Ninth Generation

4162. Riley Ernest Bedwell¹⁴³⁶ was born on 27 Sep 1898 in Decatur County, Iowa.^502,1436 He died on 13 Jul 1966 in Santa Barbara County, California.⁵⁰²

• 1930 Census for Ventura, Ventura County, California, shows Riley E. Bedwell, 32, a Deputy State Fish & Game Warden, as head of household with: Alice G., 31, his wife of 12 years; son Jack E., 11; and daughter Florence G., 10. Riley was born in Iowa, the others in California.

Riley Ernest Bedwell and Alice Geneva Blackburn were married about 1917.²¹¹⁵ Alice Geneva Blackburn^1404,2115 was born about 1898 in California.²¹¹⁵ She died on 7 Jun 1949 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California. She was buried in Ivy Lawn Cemetery, Ventura County, California.

• Obituary from the Oxnard Press Courier (Oxnard, California), 14 June 1949:

Rites Conducted for Mrs. Alice Bedwell -- Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Geneva Bedwell of Santa Barbara, 51, mother of State Fish and Game Warden Jack Bedwell of Ventura, were conducted yesterday afternoon at the Reardon funeral chapel. Burial was at Ivy Lawn Cemetery. Mrs. Bedwell died Tuesday night at Saint Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara, where she had been a patient for a year. Survivors are her husband, R.E. Bedwell, Fish and Game warden in the Santa Barbara area; her son Jack; a daughter, Mrs. Florence Vogt of Tillamook, Oregon; and a grandchild, Rosemary Vogt. Mrs. Bedwell lived in Santa Barbara since 1936. She was born in San Bernardino.
Riley Ernest Bedwell and Alice Geneva Blackburn had the following children:

+6170	i.	Jack E. Bedwell.
+6171	ii.	Florence Geneva Bedwell.

Riley Ernest Bedwell and Illienne E. Best were married on 1 Aug 1961 in Clark County, Nevada.²¹¹⁶