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Charles Myrle Dewey

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Charles Myrle Dewey Veteran

Birth
Deweyville, Box Elder County, Utah, USA
Death
14 May 1964 (aged 59)
Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Add to Map
Plot
Cypress Hill 40-4-E
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Graveside Rites Monday
For Retired Officer, 59

Special to The Tribune

LONG BEACH, CALIF. - Military and Masonic graveside services will be conducted Monday in Salt Lake City for Lt. Col. Charles M. Dewey, 59, retired Air Force officer, who died Thursday in a Long Beach hospital after a lingering illness. Col. Dewey, a former Salt Lake resident, was a veteran of 30 years Army and Air Force service. He served in North Africa and Italy during World War II and was in the Korean conflict in 1952. He retired from the Air Force in I960.

HIS LAST assignment was at Cheli Air Force Base, Maywood, Calif. At the time of his death, Col. Dewey was employed by the security division of Northrup Aircraft. Col. Dewey belonged to the Long Beach Lodge No. 888 of the BPOE, the El Bekal Shrine and the Long Beach Consistory.

HE WAS BORN June 5, 1904, in Deweyville, Utah, a son of C. J. and Mary C. Dewey. He married Isabelle Halton, In 1932, in Salt Lake City. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mrs. Dewey died in 1955. She had been the advertising manager of ZCMI, Salt Lake City.

SURVIVORS include a daughter, Mrs. Leonard (Patricia) Shea, Long Beach; a grandson; mother, Mrs. Mary Baker, Salt Lake City; two half-brothers, three half-sisters, Max Baker, Salt Lake City; Russel Baker, Redwood City; Mrs. Edith Galbraith, Chula Vista; Mrs. Virginia Blackman, Deweyville, Utah; Mrs. Mary Waldon, Virginia

GRAVESIDE services will be Monday at 11 a.m., at the Wasatch Lawn Cemetery. Funeral services were conducted Saturday in Long Beach.

The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, May 17, 1964
Graveside Rites Monday
For Retired Officer, 59

Special to The Tribune

LONG BEACH, CALIF. - Military and Masonic graveside services will be conducted Monday in Salt Lake City for Lt. Col. Charles M. Dewey, 59, retired Air Force officer, who died Thursday in a Long Beach hospital after a lingering illness. Col. Dewey, a former Salt Lake resident, was a veteran of 30 years Army and Air Force service. He served in North Africa and Italy during World War II and was in the Korean conflict in 1952. He retired from the Air Force in I960.

HIS LAST assignment was at Cheli Air Force Base, Maywood, Calif. At the time of his death, Col. Dewey was employed by the security division of Northrup Aircraft. Col. Dewey belonged to the Long Beach Lodge No. 888 of the BPOE, the El Bekal Shrine and the Long Beach Consistory.

HE WAS BORN June 5, 1904, in Deweyville, Utah, a son of C. J. and Mary C. Dewey. He married Isabelle Halton, In 1932, in Salt Lake City. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mrs. Dewey died in 1955. She had been the advertising manager of ZCMI, Salt Lake City.

SURVIVORS include a daughter, Mrs. Leonard (Patricia) Shea, Long Beach; a grandson; mother, Mrs. Mary Baker, Salt Lake City; two half-brothers, three half-sisters, Max Baker, Salt Lake City; Russel Baker, Redwood City; Mrs. Edith Galbraith, Chula Vista; Mrs. Virginia Blackman, Deweyville, Utah; Mrs. Mary Waldon, Virginia

GRAVESIDE services will be Monday at 11 a.m., at the Wasatch Lawn Cemetery. Funeral services were conducted Saturday in Long Beach.

The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, May 17, 1964

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