My Family Tree - Chatfield, Roy Elmer

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Occupation: Diamond Match/mill worker, Chico Ice & Cold Storage/driver, Grey Eagle Lumber.

Headstones, Hearsay and a Little History:

Roy was shy around everyone except his sweetheart, Jo Chambers. Jo worked with his sisters at Diamond Match and was like family. Roy and Jo were best of friends, more like brother and sister. On Saturday nights they drove to Paradise to dance to the Charleston, Shag, and Swing to the Big Bands.

He proposed to Jo when he was eighteen and she nineteen, but he'd promised his mother Nellie he would stay home and not marry until she died. In return, Nellie promised Roy she'd leave him the house for as long as he lived. Jo had also promised her mother she wouldn't marry until her mother died, and although her mother had passed away some years before, Jo understood Roy's promise. He lived with Nellie until her death in 1956, respectfully waiting six months to marry his beloved. Roy was 55 and Jo, 56. They spent the next twenty-three years of married life in the Boucher Street house until Roy, at the age of 77, died of heart failure. He left the shingle and clapboard Chatfield house to his beloved.

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Events

Event	Date	Place
Birth	20 March 1901	Rifle, Garfield Co., Colorado, USA

Death	11 July 1978	Chico, Butte Co., California, USA
	Cause: Heart failure
Burial	14 July 1978	Chico Cmtry., Chico, Butte Co., California, USA

Census	1910	Sanders School District, Rosebud Co., Montana, USA

Census	1920	Chico, Butte Co., California, USA

Census	1930	Chico, Butte Co., California, USA

Census	1940	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
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
	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

Families

Family of Chatfield, Roy Elmer and Chambers, Josephine Elizabeth

Married

Wife

Chambers, Josephine Elizabeth ( * 8 February 1900 + January 1982 )

Event	Date	Place	Description	Sources
Marriage	1 August 1956	Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada, USA

Narrative

Chico Couple Marry in Reno Rites: A courtship of 38 years ended Wednesday as Roy CHATFIELD, 1543 Boucher Avenue, took as his bride Josephine Chambers of Shasta Way. The Chicoans were married at 9:30 a.m. in St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church by Fr. John O’Connor. For the occasion the bride chose a pink street length dress, a white carnation corsage and white accessories. Accompanying the couple to Reno was his sister, Mrs. Verda Day. Mrs. Chatfield is an inspector at Diamond Match Co. Both grew up in Chico and have lived their adult lives here. They are at home to their friends on Boucher Street.

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