*NOTE: A contributor put a bio of grandpa in his photo section, taken from an online source. It was one of at least 3 (that I have from grandpa himself) that were "Vanity Biographies"- popular for decades. A person would pay 25 bucks or so, and the 'biographer' would write a glowing (albeit mostly false) version of a person's life & ancestral family tree. Grandpa found it all quite funny.
Since the FAGrave contributor does not allow messaging, I can't ask her to remove it. At least 90% of what that vanity biography says about Everett & wife Mabel's parents & ancestors, is just plain wrong!! (And I would also ask people to be careful of what they add to a memorial).
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**NOTE See Everett's parent's memorial pages for census info when he was still in his parent's family household. Everett was born the 6th of 8 children.
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1902 He moved, with his parents & siblings, to Mankato, MN where he attended high school and met his future bride Mabel.
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1902-1913 After high school, he worked for a local architect, detailing fine millwork. In 1911 he moved to Omaha NE to become a partner in Peterson & Dodds Architects, specialization- schools, which he designed all over rural Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota & Kansas.
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In the 1910 census, Everett is listed as a lodger in the YMCA, in Omaha City, Nebraska, an architect.
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1917 On Everett's WWI Draft Registration Card- (June 5th, 1917), he is living in Douglas County, Nebraska, Ralston, Nebraska, an architect in Omaha.
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1920 census in Douglas County, Omaha, Everett is with Mabel and sons Everett Loren and Alan Stuart (last son Robert Marvin (Bob) was not born yet, nor had Jean joined the family yet).
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About 1922 they all moved to a large bungalow where they lived throughout the kids' school years.
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1924 daughter Jean was adopted, to everyone's delight.
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After the great depression, Everett wrote a "BUILD A DODDS HOME" plan book, with a dozen simple bungalow style house plans and a few simple elevations and had it printed in color. He advertised it on the radio show on KFNF in Shenandoah, Iowa, where he had a weekly show singing Scottish tunes and playing the bagpipes. Penny postcards from around the country came in with orders. Everett attributed that book as saving his family from starvation during those depression years. An original copy of the book is still in the Library of Congress
In 2016, a historic architecture company put out a call across America, for photos of houses built using those plans of Everett Sherwood Dodds. The houses they have found are still beautiful examples of the era, and Everett is now considered a leading architect in his time, of the bungalow style.
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1940 census in Omaha City, Douglas Co., NE, Everett, Mabel, son Alan & dau Jeanne were living at 6601 Florence Blvd, (since before 1935). They owned their own house and it was worth 7500 dollars.
Everett landed the position of Project Manager for the new PWA Omaha Housing Project. (The land had been assembled by Chicago realtor and Everett's brother- Lewis Dodds). Everett got a brand new 1934 PWA Chevy and finally a steady paycheck. When the project was finished and after a few more high schools were designed and built, (abt 1946) they sold the Florence Ave house and moved to Oakland CA and Everett took a job as architect for the Kaiser Shipyards and later the Austin Co.
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Everett accepted some supervisory and inspector positions with the East Bay School District.
He and Mabel bought and remodeled a lovely house above Berkeley, with a large lush garden and a fantastic view of the Bay and San Francisco.
When their son Bob Dodds (Robert Marvin) enlisted in the Navy and was stationed on a submarine in the San Fransisco Bay, Everett and Mabel were renting rooms in their house for pilots going to/ coming back from/ the war.
Bob's wife Roxie stayed with Everett & Mabel (and to Bob's dismay, a steady flow of handsome pilots) for some time, until the war ended, Bob was released from duty, and Bob and Roxie traveled back to Pittsburgh.
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After the war's end, Everett built a few small homes in Walnut Creek, where son Loren, wife Kay & their Dodds family lived.
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1956 Everett took a supervisory job, building a new high school in Anderson, Ca., and he and Mabel took their little Shasta trailer up there, camping on the grounds (and loving it), all winter long.
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Everett died in the hospital at Castro Valley, of esophageal cancer, next to the Hayward, Calif. home they had bought.
My grandpa was a man of fine character and great talent, and was much loved by his family and friends.
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Since the FAGrave contributor does not allow messaging, I can't ask her to remove it. At least 90% of what that vanity biography says about Everett & wife Mabel's parents & ancestors, is just plain wrong!! (And I would also ask people to be careful of what they add to a memorial).
=====================================
**NOTE See Everett's parent's memorial pages for census info when he was still in his parent's family household. Everett was born the 6th of 8 children.
======================================
1902 He moved, with his parents & siblings, to Mankato, MN where he attended high school and met his future bride Mabel.
======================================
1902-1913 After high school, he worked for a local architect, detailing fine millwork. In 1911 he moved to Omaha NE to become a partner in Peterson & Dodds Architects, specialization- schools, which he designed all over rural Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota & Kansas.
======================================
In the 1910 census, Everett is listed as a lodger in the YMCA, in Omaha City, Nebraska, an architect.
======================================
1917 On Everett's WWI Draft Registration Card- (June 5th, 1917), he is living in Douglas County, Nebraska, Ralston, Nebraska, an architect in Omaha.
======================================
1920 census in Douglas County, Omaha, Everett is with Mabel and sons Everett Loren and Alan Stuart (last son Robert Marvin (Bob) was not born yet, nor had Jean joined the family yet).
======================================
About 1922 they all moved to a large bungalow where they lived throughout the kids' school years.
======================================
1924 daughter Jean was adopted, to everyone's delight.
=====================================
After the great depression, Everett wrote a "BUILD A DODDS HOME" plan book, with a dozen simple bungalow style house plans and a few simple elevations and had it printed in color. He advertised it on the radio show on KFNF in Shenandoah, Iowa, where he had a weekly show singing Scottish tunes and playing the bagpipes. Penny postcards from around the country came in with orders. Everett attributed that book as saving his family from starvation during those depression years. An original copy of the book is still in the Library of Congress
In 2016, a historic architecture company put out a call across America, for photos of houses built using those plans of Everett Sherwood Dodds. The houses they have found are still beautiful examples of the era, and Everett is now considered a leading architect in his time, of the bungalow style.
=====================================
1940 census in Omaha City, Douglas Co., NE, Everett, Mabel, son Alan & dau Jeanne were living at 6601 Florence Blvd, (since before 1935). They owned their own house and it was worth 7500 dollars.
Everett landed the position of Project Manager for the new PWA Omaha Housing Project. (The land had been assembled by Chicago realtor and Everett's brother- Lewis Dodds). Everett got a brand new 1934 PWA Chevy and finally a steady paycheck. When the project was finished and after a few more high schools were designed and built, (abt 1946) they sold the Florence Ave house and moved to Oakland CA and Everett took a job as architect for the Kaiser Shipyards and later the Austin Co.
=====================================
Everett accepted some supervisory and inspector positions with the East Bay School District.
He and Mabel bought and remodeled a lovely house above Berkeley, with a large lush garden and a fantastic view of the Bay and San Francisco.
When their son Bob Dodds (Robert Marvin) enlisted in the Navy and was stationed on a submarine in the San Fransisco Bay, Everett and Mabel were renting rooms in their house for pilots going to/ coming back from/ the war.
Bob's wife Roxie stayed with Everett & Mabel (and to Bob's dismay, a steady flow of handsome pilots) for some time, until the war ended, Bob was released from duty, and Bob and Roxie traveled back to Pittsburgh.
=====================================
After the war's end, Everett built a few small homes in Walnut Creek, where son Loren, wife Kay & their Dodds family lived.
======================================
1956 Everett took a supervisory job, building a new high school in Anderson, Ca., and he and Mabel took their little Shasta trailer up there, camping on the grounds (and loving it), all winter long.
====================================
Everett died in the hospital at Castro Valley, of esophageal cancer, next to the Hayward, Calif. home they had bought.
My grandpa was a man of fine character and great talent, and was much loved by his family and friends.
=====================================
*NOTE: A contributor put a bio of grandpa in his photo section, taken from an online source. It was one of at least 3 (that I have from grandpa himself) that were "Vanity Biographies"- popular for decades. A person would pay 25 bucks or so, and the 'biographer' would write a glowing (albeit mostly false) version of a person's life & ancestral family tree. Grandpa found it all quite funny.
Since the FAGrave contributor does not allow messaging, I can't ask her to remove it. At least 90% of what that vanity biography says about Everett & wife Mabel's parents & ancestors, is just plain wrong!! (And I would also ask people to be careful of what they add to a memorial).
=====================================
**NOTE See Everett's parent's memorial pages for census info when he was still in his parent's family household. Everett was born the 6th of 8 children.
======================================
1902 He moved, with his parents & siblings, to Mankato, MN where he attended high school and met his future bride Mabel.
======================================
1902-1913 After high school, he worked for a local architect, detailing fine millwork. In 1911 he moved to Omaha NE to become a partner in Peterson & Dodds Architects, specialization- schools, which he designed all over rural Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota & Kansas.
======================================
In the 1910 census, Everett is listed as a lodger in the YMCA, in Omaha City, Nebraska, an architect.
======================================
1917 On Everett's WWI Draft Registration Card- (June 5th, 1917), he is living in Douglas County, Nebraska, Ralston, Nebraska, an architect in Omaha.
======================================
1920 census in Douglas County, Omaha, Everett is with Mabel and sons Everett Loren and Alan Stuart (last son Robert Marvin (Bob) was not born yet, nor had Jean joined the family yet).
======================================
About 1922 they all moved to a large bungalow where they lived throughout the kids' school years.
======================================
1924 daughter Jean was adopted, to everyone's delight.
=====================================
After the great depression, Everett wrote a "BUILD A DODDS HOME" plan book, with a dozen simple bungalow style house plans and a few simple elevations and had it printed in color. He advertised it on the radio show on KFNF in Shenandoah, Iowa, where he had a weekly show singing Scottish tunes and playing the bagpipes. Penny postcards from around the country came in with orders. Everett attributed that book as saving his family from starvation during those depression years. An original copy of the book is still in the Library of Congress
In 2016, a historic architecture company put out a call across America, for photos of houses built using those plans of Everett Sherwood Dodds. The houses they have found are still beautiful examples of the era, and Everett is now considered a leading architect in his time, of the bungalow style.
=====================================
1940 census in Omaha City, Douglas Co., NE, Everett, Mabel, son Alan & dau Jeanne were living at 6601 Florence Blvd, (since before 1935). They owned their own house and it was worth 7500 dollars.
Everett landed the position of Project Manager for the new PWA Omaha Housing Project. (The land had been assembled by Chicago realtor and Everett's brother- Lewis Dodds). Everett got a brand new 1934 PWA Chevy and finally a steady paycheck. When the project was finished and after a few more high schools were designed and built, (abt 1946) they sold the Florence Ave house and moved to Oakland CA and Everett took a job as architect for the Kaiser Shipyards and later the Austin Co.
=====================================
Everett accepted some supervisory and inspector positions with the East Bay School District.
He and Mabel bought and remodeled a lovely house above Berkeley, with a large lush garden and a fantastic view of the Bay and San Francisco.
When their son Bob Dodds (Robert Marvin) enlisted in the Navy and was stationed on a submarine in the San Fransisco Bay, Everett and Mabel were renting rooms in their house for pilots going to/ coming back from/ the war.
Bob's wife Roxie stayed with Everett & Mabel (and to Bob's dismay, a steady flow of handsome pilots) for some time, until the war ended, Bob was released from duty, and Bob and Roxie traveled back to Pittsburgh.
=====================================
After the war's end, Everett built a few small homes in Walnut Creek, where son Loren, wife Kay & their Dodds family lived.
======================================
1956 Everett took a supervisory job, building a new high school in Anderson, Ca., and he and Mabel took their little Shasta trailer up there, camping on the grounds (and loving it), all winter long.
====================================
Everett died in the hospital at Castro Valley, of esophageal cancer, next to the Hayward, Calif. home they had bought.
My grandpa was a man of fine character and great talent, and was much loved by his family and friends.
=====================================
Since the FAGrave contributor does not allow messaging, I can't ask her to remove it. At least 90% of what that vanity biography says about Everett & wife Mabel's parents & ancestors, is just plain wrong!! (And I would also ask people to be careful of what they add to a memorial).
=====================================
**NOTE See Everett's parent's memorial pages for census info when he was still in his parent's family household. Everett was born the 6th of 8 children.
======================================
1902 He moved, with his parents & siblings, to Mankato, MN where he attended high school and met his future bride Mabel.
======================================
1902-1913 After high school, he worked for a local architect, detailing fine millwork. In 1911 he moved to Omaha NE to become a partner in Peterson & Dodds Architects, specialization- schools, which he designed all over rural Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota & Kansas.
======================================
In the 1910 census, Everett is listed as a lodger in the YMCA, in Omaha City, Nebraska, an architect.
======================================
1917 On Everett's WWI Draft Registration Card- (June 5th, 1917), he is living in Douglas County, Nebraska, Ralston, Nebraska, an architect in Omaha.
======================================
1920 census in Douglas County, Omaha, Everett is with Mabel and sons Everett Loren and Alan Stuart (last son Robert Marvin (Bob) was not born yet, nor had Jean joined the family yet).
======================================
About 1922 they all moved to a large bungalow where they lived throughout the kids' school years.
======================================
1924 daughter Jean was adopted, to everyone's delight.
=====================================
After the great depression, Everett wrote a "BUILD A DODDS HOME" plan book, with a dozen simple bungalow style house plans and a few simple elevations and had it printed in color. He advertised it on the radio show on KFNF in Shenandoah, Iowa, where he had a weekly show singing Scottish tunes and playing the bagpipes. Penny postcards from around the country came in with orders. Everett attributed that book as saving his family from starvation during those depression years. An original copy of the book is still in the Library of Congress
In 2016, a historic architecture company put out a call across America, for photos of houses built using those plans of Everett Sherwood Dodds. The houses they have found are still beautiful examples of the era, and Everett is now considered a leading architect in his time, of the bungalow style.
=====================================
1940 census in Omaha City, Douglas Co., NE, Everett, Mabel, son Alan & dau Jeanne were living at 6601 Florence Blvd, (since before 1935). They owned their own house and it was worth 7500 dollars.
Everett landed the position of Project Manager for the new PWA Omaha Housing Project. (The land had been assembled by Chicago realtor and Everett's brother- Lewis Dodds). Everett got a brand new 1934 PWA Chevy and finally a steady paycheck. When the project was finished and after a few more high schools were designed and built, (abt 1946) they sold the Florence Ave house and moved to Oakland CA and Everett took a job as architect for the Kaiser Shipyards and later the Austin Co.
=====================================
Everett accepted some supervisory and inspector positions with the East Bay School District.
He and Mabel bought and remodeled a lovely house above Berkeley, with a large lush garden and a fantastic view of the Bay and San Francisco.
When their son Bob Dodds (Robert Marvin) enlisted in the Navy and was stationed on a submarine in the San Fransisco Bay, Everett and Mabel were renting rooms in their house for pilots going to/ coming back from/ the war.
Bob's wife Roxie stayed with Everett & Mabel (and to Bob's dismay, a steady flow of handsome pilots) for some time, until the war ended, Bob was released from duty, and Bob and Roxie traveled back to Pittsburgh.
=====================================
After the war's end, Everett built a few small homes in Walnut Creek, where son Loren, wife Kay & their Dodds family lived.
======================================
1956 Everett took a supervisory job, building a new high school in Anderson, Ca., and he and Mabel took their little Shasta trailer up there, camping on the grounds (and loving it), all winter long.
====================================
Everett died in the hospital at Castro Valley, of esophageal cancer, next to the Hayward, Calif. home they had bought.
My grandpa was a man of fine character and great talent, and was much loved by his family and friends.
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