m.#1 17 JUN 1940 Carson City, Carson Co., NV; Alice Chambers b. 05 JUN 1921 Winton, Merced Co., CA; d. 30 DEC 2008 Tehachapi, Kern Co., CA; buried: Wasco Memorial Park, Wasco, Kern Co., CA. Divorced: Bef. 1963 [Earl remarried]
NOTE: Earl and Alice moved to McFarland in 1945 to the Higginbotham family farm. They had two children and subsequently five grandchildren.
CHILDREN (living):
1) ___ Higginbotham [son]
2) ___ Higginbotham [daughter]
m.#2 23 SEP 1963 Orange Co., CA; Harriet L. Smith; b. Abt. 1920 (place unknown); d. ? ; buried: ? .
CHILDREN: no known issue.
PARENTS: divorcée Bessie "Monnie" Evelyn (née Dean) Price b. 11 AUG 1884 Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA; d. 21 JUL 1973 Soquel, Santa Cruz Co., CA; m.#2 08 NOV 1911 Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA; Enos "Pop" Marion Higginbotham b. 31 JAN 1881 Jenny Lind Twp., Calaveras, Co., CA; d. 03 JUN 1978 Soquel, Santa Cruz Co., CA. Both buried: Harmony Grove Cemetery, Lockeford, San Joaquin Co., CA. NOTE: They divorced prior to Monnie's Last Will & Testament written 23 DEC 1967.
SIBLINGS:
1) Marion Helene Higginbotham 1912-2009
2) James Marvin Higginbotham Sr. 1913-2005
3) Earl Raymond Higginbotham 1916-1967 [SELF]
HALF-SIBLING (from mother's first marriage 08 FEB 1903 to George Leon Price):
1) Dorothy "Dodo" Evelyn Price 1903-2000
EARL'S OBITUARY (California News Service; newspaper clipping) [names of survivors are removed]:
HIGGINBOTHAM RITE SET; WAR II VETERAN, FARMER
McFarland - Services for Earl Raymond Higginbotham, 51, World War II Air Force captain and longtime McFarland area farmer, who died Sunday in a San Francisco hospital, are slated for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the B.C. Wallace and Son Funeral Chapel, 520 North Sutter Street, Stockton. Burial will be in Harmony Grove Cemetery, an historic site near Lodi where his great-grandmother is also interred.
Mr. Higginbotham was born Sept. 5, 1916, in Los Angeles and came to McFarland as a youth in 1925 when his father, Enos M. Higginbotham, was named superintendent of the McFarland School District. He attended community schools, graduating from McFarland High School in 1933. A University of California alumnus, Mr. Higginbotham earned a bachelor of science degree in agriculture in 1938.
His wartime service was during the years 1940 to 1946. He entered the air corps as a lieutenant and attained the rank of captain. Most of his service duty was in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
Mr. Higginbotham was a member of the Lutheran Church in Delano, Delano Saddle Club and the Delano Chamber of Commerce.
Survivors include the widow, Harriet; a son, [name removed] of McFarland; a daughter, [name removed] of Tehachapi; parents Bessie and Enos M. Higginbotham of McFarland and Santa Cruz; two sisters, Mrs. Marion Caldwell of Soquel and Mrs. Dorothy Lawson of La Crescenta; a brother, James Higginbotham of McFarland, and four grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be [names removed].
m.#1 17 JUN 1940 Carson City, Carson Co., NV; Alice Chambers b. 05 JUN 1921 Winton, Merced Co., CA; d. 30 DEC 2008 Tehachapi, Kern Co., CA; buried: Wasco Memorial Park, Wasco, Kern Co., CA. Divorced: Bef. 1963 [Earl remarried]
NOTE: Earl and Alice moved to McFarland in 1945 to the Higginbotham family farm. They had two children and subsequently five grandchildren.
CHILDREN (living):
1) ___ Higginbotham [son]
2) ___ Higginbotham [daughter]
m.#2 23 SEP 1963 Orange Co., CA; Harriet L. Smith; b. Abt. 1920 (place unknown); d. ? ; buried: ? .
CHILDREN: no known issue.
PARENTS: divorcée Bessie "Monnie" Evelyn (née Dean) Price b. 11 AUG 1884 Lodi, San Joaquin Co., CA; d. 21 JUL 1973 Soquel, Santa Cruz Co., CA; m.#2 08 NOV 1911 Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA; Enos "Pop" Marion Higginbotham b. 31 JAN 1881 Jenny Lind Twp., Calaveras, Co., CA; d. 03 JUN 1978 Soquel, Santa Cruz Co., CA. Both buried: Harmony Grove Cemetery, Lockeford, San Joaquin Co., CA. NOTE: They divorced prior to Monnie's Last Will & Testament written 23 DEC 1967.
SIBLINGS:
1) Marion Helene Higginbotham 1912-2009
2) James Marvin Higginbotham Sr. 1913-2005
3) Earl Raymond Higginbotham 1916-1967 [SELF]
HALF-SIBLING (from mother's first marriage 08 FEB 1903 to George Leon Price):
1) Dorothy "Dodo" Evelyn Price 1903-2000
EARL'S OBITUARY (California News Service; newspaper clipping) [names of survivors are removed]:
HIGGINBOTHAM RITE SET; WAR II VETERAN, FARMER
McFarland - Services for Earl Raymond Higginbotham, 51, World War II Air Force captain and longtime McFarland area farmer, who died Sunday in a San Francisco hospital, are slated for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the B.C. Wallace and Son Funeral Chapel, 520 North Sutter Street, Stockton. Burial will be in Harmony Grove Cemetery, an historic site near Lodi where his great-grandmother is also interred.
Mr. Higginbotham was born Sept. 5, 1916, in Los Angeles and came to McFarland as a youth in 1925 when his father, Enos M. Higginbotham, was named superintendent of the McFarland School District. He attended community schools, graduating from McFarland High School in 1933. A University of California alumnus, Mr. Higginbotham earned a bachelor of science degree in agriculture in 1938.
His wartime service was during the years 1940 to 1946. He entered the air corps as a lieutenant and attained the rank of captain. Most of his service duty was in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
Mr. Higginbotham was a member of the Lutheran Church in Delano, Delano Saddle Club and the Delano Chamber of Commerce.
Survivors include the widow, Harriet; a son, [name removed] of McFarland; a daughter, [name removed] of Tehachapi; parents Bessie and Enos M. Higginbotham of McFarland and Santa Cruz; two sisters, Mrs. Marion Caldwell of Soquel and Mrs. Dorothy Lawson of La Crescenta; a brother, James Higginbotham of McFarland, and four grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be [names removed].
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