There is a middle school in Cerritos, California, named the Pliny Fisk Haskell Middle School http://www.schools-data.com/schools/Haskell-(Pliny-Fisk)-Middle-Cerritos.html
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: John E Haskell
Birth Year: 1907
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Massachusetts
State of Residence: California
County or City: Los Angeles
Enlistment Date: 27 Nov 1943
Enlistment State: California
Enlistment City: Los Angeles
Branch: No branch assignment
Grade: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 3 years of college
Civil Occupation: Managers and officials, n.e.c.
Marital status: Divorced, without dependents
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U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: John Haskell
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 3 Jul 1907
Death Date: 19 Aug 1977
SSN: 563071134
Enlistment Date 1: 27 Nov 1943
Release Date 1: 27 Feb 1946
The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
August 31, 1998PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- Dorothy Manners Haskell, a columnist who chronicled the lives of Hollywood celebrities, died at her home at the age of 95. Manners Haskell died Tuesday.
She had worked as an assistant to syndicated columnist Louella Parsons for 30 years, then took over her column for King Features Syndicate in 1965 after Parsons retired.
She wrote the column under the byline Dorothy Manners until 1977.After coming to Los Angeles from Texas when she was a teenager, she appeared as an extra in films directed by Cecil B. DeMille, working in films starring Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks and William Powell. She turned to writing after deciding she was an unexceptional actress.
She was hired by the now-defunct Hollywood Citizen and later wrote entertainment features for The Los Angeles Times. She joined Motion Picture magazine and went to work for Parsons in 1935.
Manners Haskell had no surviving immediate relatives. Her second husband, John Haskell, died in 1977.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
November 29, 199771 years later,they wed
The sweet music of love never dies
By Patricia Dibsie
Staff writerThe beginning was beautiful and the ending just as dear, divided by seven decades of separation. But all that changed Nov. 4, 1997, when Wilda Yates became the the bride of Eugene Haskell.
He's 87 and she's 93.
The two were sweethearts at Excelsior High School in Artesia - south of Los Angeles - in 1926. He was a shy and studious senior; she was the new music teacher, fresh from the Univerity of Southern California.
He was 16 and she was 22.
"When I walked into Room 40 that first day for Glee Club, I saw this beautiful lady with wavy, auburn hair, sitting on the piano bench," he said at the newlyweds' La Jolla home. "She took my breath away and I remember thinking this was going to be the nicest class I would have that year. It was."
"Gene was a serious-minded student and president of his class," Yates remembered. " And he had a wonderful voice."
Haskell's entire life - both his heart and his head - was influenced by the young music teacher. He recalled it as the time that music became the center of his world.
He won a scholarship at USC and the two became a couple. After class, he spent many hours courting her on the piano bench in Room 40. There, he confessed, he stole his first kiss. His freshman year in college passed and one spring afternoon Haskell asked Yates to be his wife.
In the next school year, they planned their wedding. The two decided on the chapel at the Mission Inn at Riverside. She sent handwritten party invitations to announce their engagement.
Then Gene's folks stepped in and forbade the marriage.
Heartbroken, he left for Stanford University to finish his last two years of College. It took him two days to drive down for a visit in his Model T. The visits became less frequent and they drifted apart.
Yates stayed at the same school for the next 35 years; still teaching music in Room 40. Eventually she married and the couple adopted a daughter.
Haskell earned a bachelor's degree, then a master's and became superintendent of schools for Santa Cruz County. He went on to earn a doctorate, writing his
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vate learning and build character. The year was 1954.
During this period, Haskell was offered a position as superintendent for the Los Angeles city schools, but a member of his doctoral committee challenged him to prove his theory in the classroom rather than moving into administration.
He said he agonized over his decision for a week, but thoughts of Yates and the difference music made in his life tipped the balance. Haskell headed instead for Harlem in New York to teach high school music.
The principal, Haskell recalled, told him the only avaible class was for mentally retarded teens.
"But it was really a dumping ground for students other teachers weren't able to control," Haskell said.
The principal warned Haskell that the kids had run off three teachers quickly. They had locked the last one in a closet.
"They were hostile and sullen and just what I had been looking for," Haskell said. He opened his box of musical tricks and had the kids in a chorus line by the end of the semester.
The performed the opera "Hansel and Gretal' at a school assembly. They were invited to sing at other schools and performed for the city's superintendent of schools.
Haskell founded Lyric Theatre International, an organization for high schoolers based on the principal of his dissertation.
News of Haskell's success traveled west and then - Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley invited Haskell to bring his program there. Watts had exploded. The year was 1965.
Haskell had married, had a daughter, divorced then married again. Yates married in 1931, was busy teaching and raising a daughter.
"I came home," Haskeel said of his decision to work in Los Angeles, adding that he had often thought that his success was also Yates' success. Back then he thanked her often, bot only in prayer.
The years passed, and music did its magic on more than a few lives.
Haskell created the Royal Champions of the World, a group sponsored by Lyric Theatre International. He challenged the teens from Watts to treat themselves as royalty. He urged them to work to erase racism and refuse to pollute their bodies with drugs. The groups mission: to promote peace through the voices of children.
Haskell asked his students to come up with an impossible dream, then challeged them to make it come true. The kids wanted to go to the White House and sing for President Ford.
And they did. The year was 1975.
Haskell was divorced a second time; Yates would soon become a widow.
Two years later, 23 Royal Champions boarded a plane for the Middle East, guests of the Shah and Empress of Iran. They spent two weeks promoting peace and mutual appreciation of cultures through music, dance and song.
That same year, Yates began her first of several trips around the world; Haskell became ill and underwent the first of 18 operations.
In 1994, high school classmates decided to organize a reunion. Haskell's thought returned to Room 40 and he tracked down his former music teacher's address. He sent her an invitation to the reunion, but she declined, writing back that she had plans on that date.
Her letter ended, "But I hope we can meet again."
"That was all I needed," Haskell said, "We made arrangements to meet a few weeks later here at the Hotel del Coronado.
" She opened the hotel room door, I looked into her face and everything was the same, just her hair was a different color." Haskell remembered, squeezing his bride's hand.
"White and not that lovely auburn," she blushed, adding, "I never forgot his face. I have always loved Gene."
Seventy years later, the two have a chorus of children - hundreds who have joined Lyric Theatre International and Royal Champions. They took 23 of the kids to Europe on tour last year and plan on doing the same next summer.
Chapters of the Royal Champions are in several California cities, including San Diego. Another is in Tijuana.
"Working with someone you love keeps you young." Haskell reased. "And being with the one you love sets the clock back. I feel 65."
"If he feels 65, then I feel more like I'm 60," she teased back. "We've got so much work to do helping children learn and changing lives through music." Both have led full lives.
"But the best is yet to come," Haskell said. "Together at last."
60026. Dr. Maurice Mortimer Haskell
The Cambrian (Cambria, CA)
September 15, 2005HASKELL - Mort Haskell, M.D., 90, died Saturday, Sept. 10, in Eden Hospital, Castro Valley
Guerro Dean Funeral Home
Celestia Ida Firestone Haskell, 58, a homemaker, died Monday, June 10, 2013.
Celeste was born on July 12, 1954 in Angola, Indiana, the daughter of the late Paul Victor Firestone and the late Ida Capitolia Ward Firestone. She was a long-time resident of Grand Prairie and a member of Bible Believer's First Assembly of God Church.
She is survived by her children; George Haskell, Holly Haskell, Alex Haskell, Julie Cline, Adam Haskell, Brandon Haskell, Peter Haskell; many grandchildren and a brother, Jim Firestone.
The Denver Post (CO)
February 8, 2001Robert D. Hubbard of Boulder, an assistant regional director of civil defense, died Jan. 28. He was 89.
No services were held. There was cremation.
He was born Jan. 6, 1912, in Lakewood, Ohio. In 1938, he married Elizabeth Gillett.
Hubbard served on the faculties at American University, the University of Denver and the University of Colorado.
He was co-founder and first president of the Colorado Senior Lobby. He also founded Morrison's first Boy Scout troop and was a member and president of Red Rocks Lions Club.
He is survived by his wife; three sons, Allen, Laurance and Philip; and a daughter, Alice.
60038. Patricia Elizabeth Squires
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Patricia Elizabeth Squires Johnson died peacefully in Claremont following a period of declining health. She was born June 16, 1919 to Freeman and Ruth Squires in Ontario, California and raised in Santa Monica. She graduated from Santa Barbara State College and taught elementary school briefly in Lancaster. Pat married Roger Johnson, now deceased, and raised a family in Claremont. Pat eventually became a Miller-Unruh Reading Specialist in the Pomona Unified School District where she was named Teacher of the Year. She was a member of the Claremont United Church of Christ, Congregational.
She is survived by her sons Ken and Mike Johnson, her daughter Candi Johnson-Muir, son-in-law Robs Muir, daughter-in-law Wendy Losh, and her grandchildren Mike and Galen Muir, and Trevor and Whitney Losh-Johnson, and her sister and brother-in-law Phyllis and Bill Partridge of Maryland. She is remembered fondly by a wide circle of friends and is still "Aunt Pat" to many.
local newspaper
DRESEL - In Oakland, August 22, 1984, Carl Bunkerhill Dresel, husband of Verona Steere Dresel of Oakland, father of Charles E. 'Skip' Dresel of Piedmont, Carl B. 'Bud' Dresel of Cupertino, and Donald G. Dresel of Kensington, brother of Annalou Dwyer of Fort Bragg; also survived by six grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Son of the late Rosa Marie and Carl Dresel, pioneer Sonoma Valley grape growers and winemakers. Retired Operating Engineew, Local No. 3; employed by Basalt Rock Company and Kaiser Steel.
THE DAILY CURRENT-ARGUS
May 31, 1951FRANK B. VAN HORN DIES
AFTER 20 YEARS SERVICEFrank B. Van Horn, an employee of the United States Potash Company here for 20 years, died early this morning at his home, 916 North Thomas. He was 74 years old.
Ill for several months, Van Horn was born in Wyoming, Iowa, on March 20, 1877. He was a geologist at USPC and was one of the company's oldest employees. He was a member of the Carlsbad Elks Lodge and was a Mason.
Van Horn is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Van Horn; a sister, Mrs. Fred Hamilton, Roseburg, Oregon; and a brother, Fred M. Van Horn, Milwaukee, Wis.
Van Horn came to the Pecos Valley in the early days of oil development around Artesia and was a consultant in several successful developments. He was also with the Snowden-McSweeney Oil Company of Fort Worth, doing work in the East Texas and Mid-Continent fields.