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 1916 - 2000 (84 years)
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| Name |
Walter Dyson Worth |
| Born |
28 Jul 1916 |
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Salesman |
| Died |
5 Aug 2000 |
Durango, Colorado |
| Buried |
11 Aug 2000 |
Prescott, Arizona (IOOF Cemetery) |
| Person ID |
I847 |
Bishir Family |
| Last Modified |
16 Jul 2020 |
| Family |
Barbara Irene Woods, b. 22 Nov 1921, Los Angeles, California (Lincoln Hospital) , d. 5 May 2005, Valencia, California (Age 83 years) |
| Married |
22 Sep 1946 |
Oneonta Congregational Church, South Pasadena, California [1] |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
16 Jul 2020 |
| Family ID |
F465 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Walter was born in Canada and spent his first seven years there. His family was fond of Marmalade (being good Britishers) and they frequently purchased it on bread in in town. Whenever Blanche and Walter wanted to be taken to Knox's store, a
toy store in Peterborough, and have their mother buy them a toy, they would cry, "Mommer laid in bed in Knox's store!" She would start laughing and have to take them in.
When his family moved to California in July of 1923, they eventually settled in a house on El Molino Drive in San Marino. (He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1942. ) Walter traveled to England and Sweden when he was 10 years old and
visited many of his relatives there. Mary Whitehouse, one of his Garlick relatives, remembers being amused when she met him that Walter insisted that he was not American but British. Jack Garlick remembers taking Walter and Billy to a movie
when they were there. Walter had gone down the aisle of the theater to buy some ice cream from a girl who was selling it. Another girl came up to the rest of the party and they all shouted, "Walter!! Come back. There's a girl here with some."
Everyone turned to look.
On a camping trip to the beach (Camp Kirk, Del Mar) he and his friends came across some gunpowder that had been dumped overboard by a passing Norwegian whaling vessel (which used it for harpoon guns.) The counselors at the camp put out a shoe
box lid and told the kids to put some of their gunpowder into it. They made a paper wick and lit it and it went "Poof!" The kids all clustered around to put more in but didn't notice the box lid was smoldering. They got the lid quite full when
it suddenly flashed. One kid died of his burns in the hospital. Walter was there for three weeks. Agda found one little coal of gunpowder in Walter's pants and had someone bury it out in an empty lot nearby - she was so scared.
Walter served as a radar technician during World War II in the Pacific (Hawaii and Guam). He was discharged as a Staff Sergeant in October 1945. After the war he married Barbara Woods. They had known each other as children growing up. They
lived for a few months with Barbara's parents, then briefly in Alhambra, and later in South Pasadena. They moved to Glendale in 1954 where they lived until their retirement in 1981, when they moved to Prescott, Arizona.
In early years, Walter worked for Mefford Chemicals, working with dyes. Later he was a salesman for Ames Harris Nevelle and Longview Fibre.
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- [S799] Birth Certificates and discharge papers and marriage license of Walter Dyson Worth and Barbara Woods. Birth Certificates of Stephen Woods Worth, Don D, (EF#82, SN#98, 26 Apr 1977).
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