Graduate of Smith College.
Graduate of University of Massachusetts where he was a football and track athlete. Trophy in his name is awarded to outstanding two sport letterman. Worked for US government on controlling the gypsy moth. This work included duty in Puerto Rico, Europe, Melrose, Greenfield, Massachusetts.
The Lincoln County News
October 31, 2008Margaret Crossman Pingree, 91, of Topsham, formerly of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and Alna, died Oct. 9.
She was born in Melrose, Mass. and graduated from Smith College in 1939.
While living in Canada she volunteered in hospitals and schools, was a Girl Guide leader for several years, and was a member of the University Women's Group. She was the first woman in Canada to complete all of the Canadian Power Squadron courses.
In Alna she was active with The Friends of Head Tide Church. Her interest in history led her to write a history of Alna.
Margaret is predeceased by her husband, Arthur Veasey Pingree.
She is survived by her twin sister, Ruth Pratt of Amherst, Mass.; children, Lucile Pingree Gatchell of Gloucester, Mass., Patricia Megan Pingree of Portland, Ore., and Jane Veasey Maradyn of Beaumont, Alberta, Canada; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, plus Moxie.
WWII bomber pilot with DFC (449th Bombardment Squadron, 15th Air Force). Attended University of Vermont, US Air Force Institute of Technology, (BS, 1956) and California Institute ofTechnology (MS, 1957). Taught at US Air Force Academy and University of Portland. Grew Christmas trees in Oregon.
71904. Albert Sherwood Averell
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Albert S Averell
Race: White
Marital status: Divorced, without dependents (Divorced)
Rank: Private
Birth Year: 1900
Nativity State or Country: California
Citizenship: Citizen
Residence: Los Angeles, California
Education: Grammar school
Civil Occupation: Cooks, except private family
Enlistment Date: 7 Oct 1942
Enlistment Place: Los Angeles, California
Service Number: 39538531
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Enlisted Man, Regular Army, after 3 months of Discharge
Height: 69
Weight: 138
The Sacramento Bee
May 8, 1982A private memorial service will be held for Anson Mayo Averell, 75, of Folsom. He was an Oakland native and son of a Mother Lode gold mine superintrndant.
Mr. Averell died April 20 at his home.
He was a 1929 graduate of the University of California College of Engineering. In World War II he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Army. For the past 15 years he was a consulting engineer.
Surviving are sons, Anson of Palo Alto and Michael of Menlo Park; a sister, Frances A. Storli; and a brother, James, both of Walnut Creek.
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
June 17, 1999Anna McCune Harper, a California native who replaced Helen Wills Moody in 1930 as the top-ranked U.S. women's tennis player, has died. She was 99.
Mrs. Harper, a member of the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame, died Monday at the Rheem Valley Convalescent Center in Moraga, 10 years to the day after her husband, Lawrence, passed away.
Mrs. Harper learned the sport with her sister, Lucy, as a youngster in Pacific Grove. She entered the University of California-Berkeley in 1920.
''Lucy and I were persuaded to enter the California State Championships,'' she told the San Francisco Examiner in 1981. ''We really decided to enter them because we thought it would be cheaper to see all the matches as participants rather than pay for spectators' tickets.
''We won the ladies' doubles title, and both of us got quite a way into the singles. Life changed for us then.''
Mrs. Harper, born in Santa Barbara on April 23, 1900, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Berkeley in 1924 with a degree in Spanish and began to make tennis headlines. In 1928, she began traveling on what passed for the professional circuit at the time.
''You didn't get jet lag,'' she said. ''You went on the train, from Oakland to Chicago, where you would either play or change trains for New York or Boston or wherever the first tournament would be.
''It would usually take about six days to cross the country, and then you would have to find a place to stay. By that time you were all out of commission and had to take at least a week to practice and recover.''
Mrs. Harper won the mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 1931.
She was called home in 1932 because of an illness in the family, then decided to give up tennis for other tasks -- including rearing three children.
She always followed the game and underwent arthroscopic knee surgery at the age of 81 so she could continue to play. A bad reaction to the anesthetic ended her playing days and apparently began a slow decline in her health.
Survivors include her daughter, Virginia Harper Harrison of Orinda; sons Lawrence Harper of Davis and Robert G. Harper of Houston; a sister, Lucy Yates of Lafayette; a brother, Francis McCune of Sarasota, Fla.; and six grandchildren.
U.S., Navy Casualties Books, 1776-1941
Name: Phillips Haskell
Death Date: 29 Sep 1918
Death Place: Gallops Island, Massachusetts
Branch of Service: US Navy
Spouse: Ruth B Haskell
Volume Title: Officers and Enlisted Men, 1917-1918
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U.S., World War I Naval Deaths, 1917-1919
Given Name: Phillips
Surname: Haskell
Place of Death: Quarantine station, Gallops Island
Death Date: 29 Sep 1918
Cause of Death: Pneumonia
Next of Kin: Ruth B. Haskell
Relationship: wife
Address: 163 Washington St., Gloucester, Mass.
Appointed: Boston, Mass.
Rank: seaman second class.
Branch: U.S.Naval Reserve Force