My Family Tree - Chatfield, Charles Joseph

Narrative

Find A Grave Memorial# 32456449.

Served first in the National Guard, and then in 1918 in the army during World War I, serving in France. (CO.H. 160th Infantry 40th Division. A.E.F.)

In Aug of 1986—while watching a televised baseball game—Charley jumped up in the middle of a play and had a heart attack. At the age of ninety, he died where we would all like to end up—in Paradise.

PARADISE (E-R) — Graveside services for Charles Joseph CHATFIELD, 90, of Paradise will be held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday in Glen Oaks Memorial Park in Chico. He died Saturday in a ridge hospital.

Chatfield was born Nov 18, 1895, In Fruita, Colo., to Charles and Nellie Chatfield. He was educated in Colorado and Wyoming and graduated from high school in Montana. He came to Chico in 1913.

He entered the Army in 1916 and fought in the Mexican American War and in World War I. He came home in 1919.

Chatfield married his wife, Velma, in 1927, and they lived in Oroville for five years before moving to San Francisco and living there from 1935 to 1974. They retired to Paradise in 1974.

He worked for Westinghouse Electric Co. as a welder for 27 years.

A brother and a sister died previously. Survivors include his wife, Velma of Paradise; and a sister, Ina Fouch of Yuba City.

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Charley & Velma traveled the west visiting America's dams, herculean monuments to this country's ingenuity and hubris, Velma instructing Charley how to use the camera ("push the red button, Charley, push the red button…"), Charley taking reel after reel of color 8-millimeter movies of the panoramic views, all with no people in them. At seventeen, Charley worked on the Cody Dam in Wyoming; along with the weather, dams were his lifelong interest. The Chatfield Dam on the South Platte River in Colorado is named after his grandfather, I.W. Chatfield.

He belonged to camera club where members viewed one another's home movies and he had over a hundred reels of black and white film of dams throughout the USA—and one reel of the family.

Children: none

Narrative

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Events

Event	Date	Place
Birth	18 November 1895	Fruita, Mesa Co., Colorado, USA

Death	2 August 1986	Paradise, Butte Co., California, USA
	Cause: Heart attack
Burial	6 August 1986	Glen Oaks Memorial Park, Chico, Butte Co., California, USA

Census	1900	Rangley, White River, Picance Creek, Angora, Rio Blanco Co., Colorado, USA

Census	1920	Chico, Butte Co., California, USA

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Chatfield, Charles Henry	21 September 1870	23 July 1942
Mother	Chamberlin, Nellie Belle	7 March 1873	2 January 1956
	Chatfield, Charles Joseph	18 November 1895	2 August 1986
Brother	Chatfield, Leo Willard	23 October 1897	20 July 1956
Brother	Chatfield, Howard Francis	13 June 1899	16 January 1953
Brother	Chatfield, Roy Elmer	20 March 1901	11 July 1978
Sister	Chatfield, Nellie Mary	11 March 1903	21 November 1983
Brother	Chatfield, Gordon Gregory	20 December 1905	19 November 1948
Sister	Chatfield, Verda Agnes	23 August 1908	26 September 1978
Brother	Chatfield, Arden Sherman	29 August 1910	3 October 1981
Sister	Chatfield, Jacqueline	24 February 1913	17 February 1993
Sister	Chatfield, Noreen Ellen	29 September 1915	9 November 1968