Biographical Sketch written by George John Poppin, brother of John Poppin. Written April 2000 in San Francisco, CA
- Alice Ivanovna Poppin -
She meant well. That would be a very fair comment to make about sister Alice, who followed brother John in the family lineage. I remember, very clearly, in about 1927on the Fuller Ranch six miles west of Lincoln, CA. Alice was dressed in Levi Straus blue jeans and wore a straw hat as she sat "tending header". Tending header was manually moving a ship captain's wooden wheel-like control, which controlled the elevation of the combine grain harvester's cutting blade, as the fifteen foot water paddle -like attachment swept the wheat sheaves into the combine harvester's chopping mechanisms via a conveyor belt on the Harris combine grain harvester. She was quite aggressive in her tackling everyday chores such as tending header on the Harris combine grain harvester and could do a job as well as any man. There were no two ways about that. She could be very tender and pleasant as during the time she tutored me in basic math while we attended the Fair Oaks Grammar School about six miles northwest of Lincoln, CA in 1923-24. I believe that she attended Lincoln Union High School for a time; I can't vividly recall.
Sister Alice was about five foot seven inches tall and weighed about 130 pounds. She was an attractive young lady, as were all of my sisters. She had blonde hair, a pretty smile and laughed often. I remember her and my sisters curling their hair with a curling iron that was heated over a wood-burning kitchen stove. She made hard candy by heating brown sugar in an iron skillet on the wood stove and leaving it to cool before the entire family pitched in with the goody. In my teen years, Alice taught me the two-step dance, taught me how to ask a girl to dance and to be sure and thank her for the dance. She starched the collars of my white shirts and taught me to keep my shoulders back and to walk straight. She and her husband Errol lent me their nice car for my junior prom at Santa Clara University. Yes, those were memorable days. Alice was quite a pal.
Alice has one daughter, Joan (Joan O'Neill) who is married to Charles Fladger. They have a grown son by the name of young Charlie. The last time I heard, they lived in Palo Cedro, CA. Joan's father was a navy man whose home was in Boston, Massachusetts. Alice and Joan never hit it off too well. It may have because my mother had raised Joan since she was a baby. Alice married Errol Pettibone and lived for a time in Manmouth, OR. Errol died there and sister Alice and I buried his ashes at the war veteran's cemetery in San Bruno, CA. In the waning years of her life, Alice lived alone on Santa Teresa Avenue in San Jose, CA. She and sister Dorothy kept in touch but I avoided her. I did not hate her nor was I angry with her, but I stayed clear of her to avoid further trouble. And so it ended with Alice. She died in January of 2000 and was cremated. It was too bad for all of the misunderstanding between her and I. What a waste of time for nothing. Now she is resting in peace. May God have mercy on her soul and let Perpetual Light Shine upon her. Amen.
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DEATH CERTIFICATE TRANSCRIPTION
Alice Pettibone born CA
DOB April 12, 1911
DOD January 13, 2000
Father John Poppin born Russia
Mother Hazel Seminoff born Russia
Spouse widow
Informant George Andrews
Burial Cremation scattered off coast
Place of death Kaiser Santa Teresa
Cause of death respiratory failure, COPD
Occupation cannery worker for Dole
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Letter transcribed from a typed copy dated June 15, 1985 from George J. Poppin to his sister Alice Pettibone
Hi Sis,
Enclosed are the original pictures and the two letters from brother John which you sent to me in April of this year. Sorry it took so long to get them copied. Myrna Jean's husband, Bob, was kind enough to handle the whole project of getting negatives made of the original pictures and then making a set of the pictures for nephew Johnnie and Myrna Jean as well as a copy for Dottie and I. I had made photocopies of John's letters and sent them to Myrna and John. Now they have copies of the pictures, their father's letters and an autobiography of myself, which is sort of a history of our family, which I prepared for our four children, and to make things more complete they now have several pictures, which they had never seen before. Thank you for your wonderful cooperation in sending the letters and pictures for you have made a few people happier as a result of your kind consideration.
Myrna has two wonderful sons in their twenties and one heck of a nice husband, Bob, who is in the building contractor game and they are doing well. Nephew John, wife Anne and their son, John Luke Poppin are doing very well as well. Their son Luke will be entering St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School in the fall. He just graduated from grammar school and is already over six feet tall. He is a very intelligent young man, well mannered and you can talk to him as a young adult. Johnnie and Anne did an outstanding job of raising the young pleasant man. He looks like a Poppin. That is about it for the time being. I hope that this letter finds you in the best of health. Thanks again.
Your brother, George J. Poppin
Above sent with pictures and John's letters via Certified Letter on the above date. GJP
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4/23/00 Telephone conversation with George Andrews, nephew of Alice Poppin Pettibone. George's mother is Mary Poppin Andrews, sister of Alice Poppin Pettibone.
George Andrews took care of Aunt Alice's affairs for the past three years. Aunt Alice died of pneumonia January 13, 2000. It was sad in that the Resident Manager of the apartment where she stayed cleared out her apartment of all the personal effects. George does not know where they are. Aunt Alice had a cedar chest with lovely Russian crocheting and is upset that they could be lost.
Aunt Alice did not re-write her will and left her daughter Joan Fladger as Executor of the Estate. Aunt Dorothy Hollandsworth was the beneficiary.
Per a telephone interview with my aunt, Estelle Poppin on May 3, 2000, Aunt Alice owned property near Manmouth, OR. It was called Virgin Soil, a place where golf turf was grown. It is around the Corvallis area, north of Eugene. There is a Molokan settlement.
The Russian outfit that Alice had to be buried in, was given to her sister Nell Poppin Payne for her burial
The Neptune Society picked up Aunt Alice shortly after she died and was cremated
- Alice Ivanovna Poppin -
She meant well. That would be a very fair comment to make about sister Alice, who followed brother John in the family lineage. I remember, very clearly, in about 1927on the Fuller Ranch six miles west of Lincoln, CA. Alice was dressed in Levi Straus blue jeans and wore a straw hat as she sat "tending header". Tending header was manually moving a ship captain's wooden wheel-like control, which controlled the elevation of the combine grain harvester's cutting blade, as the fifteen foot water paddle -like attachment swept the wheat sheaves into the combine harvester's chopping mechanisms via a conveyor belt on the Harris combine grain harvester. She was quite aggressive in her tackling everyday chores such as tending header on the Harris combine grain harvester and could do a job as well as any man. There were no two ways about that. She could be very tender and pleasant as during the time she tutored me in basic math while we attended the Fair Oaks Grammar School about six miles northwest of Lincoln, CA in 1923-24. I believe that she attended Lincoln Union High School for a time; I can't vividly recall.
Sister Alice was about five foot seven inches tall and weighed about 130 pounds. She was an attractive young lady, as were all of my sisters. She had blonde hair, a pretty smile and laughed often. I remember her and my sisters curling their hair with a curling iron that was heated over a wood-burning kitchen stove. She made hard candy by heating brown sugar in an iron skillet on the wood stove and leaving it to cool before the entire family pitched in with the goody. In my teen years, Alice taught me the two-step dance, taught me how to ask a girl to dance and to be sure and thank her for the dance. She starched the collars of my white shirts and taught me to keep my shoulders back and to walk straight. She and her husband Errol lent me their nice car for my junior prom at Santa Clara University. Yes, those were memorable days. Alice was quite a pal.
Alice has one daughter, Joan (Joan O'Neill) who is married to Charles Fladger. They have a grown son by the name of young Charlie. The last time I heard, they lived in Palo Cedro, CA. Joan's father was a navy man whose home was in Boston, Massachusetts. Alice and Joan never hit it off too well. It may have because my mother had raised Joan since she was a baby. Alice married Errol Pettibone and lived for a time in Manmouth, OR. Errol died there and sister Alice and I buried his ashes at the war veteran's cemetery in San Bruno, CA. In the waning years of her life, Alice lived alone on Santa Teresa Avenue in San Jose, CA. She and sister Dorothy kept in touch but I avoided her. I did not hate her nor was I angry with her, but I stayed clear of her to avoid further trouble. And so it ended with Alice. She died in January of 2000 and was cremated. It was too bad for all of the misunderstanding between her and I. What a waste of time for nothing. Now she is resting in peace. May God have mercy on her soul and let Perpetual Light Shine upon her. Amen.
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DEATH CERTIFICATE TRANSCRIPTION
Alice Pettibone born CA
DOB April 12, 1911
DOD January 13, 2000
Father John Poppin born Russia
Mother Hazel Seminoff born Russia
Spouse widow
Informant George Andrews
Burial Cremation scattered off coast
Place of death Kaiser Santa Teresa
Cause of death respiratory failure, COPD
Occupation cannery worker for Dole
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Letter transcribed from a typed copy dated June 15, 1985 from George J. Poppin to his sister Alice Pettibone
Hi Sis,
Enclosed are the original pictures and the two letters from brother John which you sent to me in April of this year. Sorry it took so long to get them copied. Myrna Jean's husband, Bob, was kind enough to handle the whole project of getting negatives made of the original pictures and then making a set of the pictures for nephew Johnnie and Myrna Jean as well as a copy for Dottie and I. I had made photocopies of John's letters and sent them to Myrna and John. Now they have copies of the pictures, their father's letters and an autobiography of myself, which is sort of a history of our family, which I prepared for our four children, and to make things more complete they now have several pictures, which they had never seen before. Thank you for your wonderful cooperation in sending the letters and pictures for you have made a few people happier as a result of your kind consideration.
Myrna has two wonderful sons in their twenties and one heck of a nice husband, Bob, who is in the building contractor game and they are doing well. Nephew John, wife Anne and their son, John Luke Poppin are doing very well as well. Their son Luke will be entering St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School in the fall. He just graduated from grammar school and is already over six feet tall. He is a very intelligent young man, well mannered and you can talk to him as a young adult. Johnnie and Anne did an outstanding job of raising the young pleasant man. He looks like a Poppin. That is about it for the time being. I hope that this letter finds you in the best of health. Thanks again.
Your brother, George J. Poppin
Above sent with pictures and John's letters via Certified Letter on the above date. GJP
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4/23/00 Telephone conversation with George Andrews, nephew of Alice Poppin Pettibone. George's mother is Mary Poppin Andrews, sister of Alice Poppin Pettibone.
George Andrews took care of Aunt Alice's affairs for the past three years. Aunt Alice died of pneumonia January 13, 2000. It was sad in that the Resident Manager of the apartment where she stayed cleared out her apartment of all the personal effects. George does not know where they are. Aunt Alice had a cedar chest with lovely Russian crocheting and is upset that they could be lost.
Aunt Alice did not re-write her will and left her daughter Joan Fladger as Executor of the Estate. Aunt Dorothy Hollandsworth was the beneficiary.
Per a telephone interview with my aunt, Estelle Poppin on May 3, 2000, Aunt Alice owned property near Manmouth, OR. It was called Virgin Soil, a place where golf turf was grown. It is around the Corvallis area, north of Eugene. There is a Molokan settlement.
The Russian outfit that Alice had to be buried in, was given to her sister Nell Poppin Payne for her burial
The Neptune Society picked up Aunt Alice shortly after she died and was cremated
Biographical Sketch written by George John Poppin, brother of John Poppin. Written April 2000 in San Francisco, CA
- Alice Ivanovna Poppin -
She meant well. That would be a very fair comment to make about sister Alice, who followed brother John in the family lineage. I remember, very clearly, in about 1927on the Fuller Ranch six miles west of Lincoln, CA. Alice was dressed in Levi Straus blue jeans and wore a straw hat as she sat "tending header". Tending header was manually moving a ship captain's wooden wheel-like control, which controlled the elevation of the combine grain harvester's cutting blade, as the fifteen foot water paddle -like attachment swept the wheat sheaves into the combine harvester's chopping mechanisms via a conveyor belt on the Harris combine grain harvester. She was quite aggressive in her tackling everyday chores such as tending header on the Harris combine grain harvester and could do a job as well as any man. There were no two ways about that. She could be very tender and pleasant as during the time she tutored me in basic math while we attended the Fair Oaks Grammar School about six miles northwest of Lincoln, CA in 1923-24. I believe that she attended Lincoln Union High School for a time; I can't vividly recall.
Sister Alice was about five foot seven inches tall and weighed about 130 pounds. She was an attractive young lady, as were all of my sisters. She had blonde hair, a pretty smile and laughed often. I remember her and my sisters curling their hair with a curling iron that was heated over a wood-burning kitchen stove. She made hard candy by heating brown sugar in an iron skillet on the wood stove and leaving it to cool before the entire family pitched in with the goody. In my teen years, Alice taught me the two-step dance, taught me how to ask a girl to dance and to be sure and thank her for the dance. She starched the collars of my white shirts and taught me to keep my shoulders back and to walk straight. She and her husband Errol lent me their nice car for my junior prom at Santa Clara University. Yes, those were memorable days. Alice was quite a pal.
Alice has one daughter, Joan (Joan O'Neill) who is married to Charles Fladger. They have a grown son by the name of young Charlie. The last time I heard, they lived in Palo Cedro, CA. Joan's father was a navy man whose home was in Boston, Massachusetts. Alice and Joan never hit it off too well. It may have because my mother had raised Joan since she was a baby. Alice married Errol Pettibone and lived for a time in Manmouth, OR. Errol died there and sister Alice and I buried his ashes at the war veteran's cemetery in San Bruno, CA. In the waning years of her life, Alice lived alone on Santa Teresa Avenue in San Jose, CA. She and sister Dorothy kept in touch but I avoided her. I did not hate her nor was I angry with her, but I stayed clear of her to avoid further trouble. And so it ended with Alice. She died in January of 2000 and was cremated. It was too bad for all of the misunderstanding between her and I. What a waste of time for nothing. Now she is resting in peace. May God have mercy on her soul and let Perpetual Light Shine upon her. Amen.
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DEATH CERTIFICATE TRANSCRIPTION
Alice Pettibone born CA
DOB April 12, 1911
DOD January 13, 2000
Father John Poppin born Russia
Mother Hazel Seminoff born Russia
Spouse widow
Informant George Andrews
Burial Cremation scattered off coast
Place of death Kaiser Santa Teresa
Cause of death respiratory failure, COPD
Occupation cannery worker for Dole
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Letter transcribed from a typed copy dated June 15, 1985 from George J. Poppin to his sister Alice Pettibone
Hi Sis,
Enclosed are the original pictures and the two letters from brother John which you sent to me in April of this year. Sorry it took so long to get them copied. Myrna Jean's husband, Bob, was kind enough to handle the whole project of getting negatives made of the original pictures and then making a set of the pictures for nephew Johnnie and Myrna Jean as well as a copy for Dottie and I. I had made photocopies of John's letters and sent them to Myrna and John. Now they have copies of the pictures, their father's letters and an autobiography of myself, which is sort of a history of our family, which I prepared for our four children, and to make things more complete they now have several pictures, which they had never seen before. Thank you for your wonderful cooperation in sending the letters and pictures for you have made a few people happier as a result of your kind consideration.
Myrna has two wonderful sons in their twenties and one heck of a nice husband, Bob, who is in the building contractor game and they are doing well. Nephew John, wife Anne and their son, John Luke Poppin are doing very well as well. Their son Luke will be entering St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School in the fall. He just graduated from grammar school and is already over six feet tall. He is a very intelligent young man, well mannered and you can talk to him as a young adult. Johnnie and Anne did an outstanding job of raising the young pleasant man. He looks like a Poppin. That is about it for the time being. I hope that this letter finds you in the best of health. Thanks again.
Your brother, George J. Poppin
Above sent with pictures and John's letters via Certified Letter on the above date. GJP
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4/23/00 Telephone conversation with George Andrews, nephew of Alice Poppin Pettibone. George's mother is Mary Poppin Andrews, sister of Alice Poppin Pettibone.
George Andrews took care of Aunt Alice's affairs for the past three years. Aunt Alice died of pneumonia January 13, 2000. It was sad in that the Resident Manager of the apartment where she stayed cleared out her apartment of all the personal effects. George does not know where they are. Aunt Alice had a cedar chest with lovely Russian crocheting and is upset that they could be lost.
Aunt Alice did not re-write her will and left her daughter Joan Fladger as Executor of the Estate. Aunt Dorothy Hollandsworth was the beneficiary.
Per a telephone interview with my aunt, Estelle Poppin on May 3, 2000, Aunt Alice owned property near Manmouth, OR. It was called Virgin Soil, a place where golf turf was grown. It is around the Corvallis area, north of Eugene. There is a Molokan settlement.
The Russian outfit that Alice had to be buried in, was given to her sister Nell Poppin Payne for her burial
The Neptune Society picked up Aunt Alice shortly after she died and was cremated
- Alice Ivanovna Poppin -
She meant well. That would be a very fair comment to make about sister Alice, who followed brother John in the family lineage. I remember, very clearly, in about 1927on the Fuller Ranch six miles west of Lincoln, CA. Alice was dressed in Levi Straus blue jeans and wore a straw hat as she sat "tending header". Tending header was manually moving a ship captain's wooden wheel-like control, which controlled the elevation of the combine grain harvester's cutting blade, as the fifteen foot water paddle -like attachment swept the wheat sheaves into the combine harvester's chopping mechanisms via a conveyor belt on the Harris combine grain harvester. She was quite aggressive in her tackling everyday chores such as tending header on the Harris combine grain harvester and could do a job as well as any man. There were no two ways about that. She could be very tender and pleasant as during the time she tutored me in basic math while we attended the Fair Oaks Grammar School about six miles northwest of Lincoln, CA in 1923-24. I believe that she attended Lincoln Union High School for a time; I can't vividly recall.
Sister Alice was about five foot seven inches tall and weighed about 130 pounds. She was an attractive young lady, as were all of my sisters. She had blonde hair, a pretty smile and laughed often. I remember her and my sisters curling their hair with a curling iron that was heated over a wood-burning kitchen stove. She made hard candy by heating brown sugar in an iron skillet on the wood stove and leaving it to cool before the entire family pitched in with the goody. In my teen years, Alice taught me the two-step dance, taught me how to ask a girl to dance and to be sure and thank her for the dance. She starched the collars of my white shirts and taught me to keep my shoulders back and to walk straight. She and her husband Errol lent me their nice car for my junior prom at Santa Clara University. Yes, those were memorable days. Alice was quite a pal.
Alice has one daughter, Joan (Joan O'Neill) who is married to Charles Fladger. They have a grown son by the name of young Charlie. The last time I heard, they lived in Palo Cedro, CA. Joan's father was a navy man whose home was in Boston, Massachusetts. Alice and Joan never hit it off too well. It may have because my mother had raised Joan since she was a baby. Alice married Errol Pettibone and lived for a time in Manmouth, OR. Errol died there and sister Alice and I buried his ashes at the war veteran's cemetery in San Bruno, CA. In the waning years of her life, Alice lived alone on Santa Teresa Avenue in San Jose, CA. She and sister Dorothy kept in touch but I avoided her. I did not hate her nor was I angry with her, but I stayed clear of her to avoid further trouble. And so it ended with Alice. She died in January of 2000 and was cremated. It was too bad for all of the misunderstanding between her and I. What a waste of time for nothing. Now she is resting in peace. May God have mercy on her soul and let Perpetual Light Shine upon her. Amen.
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DEATH CERTIFICATE TRANSCRIPTION
Alice Pettibone born CA
DOB April 12, 1911
DOD January 13, 2000
Father John Poppin born Russia
Mother Hazel Seminoff born Russia
Spouse widow
Informant George Andrews
Burial Cremation scattered off coast
Place of death Kaiser Santa Teresa
Cause of death respiratory failure, COPD
Occupation cannery worker for Dole
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Letter transcribed from a typed copy dated June 15, 1985 from George J. Poppin to his sister Alice Pettibone
Hi Sis,
Enclosed are the original pictures and the two letters from brother John which you sent to me in April of this year. Sorry it took so long to get them copied. Myrna Jean's husband, Bob, was kind enough to handle the whole project of getting negatives made of the original pictures and then making a set of the pictures for nephew Johnnie and Myrna Jean as well as a copy for Dottie and I. I had made photocopies of John's letters and sent them to Myrna and John. Now they have copies of the pictures, their father's letters and an autobiography of myself, which is sort of a history of our family, which I prepared for our four children, and to make things more complete they now have several pictures, which they had never seen before. Thank you for your wonderful cooperation in sending the letters and pictures for you have made a few people happier as a result of your kind consideration.
Myrna has two wonderful sons in their twenties and one heck of a nice husband, Bob, who is in the building contractor game and they are doing well. Nephew John, wife Anne and their son, John Luke Poppin are doing very well as well. Their son Luke will be entering St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School in the fall. He just graduated from grammar school and is already over six feet tall. He is a very intelligent young man, well mannered and you can talk to him as a young adult. Johnnie and Anne did an outstanding job of raising the young pleasant man. He looks like a Poppin. That is about it for the time being. I hope that this letter finds you in the best of health. Thanks again.
Your brother, George J. Poppin
Above sent with pictures and John's letters via Certified Letter on the above date. GJP
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4/23/00 Telephone conversation with George Andrews, nephew of Alice Poppin Pettibone. George's mother is Mary Poppin Andrews, sister of Alice Poppin Pettibone.
George Andrews took care of Aunt Alice's affairs for the past three years. Aunt Alice died of pneumonia January 13, 2000. It was sad in that the Resident Manager of the apartment where she stayed cleared out her apartment of all the personal effects. George does not know where they are. Aunt Alice had a cedar chest with lovely Russian crocheting and is upset that they could be lost.
Aunt Alice did not re-write her will and left her daughter Joan Fladger as Executor of the Estate. Aunt Dorothy Hollandsworth was the beneficiary.
Per a telephone interview with my aunt, Estelle Poppin on May 3, 2000, Aunt Alice owned property near Manmouth, OR. It was called Virgin Soil, a place where golf turf was grown. It is around the Corvallis area, north of Eugene. There is a Molokan settlement.
The Russian outfit that Alice had to be buried in, was given to her sister Nell Poppin Payne for her burial
The Neptune Society picked up Aunt Alice shortly after she died and was cremated
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