Jim is the son of John Fred Poppin and Hazel Nicholas Seminoff. He is one of eight children: John, Alice, James, Nell, Mary, George, Hazel, and Dorothy. His father was previously married to Parasha Andreyovna Bogdanov (1870-1907). There were six children from that union: Alex, Nicholas, Fred, Anna, William, Hazel.
Jim married Estelle-Bessie John Klistoff on 30 Jun 1935 in San Francisco, CA. They have two sons, James and Nick.
===========================
Death Notice
San Francisco Chronicle, dated Tuesday, May 8, 1990, Page B6
In South S.F. on May 6, 1990; beloved husband of Estelle; father of Jim and Nick; 3 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
Evening service will be held Tuesday, May 8 at 7:00 P.M.; Funeral Service Wed. May 9 at 1:00 at DAPHNE, #1 Church St. Interment Russian Sectarian Cemetery.
===========================
Certificate of Death Transcribed
Copied from: San Mateo County Recorders Office Death Certificates
District No.: 41
Local Registration No.: 001907
Full Name of Deceased: James Poppin
Date and Hour of Death: May 6, 1990 0030
Place of death: Kaiser Hospital 1200 El Camino Real, So. San Francisco, San Mateo Co.,
Usual residence of deceased: 27 Vienna St. San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Calif.
Years resided: In county: 77 Citizen of USA
Military Service: 1943-1945
SSN: 561-05-0982
Male/White/Russian/Married
Name of Spouse: Estelle Klistoff
Deceased date of birth: July 12, 1912
Age at death: 77
Birthplace: CA
Education: 12
Occupation: Longshoreman/40 years
Employer: ILWW Local 6
Kind of business/industry: Maritime
Father's name and birthplace: John Poppin/Russia
Mother's maiden name and birthplace: Estelle b. Poppin, wife
Informant's name: Estelle B. Poppin, wife
Informant's address: 27 Vienna St. San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Calif.
Burial Date and Place: May 9, 1990 Russian Sect., CMT, Colma, CA
Embalmers Name and License No.: Ed Zaboski #7760
Funeral director: Daphne Funerals F738
Cause of death: Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Due to: Aortic Atherosclerosis
Due to: Arteriosclerosis
Other Significant: Hypertension
Reported to coroner: Yes, 90-497
Signed: Paul B. Jensen, Coroner
Filed Date: May 08, 1990
Registrar: Bradley P. Gilbert, MD
Transcribed by Eva Lou Gomez, February 2001
===========================
James John Poppin, my father's brother, saw and visited with Stephan Petrovich Seminishev and his brother Mihail Petrovich Seminishev in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR in 1979. James did not see Yakov Petrovich Seminishev who was alive and lived about fifty miles from Tbilisi. Yakov could not make the trip to Tbilisi for the visit because of illness. Pyotor Danilovich's family still use the original name of Seminishev and use it this date in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR.
===========================
Biographical Sketch written by George John Poppin, brother of John Poppin. Written April 2000 in San Francisco, CA
- James John Poppin -
Yes, brother Jim was one of a kind. He graduated from Rivervale Grammar School in Pleasant Grove, CA about 1926, or so and was uncomfortable about enrolling in Lincoln Union High School. He never did attend high school. He was a talented baseball player, a "grease monkey" (he worked on automobiles and their repair) and enjoyed riding his Harley Davidson motor cycle. At one time a passing vehicle fractured his right elbow as Jim was tending to his Harley.
Jim was a handsome young man, tall, muscular with a humorous disposition. He was a "lady's man" and a very good teamster. He drove the family Ford truck to deliver the harvested grain to the grain merchant "Walter Jansen & Son" in Lincoln, CA. Those were pleasant days....going barefooted in jeans and an old shirt.. feeling the warm mother earth trickling through my toes, .hunting and willow rod " cat-fishing" the "lake" with a piece of line, cork floater, single hook and earthworm on our farm across the river from the Beith dairy on the Auburn Ravine river in the mid 1920's.
Jim married Estelle Klistoff in San Francisco. I was an usher at the wedding in my blue serge suit and tie. They had two children...Jimmie and Nick.. two very pleasant young men. Jim went on to work as a warehouseman and belonged to the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union, Local 6 in San Francisco. He became a foreman for Burton and Partland, Public Weighers. He headed a gang of workers and was responsible for the weighing and strapping of green coffee and related cargo on the waterfront of San Francisco. He joined the US Navy and saw action aboard a Landing Craft in the South Pacific Theater of Operations during World War 2. Jim and Stella bought a home on Vienna Street in San Francisco and he resided there until his death of complications of the liver just a few years ago. Today, 8 May 2000, Estelle is still living by herself in the residence on Vienna Street.
I will always think of Brother Jim. In 1924, when I was six years of age, we bicycled (I rode across the frame of the bike) from the Victorian house ranch northwest of Lincoln, CA to the highway to Marysville ( rain or shine, through the muddy roads). We hid the bicycle under a bridge and hitchhiked to Marysville, which was about twenty miles north of our location. In Marysville we sold the Sunday papers. Jim had a regular Sunday paper route and I was posted on a corner with a huge pile of papers and learned to shout, "Frisco Examiner Chronicle Papers" atop of my lungs. It paid off. We collected our money and went on to enjoy veal cutlets at the Chinese restaurant after which we attended several, old-time silent western movies. Jack Hoxy in Red-hot Leather, Fred Thompson and many other western heroes of the 1920's.. In late afternoon we hitchhiked back to the bicycle hidden under the bridge, mounted it and cycled back to the ranch to count our change from the money we had made in Marysville.
On another occasion we were riding the buggy drawn by my silver grey horse Dolly to Fair Oaks Grammar School in 1924-25. Jim held the reigns and sat in the front of the four wooden wheeled buggy with a top. Alice and Mary sat next to him and I sat at their feet on the floor of the buggy. Sister Nell sat in the back of the buggy atop of the "rumble seat". There were no hard top secondary roads to school , just long dirt roads coming and going to school. As we approached an overflow pool of rainwater , suddenly brother Jim decided to soak the wooden spokes of the buggy in the pool of water for the wooden spokes began to sound a bit loose and creaky and needed to be water expanded. Jim guided Dolly and the buggy to the middle of the pond and we got stuck ...couldn't budge! What a mess!! All of us had to wade in the water from the hung up buggy to the bank of the pool....all soaking wet. The buggy, relieved of us passengers, was extricated from the pond and we eventually got home...one wet bunch of kids. You should have heard the loud comments from Alice and the rest of us...brother Jim roared with laughter for that was the only sensible thing to do in this Keystone Cops humorous situation. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay...gone from the earth to a better land I know....now only the MEMORIES remain.
I will not ever forget the times brother Jim, Tom Davis, Dick and Johnnie Davis and myself would go "on a stew" on the river banks of the Auburn Ravine river in 1925-26. Rivervale , Pleasant Grove, CA. A "stew"consisted of several dressed meadowlarks and blackbirds placed in a large tin can of water with rice, potatoes, onions, salt, and pepper and cooked atop of a fire...campfire style. The DELICIOUS flavor and aroma arising from the cooking stew on the banks of the river was unforgettable. That was a meal for all times and more. Jim was always a good cook. He got up early in the morning and made cookies for our Karo Syrup lunch pail while attending Fair Oaks Grammar School , northwest of Lincoln in the 1920's.
Yes, it was Brother Jim who discovered McKenzie River , east of Eugene, OR while looking for a shortcut from highway five to the highway leading to Sister Dorothy's place in ID..
Mr. Tuttle invited Jim and his family to stay at the Log Cabin resort at McKenzie Bridge, OR . They later stayed at the Cedar Wood Lodge. Dottie and I and our children have been making our annual vacation at the McKenzie River since our first trip in 1960. Yes, Nancy, that is the same Mr. Tuttle who told you to get rid of the crummy dog (Lady) from his riverside property. Remember??
A crooner he wasn't but a singer he was. I recall him singing songs while we milked the cows during our short stay in Vanden (Fairfield) CA.
Do you remember the Christmas eve visits of "Uncle" Jim and Aunt Stella and the moving pictures Jim made of the occasion at our home on Seventeenth Avenue in San Francisco?? Yes, Jim you and I had our good times together...they were pleasant moments while they lasted. Now there is only sister Dorothy and I that are living with the memories of the once proud and happy family. Good bye dear brother Jim. Rest in peace.
===========================
June 1, 2002
Uncle Jim and Aunt Estelle lived on Vienna Street in San Francisco. Sometimes we would visit them or else they would come to our house. Mostly it was at Christmas time that we would see each other. I vividly remember as a child how cousins Jim and Nick had a monster mask on their bedroom wall and they called it the "Boogie Man". They would put me in their room, turn off the light and close the door. It scared me to death. They had a lot of fun teasing me. Aunt Estelle had a small garden that was terraced. She always had pretty flowers growing in her yard. Uncle Jim would put up a toy train that ran underneath the Christmas tree on a track. The cars were the really big cars and it was so exciting to go over their house at Christmas to see that train. They also had these different lights on the tree that had some sort of liquid inside and it would create bubbles when the liquid got warm. Their house was small and was located on a steep hill. My goodness that hill seemed big when I was small.
Nick joined the Air Force and was stationed in Japan. I would make cookies for him and put them in a small coffee can. I'm sure they were stale as could be when they arrived at their destination. It was nice to get mail from overseas. I dearly loved my aunt and uncle. Their sons were neat too. Uncle Jim bought a movie camera with the bright light for indoor pictures. He loved taking pictures. He would take his camera on vacations and would bring over the projector and we'd all sit around and watch home movies. It was exciting to see the McKenzie River and all of the fish they caught. It was especially funny when Nick or Jim accidentally caught a salmon out of season. The fish was injured and they couldn't throw it back in the river. So after the fish was cleaned, all of the fish remains were wrapped up and they drove a distance down the road to get rid of the evidence. What a hoot! Then he would line us all up and take our picture. Having the connection to Uncle Jim's family was about as close as I got to my father's family.
Thank you Uncle Jim for being such a great uncle. [Nancy Poppin Posey]
===========================
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about James J Poppin
Name: James J Poppin
Port of Departure: Cristobal, Canal Zone
Ship Name: Franz Sigel
Search Ship Database: Search the Franz Sigel in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 36
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_6826
Page Number: 140
Jim married Estelle-Bessie John Klistoff on 30 Jun 1935 in San Francisco, CA. They have two sons, James and Nick.
===========================
Death Notice
San Francisco Chronicle, dated Tuesday, May 8, 1990, Page B6
In South S.F. on May 6, 1990; beloved husband of Estelle; father of Jim and Nick; 3 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
Evening service will be held Tuesday, May 8 at 7:00 P.M.; Funeral Service Wed. May 9 at 1:00 at DAPHNE, #1 Church St. Interment Russian Sectarian Cemetery.
===========================
Certificate of Death Transcribed
Copied from: San Mateo County Recorders Office Death Certificates
District No.: 41
Local Registration No.: 001907
Full Name of Deceased: James Poppin
Date and Hour of Death: May 6, 1990 0030
Place of death: Kaiser Hospital 1200 El Camino Real, So. San Francisco, San Mateo Co.,
Usual residence of deceased: 27 Vienna St. San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Calif.
Years resided: In county: 77 Citizen of USA
Military Service: 1943-1945
SSN: 561-05-0982
Male/White/Russian/Married
Name of Spouse: Estelle Klistoff
Deceased date of birth: July 12, 1912
Age at death: 77
Birthplace: CA
Education: 12
Occupation: Longshoreman/40 years
Employer: ILWW Local 6
Kind of business/industry: Maritime
Father's name and birthplace: John Poppin/Russia
Mother's maiden name and birthplace: Estelle b. Poppin, wife
Informant's name: Estelle B. Poppin, wife
Informant's address: 27 Vienna St. San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Calif.
Burial Date and Place: May 9, 1990 Russian Sect., CMT, Colma, CA
Embalmers Name and License No.: Ed Zaboski #7760
Funeral director: Daphne Funerals F738
Cause of death: Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Due to: Aortic Atherosclerosis
Due to: Arteriosclerosis
Other Significant: Hypertension
Reported to coroner: Yes, 90-497
Signed: Paul B. Jensen, Coroner
Filed Date: May 08, 1990
Registrar: Bradley P. Gilbert, MD
Transcribed by Eva Lou Gomez, February 2001
===========================
James John Poppin, my father's brother, saw and visited with Stephan Petrovich Seminishev and his brother Mihail Petrovich Seminishev in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR in 1979. James did not see Yakov Petrovich Seminishev who was alive and lived about fifty miles from Tbilisi. Yakov could not make the trip to Tbilisi for the visit because of illness. Pyotor Danilovich's family still use the original name of Seminishev and use it this date in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR.
===========================
Biographical Sketch written by George John Poppin, brother of John Poppin. Written April 2000 in San Francisco, CA
- James John Poppin -
Yes, brother Jim was one of a kind. He graduated from Rivervale Grammar School in Pleasant Grove, CA about 1926, or so and was uncomfortable about enrolling in Lincoln Union High School. He never did attend high school. He was a talented baseball player, a "grease monkey" (he worked on automobiles and their repair) and enjoyed riding his Harley Davidson motor cycle. At one time a passing vehicle fractured his right elbow as Jim was tending to his Harley.
Jim was a handsome young man, tall, muscular with a humorous disposition. He was a "lady's man" and a very good teamster. He drove the family Ford truck to deliver the harvested grain to the grain merchant "Walter Jansen & Son" in Lincoln, CA. Those were pleasant days....going barefooted in jeans and an old shirt.. feeling the warm mother earth trickling through my toes, .hunting and willow rod " cat-fishing" the "lake" with a piece of line, cork floater, single hook and earthworm on our farm across the river from the Beith dairy on the Auburn Ravine river in the mid 1920's.
Jim married Estelle Klistoff in San Francisco. I was an usher at the wedding in my blue serge suit and tie. They had two children...Jimmie and Nick.. two very pleasant young men. Jim went on to work as a warehouseman and belonged to the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union, Local 6 in San Francisco. He became a foreman for Burton and Partland, Public Weighers. He headed a gang of workers and was responsible for the weighing and strapping of green coffee and related cargo on the waterfront of San Francisco. He joined the US Navy and saw action aboard a Landing Craft in the South Pacific Theater of Operations during World War 2. Jim and Stella bought a home on Vienna Street in San Francisco and he resided there until his death of complications of the liver just a few years ago. Today, 8 May 2000, Estelle is still living by herself in the residence on Vienna Street.
I will always think of Brother Jim. In 1924, when I was six years of age, we bicycled (I rode across the frame of the bike) from the Victorian house ranch northwest of Lincoln, CA to the highway to Marysville ( rain or shine, through the muddy roads). We hid the bicycle under a bridge and hitchhiked to Marysville, which was about twenty miles north of our location. In Marysville we sold the Sunday papers. Jim had a regular Sunday paper route and I was posted on a corner with a huge pile of papers and learned to shout, "Frisco Examiner Chronicle Papers" atop of my lungs. It paid off. We collected our money and went on to enjoy veal cutlets at the Chinese restaurant after which we attended several, old-time silent western movies. Jack Hoxy in Red-hot Leather, Fred Thompson and many other western heroes of the 1920's.. In late afternoon we hitchhiked back to the bicycle hidden under the bridge, mounted it and cycled back to the ranch to count our change from the money we had made in Marysville.
On another occasion we were riding the buggy drawn by my silver grey horse Dolly to Fair Oaks Grammar School in 1924-25. Jim held the reigns and sat in the front of the four wooden wheeled buggy with a top. Alice and Mary sat next to him and I sat at their feet on the floor of the buggy. Sister Nell sat in the back of the buggy atop of the "rumble seat". There were no hard top secondary roads to school , just long dirt roads coming and going to school. As we approached an overflow pool of rainwater , suddenly brother Jim decided to soak the wooden spokes of the buggy in the pool of water for the wooden spokes began to sound a bit loose and creaky and needed to be water expanded. Jim guided Dolly and the buggy to the middle of the pond and we got stuck ...couldn't budge! What a mess!! All of us had to wade in the water from the hung up buggy to the bank of the pool....all soaking wet. The buggy, relieved of us passengers, was extricated from the pond and we eventually got home...one wet bunch of kids. You should have heard the loud comments from Alice and the rest of us...brother Jim roared with laughter for that was the only sensible thing to do in this Keystone Cops humorous situation. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay...gone from the earth to a better land I know....now only the MEMORIES remain.
I will not ever forget the times brother Jim, Tom Davis, Dick and Johnnie Davis and myself would go "on a stew" on the river banks of the Auburn Ravine river in 1925-26. Rivervale , Pleasant Grove, CA. A "stew"consisted of several dressed meadowlarks and blackbirds placed in a large tin can of water with rice, potatoes, onions, salt, and pepper and cooked atop of a fire...campfire style. The DELICIOUS flavor and aroma arising from the cooking stew on the banks of the river was unforgettable. That was a meal for all times and more. Jim was always a good cook. He got up early in the morning and made cookies for our Karo Syrup lunch pail while attending Fair Oaks Grammar School , northwest of Lincoln in the 1920's.
Yes, it was Brother Jim who discovered McKenzie River , east of Eugene, OR while looking for a shortcut from highway five to the highway leading to Sister Dorothy's place in ID..
Mr. Tuttle invited Jim and his family to stay at the Log Cabin resort at McKenzie Bridge, OR . They later stayed at the Cedar Wood Lodge. Dottie and I and our children have been making our annual vacation at the McKenzie River since our first trip in 1960. Yes, Nancy, that is the same Mr. Tuttle who told you to get rid of the crummy dog (Lady) from his riverside property. Remember??
A crooner he wasn't but a singer he was. I recall him singing songs while we milked the cows during our short stay in Vanden (Fairfield) CA.
Do you remember the Christmas eve visits of "Uncle" Jim and Aunt Stella and the moving pictures Jim made of the occasion at our home on Seventeenth Avenue in San Francisco?? Yes, Jim you and I had our good times together...they were pleasant moments while they lasted. Now there is only sister Dorothy and I that are living with the memories of the once proud and happy family. Good bye dear brother Jim. Rest in peace.
===========================
June 1, 2002
Uncle Jim and Aunt Estelle lived on Vienna Street in San Francisco. Sometimes we would visit them or else they would come to our house. Mostly it was at Christmas time that we would see each other. I vividly remember as a child how cousins Jim and Nick had a monster mask on their bedroom wall and they called it the "Boogie Man". They would put me in their room, turn off the light and close the door. It scared me to death. They had a lot of fun teasing me. Aunt Estelle had a small garden that was terraced. She always had pretty flowers growing in her yard. Uncle Jim would put up a toy train that ran underneath the Christmas tree on a track. The cars were the really big cars and it was so exciting to go over their house at Christmas to see that train. They also had these different lights on the tree that had some sort of liquid inside and it would create bubbles when the liquid got warm. Their house was small and was located on a steep hill. My goodness that hill seemed big when I was small.
Nick joined the Air Force and was stationed in Japan. I would make cookies for him and put them in a small coffee can. I'm sure they were stale as could be when they arrived at their destination. It was nice to get mail from overseas. I dearly loved my aunt and uncle. Their sons were neat too. Uncle Jim bought a movie camera with the bright light for indoor pictures. He loved taking pictures. He would take his camera on vacations and would bring over the projector and we'd all sit around and watch home movies. It was exciting to see the McKenzie River and all of the fish they caught. It was especially funny when Nick or Jim accidentally caught a salmon out of season. The fish was injured and they couldn't throw it back in the river. So after the fish was cleaned, all of the fish remains were wrapped up and they drove a distance down the road to get rid of the evidence. What a hoot! Then he would line us all up and take our picture. Having the connection to Uncle Jim's family was about as close as I got to my father's family.
Thank you Uncle Jim for being such a great uncle. [Nancy Poppin Posey]
===========================
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about James J Poppin
Name: James J Poppin
Port of Departure: Cristobal, Canal Zone
Ship Name: Franz Sigel
Search Ship Database: Search the Franz Sigel in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 36
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_6826
Page Number: 140
Jim is the son of John Fred Poppin and Hazel Nicholas Seminoff. He is one of eight children: John, Alice, James, Nell, Mary, George, Hazel, and Dorothy. His father was previously married to Parasha Andreyovna Bogdanov (1870-1907). There were six children from that union: Alex, Nicholas, Fred, Anna, William, Hazel.
Jim married Estelle-Bessie John Klistoff on 30 Jun 1935 in San Francisco, CA. They have two sons, James and Nick.
===========================
Death Notice
San Francisco Chronicle, dated Tuesday, May 8, 1990, Page B6
In South S.F. on May 6, 1990; beloved husband of Estelle; father of Jim and Nick; 3 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
Evening service will be held Tuesday, May 8 at 7:00 P.M.; Funeral Service Wed. May 9 at 1:00 at DAPHNE, #1 Church St. Interment Russian Sectarian Cemetery.
===========================
Certificate of Death Transcribed
Copied from: San Mateo County Recorders Office Death Certificates
District No.: 41
Local Registration No.: 001907
Full Name of Deceased: James Poppin
Date and Hour of Death: May 6, 1990 0030
Place of death: Kaiser Hospital 1200 El Camino Real, So. San Francisco, San Mateo Co.,
Usual residence of deceased: 27 Vienna St. San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Calif.
Years resided: In county: 77 Citizen of USA
Military Service: 1943-1945
SSN: 561-05-0982
Male/White/Russian/Married
Name of Spouse: Estelle Klistoff
Deceased date of birth: July 12, 1912
Age at death: 77
Birthplace: CA
Education: 12
Occupation: Longshoreman/40 years
Employer: ILWW Local 6
Kind of business/industry: Maritime
Father's name and birthplace: John Poppin/Russia
Mother's maiden name and birthplace: Estelle b. Poppin, wife
Informant's name: Estelle B. Poppin, wife
Informant's address: 27 Vienna St. San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Calif.
Burial Date and Place: May 9, 1990 Russian Sect., CMT, Colma, CA
Embalmers Name and License No.: Ed Zaboski #7760
Funeral director: Daphne Funerals F738
Cause of death: Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Due to: Aortic Atherosclerosis
Due to: Arteriosclerosis
Other Significant: Hypertension
Reported to coroner: Yes, 90-497
Signed: Paul B. Jensen, Coroner
Filed Date: May 08, 1990
Registrar: Bradley P. Gilbert, MD
Transcribed by Eva Lou Gomez, February 2001
===========================
James John Poppin, my father's brother, saw and visited with Stephan Petrovich Seminishev and his brother Mihail Petrovich Seminishev in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR in 1979. James did not see Yakov Petrovich Seminishev who was alive and lived about fifty miles from Tbilisi. Yakov could not make the trip to Tbilisi for the visit because of illness. Pyotor Danilovich's family still use the original name of Seminishev and use it this date in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR.
===========================
Biographical Sketch written by George John Poppin, brother of John Poppin. Written April 2000 in San Francisco, CA
- James John Poppin -
Yes, brother Jim was one of a kind. He graduated from Rivervale Grammar School in Pleasant Grove, CA about 1926, or so and was uncomfortable about enrolling in Lincoln Union High School. He never did attend high school. He was a talented baseball player, a "grease monkey" (he worked on automobiles and their repair) and enjoyed riding his Harley Davidson motor cycle. At one time a passing vehicle fractured his right elbow as Jim was tending to his Harley.
Jim was a handsome young man, tall, muscular with a humorous disposition. He was a "lady's man" and a very good teamster. He drove the family Ford truck to deliver the harvested grain to the grain merchant "Walter Jansen & Son" in Lincoln, CA. Those were pleasant days....going barefooted in jeans and an old shirt.. feeling the warm mother earth trickling through my toes, .hunting and willow rod " cat-fishing" the "lake" with a piece of line, cork floater, single hook and earthworm on our farm across the river from the Beith dairy on the Auburn Ravine river in the mid 1920's.
Jim married Estelle Klistoff in San Francisco. I was an usher at the wedding in my blue serge suit and tie. They had two children...Jimmie and Nick.. two very pleasant young men. Jim went on to work as a warehouseman and belonged to the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union, Local 6 in San Francisco. He became a foreman for Burton and Partland, Public Weighers. He headed a gang of workers and was responsible for the weighing and strapping of green coffee and related cargo on the waterfront of San Francisco. He joined the US Navy and saw action aboard a Landing Craft in the South Pacific Theater of Operations during World War 2. Jim and Stella bought a home on Vienna Street in San Francisco and he resided there until his death of complications of the liver just a few years ago. Today, 8 May 2000, Estelle is still living by herself in the residence on Vienna Street.
I will always think of Brother Jim. In 1924, when I was six years of age, we bicycled (I rode across the frame of the bike) from the Victorian house ranch northwest of Lincoln, CA to the highway to Marysville ( rain or shine, through the muddy roads). We hid the bicycle under a bridge and hitchhiked to Marysville, which was about twenty miles north of our location. In Marysville we sold the Sunday papers. Jim had a regular Sunday paper route and I was posted on a corner with a huge pile of papers and learned to shout, "Frisco Examiner Chronicle Papers" atop of my lungs. It paid off. We collected our money and went on to enjoy veal cutlets at the Chinese restaurant after which we attended several, old-time silent western movies. Jack Hoxy in Red-hot Leather, Fred Thompson and many other western heroes of the 1920's.. In late afternoon we hitchhiked back to the bicycle hidden under the bridge, mounted it and cycled back to the ranch to count our change from the money we had made in Marysville.
On another occasion we were riding the buggy drawn by my silver grey horse Dolly to Fair Oaks Grammar School in 1924-25. Jim held the reigns and sat in the front of the four wooden wheeled buggy with a top. Alice and Mary sat next to him and I sat at their feet on the floor of the buggy. Sister Nell sat in the back of the buggy atop of the "rumble seat". There were no hard top secondary roads to school , just long dirt roads coming and going to school. As we approached an overflow pool of rainwater , suddenly brother Jim decided to soak the wooden spokes of the buggy in the pool of water for the wooden spokes began to sound a bit loose and creaky and needed to be water expanded. Jim guided Dolly and the buggy to the middle of the pond and we got stuck ...couldn't budge! What a mess!! All of us had to wade in the water from the hung up buggy to the bank of the pool....all soaking wet. The buggy, relieved of us passengers, was extricated from the pond and we eventually got home...one wet bunch of kids. You should have heard the loud comments from Alice and the rest of us...brother Jim roared with laughter for that was the only sensible thing to do in this Keystone Cops humorous situation. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay...gone from the earth to a better land I know....now only the MEMORIES remain.
I will not ever forget the times brother Jim, Tom Davis, Dick and Johnnie Davis and myself would go "on a stew" on the river banks of the Auburn Ravine river in 1925-26. Rivervale , Pleasant Grove, CA. A "stew"consisted of several dressed meadowlarks and blackbirds placed in a large tin can of water with rice, potatoes, onions, salt, and pepper and cooked atop of a fire...campfire style. The DELICIOUS flavor and aroma arising from the cooking stew on the banks of the river was unforgettable. That was a meal for all times and more. Jim was always a good cook. He got up early in the morning and made cookies for our Karo Syrup lunch pail while attending Fair Oaks Grammar School , northwest of Lincoln in the 1920's.
Yes, it was Brother Jim who discovered McKenzie River , east of Eugene, OR while looking for a shortcut from highway five to the highway leading to Sister Dorothy's place in ID..
Mr. Tuttle invited Jim and his family to stay at the Log Cabin resort at McKenzie Bridge, OR . They later stayed at the Cedar Wood Lodge. Dottie and I and our children have been making our annual vacation at the McKenzie River since our first trip in 1960. Yes, Nancy, that is the same Mr. Tuttle who told you to get rid of the crummy dog (Lady) from his riverside property. Remember??
A crooner he wasn't but a singer he was. I recall him singing songs while we milked the cows during our short stay in Vanden (Fairfield) CA.
Do you remember the Christmas eve visits of "Uncle" Jim and Aunt Stella and the moving pictures Jim made of the occasion at our home on Seventeenth Avenue in San Francisco?? Yes, Jim you and I had our good times together...they were pleasant moments while they lasted. Now there is only sister Dorothy and I that are living with the memories of the once proud and happy family. Good bye dear brother Jim. Rest in peace.
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June 1, 2002
Uncle Jim and Aunt Estelle lived on Vienna Street in San Francisco. Sometimes we would visit them or else they would come to our house. Mostly it was at Christmas time that we would see each other. I vividly remember as a child how cousins Jim and Nick had a monster mask on their bedroom wall and they called it the "Boogie Man". They would put me in their room, turn off the light and close the door. It scared me to death. They had a lot of fun teasing me. Aunt Estelle had a small garden that was terraced. She always had pretty flowers growing in her yard. Uncle Jim would put up a toy train that ran underneath the Christmas tree on a track. The cars were the really big cars and it was so exciting to go over their house at Christmas to see that train. They also had these different lights on the tree that had some sort of liquid inside and it would create bubbles when the liquid got warm. Their house was small and was located on a steep hill. My goodness that hill seemed big when I was small.
Nick joined the Air Force and was stationed in Japan. I would make cookies for him and put them in a small coffee can. I'm sure they were stale as could be when they arrived at their destination. It was nice to get mail from overseas. I dearly loved my aunt and uncle. Their sons were neat too. Uncle Jim bought a movie camera with the bright light for indoor pictures. He loved taking pictures. He would take his camera on vacations and would bring over the projector and we'd all sit around and watch home movies. It was exciting to see the McKenzie River and all of the fish they caught. It was especially funny when Nick or Jim accidentally caught a salmon out of season. The fish was injured and they couldn't throw it back in the river. So after the fish was cleaned, all of the fish remains were wrapped up and they drove a distance down the road to get rid of the evidence. What a hoot! Then he would line us all up and take our picture. Having the connection to Uncle Jim's family was about as close as I got to my father's family.
Thank you Uncle Jim for being such a great uncle. [Nancy Poppin Posey]
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New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about James J Poppin
Name: James J Poppin
Port of Departure: Cristobal, Canal Zone
Ship Name: Franz Sigel
Search Ship Database: Search the Franz Sigel in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 36
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_6826
Page Number: 140
Jim married Estelle-Bessie John Klistoff on 30 Jun 1935 in San Francisco, CA. They have two sons, James and Nick.
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Death Notice
San Francisco Chronicle, dated Tuesday, May 8, 1990, Page B6
In South S.F. on May 6, 1990; beloved husband of Estelle; father of Jim and Nick; 3 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
Evening service will be held Tuesday, May 8 at 7:00 P.M.; Funeral Service Wed. May 9 at 1:00 at DAPHNE, #1 Church St. Interment Russian Sectarian Cemetery.
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Certificate of Death Transcribed
Copied from: San Mateo County Recorders Office Death Certificates
District No.: 41
Local Registration No.: 001907
Full Name of Deceased: James Poppin
Date and Hour of Death: May 6, 1990 0030
Place of death: Kaiser Hospital 1200 El Camino Real, So. San Francisco, San Mateo Co.,
Usual residence of deceased: 27 Vienna St. San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Calif.
Years resided: In county: 77 Citizen of USA
Military Service: 1943-1945
SSN: 561-05-0982
Male/White/Russian/Married
Name of Spouse: Estelle Klistoff
Deceased date of birth: July 12, 1912
Age at death: 77
Birthplace: CA
Education: 12
Occupation: Longshoreman/40 years
Employer: ILWW Local 6
Kind of business/industry: Maritime
Father's name and birthplace: John Poppin/Russia
Mother's maiden name and birthplace: Estelle b. Poppin, wife
Informant's name: Estelle B. Poppin, wife
Informant's address: 27 Vienna St. San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Calif.
Burial Date and Place: May 9, 1990 Russian Sect., CMT, Colma, CA
Embalmers Name and License No.: Ed Zaboski #7760
Funeral director: Daphne Funerals F738
Cause of death: Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Due to: Aortic Atherosclerosis
Due to: Arteriosclerosis
Other Significant: Hypertension
Reported to coroner: Yes, 90-497
Signed: Paul B. Jensen, Coroner
Filed Date: May 08, 1990
Registrar: Bradley P. Gilbert, MD
Transcribed by Eva Lou Gomez, February 2001
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James John Poppin, my father's brother, saw and visited with Stephan Petrovich Seminishev and his brother Mihail Petrovich Seminishev in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR in 1979. James did not see Yakov Petrovich Seminishev who was alive and lived about fifty miles from Tbilisi. Yakov could not make the trip to Tbilisi for the visit because of illness. Pyotor Danilovich's family still use the original name of Seminishev and use it this date in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR.
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Biographical Sketch written by George John Poppin, brother of John Poppin. Written April 2000 in San Francisco, CA
- James John Poppin -
Yes, brother Jim was one of a kind. He graduated from Rivervale Grammar School in Pleasant Grove, CA about 1926, or so and was uncomfortable about enrolling in Lincoln Union High School. He never did attend high school. He was a talented baseball player, a "grease monkey" (he worked on automobiles and their repair) and enjoyed riding his Harley Davidson motor cycle. At one time a passing vehicle fractured his right elbow as Jim was tending to his Harley.
Jim was a handsome young man, tall, muscular with a humorous disposition. He was a "lady's man" and a very good teamster. He drove the family Ford truck to deliver the harvested grain to the grain merchant "Walter Jansen & Son" in Lincoln, CA. Those were pleasant days....going barefooted in jeans and an old shirt.. feeling the warm mother earth trickling through my toes, .hunting and willow rod " cat-fishing" the "lake" with a piece of line, cork floater, single hook and earthworm on our farm across the river from the Beith dairy on the Auburn Ravine river in the mid 1920's.
Jim married Estelle Klistoff in San Francisco. I was an usher at the wedding in my blue serge suit and tie. They had two children...Jimmie and Nick.. two very pleasant young men. Jim went on to work as a warehouseman and belonged to the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union, Local 6 in San Francisco. He became a foreman for Burton and Partland, Public Weighers. He headed a gang of workers and was responsible for the weighing and strapping of green coffee and related cargo on the waterfront of San Francisco. He joined the US Navy and saw action aboard a Landing Craft in the South Pacific Theater of Operations during World War 2. Jim and Stella bought a home on Vienna Street in San Francisco and he resided there until his death of complications of the liver just a few years ago. Today, 8 May 2000, Estelle is still living by herself in the residence on Vienna Street.
I will always think of Brother Jim. In 1924, when I was six years of age, we bicycled (I rode across the frame of the bike) from the Victorian house ranch northwest of Lincoln, CA to the highway to Marysville ( rain or shine, through the muddy roads). We hid the bicycle under a bridge and hitchhiked to Marysville, which was about twenty miles north of our location. In Marysville we sold the Sunday papers. Jim had a regular Sunday paper route and I was posted on a corner with a huge pile of papers and learned to shout, "Frisco Examiner Chronicle Papers" atop of my lungs. It paid off. We collected our money and went on to enjoy veal cutlets at the Chinese restaurant after which we attended several, old-time silent western movies. Jack Hoxy in Red-hot Leather, Fred Thompson and many other western heroes of the 1920's.. In late afternoon we hitchhiked back to the bicycle hidden under the bridge, mounted it and cycled back to the ranch to count our change from the money we had made in Marysville.
On another occasion we were riding the buggy drawn by my silver grey horse Dolly to Fair Oaks Grammar School in 1924-25. Jim held the reigns and sat in the front of the four wooden wheeled buggy with a top. Alice and Mary sat next to him and I sat at their feet on the floor of the buggy. Sister Nell sat in the back of the buggy atop of the "rumble seat". There were no hard top secondary roads to school , just long dirt roads coming and going to school. As we approached an overflow pool of rainwater , suddenly brother Jim decided to soak the wooden spokes of the buggy in the pool of water for the wooden spokes began to sound a bit loose and creaky and needed to be water expanded. Jim guided Dolly and the buggy to the middle of the pond and we got stuck ...couldn't budge! What a mess!! All of us had to wade in the water from the hung up buggy to the bank of the pool....all soaking wet. The buggy, relieved of us passengers, was extricated from the pond and we eventually got home...one wet bunch of kids. You should have heard the loud comments from Alice and the rest of us...brother Jim roared with laughter for that was the only sensible thing to do in this Keystone Cops humorous situation. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay...gone from the earth to a better land I know....now only the MEMORIES remain.
I will not ever forget the times brother Jim, Tom Davis, Dick and Johnnie Davis and myself would go "on a stew" on the river banks of the Auburn Ravine river in 1925-26. Rivervale , Pleasant Grove, CA. A "stew"consisted of several dressed meadowlarks and blackbirds placed in a large tin can of water with rice, potatoes, onions, salt, and pepper and cooked atop of a fire...campfire style. The DELICIOUS flavor and aroma arising from the cooking stew on the banks of the river was unforgettable. That was a meal for all times and more. Jim was always a good cook. He got up early in the morning and made cookies for our Karo Syrup lunch pail while attending Fair Oaks Grammar School , northwest of Lincoln in the 1920's.
Yes, it was Brother Jim who discovered McKenzie River , east of Eugene, OR while looking for a shortcut from highway five to the highway leading to Sister Dorothy's place in ID..
Mr. Tuttle invited Jim and his family to stay at the Log Cabin resort at McKenzie Bridge, OR . They later stayed at the Cedar Wood Lodge. Dottie and I and our children have been making our annual vacation at the McKenzie River since our first trip in 1960. Yes, Nancy, that is the same Mr. Tuttle who told you to get rid of the crummy dog (Lady) from his riverside property. Remember??
A crooner he wasn't but a singer he was. I recall him singing songs while we milked the cows during our short stay in Vanden (Fairfield) CA.
Do you remember the Christmas eve visits of "Uncle" Jim and Aunt Stella and the moving pictures Jim made of the occasion at our home on Seventeenth Avenue in San Francisco?? Yes, Jim you and I had our good times together...they were pleasant moments while they lasted. Now there is only sister Dorothy and I that are living with the memories of the once proud and happy family. Good bye dear brother Jim. Rest in peace.
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June 1, 2002
Uncle Jim and Aunt Estelle lived on Vienna Street in San Francisco. Sometimes we would visit them or else they would come to our house. Mostly it was at Christmas time that we would see each other. I vividly remember as a child how cousins Jim and Nick had a monster mask on their bedroom wall and they called it the "Boogie Man". They would put me in their room, turn off the light and close the door. It scared me to death. They had a lot of fun teasing me. Aunt Estelle had a small garden that was terraced. She always had pretty flowers growing in her yard. Uncle Jim would put up a toy train that ran underneath the Christmas tree on a track. The cars were the really big cars and it was so exciting to go over their house at Christmas to see that train. They also had these different lights on the tree that had some sort of liquid inside and it would create bubbles when the liquid got warm. Their house was small and was located on a steep hill. My goodness that hill seemed big when I was small.
Nick joined the Air Force and was stationed in Japan. I would make cookies for him and put them in a small coffee can. I'm sure they were stale as could be when they arrived at their destination. It was nice to get mail from overseas. I dearly loved my aunt and uncle. Their sons were neat too. Uncle Jim bought a movie camera with the bright light for indoor pictures. He loved taking pictures. He would take his camera on vacations and would bring over the projector and we'd all sit around and watch home movies. It was exciting to see the McKenzie River and all of the fish they caught. It was especially funny when Nick or Jim accidentally caught a salmon out of season. The fish was injured and they couldn't throw it back in the river. So after the fish was cleaned, all of the fish remains were wrapped up and they drove a distance down the road to get rid of the evidence. What a hoot! Then he would line us all up and take our picture. Having the connection to Uncle Jim's family was about as close as I got to my father's family.
Thank you Uncle Jim for being such a great uncle. [Nancy Poppin Posey]
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New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about James J Poppin
Name: James J Poppin
Port of Departure: Cristobal, Canal Zone
Ship Name: Franz Sigel
Search Ship Database: Search the Franz Sigel in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 36
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_6826
Page Number: 140
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