Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr (1938–1981)
BIRTH 20 JUN 1938 • San Francisco CA
DEATH 4 APR 1981 • Sonoma County California
Name Meaning: Wakefield
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and probably also from a place of the same name in Northamptonshire. Both are named from an Old English wacu 'vigil', 'festival' (a derivative of wac(i)an 'to watch or wake') + feld 'pasture', 'open country', i.e. a patch of open land where a fair was held. Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
FAMILY HISTORY: Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962) and Mary Delores Schnoor-Wakefield (1906–1990) married on April 6, 1927. 53-days later, Orin Leroy Wakefield was born on 29 May 1927 and died the next day. Two years later, Mary gave birth to a baby girl, Dolores Lenora Wakefield-Yebra (1929–2001). It would be another nine and a half years, when Mary was in her 30's before Orin Jr. was born and more than likely a "surprise" pregnancy.
According to 1930 census date, Orin Sr. was a painting contractor and had attended a year of college while Mary only completed 8th grade, Orin Sr's dad was born in Oregon while Mary's dad was born in California. 5-years earlier, the family was living in San Francisco.
1940's SAN FRANCISO: The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937. The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was held on Treasure Island.At the same time the island of Alcatraz, a former military stockade, began its service as a federal maximum-security prison, housing notorious inmates such as Al Capone, and Robert Franklin Stroud, The Birdman of Alcatraz.
1938 BIRTH: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr. was born on June 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California, the third and final child of Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962), age 31 and Mary Delores Schnoor-Wakefield (1906–1990), age 32.
According to 1940 census data, the Wakefield's had been married for 16 years by the time Orin Jr. was born. They owned their home at 475 Evergreen, Daly City, California which was valued at $2,900.
1941 On November 3, 1941, Irwin Leroy Wakefield (1881–1944), Orin's grandfather was arrested by the secret service on suspicion of counterfeiting after building himself living quarters and a workshop under the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge pillars at the foot and Bryant Street.
WORLD WAR II: During World War II, San Francisco was the major mainland supply point and port of embarkation for the war in the Pacific. It also saw the largest and oldest enclave of Japanese outside of Japan, Japantown, completely remove all of its ethnic Japanese residents as a result of Executive Order 9066 that forced all Japanese of birth or descent in the United States to be interned. By 1943 many large sections of the neighborhood remained vacant due to the forced internment.
The void was quickly filled by thousands of African Americans who had left the South to find wartime industrial jobs in California as part of the Great Migration. Many African Americans also settled in the Fillmore District and most notably near the Bayview-Hunters Point shipyards, working in the dry-docks there. The same docks at Hunters Point would be used for loading the key fissile components of the first atomic bomb onto the USS Indianapolis in July 1945 for transfer to Tinian.
Orin's future wife, 'Jeannie' also grew up in the Bay Area and lived four and a half miles from him.
1955 MARRIAGE: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr (1938–1981) age 17, 4 months and 8 days old married, Jeanette Anne McGee, age14 years, 10 months, 3 days old on October 28, 1955, in San Mateo, California. Their first child, Jesse, was born 9-months and 1-week after their wedding.
CHILDREN:
1956 Birth of son Jesse Lee Wakefield (1956–2005)
04 Aug 1956 • San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
1957 Birth of son Alan Wakefield (1957–1990)
11 Aug 1957 • San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
1959 Birth of daughter Doreen Wakefield (1959–)
1962 Birth of daughter Maryann J. Wakefield-Poindexter (1962–)
At some point between 1959 and 1964, Orin Jr. meet and had a relationship with Rosa Socorro Cerda-Manuel (1930–2011) whose family lived in the same building as Orin's dad, Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962) 3330 24th Street San Francisco.
That relationship led to the birth of a daughter (verified with DNA)
*1965 Birth of daughter Donna Wakefield (1965–)
1970 Birth of son Orin Leroy Wakefield III (1970–)
1972 DIVORCE: Exactly two years after their last son, Orin Leroy Wakefield III was born in January of
1972, Jeanette and Orin Wakefield were granted a divorce in Sonoma County, California ending their 16-year marriage.
1972 MARRIAGE: On July 29, 1972, Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr (1938-1981) age 34, married Susan Lee Reid (1951–1993) age 20 in Sonoma, California. Their marriage lasted a little under 9-years.
1981 DEATH: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr died of heart failure on April 4, 1981 in Sonoma County, California. He was cremated and his ashes are interred in an unidentified California Cemetery.
BIRTH 20 JUN 1938 • San Francisco CA
DEATH 4 APR 1981 • Sonoma County California
Name Meaning: Wakefield
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and probably also from a place of the same name in Northamptonshire. Both are named from an Old English wacu 'vigil', 'festival' (a derivative of wac(i)an 'to watch or wake') + feld 'pasture', 'open country', i.e. a patch of open land where a fair was held. Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
FAMILY HISTORY: Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962) and Mary Delores Schnoor-Wakefield (1906–1990) married on April 6, 1927. 53-days later, Orin Leroy Wakefield was born on 29 May 1927 and died the next day. Two years later, Mary gave birth to a baby girl, Dolores Lenora Wakefield-Yebra (1929–2001). It would be another nine and a half years, when Mary was in her 30's before Orin Jr. was born and more than likely a "surprise" pregnancy.
According to 1930 census date, Orin Sr. was a painting contractor and had attended a year of college while Mary only completed 8th grade, Orin Sr's dad was born in Oregon while Mary's dad was born in California. 5-years earlier, the family was living in San Francisco.
1940's SAN FRANCISO: The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937. The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was held on Treasure Island.At the same time the island of Alcatraz, a former military stockade, began its service as a federal maximum-security prison, housing notorious inmates such as Al Capone, and Robert Franklin Stroud, The Birdman of Alcatraz.
1938 BIRTH: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr. was born on June 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California, the third and final child of Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962), age 31 and Mary Delores Schnoor-Wakefield (1906–1990), age 32.
According to 1940 census data, the Wakefield's had been married for 16 years by the time Orin Jr. was born. They owned their home at 475 Evergreen, Daly City, California which was valued at $2,900.
1941 On November 3, 1941, Irwin Leroy Wakefield (1881–1944), Orin's grandfather was arrested by the secret service on suspicion of counterfeiting after building himself living quarters and a workshop under the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge pillars at the foot and Bryant Street.
WORLD WAR II: During World War II, San Francisco was the major mainland supply point and port of embarkation for the war in the Pacific. It also saw the largest and oldest enclave of Japanese outside of Japan, Japantown, completely remove all of its ethnic Japanese residents as a result of Executive Order 9066 that forced all Japanese of birth or descent in the United States to be interned. By 1943 many large sections of the neighborhood remained vacant due to the forced internment.
The void was quickly filled by thousands of African Americans who had left the South to find wartime industrial jobs in California as part of the Great Migration. Many African Americans also settled in the Fillmore District and most notably near the Bayview-Hunters Point shipyards, working in the dry-docks there. The same docks at Hunters Point would be used for loading the key fissile components of the first atomic bomb onto the USS Indianapolis in July 1945 for transfer to Tinian.
Orin's future wife, 'Jeannie' also grew up in the Bay Area and lived four and a half miles from him.
1955 MARRIAGE: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr (1938–1981) age 17, 4 months and 8 days old married, Jeanette Anne McGee, age14 years, 10 months, 3 days old on October 28, 1955, in San Mateo, California. Their first child, Jesse, was born 9-months and 1-week after their wedding.
CHILDREN:
1956 Birth of son Jesse Lee Wakefield (1956–2005)
04 Aug 1956 • San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
1957 Birth of son Alan Wakefield (1957–1990)
11 Aug 1957 • San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
1959 Birth of daughter Doreen Wakefield (1959–)
1962 Birth of daughter Maryann J. Wakefield-Poindexter (1962–)
At some point between 1959 and 1964, Orin Jr. meet and had a relationship with Rosa Socorro Cerda-Manuel (1930–2011) whose family lived in the same building as Orin's dad, Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962) 3330 24th Street San Francisco.
That relationship led to the birth of a daughter (verified with DNA)
*1965 Birth of daughter Donna Wakefield (1965–)
1970 Birth of son Orin Leroy Wakefield III (1970–)
1972 DIVORCE: Exactly two years after their last son, Orin Leroy Wakefield III was born in January of
1972, Jeanette and Orin Wakefield were granted a divorce in Sonoma County, California ending their 16-year marriage.
1972 MARRIAGE: On July 29, 1972, Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr (1938-1981) age 34, married Susan Lee Reid (1951–1993) age 20 in Sonoma, California. Their marriage lasted a little under 9-years.
1981 DEATH: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr died of heart failure on April 4, 1981 in Sonoma County, California. He was cremated and his ashes are interred in an unidentified California Cemetery.
Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr (1938–1981)
BIRTH 20 JUN 1938 • San Francisco CA
DEATH 4 APR 1981 • Sonoma County California
Name Meaning: Wakefield
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and probably also from a place of the same name in Northamptonshire. Both are named from an Old English wacu 'vigil', 'festival' (a derivative of wac(i)an 'to watch or wake') + feld 'pasture', 'open country', i.e. a patch of open land where a fair was held. Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
FAMILY HISTORY: Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962) and Mary Delores Schnoor-Wakefield (1906–1990) married on April 6, 1927. 53-days later, Orin Leroy Wakefield was born on 29 May 1927 and died the next day. Two years later, Mary gave birth to a baby girl, Dolores Lenora Wakefield-Yebra (1929–2001). It would be another nine and a half years, when Mary was in her 30's before Orin Jr. was born and more than likely a "surprise" pregnancy.
According to 1930 census date, Orin Sr. was a painting contractor and had attended a year of college while Mary only completed 8th grade, Orin Sr's dad was born in Oregon while Mary's dad was born in California. 5-years earlier, the family was living in San Francisco.
1940's SAN FRANCISO: The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937. The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was held on Treasure Island.At the same time the island of Alcatraz, a former military stockade, began its service as a federal maximum-security prison, housing notorious inmates such as Al Capone, and Robert Franklin Stroud, The Birdman of Alcatraz.
1938 BIRTH: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr. was born on June 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California, the third and final child of Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962), age 31 and Mary Delores Schnoor-Wakefield (1906–1990), age 32.
According to 1940 census data, the Wakefield's had been married for 16 years by the time Orin Jr. was born. They owned their home at 475 Evergreen, Daly City, California which was valued at $2,900.
1941 On November 3, 1941, Irwin Leroy Wakefield (1881–1944), Orin's grandfather was arrested by the secret service on suspicion of counterfeiting after building himself living quarters and a workshop under the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge pillars at the foot and Bryant Street.
WORLD WAR II: During World War II, San Francisco was the major mainland supply point and port of embarkation for the war in the Pacific. It also saw the largest and oldest enclave of Japanese outside of Japan, Japantown, completely remove all of its ethnic Japanese residents as a result of Executive Order 9066 that forced all Japanese of birth or descent in the United States to be interned. By 1943 many large sections of the neighborhood remained vacant due to the forced internment.
The void was quickly filled by thousands of African Americans who had left the South to find wartime industrial jobs in California as part of the Great Migration. Many African Americans also settled in the Fillmore District and most notably near the Bayview-Hunters Point shipyards, working in the dry-docks there. The same docks at Hunters Point would be used for loading the key fissile components of the first atomic bomb onto the USS Indianapolis in July 1945 for transfer to Tinian.
Orin's future wife, 'Jeannie' also grew up in the Bay Area and lived four and a half miles from him.
1955 MARRIAGE: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr (1938–1981) age 17, 4 months and 8 days old married, Jeanette Anne McGee, age14 years, 10 months, 3 days old on October 28, 1955, in San Mateo, California. Their first child, Jesse, was born 9-months and 1-week after their wedding.
CHILDREN:
1956 Birth of son Jesse Lee Wakefield (1956–2005)
04 Aug 1956 • San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
1957 Birth of son Alan Wakefield (1957–1990)
11 Aug 1957 • San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
1959 Birth of daughter Doreen Wakefield (1959–)
1962 Birth of daughter Maryann J. Wakefield-Poindexter (1962–)
At some point between 1959 and 1964, Orin Jr. meet and had a relationship with Rosa Socorro Cerda-Manuel (1930–2011) whose family lived in the same building as Orin's dad, Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962) 3330 24th Street San Francisco.
That relationship led to the birth of a daughter (verified with DNA)
*1965 Birth of daughter Donna Wakefield (1965–)
1970 Birth of son Orin Leroy Wakefield III (1970–)
1972 DIVORCE: Exactly two years after their last son, Orin Leroy Wakefield III was born in January of
1972, Jeanette and Orin Wakefield were granted a divorce in Sonoma County, California ending their 16-year marriage.
1972 MARRIAGE: On July 29, 1972, Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr (1938-1981) age 34, married Susan Lee Reid (1951–1993) age 20 in Sonoma, California. Their marriage lasted a little under 9-years.
1981 DEATH: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr died of heart failure on April 4, 1981 in Sonoma County, California. He was cremated and his ashes are interred in an unidentified California Cemetery.
BIRTH 20 JUN 1938 • San Francisco CA
DEATH 4 APR 1981 • Sonoma County California
Name Meaning: Wakefield
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and probably also from a place of the same name in Northamptonshire. Both are named from an Old English wacu 'vigil', 'festival' (a derivative of wac(i)an 'to watch or wake') + feld 'pasture', 'open country', i.e. a patch of open land where a fair was held. Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
FAMILY HISTORY: Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962) and Mary Delores Schnoor-Wakefield (1906–1990) married on April 6, 1927. 53-days later, Orin Leroy Wakefield was born on 29 May 1927 and died the next day. Two years later, Mary gave birth to a baby girl, Dolores Lenora Wakefield-Yebra (1929–2001). It would be another nine and a half years, when Mary was in her 30's before Orin Jr. was born and more than likely a "surprise" pregnancy.
According to 1930 census date, Orin Sr. was a painting contractor and had attended a year of college while Mary only completed 8th grade, Orin Sr's dad was born in Oregon while Mary's dad was born in California. 5-years earlier, the family was living in San Francisco.
1940's SAN FRANCISO: The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937. The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was held on Treasure Island.At the same time the island of Alcatraz, a former military stockade, began its service as a federal maximum-security prison, housing notorious inmates such as Al Capone, and Robert Franklin Stroud, The Birdman of Alcatraz.
1938 BIRTH: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr. was born on June 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California, the third and final child of Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962), age 31 and Mary Delores Schnoor-Wakefield (1906–1990), age 32.
According to 1940 census data, the Wakefield's had been married for 16 years by the time Orin Jr. was born. They owned their home at 475 Evergreen, Daly City, California which was valued at $2,900.
1941 On November 3, 1941, Irwin Leroy Wakefield (1881–1944), Orin's grandfather was arrested by the secret service on suspicion of counterfeiting after building himself living quarters and a workshop under the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge pillars at the foot and Bryant Street.
WORLD WAR II: During World War II, San Francisco was the major mainland supply point and port of embarkation for the war in the Pacific. It also saw the largest and oldest enclave of Japanese outside of Japan, Japantown, completely remove all of its ethnic Japanese residents as a result of Executive Order 9066 that forced all Japanese of birth or descent in the United States to be interned. By 1943 many large sections of the neighborhood remained vacant due to the forced internment.
The void was quickly filled by thousands of African Americans who had left the South to find wartime industrial jobs in California as part of the Great Migration. Many African Americans also settled in the Fillmore District and most notably near the Bayview-Hunters Point shipyards, working in the dry-docks there. The same docks at Hunters Point would be used for loading the key fissile components of the first atomic bomb onto the USS Indianapolis in July 1945 for transfer to Tinian.
Orin's future wife, 'Jeannie' also grew up in the Bay Area and lived four and a half miles from him.
1955 MARRIAGE: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr (1938–1981) age 17, 4 months and 8 days old married, Jeanette Anne McGee, age14 years, 10 months, 3 days old on October 28, 1955, in San Mateo, California. Their first child, Jesse, was born 9-months and 1-week after their wedding.
CHILDREN:
1956 Birth of son Jesse Lee Wakefield (1956–2005)
04 Aug 1956 • San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
1957 Birth of son Alan Wakefield (1957–1990)
11 Aug 1957 • San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
1959 Birth of daughter Doreen Wakefield (1959–)
1962 Birth of daughter Maryann J. Wakefield-Poindexter (1962–)
At some point between 1959 and 1964, Orin Jr. meet and had a relationship with Rosa Socorro Cerda-Manuel (1930–2011) whose family lived in the same building as Orin's dad, Orin Leroy Wakefield Sr. (1906–1962) 3330 24th Street San Francisco.
That relationship led to the birth of a daughter (verified with DNA)
*1965 Birth of daughter Donna Wakefield (1965–)
1970 Birth of son Orin Leroy Wakefield III (1970–)
1972 DIVORCE: Exactly two years after their last son, Orin Leroy Wakefield III was born in January of
1972, Jeanette and Orin Wakefield were granted a divorce in Sonoma County, California ending their 16-year marriage.
1972 MARRIAGE: On July 29, 1972, Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr (1938-1981) age 34, married Susan Lee Reid (1951–1993) age 20 in Sonoma, California. Their marriage lasted a little under 9-years.
1981 DEATH: Orin Leroy Wakefield Jr died of heart failure on April 4, 1981 in Sonoma County, California. He was cremated and his ashes are interred in an unidentified California Cemetery.
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