FISHER Family History, Part IV
- Part I - 1st Generation: David FISHER (~1794-1868)
• and 2nd Generation: King David FISHER (1819-1871) - Part II - 3rd Generation: John Jackson FISHER (1843-1906)
- Part III - 4th Generation: Theodoric Leathe FISHER (1877-1911)
- Part IV - 5th Generation: Pearl Elizabeth (FISHER) MALUGANI (1901-1941)
- Part V - 6th Generation
Howard Earl FISHER (1899-1966)
1CA51. Howard Earl FISHER was born January 30, 1899 in Forestville, Sonoma County, California, the first born son of Theodoric Leathe FISHER and Cora Ethel MILLER. He married Mabel M. BORS on December 2, 1926 in Santa Rosa. They had four daughters and one son:
| 1CA511. | Marjorie Ann FISHER | 11 May 1928 | 13 Jun 1967 | (39) |
| 1CA512. | Virginia "Beanie" FISHER | |||
| 1CA513. | Nancy Ruth FISHER | |||
| 1CA514. | Howard Earl FISHER, Jr. | |||
| 1CA515. | Helen Marie FISHER | 30 Jun 1938 | 8 Oct 2006 | (68) |
Earl's father died just days before his 12th birthday. He left school and began working at age 12, and was a Jack of all trades doing blacksmithing, carpentry, pruning, and plowing throughout the years. His mother remarried just days shy of the third anniversary of his father's death to Al WILLIAMS, whom he fiercely hated.
Earl, as were many FISHERs, was a very tall man, well over 6 feet tall, and was known as a real hell-raiser when he got to drinking.
Mabel's family came to Oakville from the Carrizo Plains of San Luis Obispo County, California. Relatives on her mother's side settled in the Oakville area in the mid-1800's, and the family name, RECTOR, is on a creek, canyon, and dam there. Mabel attended Napa High School.
Earl and Mabel lived much of their life together on a ranch along Calistoga Road, in eastern Sonoma County. On April 2, 1932, Earl and brothers-in-law, Dick HOPPER and Bud CLARKE, were out cutting wood for Earl's back porch alcohol still when the still sparked a fire. Youngest brother Ed saw the fire and called them down but it was too late -- the house burned down.
Afterward they lived in Knights Valley and then Calistoga before returning to the ranch in 1944. Mabel worked at the walnut plant in Calistoga.
Earl FISHER died on January 15, 1966 in Santa Rosa. He was just two weeks shy of his 67th birthday. His wife Mabel (BORS) FISHER died 21 years later on January 4, 1997 at the age of 89. Both are buried next to Mabel's parents in the BORS family plot at the St. Helena Cemetery in St. Helena, Napa County, California.
"Earl FISHER: Calistoga - Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday for H. Earl FISHER, 66, of 3550 Calistoga rd., who died Saturday in a Santa Rosa hospital after a brief illness."
"Mr. FISHER was a native of California and a Sonoma County resident for 21 years. A retired carpenter, he was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, the IOOF Lodge, and the Silverado Grange, all of Calistoga."
"He is survived by his wife, Mabel [BORS] FISHER, Calistoga; his daughters, Mrs. Marjorie [FISHER] CAMBRA, Mrs. Nancy [FISHER] SOEKLAND and Mrs. Helen [FISHER] KLINGBEIL, all of Santa Rosa, and Mrs. Virginia [FISHER] THOMAS, Calistoga; a son, Howard FISHER, Calistoga; by his mother, Mrs. Cora WILLIAMS, Richmond; by two brothers and four sisters, and by 13 grandchildren."
"The services will be held here at the Simic Funeral Home. Burial will be in St. Helena Public Cemetery."
Pearl Elizabeth (FISHER) MALUGANI5 (1901-1941)
1CA52. Pearl Elizabeth FISHER5 was born on January 7, 1901 in Lockeford, San Joaquin County, California. She married Charles Aurelio MALUGANI, a Swiss-Italian immigrant, around 1915, at the age of 14 or 15, in San Rafael, Marin County. They had three sons and five daughters:
| 1CA521. | Alvin Frederick MALUGANI | 16 Jun 1917 | 3 Jan 1993 | (76) |
| 1CA522. | Hazel E. MALUGANI6 | |||
| 1CA523. | Bertram C. MALUGANI | 28 Nov 1921 | 5 Jun 1973 | (52) |
| 1CA524. | Cora Aurelia MALUGANI | 13 Jul 1923 | 27 Mar 1990 | (66) |
| 1CA525. | Aurelia Katherine MALUGANI | 12 Apr 1925 | Mar 2003 | (77) |
| 1CA526. | Beverly Jane MALUGANI | |||
| 1CA527. | Barbara L. MALUGANI | |||
| 1CA528. | Theodric F. MALUGANI | 14 Aug 1932 | 21 Mar 2001 | (68) |
GOSS Residence on Barham Ave., September 1941
The MALUGANIs first lived at the Old GEMMET place up Calistoga Road and then moved over the hills toward Calistoga, Napa County, to the PETERSON ranch about halfway down the Calistoga grade (Petrified Forest Highway), where their first son Alvin was born in 1917. By 1918, they moved over to the Sonoma County side to Gates Road, just over the "BUCHI Grade." It was then that the "Spanish Flu" pandemic struck toward the end of World War I. Pearl, then pregnant with daughter Hazel, fell ill but managed to pull out of it before giving birth in January, 1919.
Later in 1919, by the 1920 census, the MALUGANIs moved down Calistoga Road to Alpine Road where they lived on Alpine Road (then recorded as "Rincon Hill Road") near Charlie's parents and aunt, Caterina (MALUGANI) PAROLI, who lived at the top of Alpine Road.
By 1922, the MALUGANIs were given P.O. Box 297 in Rincon Valley. From there they moved to a converted chicken house on Alpine Road where Cora was born in 1923. Later they removed to a plot later dubbed the DERBY Ranch, just below where Alpine Road breaks from Calistoga Road and across the road from Charlie's sister Serena (MALUGANI) MAGATELLI. The DERBY Ranch address was noted as P.O. Box 282 in 1924 and 1928. Charlie farmed the plot and cut firewood along Mark West Creek to take down into town to sell. The rest of their children were all born while living at the DERBY ranch, where they were enumerated in the 1930 census near the HITCHCOCKs, FECHTERs, SHARPs, MAGATELLIs, STEWARTs, PAROLIs, FISHERs, and WILLIAMS, and on through at least 1932, when youngest son Bud was born. The MALUGANIs had worked to buy the DERBY Ranch place but they lost it when a handshake deal fell through.
In the early 1930s, the MALUGANIs briefly moved north of Santa Rosa to Healdsburg, near the Madrona Manor (then known as the Madrona Knoll Rancho) at the junction of Dry Creek Road and Westside Road.
In the 1930s, the MALUGANIs settled in the Fulton area at a fruit orchard at 1689 Fulton Road, on the east side of the road near the creek that cuts through the northeast corner of today's Piner High School. There, Pearl's paternal grandmother, Harriet (CHAPMAN FISHER) WILLIAMS, lived with the MALUGANIs for a while about 1935 before her death in 1936.
Pearl Elizabeth (FISHER) MALUGANI had a heart attack on October 30, 1941, while preparing a Halloween party for the L. B. BURTON family at 300 Doyle Park Drive in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. Dr. Alexis MAXIMOV attempted to resuscitate but without success. She was buried the following Monday, November 3, 1941, and inured at the Chapel of the Chimes in Santa Rosa. She was only 40 years old.
Mildred May (FISHER) FECHTER (1902-1989)
1CA53. Mildred May FISHER was born December 27, 1902 in Forestville, Sonoma County. She married Raymond Earl FECHTER on November 2, 1921 in Napa, Napa County and had four children:
| 1CA531. | Raymond E. FECHTER, Jr. | 29 Jul 1922 | 15 Dec 1988 | (66) |
| 1CA532. | Rubye Esther FECHTER | |||
| 1CA533. | Everett James FECHTER | 4 Dec 1925 | Aug 2000 | (74) |
| 1CA534. | Milton Oliver FECHTER | 12 Aug 1933 | 20 Jan 2006 | (72) |
"Mr. & Mrs. Raymond FECHTER, Sr. were honored at a reception on October 31st at Butler Pavilion in recognition of their 50th Wedding Anniversary. It was on November 2, 1921, that they were wed in Napa by a Justice of the Peace."
"Mr. FECHTER, born in Sacramento, came to Calistoga with his parents at the age of three weeks. He has been farming in the Porter Creek area for well over 50 years."
"Mrs. FECHTER is a native of Forestville. She was eight when she moved to Calistoga with her mother, the late Mrs. Cora WILLIAMS."
"The reception was given by the FECHTER'S children and spouses: Mr. & Mrs. Raymond FECHTER, Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Everett FECHTER, and Mr. & Mrs. Milton FECHTER...all of Calistoga; and Mr. & Mrs. Charles (Ruby) CAMPBELL Concord."
"The buffet luncheon was served to approximately 450 guests...the five-tiered cake being a lovely work of art by Mrs. FECHTER'S sister-in-law, Mrs. Ed WILLIAMS of Richmond."
"The hall decorations were under the direction of Mrs. Emma BECKMANN of Santa Rosa, a long-time family friend. Len MOORS of Santa Rosa, a cousin of Mr. FECHTER'S, provided entertainment with his banjo. Joe LERNER of Calistoga played many selections on the piano."
"Melvin HULL of Eureka, nephew of the couple presented a champagne toast prior to their being presented with a money tree."
"In addition to their children, the couple have 18 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren."
Raymond FECHTER, Sr. died on September 20, 1978 at the age of 83 in Napa, Napa County, California. He is buried at the St. Helena Cemetery.
Mildred May (FISHER) FECHTER died on April 8, 1989 in Calistoga. Services were held on April 12, 1989 at the Morrison Funeral Chapel in St. Helena and she was entombed at the St. Helena Cemetery.
Carrie Truett (FISHER SHELLY) HOPPER (1904-1936)
1CA54. Carrie Truett FISHER was born August 12, 1904 in Sonoma County, California at either the Asti Winery near Asti or the Truett Ranch in Cloverdale. She married Howard John SHELLY, and later Richard HOPPER. Altogether she had six children:
| 1CA541. | James Howard SHELLY | |||
| 1CA542. | Jerrold Owen SHELLY | 28 Aug 1927 | 8 Sep 1994 | (67) |
| 1CA543. | Gwen HOPPER | |||
| 1CA544. | Dixie Lee HOPPER | 4 Nov 1933 | 13 Aug 1982 | (48) |
| 1CA545. | Audrey HOPPER | |||
| 1CA546. | Carol HOPPER-FECHTER | |||
Carrie Truett FISHER-HOPPER died August 18, 1936 just six days after her 32nd birthday and the birth of her sixth child, Carol.
Merle Everett FISHER (1906-1990)
1CA55. Merle Everett FISHER was born February 23, 1906 at the Asti Winery near Asti, Sonoma County, California. He married Ruby Mae BAKER on October 26, 1926 and had three children:
| 1CA551. | Wayne Irving FISHER | |||
| 1CA552. | Phillip Merle FISHER | 4 Apr 1935 | Sep 1989 | (54) |
| 1CA553. | Joan Ellen FISHER |
Merle Everett FISHER died on August 18, 1990 at the age of 84.
Merle's widow Ruby Mae (BAKER) FISHER died in March 1997 at the age of 90. She is buried in Richmond, Contra Costa County, California.
Sonoma C. (FISHER DILLON) CLARKE (1907-1993)
1CA56. Sonoma C. FISHER was born December 8, 1907 at the Asti Winery near Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California. She married Patrick Michael DILLON, a native of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan and son of Irish immigrant parents, and had two daughters. Patrick DILLON died on July 26, 1936 of tuberculosis and she later married Milton "Bud" Thomas CLARKE and had another daughter.
| 1CA561. | Patricia M. DILLON | |||
| 1CA562. | Lois Mary DILLON | 9 May 1928 | (9) Feb 2005 | (76) |
| 1CA563. | Clara Joan CLARKE | 20 Dec 1941 | 13 May 1989 | (47) |
Sonoma C. FISHER got a job as a waitress at the Veteran's Home in Yountville, Napa County, California when she was 16 years old. There she met Patrick Michael DILLON, a veteran of World War I who was over 20 years her senior in March 1925. He had served as a sergeant for two years in Company A of the Twenty-First Infantry during World War I between April 16, 1917 and June 30, 1919 and was awarded a disability allowance, possibly for being gassed during the war. After the war, Patrick worked as a boiler maker in San Diego. They eloped in 1925.
After a few years of marriage and the birth of two daughters, Sonoma and Patrick divorced. Sonoma remarried to Milton "Bud" Thomas CLARKE on November 20, 1931, in Sonoma County, California. A year and a half later, Sonoma's younger sister Gladys married Bud's brother Bill.
Milton Thomas CLARKE died on December 23, 1964 in Napa County, California at the age of 64.
Sonoma C. (FISHER DILLON) CLARKE died 28 years later on July 2, 1993 in Vallejo, Solano County. Services were held at the Skyview Funeral Chapel in Vallejo on July 6, 1993.
Alta Vivian FISHER (1909-1910)
1CA57. Alta Vivian FISHER was born 3 August 1909 and died six months later on 21 February 1910. She is buried next to her father at the Mount Olive Cemetery, Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California.
Nora Bell (CLARK) HILL (1906-1980)
1CH61. Nora Bell CLARK was born in Ainsworth, Brown County, Nebraska on 24 November 1906. She had one daughter:
| 1CH611. | Cleona Mae HILL | 1929 |
Nora Bell (CLARK) HILL died in 1980 at about the age of 73.
Daisy Lorene TAYLOR (1912-)
1CK21. Daisy Lorene TAYLOR was born 11 February 1912 at Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska. She spent her entire life in a nursing home and never married.
Helen Aleta (TAYLOR) DRENNAN (1913-1965)
1CK22. Helen Aleta TAYLOR was born 3 September 1913 in Maxwell, Lincoln County, Nebraska. She married Charles Franklin Drennan on 11 July 1928 in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana. They had seven children.
Charles Franklin DRENNAN was born 9 Jan 1907 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. He was the son of Thomas A. DRENNAN, of Cook County, Ohio, and Ella Kate GILLMARTIN, an immigrant from Mayo, Connaught, Ireland. Helen's and Charles' first son, Thomas was born in Amo, Hendricks County, Indiana, and the rest of their children were born in Danville, Hendricks County.
Helen Aleta (TAYLOR) DRENNAN died 26 July 1965 in Danville, Hendricks County, Indiana. She was buried at the Danville East Cemetery on 28 July.
Charles Franklin DRENNAN was later married to Alice Opal DICKERSON. He died 3 March 1990 in Danville and was also buried at the Danville East Cemetery, 7 March.
Edythe Irene (TAYLOR) SNYDER (1914-)
1CK23. Edythe Irene TAYLOR was born 20 November 1914 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. She married Virgil SNYDER on 29 August 1931.
Ira Dale TAYLOR (1916-)
1CK24. Ira Dale TAYLOR was born 19 February 1916 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. He married Bertha Elizabeth TATE on 6 January 1934 had two daughters.
Ira later remarried to Evelyn WEBER.
Harry "Buster" Theodore TAYLOR (1918-1941)
1CK25. Harry "Buster" Theodore TAYLOR was born 24 November 1918 in Williard, Lincoln County, Nebraska. He married Gertrude Irene ADAMS and had at least one daughter before his death aboard the U.S.S. Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. He was only 23 years old.
Theodore's widow, Gertrude, remarried to Claude Allen FISHER, her former husband's uncle, and had another son.
"Infant" BOND (1907)
1HD11. The first son of Della SMITH and Henry L. BOND was stillborn because of Typhoid fever. He was born in October 1907 in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma.
Wayne BOND (1908-1911)
1HD12. Wayne BOND was born 11 November 1908 in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma. He died at the age of 2 on 23 March 1911 in Alva.
Lee BOND (1910-1981)
1HD13. Lee BOND was born 5 August 1910 in Stafford, Stafford County, Kansas. He married Lessie RUSHING on his 18th birthday, 5 August 1928, and had three children.
Lee BOND died in January 1981.
Ray BOND (1912-1981)
1HD14. Ray BOND was born June 30, 1912 in Dumas, Moore County, Texas. He married Ewflia QUINTANA on October 19, 1935 and had four children.
Ray BOND died February 7, 1981 in Truth or Consequences, Sierra County, New Mexico and is buried at Vista Memory Gardens. He was 68 years old.
Rex BOND (1919-)
1HD15. Rex BOND was born 15 September 1919 in Hillsboro, New Mexico. He married Naomi ROBERTS in 1939 and had five children but later divorced.
Jennie Marie (ARNDT) CULVER (1905-)
1HD21. Jennie Marie ARNDT was born 5 April 1905 in Faulkner, Woods County, Oklahoma. She married Clarence CULVER on 9 April 1921 and had five children.
Jennie owned "Jennie's Grill" in Camp Houston, Oklahoma.
Clarence CULVER died 9 January 1983.
Edna Josephine (ARNDT) MCOSKER (1906-)
1HD22. Edna Josephine ARNDT was born 5 December 1906 in Faulkner, Woods County, Oklahoma. She married Van Cleave MCOSKER on 1 June 1925 and had four children.
Edna worked as a hairdresser in San Antonio, Texas.
Van Cleave MCOSKER died in 1941.
LeRoy David ARNDT (1908-)
1HD23. LeRoy David ARNDT was born 23 September 1908 in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma. He married Mamie TAYLOR on 16 April 1929 and had six children.
LeRoy was killed by logs rolling off a logging truck in Oregon.
Grace Ella (ARNDT) WOLGAMOTT (1910-)
1HD24. Grace Ella ARNDT was born 30 January 1910 in Faulkner, Woods County, Oklhoma. She married Claude WOLGAMOTT on 11 December 1935 and had three children.
The WOLGAMOTTs were farmer-ranchers in Hardtner, Kansas.
Laura Denora (ARNDT) MCMURPHY (1912-)
1HD25. Laura Denora ARNDT was born 23 March 1912 in Faulkner, Woods County, Oklhoma. She married Elmer MCMURPHY on 1 June 1931 and had two children. Their first child was killed in an auto accident at the age of 9 months.
The MCMURPHYs were farmer-ranchers in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma.
Arthur Templin ARNDT (1914-)
1HD26. Arthur Templin ARNDT was born 24 January 1914 in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma. He married Mildred WILSON on 19 Apr 1937 and had three children.
Hazel Pearl (ARNDT RODKE) FARNEY (1919-)
1HD27. Hazel Pearl ARNDT was born 10 December 1919 in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma. She married Lyle RODKE on 7 June 1940 and had two children. After his Lyle's death, Hazel remarried to Louis E. FARNEY on 15 October 1953 and had three children.
Hazel was a real estate broker in Mesa, Arizona.
Mary Thelma (ARNDT) LAVIS (1922-)
1HD28. Mary Thelma ARNDT was born 12 April 1922 in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma. She married Cleo R. LAVIS on 19 September 1942 and had four children.
Davy Maynard ARNDT (1929-)
1HD29. Davy Maynard ARNDT was born 16 October 1929 in Alva, County Woods, Oklahoma. He married Kathrena SCHMITT on 29 Mar 1951 and had four children.
Sylvester Albert SMITH (1918-)
1HD51. Sylvester Albert SMITH was born 8 July 1918 in Ripon, San Joaquin County, California. He married Mildred MYERS.
Oliver James SMITH (1920-)
1HD52. Oliver James SMITH was born 11 May 1920 in Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California. He married Betty MALCOLM.
Ralph William SMITH (1921-)
1HD53. Ralph William SMITH was born 6 June 1921 in Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California. He married Beth GATES.
Dorothy Mae (SMITH) HARTDEGEN (1923-)
1HD54. Dorothy Mae SMITH was born 9 May 1923 in Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California. She married Ronald HARTDEGEN.