother Willis, also of Point Loma; two sisters, Mary Louise Glanz of Del Mar and Virginia Hawk of Fletcher Hills; 10 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
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More:
http://library.sdsu.edu/sites/default/files/KPBSFletcherTranscript_0.pdf
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San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - Friday, December 27, 1996
Freshly graduated from the University of California's agricultural school in Davis, Ed Fletcher Jr. was sent by his father to build a 40-acre farm in Blossom Valley.
"Let's just see how much young Ed Jr. ... learned while at Davis," his father, pioneer developer Col. Ed Fletcher, is reported to have said that summer of 1921.
The younger Edward Fletcher apparently learned plenty.
He went on to a long career in real estate development and sales, overseeing the construction of the cross and amphitheater atop Mount Helix and the Borrego Air Ranch, among other projects.
Ed Fletcher Jr. died at his Fletcher Hills home on Christmas Day. He was 96.
"He did quite a lot of things in the business field and the real estate field," said his brother, Ferdinand Fletcher, a founder of the Higgs, Fletcher & Mack law firm. "He was a gracious fellow, always interested in what you were doing. He had a lot of friends."
Thanks to Ed's father, Senator Ed Fletcher, the statue of Juan Cabrillo (a gift of friendship from Portugal) is brought to San Diego from Oakland in 1940 and dedicated in Point Loma.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday in the Salli Lynn Chapel at Greenwood Memorial Park & Mortuary.
Mr. Fletcher was a San Diego native, the oldest of 10 children born to Col. Ed Fletcher and his wife Mary.
Col. Fletcher built several reservoirs that still provide water to the region, and developed parts of Del Mar, Solana Beach, Grossmont, Mount Helix and Fletcher Hills.
Ed Fletcher Jr. attended public elementary schools and the San Diego Army-Navy Academy, then in Pacific Beach. He went to San Diego High School and graduated in 1917.
Later, he enjoyed reminiscing about his youth in the early part of the century, including riding a stagecoach from Lakeside to Pine Hills.
As a teen-ager, Mr. Fletcher worked on the construction of Lake Murray and the dam at Lake Hodges. After high school, he enlisted in the Army Signal Corps and got his first taste of aviation at Ream Field in Imperial Beach in 1918.
With the end of World War I, he was discharged from the Army. At that point, he went to college at Davis.
Mr. Fletcher was active in his father's firm, the Ed Fletcher Co., from 1921 through 1946. He then opened his own business, the Fletcher Realty Center in La Mesa and Fletcher Hills.
Mr. Fletcher married Mildred Anita Burke at Cuyamaca in 1924. She died in 1990.
Despite his early introduction to aviation, Mr. Fletcher did not obtain his private pilot's license until 1946.
The Fletchers made many flying trips together, including one to Alaska in which their plane ran low on fuel and Mr. Fletcher was forced to land on a river sandbar.
"Flying became one of the things he loved most of all," Ferdinand Fletcher said.
Mr. Fletcher and his wife also loved the desert, and he was instrumental in creating the landing field and surrounding subdivision in Borrego Springs.
The Fletchers also were active in many civic organizations, including the Thursday Club.
Family members said Mr. Fletcher was a charter member and the first vice president of the San Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce and a charter member of the Bachelor's Club. He was a member of the San Diego Athletic Club and an avid swimmer for many years.
He also was a Mason and recently was honored for his 75 years of continuous membership in the organization.
Mr. Fletcher is survived by three sons; Edward III, Michael of Carmel, and Lawrence of El Cajon.
Edward Fletcher III is serving a life prison term after being convicted of killing two friends in his Borrego Springs home in 1993.
In addition to Ferdinand of Point Loma, Edward Fletcher Jr. also is survived by his brother Willis, also of Point Loma; two sisters, Mary Louise Glanz of Del Mar and Virginia Hawk of Fletcher Hills; 10 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
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More:
http://library.sdsu.edu/sites/default/files/KPBSFletcherTranscript_0.pdf
Family Members
Parents
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Catherine Fletcher Taylor
1897–1976
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Charles Kimball Fletcher
1902–1985
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Lawrence Salmons Fletcher
1905–1964
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Willis Hard "Wig" Fletcher
1908–2000
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Stephen Gilmore Fletcher
1909–1992
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Ferdinand Thum "Ferd" Fletcher
1911–2005
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Mary Louise Fletcher Mack Glanz
1912–2011
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COL Eugene Batchelder Fletcher
1914–1980
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Virginia Fletcher Hawk Church
1919–2005
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