My Family Tree - Chatfield, Noreen Ellen

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Fast-talking and quick-witted, Babe was swift to flirt, swift to laugh and swift to snap back. Thirteen-year-old Bob Day, Uncle George’s oldest son, rode by the Boucher Street house on his daily paper route, and the young black-haired Babe caught his eye. Lot’s of girls caught Bob’s eye, he was at that age, but Babe was something else. He remembers her well: “Snappy-eyed and snappy-mouthed—she was one snappy girl.”

She walked out on the family around 1950.

She was cremated and at my brother’s insistence her five children met to inter her ashes at the Memory Garden Memorial Park in Brea, Orange County, California. Two of us breathed a sigh of regret, two heaved a sigh of relief—and I—I was a mixture of both. Betty was disappointed Mom was ensconced so high up as it made it impossible to dance on her grave. I was grateful as I knew I was now out of her reach.

Occupation: Family variety store, seamstress, cook/housekeeper for priests.
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USA Census, 1940
Name: Norine Clemens
Event Place: Ward 1, Watsonville, Watsonville Judicial Township, Santa Cruz, California
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Birthplace: California
Birth Year (Estimated): 1916
Last Place of Residence: Same Place
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Carl Clemens Head M 34 Minnesota
Norine Clemens Wife F 24 California
Larry Clemens Son M 6 California
Carleen Clemens Dau F 5 California
Elizabeth A Clemens Dau F 0 California
District: 44-26 , Family Number: 118 , Sheet Number and Letter: 5A , Line Number: 38 , Digital Folder Number: 005456424 , Image Number: 00196

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Events

Event	Date	Place
Birth	29 September 1915	Los Molinos, Tehama Co., California, USA

Death	9 November 1968	Whittier, Los Angeles Co., California, USA
	Cause: Suicide following being mugged and robbed.
Census	1920	Chico, Butte Co., California, USA

Census	1930	Chico, Butte Co., California, USA

Census	1940	Watsonville Judicial Twp., Santa Cruz 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
Brother	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
	Chatfield, Noreen Ellen	29 September 1915	9 November 1968

Families

Family of Clemens, Carl John and Chatfield, Noreen Ellen

Married

Husband

Clemens, Carl John ( * 25 September 1905 + 16 September 1986 )

Event	Date	Place	Description
Divorce			Y

Marriage	4 February 1933	Colusa Co., California, USA

Divorce	December 1953	Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Colusa, Tuolumne Co., California, USA

Narrative

At an early hour this morning Miss Noreen Chatfield became the bride of Carl Clemens of Rochester, Minn., at a ceremony performed in Our Lady of Lourdes Church immediately following 8 o’clock mass services. The members of the immediate families of the contracting couple and close friends attended the ceremony. The groom is employed by the contracting firm that built the Colusa weir. His headquarters are in Stockton. At the close of the early morning service the bride and groom left for Stockton, where they will make their home. Their honeymoon has not been planned although they expect to visit the east sometime this summer. Clemens has many friends and relatives there.

Miss Chatfield is the daughter of Mrs. Nellie Chatfield of Colusa. They have resided here for the past year, coming from Chico. During that time two of Mrs. Chatfield’s daughters have become brides. Mrs. James Fouch, J., (Ina) was also married here recently.

At the impressive ceremony Margaret (Micki) Anderson of Chico, a close friend of the bride, was the bridesmaid. Lawrence Clemens of Stockton, brother of the groom, was the best man. The bride is a girl of many charms and has a large coterie of well wishing friends.

Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
Clemens, Gordon Lawrence	14 January 1934
Clemens, Carleen Barbara	March 1935
Clemens, Elizabeth Ann	3 December 1939	8 October 2004
Clemens, Claudia	28 March 1942	21 August 2011
Clemens, Catherine Frances	16 August 1948