Nell is the daughter of John Fred Poppin and Hazel Nicholas Seminoff. She is one of eight children: John, Alice, James, Nell, Mary, George, Hazel, and Dorothy. Nell is also half sisters with Alex, Nicholas, Fred, Anna, William, and Hazel.
Nell married Billy Ward Payne (1913-1970) 22 Jun 1935 in San Diego County, CA. They had three children: Stewart, Hazel, and William.
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Death Notice
San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, December 11, 1980
Page 63
PAYNE, Nell ---- December 9, 1980; beloved mother of Hazel, William and Stewart Payne, dearest grandmother of Charlotte, Victoria, Paul, David, Miriam and Sylvia; great-grandmother of JoVana; beloved friend of Nettie Hudson.
Friends may call after 5 P.M. today, and are invited to attend evening services Friday, December 12, 7 P.M. Funeral services Saturday, 1 P.M.
DAPHNE 1 Church St.
Interment, Russian Sectarian Cemetery
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Biographical Sketch written by George John Poppin, brother of John Poppin. Written April 2000 in San Francisco, CA
- Nell Ivanovna Poppin -
My dear sister Nell. You had suffered so much and for so long though you had a happy childhood. I can still visualize her on the Fuller Ranch west of Lincoln, Ca in the mid 1920's. She was really a "betty coed", tall in a neat dress, bobby sock shoes, a neat looking button down sweater, a reddish tint to her well groomed hair , smiling, joking with members of the family and packing a binder under her arm on her way to Lincoln Union High School. She was a well-adjusted young lady and was a very popular student at Lincoln High and often related pleasant incidents and experiences at high school. Nell paid attention to her appearance. I recall that she used Max Factor facial makeup and usually looked prim and neat.
Nell was in the middle of the family lineage...fourth of eight children,so she was able to cope with the male and female siblings on either side of her. There were never arguments over clothes or shoes or "that's mine and not yours " type of conversation. The girls in the family appeared to get along with one another quite well. Nell had a beautiful singing voice and often joined in the chorus of family singers to vocalize the words to a music sheet which came out every other week or so. Popular songs of the day: Button Up Your Overcoat,. Louise, etc. the real stuff with a definite beat.
Neil's closest friend was Cousin Alice Popin of Elmira, CA ( Uncle Bill Popin's daughter). They worked together in the CPC (CA Packing Corporation--Del Monte products )asparagus cannery in the windy city of Rio Vista, CA in the latter part of the 1920's. They double dated and had many happy moments together as real friends. That friendship lasted for many years...until she married US Navy submariner William Payne.. It was then that Nell raised a family and lived at many parts of the USA in order to be near Bill Payne who was in the US Navy. She lived in Key West, Florida, Honolulu T.H.. (Yes that T.H. was Territory of Hawaii before Hawaii became one of the United States of America.) I don't recall that much about Bill Payne, they lived with us on Olmstead Street in San Francisco before I went to Santa Clara University in 1938. The last I heard about Bill he lived in Bay Town, Texas. Her children Hazel, Stewart, and William were diamonds in the eyes of their mother Nell. They bounced around from military station to military station until her husband left her for reasons unknown to me at the time.
That event was the "straw that broke the camel's back" for Nell.....Nell began to disappear in a quagmire of unusual behavioral moods. Nell began to take an interest in music and took violin lessons. She read a lot, spoke in a precise manner and was always cheerful, even though she did not know where their next meal would come from. That was a dirty deal on the part of her husband. He took off without leaving Nell a cent but she managed to survive with her children as best as she could. One could wonder why didn't the immediate members of the family come to the rescue of Nell's plight. I visited her and the children when she lived in a housing project in Richmond, CA.
During her growing up years in the early 1920's she was very close with my father and mother. As I recall she was always friendly with her brothers. In later years she would refer to me as "her Bud" (younger brother). Nell was an attractive young lady. She was intelligent, bright, and quick with the jokes.
Nell moved to San Francisco and lived with her brothers John and Jim, Sister Alice and later with sister Mary in a rented flat atop Potrero Hill. She usually worked in laundries...Galland Mercantile Company on eighth and Folsom Streets in San Francisco . We , the younger children were always happy when sister Nell came to visit us when we lived in Vanden and Sheridan in 1930 and 1934 for she usually brought a box of Snickers and Milky Way candy bars with her to our delight
I have got to put the following youthful experience down in black and white before I forget about it.....In the mid 1920's , when we lived on the Fuller ranch west of Lincoln, CA., I was an ardent fan of Tarzan ( like in Tarzan of the Apes). I tried to dress like him with a wooden knife at my side, I built a platform on a large willow tree with a rope hanging from a limb of the tree down to the ground. I would try and yell the famous Tarzan call to his animals and Jane, his partner. Well, by golly, Sister Nell became interested in my heroic project and joined me on the platform of my Tarzan hideaway next to the Auburn Ravine River. I think that she was Jane and I was Tarzan. What beautiful moments in "make believe" in our youthful days and now terrific memories of youth long gone.
When we lost Nell I was already married and had a family of my own. We buried Nell in the Russian Molokan Cemetery in Colma, CA. Her son Stewart is buried in the same grave with Nell. She now belongs to the ages.
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June 1, 2002
I don't remember Aunt Nell. I must have seen her maybe once, but that is the extent of my memory. While helping Dad write this book, I had the great opportunity to meet Nell's daughter in Seattle several years ago. Boy it was grand meeting my first cousin after over fifty years. As we talked catching up on each other's lives, I came to fully appreciate how fortunate I was to have Hazel as my cousin. I shall never forget that day.
Nell married Billy Ward Payne (1913-1970) 22 Jun 1935 in San Diego County, CA. They had three children: Stewart, Hazel, and William.
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Death Notice
San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, December 11, 1980
Page 63
PAYNE, Nell ---- December 9, 1980; beloved mother of Hazel, William and Stewart Payne, dearest grandmother of Charlotte, Victoria, Paul, David, Miriam and Sylvia; great-grandmother of JoVana; beloved friend of Nettie Hudson.
Friends may call after 5 P.M. today, and are invited to attend evening services Friday, December 12, 7 P.M. Funeral services Saturday, 1 P.M.
DAPHNE 1 Church St.
Interment, Russian Sectarian Cemetery
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Biographical Sketch written by George John Poppin, brother of John Poppin. Written April 2000 in San Francisco, CA
- Nell Ivanovna Poppin -
My dear sister Nell. You had suffered so much and for so long though you had a happy childhood. I can still visualize her on the Fuller Ranch west of Lincoln, Ca in the mid 1920's. She was really a "betty coed", tall in a neat dress, bobby sock shoes, a neat looking button down sweater, a reddish tint to her well groomed hair , smiling, joking with members of the family and packing a binder under her arm on her way to Lincoln Union High School. She was a well-adjusted young lady and was a very popular student at Lincoln High and often related pleasant incidents and experiences at high school. Nell paid attention to her appearance. I recall that she used Max Factor facial makeup and usually looked prim and neat.
Nell was in the middle of the family lineage...fourth of eight children,so she was able to cope with the male and female siblings on either side of her. There were never arguments over clothes or shoes or "that's mine and not yours " type of conversation. The girls in the family appeared to get along with one another quite well. Nell had a beautiful singing voice and often joined in the chorus of family singers to vocalize the words to a music sheet which came out every other week or so. Popular songs of the day: Button Up Your Overcoat,. Louise, etc. the real stuff with a definite beat.
Neil's closest friend was Cousin Alice Popin of Elmira, CA ( Uncle Bill Popin's daughter). They worked together in the CPC (CA Packing Corporation--Del Monte products )asparagus cannery in the windy city of Rio Vista, CA in the latter part of the 1920's. They double dated and had many happy moments together as real friends. That friendship lasted for many years...until she married US Navy submariner William Payne.. It was then that Nell raised a family and lived at many parts of the USA in order to be near Bill Payne who was in the US Navy. She lived in Key West, Florida, Honolulu T.H.. (Yes that T.H. was Territory of Hawaii before Hawaii became one of the United States of America.) I don't recall that much about Bill Payne, they lived with us on Olmstead Street in San Francisco before I went to Santa Clara University in 1938. The last I heard about Bill he lived in Bay Town, Texas. Her children Hazel, Stewart, and William were diamonds in the eyes of their mother Nell. They bounced around from military station to military station until her husband left her for reasons unknown to me at the time.
That event was the "straw that broke the camel's back" for Nell.....Nell began to disappear in a quagmire of unusual behavioral moods. Nell began to take an interest in music and took violin lessons. She read a lot, spoke in a precise manner and was always cheerful, even though she did not know where their next meal would come from. That was a dirty deal on the part of her husband. He took off without leaving Nell a cent but she managed to survive with her children as best as she could. One could wonder why didn't the immediate members of the family come to the rescue of Nell's plight. I visited her and the children when she lived in a housing project in Richmond, CA.
During her growing up years in the early 1920's she was very close with my father and mother. As I recall she was always friendly with her brothers. In later years she would refer to me as "her Bud" (younger brother). Nell was an attractive young lady. She was intelligent, bright, and quick with the jokes.
Nell moved to San Francisco and lived with her brothers John and Jim, Sister Alice and later with sister Mary in a rented flat atop Potrero Hill. She usually worked in laundries...Galland Mercantile Company on eighth and Folsom Streets in San Francisco . We , the younger children were always happy when sister Nell came to visit us when we lived in Vanden and Sheridan in 1930 and 1934 for she usually brought a box of Snickers and Milky Way candy bars with her to our delight
I have got to put the following youthful experience down in black and white before I forget about it.....In the mid 1920's , when we lived on the Fuller ranch west of Lincoln, CA., I was an ardent fan of Tarzan ( like in Tarzan of the Apes). I tried to dress like him with a wooden knife at my side, I built a platform on a large willow tree with a rope hanging from a limb of the tree down to the ground. I would try and yell the famous Tarzan call to his animals and Jane, his partner. Well, by golly, Sister Nell became interested in my heroic project and joined me on the platform of my Tarzan hideaway next to the Auburn Ravine River. I think that she was Jane and I was Tarzan. What beautiful moments in "make believe" in our youthful days and now terrific memories of youth long gone.
When we lost Nell I was already married and had a family of my own. We buried Nell in the Russian Molokan Cemetery in Colma, CA. Her son Stewart is buried in the same grave with Nell. She now belongs to the ages.
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June 1, 2002
I don't remember Aunt Nell. I must have seen her maybe once, but that is the extent of my memory. While helping Dad write this book, I had the great opportunity to meet Nell's daughter in Seattle several years ago. Boy it was grand meeting my first cousin after over fifty years. As we talked catching up on each other's lives, I came to fully appreciate how fortunate I was to have Hazel as my cousin. I shall never forget that day.
Nell is the daughter of John Fred Poppin and Hazel Nicholas Seminoff. She is one of eight children: John, Alice, James, Nell, Mary, George, Hazel, and Dorothy. Nell is also half sisters with Alex, Nicholas, Fred, Anna, William, and Hazel.
Nell married Billy Ward Payne (1913-1970) 22 Jun 1935 in San Diego County, CA. They had three children: Stewart, Hazel, and William.
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Death Notice
San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, December 11, 1980
Page 63
PAYNE, Nell ---- December 9, 1980; beloved mother of Hazel, William and Stewart Payne, dearest grandmother of Charlotte, Victoria, Paul, David, Miriam and Sylvia; great-grandmother of JoVana; beloved friend of Nettie Hudson.
Friends may call after 5 P.M. today, and are invited to attend evening services Friday, December 12, 7 P.M. Funeral services Saturday, 1 P.M.
DAPHNE 1 Church St.
Interment, Russian Sectarian Cemetery
======================
Biographical Sketch written by George John Poppin, brother of John Poppin. Written April 2000 in San Francisco, CA
- Nell Ivanovna Poppin -
My dear sister Nell. You had suffered so much and for so long though you had a happy childhood. I can still visualize her on the Fuller Ranch west of Lincoln, Ca in the mid 1920's. She was really a "betty coed", tall in a neat dress, bobby sock shoes, a neat looking button down sweater, a reddish tint to her well groomed hair , smiling, joking with members of the family and packing a binder under her arm on her way to Lincoln Union High School. She was a well-adjusted young lady and was a very popular student at Lincoln High and often related pleasant incidents and experiences at high school. Nell paid attention to her appearance. I recall that she used Max Factor facial makeup and usually looked prim and neat.
Nell was in the middle of the family lineage...fourth of eight children,so she was able to cope with the male and female siblings on either side of her. There were never arguments over clothes or shoes or "that's mine and not yours " type of conversation. The girls in the family appeared to get along with one another quite well. Nell had a beautiful singing voice and often joined in the chorus of family singers to vocalize the words to a music sheet which came out every other week or so. Popular songs of the day: Button Up Your Overcoat,. Louise, etc. the real stuff with a definite beat.
Neil's closest friend was Cousin Alice Popin of Elmira, CA ( Uncle Bill Popin's daughter). They worked together in the CPC (CA Packing Corporation--Del Monte products )asparagus cannery in the windy city of Rio Vista, CA in the latter part of the 1920's. They double dated and had many happy moments together as real friends. That friendship lasted for many years...until she married US Navy submariner William Payne.. It was then that Nell raised a family and lived at many parts of the USA in order to be near Bill Payne who was in the US Navy. She lived in Key West, Florida, Honolulu T.H.. (Yes that T.H. was Territory of Hawaii before Hawaii became one of the United States of America.) I don't recall that much about Bill Payne, they lived with us on Olmstead Street in San Francisco before I went to Santa Clara University in 1938. The last I heard about Bill he lived in Bay Town, Texas. Her children Hazel, Stewart, and William were diamonds in the eyes of their mother Nell. They bounced around from military station to military station until her husband left her for reasons unknown to me at the time.
That event was the "straw that broke the camel's back" for Nell.....Nell began to disappear in a quagmire of unusual behavioral moods. Nell began to take an interest in music and took violin lessons. She read a lot, spoke in a precise manner and was always cheerful, even though she did not know where their next meal would come from. That was a dirty deal on the part of her husband. He took off without leaving Nell a cent but she managed to survive with her children as best as she could. One could wonder why didn't the immediate members of the family come to the rescue of Nell's plight. I visited her and the children when she lived in a housing project in Richmond, CA.
During her growing up years in the early 1920's she was very close with my father and mother. As I recall she was always friendly with her brothers. In later years she would refer to me as "her Bud" (younger brother). Nell was an attractive young lady. She was intelligent, bright, and quick with the jokes.
Nell moved to San Francisco and lived with her brothers John and Jim, Sister Alice and later with sister Mary in a rented flat atop Potrero Hill. She usually worked in laundries...Galland Mercantile Company on eighth and Folsom Streets in San Francisco . We , the younger children were always happy when sister Nell came to visit us when we lived in Vanden and Sheridan in 1930 and 1934 for she usually brought a box of Snickers and Milky Way candy bars with her to our delight
I have got to put the following youthful experience down in black and white before I forget about it.....In the mid 1920's , when we lived on the Fuller ranch west of Lincoln, CA., I was an ardent fan of Tarzan ( like in Tarzan of the Apes). I tried to dress like him with a wooden knife at my side, I built a platform on a large willow tree with a rope hanging from a limb of the tree down to the ground. I would try and yell the famous Tarzan call to his animals and Jane, his partner. Well, by golly, Sister Nell became interested in my heroic project and joined me on the platform of my Tarzan hideaway next to the Auburn Ravine River. I think that she was Jane and I was Tarzan. What beautiful moments in "make believe" in our youthful days and now terrific memories of youth long gone.
When we lost Nell I was already married and had a family of my own. We buried Nell in the Russian Molokan Cemetery in Colma, CA. Her son Stewart is buried in the same grave with Nell. She now belongs to the ages.
---------------
June 1, 2002
I don't remember Aunt Nell. I must have seen her maybe once, but that is the extent of my memory. While helping Dad write this book, I had the great opportunity to meet Nell's daughter in Seattle several years ago. Boy it was grand meeting my first cousin after over fifty years. As we talked catching up on each other's lives, I came to fully appreciate how fortunate I was to have Hazel as my cousin. I shall never forget that day.
Nell married Billy Ward Payne (1913-1970) 22 Jun 1935 in San Diego County, CA. They had three children: Stewart, Hazel, and William.
======================
Death Notice
San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, December 11, 1980
Page 63
PAYNE, Nell ---- December 9, 1980; beloved mother of Hazel, William and Stewart Payne, dearest grandmother of Charlotte, Victoria, Paul, David, Miriam and Sylvia; great-grandmother of JoVana; beloved friend of Nettie Hudson.
Friends may call after 5 P.M. today, and are invited to attend evening services Friday, December 12, 7 P.M. Funeral services Saturday, 1 P.M.
DAPHNE 1 Church St.
Interment, Russian Sectarian Cemetery
======================
Biographical Sketch written by George John Poppin, brother of John Poppin. Written April 2000 in San Francisco, CA
- Nell Ivanovna Poppin -
My dear sister Nell. You had suffered so much and for so long though you had a happy childhood. I can still visualize her on the Fuller Ranch west of Lincoln, Ca in the mid 1920's. She was really a "betty coed", tall in a neat dress, bobby sock shoes, a neat looking button down sweater, a reddish tint to her well groomed hair , smiling, joking with members of the family and packing a binder under her arm on her way to Lincoln Union High School. She was a well-adjusted young lady and was a very popular student at Lincoln High and often related pleasant incidents and experiences at high school. Nell paid attention to her appearance. I recall that she used Max Factor facial makeup and usually looked prim and neat.
Nell was in the middle of the family lineage...fourth of eight children,so she was able to cope with the male and female siblings on either side of her. There were never arguments over clothes or shoes or "that's mine and not yours " type of conversation. The girls in the family appeared to get along with one another quite well. Nell had a beautiful singing voice and often joined in the chorus of family singers to vocalize the words to a music sheet which came out every other week or so. Popular songs of the day: Button Up Your Overcoat,. Louise, etc. the real stuff with a definite beat.
Neil's closest friend was Cousin Alice Popin of Elmira, CA ( Uncle Bill Popin's daughter). They worked together in the CPC (CA Packing Corporation--Del Monte products )asparagus cannery in the windy city of Rio Vista, CA in the latter part of the 1920's. They double dated and had many happy moments together as real friends. That friendship lasted for many years...until she married US Navy submariner William Payne.. It was then that Nell raised a family and lived at many parts of the USA in order to be near Bill Payne who was in the US Navy. She lived in Key West, Florida, Honolulu T.H.. (Yes that T.H. was Territory of Hawaii before Hawaii became one of the United States of America.) I don't recall that much about Bill Payne, they lived with us on Olmstead Street in San Francisco before I went to Santa Clara University in 1938. The last I heard about Bill he lived in Bay Town, Texas. Her children Hazel, Stewart, and William were diamonds in the eyes of their mother Nell. They bounced around from military station to military station until her husband left her for reasons unknown to me at the time.
That event was the "straw that broke the camel's back" for Nell.....Nell began to disappear in a quagmire of unusual behavioral moods. Nell began to take an interest in music and took violin lessons. She read a lot, spoke in a precise manner and was always cheerful, even though she did not know where their next meal would come from. That was a dirty deal on the part of her husband. He took off without leaving Nell a cent but she managed to survive with her children as best as she could. One could wonder why didn't the immediate members of the family come to the rescue of Nell's plight. I visited her and the children when she lived in a housing project in Richmond, CA.
During her growing up years in the early 1920's she was very close with my father and mother. As I recall she was always friendly with her brothers. In later years she would refer to me as "her Bud" (younger brother). Nell was an attractive young lady. She was intelligent, bright, and quick with the jokes.
Nell moved to San Francisco and lived with her brothers John and Jim, Sister Alice and later with sister Mary in a rented flat atop Potrero Hill. She usually worked in laundries...Galland Mercantile Company on eighth and Folsom Streets in San Francisco . We , the younger children were always happy when sister Nell came to visit us when we lived in Vanden and Sheridan in 1930 and 1934 for she usually brought a box of Snickers and Milky Way candy bars with her to our delight
I have got to put the following youthful experience down in black and white before I forget about it.....In the mid 1920's , when we lived on the Fuller ranch west of Lincoln, CA., I was an ardent fan of Tarzan ( like in Tarzan of the Apes). I tried to dress like him with a wooden knife at my side, I built a platform on a large willow tree with a rope hanging from a limb of the tree down to the ground. I would try and yell the famous Tarzan call to his animals and Jane, his partner. Well, by golly, Sister Nell became interested in my heroic project and joined me on the platform of my Tarzan hideaway next to the Auburn Ravine River. I think that she was Jane and I was Tarzan. What beautiful moments in "make believe" in our youthful days and now terrific memories of youth long gone.
When we lost Nell I was already married and had a family of my own. We buried Nell in the Russian Molokan Cemetery in Colma, CA. Her son Stewart is buried in the same grave with Nell. She now belongs to the ages.
---------------
June 1, 2002
I don't remember Aunt Nell. I must have seen her maybe once, but that is the extent of my memory. While helping Dad write this book, I had the great opportunity to meet Nell's daughter in Seattle several years ago. Boy it was grand meeting my first cousin after over fifty years. As we talked catching up on each other's lives, I came to fully appreciate how fortunate I was to have Hazel as my cousin. I shall never forget that day.
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"Rest in peace"
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Cameo on stone; stone shared with son
