Logger Dies in Plunge Over Bank
Raymond L. Chahon, 35-year-old Eureka logger, was killed at a logging operation idled by rain and snow on the Wiggins Ranch above the Big Bend of Mad River yesterday afternoon under what officials said today are puzzling circumstances.
Chahon and a second man, unidentified, were standing on a triangular promintory where two trees previously had been felled when the victim's companion, who had been facing in another direction, said he heard a slight sound. He turned just in time to see Chahon's feet disappear over the edge of a 25-foot drop.
Chahon died instantly, apparently of a broken neck, skull fracture and basal fracture, but the full cause will not be made official until autopsy findings are returned.
Deputy coroner Walter Schocker of Paul's Chapel, Arcata, who went to the scene to retrieve the body, said that he had examined the ground at the spot carefully to determine if a portion of the edge had given way but that there was no sign of such. Chahon possibly could have been leaning against one of the stumps and slipped off, accounting for the vertical head-first plunge, Shocker said, or a heart attack of fainting spell may have been contributory. The victim was seriously injured in another woods accident a year ago, he said.
Coroner W. Lloyd Wallace of Eureka today ordered an autopsy on the victim and stated that he will call an inquest regardless of the outcome.
Chaon's wife, Velma, and three children live at 1328 Gross Street here.
The body was taken to Cooper Mortuary in Eureka where funeral arrangements are pending.
Published on page 1 of the Eureka Humboldt Standard on March 23, 1962
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RAYMOND LEONARD CHAHON
March 22, 1962
1328 Gross Street, Eureka
Husband of Velma Chahon. Father of June Lee Chahon of Eureka, Joni Lyn Chahon of Eureka, Jeri Rae Chahon of Eureka. Son of Mrs. Clara Wesgaard of Fort Bragg. Brother of William Chahon of Grants Pass, Mrs. Edith Senn of Eureka, Mrs. Dorothy Hatch of Heber, Utah, Mrs. Jane Coversion of Fort Bragg. He is survived by several nephews and nieces.
Member of Native Sons. A native of Willits, age 35.
Services will be held at Cooper Mortuary Chapel of the Ferns at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 26, with the Rev. Gregory Morony officiating. Interment at Ocean View Cemetery.
Published in the Eureka Humboldt Standard on March 23, 1962
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Name: Raymond L Chahon
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 17 Aug 1926
Birth Place: California
Death Date: 22 Mar 1962
Death Place: Humboldt
Mother's Maiden Name: Adams
Son of Clara V. Adams and Gustave Cecil Chahon; brother of Ada, Dorothy, William, Jane and Edith Chahon.
Home in 1930: Willits, Mendocino, California
Home in 1940: Little Lake, Mendocino, California
Raymond was a veteran of World War II. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 3, 1944, in San Francisco. At the time of his enlistment he was single and employed as a fireman. He served with the 321st Infantry Regiment. He was awarded a bronze star medal and was honorably discharged on November 18, 1946.
Raymond's father, born March 25, 1895 in California, died May 26, 1952 in Mendocino County, CA.
Raymond's mother, born May 24, 1897 in Oregon, died October 6, 1964 in Mendocino County, CA.
SOURCE: ancestry.com
- California Death Index
- U.S. Federal Census
- U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- U.S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Raymond L. Chahon, 35-year-old Eureka logger, was killed at a logging operation idled by rain and snow on the Wiggins Ranch above the Big Bend of Mad River yesterday afternoon under what officials said today are puzzling circumstances.
Chahon and a second man, unidentified, were standing on a triangular promintory where two trees previously had been felled when the victim's companion, who had been facing in another direction, said he heard a slight sound. He turned just in time to see Chahon's feet disappear over the edge of a 25-foot drop.
Chahon died instantly, apparently of a broken neck, skull fracture and basal fracture, but the full cause will not be made official until autopsy findings are returned.
Deputy coroner Walter Schocker of Paul's Chapel, Arcata, who went to the scene to retrieve the body, said that he had examined the ground at the spot carefully to determine if a portion of the edge had given way but that there was no sign of such. Chahon possibly could have been leaning against one of the stumps and slipped off, accounting for the vertical head-first plunge, Shocker said, or a heart attack of fainting spell may have been contributory. The victim was seriously injured in another woods accident a year ago, he said.
Coroner W. Lloyd Wallace of Eureka today ordered an autopsy on the victim and stated that he will call an inquest regardless of the outcome.
Chaon's wife, Velma, and three children live at 1328 Gross Street here.
The body was taken to Cooper Mortuary in Eureka where funeral arrangements are pending.
Published on page 1 of the Eureka Humboldt Standard on March 23, 1962
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RAYMOND LEONARD CHAHON
March 22, 1962
1328 Gross Street, Eureka
Husband of Velma Chahon. Father of June Lee Chahon of Eureka, Joni Lyn Chahon of Eureka, Jeri Rae Chahon of Eureka. Son of Mrs. Clara Wesgaard of Fort Bragg. Brother of William Chahon of Grants Pass, Mrs. Edith Senn of Eureka, Mrs. Dorothy Hatch of Heber, Utah, Mrs. Jane Coversion of Fort Bragg. He is survived by several nephews and nieces.
Member of Native Sons. A native of Willits, age 35.
Services will be held at Cooper Mortuary Chapel of the Ferns at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 26, with the Rev. Gregory Morony officiating. Interment at Ocean View Cemetery.
Published in the Eureka Humboldt Standard on March 23, 1962
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Name: Raymond L Chahon
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 17 Aug 1926
Birth Place: California
Death Date: 22 Mar 1962
Death Place: Humboldt
Mother's Maiden Name: Adams
Son of Clara V. Adams and Gustave Cecil Chahon; brother of Ada, Dorothy, William, Jane and Edith Chahon.
Home in 1930: Willits, Mendocino, California
Home in 1940: Little Lake, Mendocino, California
Raymond was a veteran of World War II. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 3, 1944, in San Francisco. At the time of his enlistment he was single and employed as a fireman. He served with the 321st Infantry Regiment. He was awarded a bronze star medal and was honorably discharged on November 18, 1946.
Raymond's father, born March 25, 1895 in California, died May 26, 1952 in Mendocino County, CA.
Raymond's mother, born May 24, 1897 in Oregon, died October 6, 1964 in Mendocino County, CA.
SOURCE: ancestry.com
- California Death Index
- U.S. Federal Census
- U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- U.S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Logger Dies in Plunge Over Bank
Raymond L. Chahon, 35-year-old Eureka logger, was killed at a logging operation idled by rain and snow on the Wiggins Ranch above the Big Bend of Mad River yesterday afternoon under what officials said today are puzzling circumstances.
Chahon and a second man, unidentified, were standing on a triangular promintory where two trees previously had been felled when the victim's companion, who had been facing in another direction, said he heard a slight sound. He turned just in time to see Chahon's feet disappear over the edge of a 25-foot drop.
Chahon died instantly, apparently of a broken neck, skull fracture and basal fracture, but the full cause will not be made official until autopsy findings are returned.
Deputy coroner Walter Schocker of Paul's Chapel, Arcata, who went to the scene to retrieve the body, said that he had examined the ground at the spot carefully to determine if a portion of the edge had given way but that there was no sign of such. Chahon possibly could have been leaning against one of the stumps and slipped off, accounting for the vertical head-first plunge, Shocker said, or a heart attack of fainting spell may have been contributory. The victim was seriously injured in another woods accident a year ago, he said.
Coroner W. Lloyd Wallace of Eureka today ordered an autopsy on the victim and stated that he will call an inquest regardless of the outcome.
Chaon's wife, Velma, and three children live at 1328 Gross Street here.
The body was taken to Cooper Mortuary in Eureka where funeral arrangements are pending.
Published on page 1 of the Eureka Humboldt Standard on March 23, 1962
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RAYMOND LEONARD CHAHON
March 22, 1962
1328 Gross Street, Eureka
Husband of Velma Chahon. Father of June Lee Chahon of Eureka, Joni Lyn Chahon of Eureka, Jeri Rae Chahon of Eureka. Son of Mrs. Clara Wesgaard of Fort Bragg. Brother of William Chahon of Grants Pass, Mrs. Edith Senn of Eureka, Mrs. Dorothy Hatch of Heber, Utah, Mrs. Jane Coversion of Fort Bragg. He is survived by several nephews and nieces.
Member of Native Sons. A native of Willits, age 35.
Services will be held at Cooper Mortuary Chapel of the Ferns at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 26, with the Rev. Gregory Morony officiating. Interment at Ocean View Cemetery.
Published in the Eureka Humboldt Standard on March 23, 1962
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Name: Raymond L Chahon
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 17 Aug 1926
Birth Place: California
Death Date: 22 Mar 1962
Death Place: Humboldt
Mother's Maiden Name: Adams
Son of Clara V. Adams and Gustave Cecil Chahon; brother of Ada, Dorothy, William, Jane and Edith Chahon.
Home in 1930: Willits, Mendocino, California
Home in 1940: Little Lake, Mendocino, California
Raymond was a veteran of World War II. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 3, 1944, in San Francisco. At the time of his enlistment he was single and employed as a fireman. He served with the 321st Infantry Regiment. He was awarded a bronze star medal and was honorably discharged on November 18, 1946.
Raymond's father, born March 25, 1895 in California, died May 26, 1952 in Mendocino County, CA.
Raymond's mother, born May 24, 1897 in Oregon, died October 6, 1964 in Mendocino County, CA.
SOURCE: ancestry.com
- California Death Index
- U.S. Federal Census
- U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- U.S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Raymond L. Chahon, 35-year-old Eureka logger, was killed at a logging operation idled by rain and snow on the Wiggins Ranch above the Big Bend of Mad River yesterday afternoon under what officials said today are puzzling circumstances.
Chahon and a second man, unidentified, were standing on a triangular promintory where two trees previously had been felled when the victim's companion, who had been facing in another direction, said he heard a slight sound. He turned just in time to see Chahon's feet disappear over the edge of a 25-foot drop.
Chahon died instantly, apparently of a broken neck, skull fracture and basal fracture, but the full cause will not be made official until autopsy findings are returned.
Deputy coroner Walter Schocker of Paul's Chapel, Arcata, who went to the scene to retrieve the body, said that he had examined the ground at the spot carefully to determine if a portion of the edge had given way but that there was no sign of such. Chahon possibly could have been leaning against one of the stumps and slipped off, accounting for the vertical head-first plunge, Shocker said, or a heart attack of fainting spell may have been contributory. The victim was seriously injured in another woods accident a year ago, he said.
Coroner W. Lloyd Wallace of Eureka today ordered an autopsy on the victim and stated that he will call an inquest regardless of the outcome.
Chaon's wife, Velma, and three children live at 1328 Gross Street here.
The body was taken to Cooper Mortuary in Eureka where funeral arrangements are pending.
Published on page 1 of the Eureka Humboldt Standard on March 23, 1962
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RAYMOND LEONARD CHAHON
March 22, 1962
1328 Gross Street, Eureka
Husband of Velma Chahon. Father of June Lee Chahon of Eureka, Joni Lyn Chahon of Eureka, Jeri Rae Chahon of Eureka. Son of Mrs. Clara Wesgaard of Fort Bragg. Brother of William Chahon of Grants Pass, Mrs. Edith Senn of Eureka, Mrs. Dorothy Hatch of Heber, Utah, Mrs. Jane Coversion of Fort Bragg. He is survived by several nephews and nieces.
Member of Native Sons. A native of Willits, age 35.
Services will be held at Cooper Mortuary Chapel of the Ferns at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 26, with the Rev. Gregory Morony officiating. Interment at Ocean View Cemetery.
Published in the Eureka Humboldt Standard on March 23, 1962
___________________________________
Name: Raymond L Chahon
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 17 Aug 1926
Birth Place: California
Death Date: 22 Mar 1962
Death Place: Humboldt
Mother's Maiden Name: Adams
Son of Clara V. Adams and Gustave Cecil Chahon; brother of Ada, Dorothy, William, Jane and Edith Chahon.
Home in 1930: Willits, Mendocino, California
Home in 1940: Little Lake, Mendocino, California
Raymond was a veteran of World War II. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 3, 1944, in San Francisco. At the time of his enlistment he was single and employed as a fireman. He served with the 321st Infantry Regiment. He was awarded a bronze star medal and was honorably discharged on November 18, 1946.
Raymond's father, born March 25, 1895 in California, died May 26, 1952 in Mendocino County, CA.
Raymond's mother, born May 24, 1897 in Oregon, died October 6, 1964 in Mendocino County, CA.
SOURCE: ancestry.com
- California Death Index
- U.S. Federal Census
- U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- U.S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
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