Chuck McLaughlin

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Charles attended Franklin (grade) School, Emerson (middle) Junior High School and Kern County Union High School, all in Bakersfield, California. He graduated from High School via a GED test taken while serving in the U.S. Navy. He later graduated from Weatherford College in Weatherford, Texas and took his Undergraduate Degree with honors from Texas Weslyan University in Fort Worth, Texas. He studied law for several years via Correspondence but never acquired a law degree. Charles joined the Merchant Marine when 16 in 1944, trained on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California and shipped out of San Pedro, California. He sailed aboard the U.S.S. Ft. Donelson, a T2S2 tanker, to the South Pacific and anchored at Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall Islands and Ulithi in the Caroline Islands. Returning to the States, he joined the U.S. Navy 14 Jan., 1946, took boot camp training in Memphis, Tennessee, attended electronic school in both Jacksonville, Florida and Corpus Christi, Texas and was assigned to duty as an Aviation Electronic Technician Mate at Miramar air base a few miles from San Diego, California, where he flew in PB4Y2 aircraft as a radar and radio operator. On the ground he worked as an electronic repairman. He was discharged from active service at San Diego on 13 Nov., 1947 On 30 Aug 1949 Charles married Joan Ardelle Hall who was born on 31 Aug 1931 in South Gate, Los Angeles County, California. During their 15 year marriage they had four male children, two born in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas and two in Bakersfield, Kern County, California. They lived during the first 5 years of their marriage in Weatherford, Texas, as that was where Joan's family's oil business was located. While there, as was the tradition in the 1950's, Joan was a housewife and devoted mother to her bevy of boys, while Charles, known as Chuck to his friends, went to work for the Weatherford Oil Tool Company owned by Jess Hall, Sr., Joan's grandfather, and managed by George Washington Hall, Joan's father. Chuck and Joan blended into the local society and enjoyed their stay in Weatherford until their return to Bakersfield in 1954. Chuck then began a 14 year career there as a manager of a medium-sized corporation in the credit field. During the ensuing years they purchased their first homein the College Heights aria of Bakersfield and then a larger home situated on Camino Primavera Ave, where they lived until the dissolution of their marriage in the mid 60's. Chuck moved to Long Beach, California and on 24 Nov 1967 married Jean Ellen Hall in Martinez, Contra County, California. During their seven year marriage they had one child, Paul Richard McLaughlin. The family lived in Long Beach and Seal Beach, California, then in Weatherford and Fort Worth, Texas, where Chuck finished his academic pursuits at Texas Wesleyan University. Paul had earlier been seriously ill and finished his treatment and full recovery while in Texas. The family then moved to Cannon Beach, Oregon, where Chuck opened a toy shop called Geppettos, which he operated for near a decade. Jeanie, as she is called by friends, had taught Spanish while in California and resumed teaching in Oregon. The marriage dissolved in 1977.

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• First-hand information. Entered by Charles McLaughlin at registration.