Louis Mathews, March 1, 1918-April 20, 2003
Louis F. Mathews, 85, died Sunday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center-Vallejo of natural causes. Mr. Mathews was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and lived in Vallejo for 13 years. He was a machinist at Carter-Day Co. in Minnesota for 33 years, retiring in 1980. He was a WWII veteran who served for five years in the U. S. Army, earning a Bronze Star and the Oak Leaf Cluster. He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5555 in Richfield, Minnesota and Disabled American Veterans. He loved sports, coaching Little League, taking trips to Reno and vacations at a lakeside cabin in Brainerd, Minnesota.
Survivors include his wife, Winifred of Vallejo; son, Jeff, of Benicia; sisters, Muriel Baran and Evelyn Palmer, both of Minnesota; brothers, Douglas of Michigan and Robert of Los Angeles; grandchildren, Jason, Kelsey and Sarah Mathews and Robyn Tobias, all of Benicia; and three great-grandchildren.
A memorial graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis. Internment will follow. Arrangements were made by Twin Chapels Mortuary, Vallejo.
Louis Mathews, March 1, 1918-April 20, 2003
Louis F. Mathews, 85, died Sunday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center-Vallejo of natural causes. Mr. Mathews was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and lived in Vallejo for 13 years. He was a machinist at Carter-Day Co. in Minnesota for 33 years, retiring in 1980. He was a WWII veteran who served for five years in the U. S. Army, earning a Bronze Star and the Oak Leaf Cluster. He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5555 in Richfield, Minnesota and Disabled American Veterans. He loved sports, coaching Little League, taking trips to Reno and vacations at a lakeside cabin in Brainerd, Minnesota.
Survivors include his wife, Winifred of Vallejo; son, Jeff, of Benicia; sisters, Muriel Baran and Evelyn Palmer, both of Minnesota; brothers, Douglas of Michigan and Robert of Los Angeles; grandchildren, Jason, Kelsey and Sarah Mathews and Robyn Tobias, all of Benicia; and three great-grandchildren.
A memorial graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis. Internment will follow. Arrangements were made by Twin Chapels Mortuary, Vallejo.
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LOUIS F MATHEWS
SGT US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
LOVING HUSBAND
LOVING FATHER
Gravesite Details
WORLD WAR II
Family Members
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John Francis "Lefty" Mathews
1904–1985
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Donald Ellsworth Mathews
1906–1986
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Violet Louise Mathews Smith
1907–1993
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Evelyn Annabelle Mathews Palmer
1910–2006
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Lloyd Allen Mathews
1911–1967
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Albert Newman Mathews
1915–1984
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Muriel Elaine Mathews Baran
1916–2014
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Douglas Eugene Mathews
1923–2011
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Robert Vernon Mathews
1925–2004
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