 1903 - 1984 (80 years)
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| Name |
Howard Roosevelt "Ted" Mendenhall [1, 2] |
| Born |
9 Oct 1903 |
Greenwood, Arkansas ("Old Home Place")  [3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
3 Mar 1984 |
Shafter, California [2] |
| Buried |
Shafter Memorial Park, Shafter, California [4] |
| Person ID |
I1707 |
Carley Bisher's Ancestry |
| Last Modified |
26 Jan 2015 |
| Father |
John Robert Mendenhall, b. 10 Jan 1848, Russelville, Arkansas , d. 21 Jan 1931 (Age 83 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Columbia Waldroop, b. 1 Jan 1869, Springfield, Missouri , d. 10 Nov 1953, San Jose, California (Age 84 years) |
| Married |
15 Sep 1889 |
Greenwood, Arkansas [3] |
| Family ID |
F732 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Ruie Viola Spicer, b. 15 Jan 1912, Williams, Oklahoma , d. 5 Aug 2006, Shafter, California (Age 94 years) |
| Married |
26 May 1934 [3] |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
10 Nov 2022 |
| Family ID |
F912 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Ted met his second wife, Ruie, while working in the mines in Williams, Oklahoma (where Ruie lived.) Oscar and Fred Mendenhall lived in Williams at the time but Ted was commuting from Greenwood, 20 miles away. Ted and Ruie came to California in 1936 looking for work. They moved to Shafter, near Bakersfield, and lived initially in a tent city while working on the surrounding farms. They went to see the ocean in 1937. Says Ruie, "The ocean was no big thing. As long as I can see God's sunrise and sunset with nothing blocking it, I'm happy. Now I'm fenced in." At first they picked hops and apricots. Later, Ted got a job working in the oil fields and they moved into a trailer and then a two room cabin. They bought some land and had a small ranch, where they lived until Ted's death.
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