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2578. Harold
Chatfield Bedwell352,911 was born on 5 May 1898 in San
Francisco, San Francisco County, California.352,452,911,1665 In 1930 he was an insurance
salesman in Alameda County, California.1657
He died on 8 Dec 1969 in Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, California.452,502 He was
buried in Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California.65
• An article in the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), 27 Nov
1910 mentions Harold Bedwell as a member of the sailor patrol of the Richmond,
Calif. boy scouts.
• 1920 Census for Alameda, Alameda County, California, taken in Jan 1920,
shows May F. Bedwell, 52, a widow who owns her residence on Burbank St., as head
of household with son Harold C. Bedwell, 21, a shipyard helper.
• 1930 Census for Alameda, Alameda County, California shows Harold Bedwell,
32, son-in-law, an insurance salesman, and his family: wife Dorothy, 29, and
daughter Nancy, 1. They are living with Dorothy's parents, Ernest Lawson, 67,
and Mary Lawson, 59.
Harold Chatfield Bedwell and Dorothy Lawson were married about 1923 in California.1657,1666
Dorothy Lawson1657
(daughter of Ernest L. Lawson and Mary [--?--]) was born on 17 Jan 1901 in Sunol,
California.1657,1666 She died on 10 May 2002 in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa
County, California.1666
She was buried in Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California.1666
• Los Gatos Weekly Times, 12 June 2002:
Dorothy Lawson Bedwell, formerly a longtime Los Gatan, died May 10 in Walnut
Creek, where she moved four years ago to be near her family. She was 101.
Bedwell was born Jan. 17, 1901, in Sunol and grew up in Oakland. She worked as
a secretary for Western Power Utility Company before moving to Los Gatos in 1955.
She then worked as a cafeteria manager at Hillbrook School from 1957 to 1965.
Primarily a homemaker for much of her adult life, Bedwell was a charter member
of the South San Jose chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons
(AARP) and a member of the Walnut Creek United Methodist Church. Among her favorite
activities were spending time with her family and friends, cooking, knitting,
singing, traveling, playing bingo, doing community service and watching ice skating
and tennis matches on TV.
Bedwell was predeceased in 1969 by her husband of 46 years, Harold Bedwell. Survivors
include daughter Nancy Carmichael of Auburn; daughter and son-in-law Judith and
William Day of Walnut Creek; grandchildren Cathleen, Douglas, Philip and Patrick
Carmichael and Erik, Travis and Adam Day; great-grandchildren Shana, Cailin,
Breyanna, Travis, Johnathan and Quentin; and great-great-granddaughter Zoey.
Among the members of her family, she was frequently called their "Other
Mommie."
Memorial services have been held, with inurnment at Sunset View Cemetery in ElCerrito.
Donations can be made to any children's hospital or veterans' hospital.
Harold Chatfield Bedwell and Dorothy Lawson had the following children:
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