FAMILY LINE AND HISTORY
Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau
3rd of 4 children of Ernest Edward Jules Sevenau & Edna Marguarite Clement/Kellogg
Birth name: Lucille Josephine “Sissy” Sevenau
Note: Lucille changed her name to Jeanne Lucille Sevenau and her birth date to Jun 27, 1922
Born: Jun 27, 1917, Seattle, King Co., Washington
Died: Feb 2, 1955 (age 37), La Jolla, San Diego Co., California; heart attack during surgery for an ectopic pregnancy, suffered from Addison’s disease
Buried: Cypress View Mausoleum and Crematory (Columbarium) in San Diego, San Diego Co., California
Occupation: Waitress, worked in a drug store selling cosmetics
Avocation: Dancer, singer
(*not married): 1935, Cecil Jerome King, California
One child: Donna Jeanne Young
1. Donna Jeanne Young
Born: Dec 25, 1935, Bremerton, Kitsap Co., Washington
Married (1): 1935, Irvin George “Bud” Young, California
No children but considered Donna Jean Young as his child and whose last name she used
Married (2): Jun 1942, Charles Alphonso “Chuck” Martinez, San Francisco, California
Three children: Charles Alfred Martinez, James Joseph Martinez, Patricia Lynn Martinez
1. Charles Alfred “Chuck” Martinez
Born: Jul 1, 1943, San Francisco, California
Died: 2012 (age 69)
2. James Joseph “Jim” Martinez
Born: Dec 20, 1949, San Francisco, California
3. Patricia Lynn “Pattie” Martinez (Charles Alphonso “Chuck: Martinez is not her birth father)
Born: Apr 4, 1951, San Francisco, California
Married (3): 1954, Ronald “Ron” Wiley, possibly San Diego, California or Tijuana, Mexico
No children
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Timeline and Records
Spellings and information in census and other records are retained
as reflected in the original documents
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Feb 13, 1913: Marriage of Ernest Edward Jules Sevenau (age 21) & Edna Marguerite Clement/Kellogg (age 16), parents of Lucille Josephine [Jeanne Lucille] “Sissy” Sevenau, in San Francisco, California.
Dec 15, 1913: Birth of Louis Dunand “Lou” Sevenau, 1st of 4 children of Ernest Edward Jules Sevenau & Edna Marguarite Clement/Kellogg, in San Francisco, California
Sep 26, 1915: Birth of Ernest William “Ernie” Sevenau, 2nd of 4 children of Ernest Edward Jules Sevenau & Edna Marguarite Clement/ Kellogg, in San Francisco, California
Jun 27, 1917: Birth of Lucille Josephine [Jeanne Lucille] “Sissy” Sevenau, 3rd of 4 children of Ernest Edward Jules Sevenau & Edna Marguarite Clement/Kellogg, in Seattle, King Co., Washington
Jan 12, 1920: Federal Census, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California:
Name: Ernest Sevenau (father of Lucille Josephine [Jeanne Lucille] “Sissy” Sevenau)
Age: 27
Birth Year: abt 1893
Birthplace: California
Home in 1920: San Francisco Assembly District 23, San Francisco, California
Street: Teddy Ave
House Number: 202
Residence Date: 1920
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse’s Name: Edna Sevenau
Father’s Birthplace: France
Mother’s Birthplace: California
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Lather
Industry: Contractor
Employment Field: Wage or Salary
Home Owned or Rented: Rented
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Ernest Sevenau: age 27, Head, married, born California, father born France, mother born California (father)
Edna Sevenau: age 23, Wife, married, born California, father born France, mother born California (mother
Louis Sevenau: age 6, Son, born California, father born California, mother born California (brother)
Ernest Sevenau Jr: age 4, Son, born California, father born California, mother born California (Ernie)
Lucille Sevenau: age 2, Daughter, born Washington, father born California, mother born California (sister Jeanne)
Apr 19, 1925: Birth of Eugene Martin “Buddy” Sevenau, 4th of 4 children of Ernest Edward Jules Sevenau & Edna Marguarite Clement/Kellogg, in San Francisco, California
bet 1925 & 1930: Divorce of Ernest Edward Jules Sevenau & Edna Marguarite (Clement/Kellogg) Sevenau, the parents of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau
circa 1929: Sevenau kids at the San Francisco beach: Evelyn (unkn friend), Louis, Jeanne, Ernie, Micki (unkn friend), Eugene “Buddy” in front
1930: U.S. Federal Census: no record found for Edna Marguarite (Clement/Kellogg) Sevenau (age 34) and the children in the 1930 census
Lou would have been 16, Ernie 14, Jeanne 12, and Buddy would have just turned age 5
The father, Ernest Edward Jules Sevenau, is listed as a divorced lodger in the Apr 15, 1930 census below
Apr 15, 1930: U.S. Federal Census, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California (father, Ernest E.J. Sevenau):
Besson, Augustine: Head, age 47, Divorced, age 33 at 1st marriage, born France, father born France mother born France, year of Immigration 1897, Restaurant, Own Business
Lacabee, Louis: Lodger, age 46, Single, born France, father born France, mother born France, year of Immigration 1919, Waiter in Restaurant
Sevenau, Ernest: Lodger, age 38, Divorced, age 20 at 1st marriage, born California, father born France, mother born California, Roofer Contractor
Storm, Margaret: Lodger, age 27, Divorced, age 17 at 1st marriage, born Louisiana, father born Louisiana, mother born French Canada, Saleslady in Dept Store
Note: name indexed as Sevenan
1935: Family photo: Irvin “Bud” Young, Virginia (Cook) “Cookie” Sevenau, baby Barbara (daughter of Cookie & Ernie), possibly father Ernest Sevenau & unkn woman seated in car, Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau:
Irvin George “Bud” Young, 1st husband of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau:
Examiner-Enterprise: Veteran recalls serving aboard USS Oklahoma:
Following is an excerpt written by World War II veteran Irvin George Young and published in “USS Oklahoma: Remembrance of a Great Lady,” compiled by Joe L. Todd for the Oklahoma Historical Society. Due to length, the excerpt will be continued in the Aug. 24 edition of the Examiner-Enterprise.
My name is Irvin George Young. I was born Nov. 29, 1911, at Spokane, Wash. My early life was spent on a wheat ranch in central Washington. We left the ranch about the time I was 10 or 11 years old and moved to the city of Spokane, because we had lost our mother three or four years prior. I had three sisters and it was pretty rough times. My dad was having a little problem with family support, so I left home and went to work to pay for my room and board, and I went to school. As soon as I grew older, I used my summer vacation and would go back to wheat country and work through the harvest. Sometimes I would even stay on the ranch to go to school year round. Finally, during the early part of my high school days, I decided to quit school and work steady. In the fall of 1932, I just finished the harvest, so I decided to visit my folks and sisters who were living in Portland, Ore., at the time. After a couple of months visit with them, I decided to get myself a job and go to work.
Times were hard and jobs were scarce, but I wound up with a job working in a restaurant as a handyman. I was waiting on tables, washing dishes and scrubbing floors, doing a little bit of everything. Wages were $4 a week, plus my board. With that $4 I was able to get a room for $2 a week. With what was left with my wages and tips, I was able to get my laundry done and even take on of the waitresses to a movie now and then. Then I got to thinking that there must be another way of making a better life, another way of living. As it happened, the marine recruiting officer started hitting me up every morning on my way to work, trying to get me to join the marines. He handed me all kinds of brochures on the service, travel and education. I got to thinking pretty serious about it. I wanted to join the navy if I was going into the service, but I heard they were so strict on their qualifications. You had to have an education at that time.
I got to thinking that if I can’t make the Navy, I could make the Marines or even the Army. Finally I went up to the Navy recruiting officer and made out my application. That was just a few days after I turned 21. In the meantime, my father was against going into the service, but I said I had made up my mind. Since I was 21, it didn’t make any difference if they approved or not. Dad said if that’s what I wanted, it was alright and he signed my application. It was just one month from the day I applied that I was sworn in and found myself a Navy recruit. A few days later 14 of us were put on the train and shipped to the San Diego Naval Center. Arriving in San Diego, we were met by two shore patrol who gathered us all up and put aboard a bus and sent to the center. We arrived there during the night, too late for assignment for quarters, so we set up bunks in the gym. That’s where we spent our first night sleeping on cots. The next day, we were issued uniforms which included the ankle high school. The old white uniform with the blue collar and cuffs, that was the dress whites. It included the old type plat hat and we used to call them skimmers. Following that we had to get our hair cut, which meant shaving our heads. After the hair cut, we were sent to the south unity, which was to be our quarters for the next eight weeks. It was the quarantine area. It so happened that we were the first to occupy the new buildings. Around that quarantine area was a cyclone fence about 8 feet high. That was our home for eight weeks.
Our days were spent at first learning to roll clothes, slinging our hammocks and training in being able to march. We also had to go through a physical examination and dental examination.
Our duties consisted of clothes line watch because we had to scrub our own clothes and hang them on clothes line outside the barracks. To avoid others stealing our clothes, we had a clothes line watch, day and night. We also had to stand guard at different parts of the quarantine center.
We had barracks watch, and I can’t remember the other watches. It meant we had to stand 4 hour watches and be on the alert at all times. If an officer appeared, you had to salute and sometimes he would ask you to recite the general quarters of your post. That particular area, the quarantine area, consisted of several companies of 60 men each.
During that eight weeks, we had a smoker periodically, or there were movies, that was our recreation.
I became on of the company’s representatives in the smoker. I’ll never forget our company commander’s name. That was Young. That didn’t mean I was given any extra privileges. He was a great officer and everyone appreciated him. Our chief instructor was a chief gunners mate who was about to retire after 30 years of service. They were great men who taught us a whole lot about the Navy. Our training camp was three months.
There were many incidents that occurred in the quarantine camp. We had a couple of recruits in my company that didn’t like to scrub clothes or take a shower. We decided to take care of that little problem. We got together some sand and scrub brushes and took them in the shower and scrubbed them with sand and scrub brushes. it was an experience they were not going to forget. After that, they took a shower everyday and scrubbed their clothes everyday. You never saw a cleaner recruit in your life. Everybody came out with flying colors. i was even made a petty officer and made a guide which meant I could sew a badge on my arm, the square knot badge. I was honor man one month.
After graduating form the quarantine are, we were transferred to the north unit, which meant we had all the privileges of the regular recruits in the north area. We were granted liberty every other night and every other weekend. On the night we had duty, we had to stand guard duty and take the posts around the base, such as the officers’ quarters and clothesline watch. Some were at the main gate as messengers. (to be continued)
Source: https://www.examiner-enterprise.com/story/news/military/2015/08/17/veteran-recalls-serving-aboard-uss/27356702007/
Irvin George “Bud” Young:
Irvin G. “Bud” Young bio in American Battleships; wife and child refer to Jeanne Lucille (Sevenau) Young and new daughter, Donna Jean Young
1935: Union (*not married) of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau & Cecil Jerome King, California
Cecil Jerome King, birth father of Donna Jeanne Young:
1935: Marriage of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau & Irvin George “Bud” Young, California
No children, but Bud considered Donna Jeanne Young, daughter of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau, as his child and whose last name she used
Dec 25, 1935: Birth of Donna Jeanne Young, daughter of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau & Cecil Jerome King, Kitsap Co., Washington
1936: Jeanne and older brother Ernie Sevenau:
After 1936: Marriage of Edna Marguarite Clement/Kellogg Sevenau & Gerald John “Jerry” Sutcliff, her 2nd marriage; mother of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau
Jul 17, 1937: Marriage of Ernest Edward Jules Sevenau & his 2nd wife, Margaret Barbara (Richard) Mersberg, San Francisco, California; father of Jeanne Lucille” Sissy” Sevenau
“Grandpa Sevenau (note: Ernest Joseph Sevenau) worked as a longshoreman and later was a street car driver or conductor in San Francisco. He and Nana (note: Edna Marguarite Clement [Kellogg]) divorced in the late 1920’s. He then married a woman named Margaret (note: Margaret (Richard) Mersberg) and they were together until the end of his life. They lived for many years at 12 B. Balmy St. in SF. That is the Mission district and is all Hispanic now. Nana married a man by the name of Sutcliff, I think his name was Jerry, not sure though. They lived in Brisbane, just south of SF and raised English bulldogs. They divorced sometime in the 1940’s. Nana next married Solomon Blackman; he and his brothers had a band and played at a lot of ballrooms in SF. Solly died in the 50’s and Nana never married again.”
Source: Jan 13, 2000: Excerpt from a family letter written by Donna (Young) Warren
1938: Charles Alphonso “Chuck” Martinez, future husband of Jeanne Lucille (Sevenau) Young:
Note: Hairdresser and Cosmetology license
Jun 27, 1940: Jeanne Lucille (Sevenau) Young:
Sep 1940: Donna Jeanne Young, daughter of Jeanne Lucille Sevenau & Bud Young:
Jun 1942: Marriage of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau & Charles Alphonso “Chuck” Martinez, San Francisco, California; her 2nd marriage.
Three children: Charles Alfred Martinez, James Joseph Martinez, Patricia Lynn Martinez
1. Charles Alfred “Chuck” Martinez
Born: Jul 1, 1943, San Francisco, California
Died: 2012 (age 69)
2. James Joseph “Jim” Martinez
Born: Dec 20, 1949, San Francisco, California
3. Patricia Lynn “Pattie” Martinez (Charles Alphonso “Chuck” Martinez is not Pattie’s birth father)
Born: Apr 4, 1951, San Francisco, California
Note: Pattie never knew her mother as Jeanne left shortly after she was born
Jun 1942: Wedding photo of Charles Alphonso “Chuck” Martinez & Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau, Mission Terrace, San Francisco, California:
Chuck and Jeanne:
1943: Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau and son Charles Alfred “Chuckie” Martinez, born Jul 1, 1943, San Francisco, California
Early-1950s: Marriage of Edna Marguarite (Clement/Kellogg) Sevenau Sutcliff & Charles Solomon “Sol/Solly” Blackman, her 3rd marriage; mother of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau
Apr 13, 1950: U.S. Federal Census, San Francisco, California:
Name: Charles Martinez
Age: 37
Birth Date: abt 1913
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Place: Louisiana
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Residence Date: 1950
Home in 1950: San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Street Name: Randolph
House Number: 501
Occupation: Warehouseman
Industry: Wholesale Food
Occupation Category: Working
Hours Worked: 40
Worker Class: Private
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship:
Charles Martinez: age 37, Head, born Louisiana
Jeanne Martinez: age 32, Wife, born Washington
Donna Martinez: age 14, Daughter, born California (Donna Jean Young, daughter of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau & Irvin George “Bud” Young)
Charles Martinez: age 6, Son, born California
James Martinez: age Dec, Son, born California
1954: Marriage of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” (Sevenau ) Martinez & Ronald “Ron” Wiley, possibly San Diego or Tijuana, Mexico; her 3rd marriage
(Ron, was about 19, and 17 years younger than Jeanne, who was about age 36)
Possible college photo of Ronald “Ron” Wiley:
Feb 2, 1955, Death of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” (Sevenau) Wiley (age 37), 3rd of 4 children of Ernest Edward Jules Sevenau & Edna Marguarite Clement [Kellogg], La Jolla, San Diego Co., California; heart attack during surgery for an ectopic pregnancy, suffered from Addison’s disease
Interred: Cypress View Mausoleum and Crematory (columbarium), in San Diego, San Diego Co., California
Note: Ron Wiley paid for her interment and marker
Jan 13, 2000, Letter from Donna Warren to her cousins Gerry (son of Buddy & Dorothy) & Kathleen Sevenau:
January 13, 2000
Dear Gerry & Kathleen,
Let me start by saying how happy I am to hear from you. I hope that I can fill in some missing history from your life. I have lots of pictures and correspondence to share with you. I run our family history through my mind and don’t know where to start.
I have pictures of the first Ernest Sevenau and his wife (she was also called Nana) and anything I have you can make copies of. There is a cousin named Margaret Andersen, who lives in Vacaville and she has been doing a lot of family history. Her interests lie in the Kellogg ancestry. She sends me copies of things she finds. I’ll just list a few things here to whet your appetite and we can go from there. Our great grandmother, Alice Yates Kellogg, was born in Mayfield, now known as Santa Clara, September 30, 1875. She was the last to carry the name of Yates and her mother Josephine was the last to carry the name of DeGranges. Alice, whom I called Grandma, married at 15. (1 can’t find that name right now but will give it another search. I just want to get this letter out to give you some idea.) She had two children, Roy and Edna. She later married Mr. Kellogg and had two more children, Leo and Milo. Milo was deaf. Edna, known to me as Nana, married Ernest Sevenau in San Francisco in about 1911 or thereabouts. They had Louis, Ernest William, Lucille Josephine and Eugene Martin.
Grandpa Sevenau worked as a longshoreman and later was a street car driver or conductor in San Francisco. He and Nana divorced in the late 1920’s. He then married a woman named Margaret and they were together until the end of his life. They lived for many years at 12 B. Balmy St. in SF. That is the Mission district and is all Hispanic now. Nana married a man by the name of Sutcliff, I think his name was Jerry, not sure though. They lived in Brisbane, just south of SF and raised English bulldogs. They divorced sometime in the 1940’s. Nana next married Solomon Blackman; he and his brothers had a band and played at a lot of ballrooms in SF. Solly died in the 50’s and Nana never married again.
Louis [Dunand Sevenau, oldest child] had a drinking problem but got it under control and lived in SF and became a policeman. After he retired, he did police work, serving warrants and so forth [note: he actually became head of security for Bank of America data center of Market Street, SF]. He was a really nice man. His 1st wife died in the 60’s, I believe, and he married his old sweetheart from his youth. They lived in Santa Rosa and were happy until she died, and then several years later, he died.
Ernie was the really handsome one; great sense of humor but he couldn’t stay away from booze. (That’s been the downfall of a lot of the family.) Ernie married more than a couple of times (you have to realize that people that lived together were really looked down on, so they all got married and divorced and married and….). His first wife, Virginia, aka Cookie, had Barbara in about 1933 or 34. He then married again and had a son, Ernest, who was called Skygak. Ernie Jr. Has since passed away. There was a daughter named Jeanne, born in 1956. I have never seen her or heard from her. I got a phone call a couple of years back from an Ernest Perce. He would call occasionally and I sent him pictures.
Ernie was a wonderful guy but alcohol was his weakness. He had a girlfriend through the years, they never married but lived together on and off over the years. Her name was Mickie and her mother (Verna) and Nana shared a place together when Nana divorced.
My mother, Lucille Josephine, hated her name and changed it as soon as she was old enough. She took the name of Jeanne Lucille. She became pregnant with me in 1935 (she and my dad REALLY knew how to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day). I was born on December 25, 1935. My biological father abandoned her and the man that I call dad is Irvin G. Young. He is 88 and lives in Willits, California. We talked of this once but he doesn’t care to discuss it, so like, you, I will wait until he is gone to try to find out anything. I know who my “real” father is and tried to call one time, many years ago, I said I didn’t want anything, maybe some family history, but that was nothing. They changed their phone number right after that and I have never been able to contact them again. It’s okay, I really do understand. My dad in Willits put his name of my birth certificate but I wasn’t around him that long. I married Doyle in 1979 and Doyle is the one that brought Dad and I closer. My mother had four children, Donna Jeanne, 12/25/35, married Chuck Martinez in 1942 and had three children: Charles Alfred, 7/1/43; James Joseph, 12/20/49 and Patricia Lynn, 4/4/51. I am not close with my siblings.
Then we have Eugene Martin Sevenau. April ? 1926 [Apr 19, 1925], I believe. We moved to Yuba City in 1946? Ernie and my stepfather, Chuck, bought a small ranch and raised “Chickens, eggs and manure” or at least that’s what the sign said. Chuck and his brother didn’t make it as partners, so we moved out to Glidden lane where I went to Franklin elementary. Chuck and Ernie bought a gas station and then another but whatever went wrong, I don’t know.
Eugene, aka Buddy, moved up there and I remember the day he returned from the service. He was soooo cute … my cousin Barbara and I would fight to see who got to sit next to him. I learned many years after that Bud had been in military prison for deserting in the Navy. (I don’t mention these things to hurt your feelings but to let you know the entire story.) He had taken some enemy fire aboard the ship he was stationed on, this was war time, and they sent him home and after he recuperated, they were going to send him back to sea. He was really scared and went AWOL. He was about 19 or 20, maybe. I do remember, as a kid, the shore patrol coming to our house in SF, looking for him. I also remember going to the military prison, right out of SF to see him when I was a kid. That is when he came to Yuba City. Buddy and my mom, whom they all called “Sis”, were real close. Sometime in late ’48 or ‘49, my mother and stepfather moved back to SF. My mother had the last two children. Bud stayed up in Yuba City and I don’t know what went on during that time. I know in 1951, he was staying a lot at our house and when he would come, he would bring steak! We were really poor during those years, stepdad was a longshoreman and would go to the hall each day to see if he could work, so steak was out of the question. My stepfather had strange ideas about me and I began running away from home. I wound up in the juvenile home in SF and my dad and his ship came into SF. He came out to see me, mama told him where I was and he got custody of me and moved me to Willits, where I lived with his sister and finished high school [1954].
I couldn’t wait to hit 18, so I could leave and go be with my mother. Good thing, she died in Feb of 1955. When I got there, she and Buddy were sharing a place and I slept in mama’s room. Bud was driving truck then and it was very popular to use bennies to stay awake. It made him very irritable but in order to drive all the hours he did and run out to play at night, he needed something to keep him going. He had many girlfriends and there was one place in Pacific Beach (just outside of San Diego) that he would go to and when he would walk in the door, the piano player would start to play “Cry”, a very popular song of the day by an artist named Johnny Ray. Well, when Bud walked in the door, the music would start and Bud would be singing his way to the stage. He would shrug off his jacket, rip his tie off, and sing with all his heart. My gosh, the place would go crazy. He wasn’t real tall but built very well and the ladies would fall all over him. He would win singing contests all over San Diego and vicinity and many times scheduled to appear for an audition but he would usually never make it. I do remember the time he was on television, mama and I got to go with him, and he sang live on some afternoon show. He was not a great follow-through-er. He used to give me money to clean his room, I sometimes think more to give me spending money than anything; he was very generous that way. (When he would be living with us in SF, he would leave lots of change in his jacket pockets for my brother, Chuck and I to find.) Bud had the greatest sense of humor; he could tell stories and jokes and was a very likeable person. He had a bad temper; we all have that. I think it takes many years for most of us to get out of that. Bud started dating a lady, Connie, about 1955. She was from Elmira, New York, and so different from anyone he had been seeing. He was a real player and very popular with the ladies. He and Connie married and their son was born on April 26 ?, 1956. I had a daughter in March of that year, I named her Jeanne. Bud named his son Eugene, and Ernie and his wife had a daughter, Jeanne Margurite that same summer. Three kids were named in honor of my mother.
Bud moved with Connie and their son to Elmira and I didn’t see them for awhile. Bud had taken off by that time and I had moved to NY and was living with Connie when Eddie was born. I was six months pregnant with Dennis (3/2/59) and I walked the hall while Connie was I labor. I didn’t particularly care for all the snow, so the day after Christmas I left for CA. That is another story all in itself. Connie came back to CA and she and Bud tried to get it together again. By now, he was doing a lot of pills to keep himself alert and do the cross country driving, I know he spent some time in Terminal Island in San Pedro, CA. I don’t know what the offense was but he was there for a while. I remember he would live with Nana in SF every so often but that didn’t really work out that well. Nana was a very addictive personality and she would pass on whatever medication she had to her son. Bud had an occasional drink but the pills were his downfall.
By now, Connie had gone back to NY and finally divorced him. She was a staunch Catholic and didn’t believe in divorce but in order to get some help, she had to divorce him. They got back together in Arizona but he wasn’t well at all. Too many pills and drugs had taken their toll. I saw him again a time or two before he died and one thing I will always regret; I said some things in a letter that he read and really hurt his feelings and I will regret that for the rest of my life. We were friends at the end of his life but I know I really wounded him.
I wasn’t quite as smart as I am now. Sometimes, things are better left unsaid. The funny, happy and outgoing personality of my Uncle Bud was the best in the 40’s and 50’s. Kind of all went downhill from there. His sons, Gene and Eddie, live and work in Georgia. Eddie is the one who has his dad’s funny. personality, when I say funny, I mean “ha ha” not peculiar, and Gene is very different and introspective.
I have tried every day to get her on the pone and her answering machine is odd. I have let my correspondence go for so long but wanted to get this out to you and will write to her to see if she is receptive.
Donna
I am so happy to hear from you and hope that this opens a door for cousins to get acquainted. Hope Kathleen is dong well. She will probably start feeling like people shortly. One suggestion; when she has to cough, pull the knees up, put a pillow between the upper legs and stomach and cough. It doesn’t hurt as much that way. Hope we get to see you before too long.
Love from your newly found cousin,
Doyle & Donna Warren
Source: Letter printed with permission of Donna (Young) Warren
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Various parents, spouses, and children of the above:
Cecil Jerome King
Son of Lawrence Melvin King & Daisy Bragdon
Born: Dec 30, 1908, Sumpter, South Carolina
Died: Mar 24, 1998 (age 89), Seminole, Pinellas Co., Florida
Buried: Garden Sanctuary Cemetery, Seminole, Pinellas Co., Florida
Military: WWII, U.S. Army
Occupation: Public school teacher
One child with Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau
1. Donna Jeanne Young
Born: Dec 25, 1935, Bremerton, Kitsap Co., Washington
Married (1): Jul 26, 1936, Frances Athalia Cox, Jacksonville, North Carolina
Three children: Harriet Howard King, private King, private King
Married (2): Apr 6, 1956, Rosemary B. Brockington, Richmond, South Carolina
Two children
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Irvin George “Bud” Young
Son of Ward Allen Young & Jessie Opal Richards
Born: Nov 29, 1911, Shelton, Mason Co., Washington
Died: Mar 26, 2013 (age 101), Willits, California; cremated, ashes with family
Military: WWII Career Navy, signalman 1932-1953
Occupation: Barber
Married (1): 1935, Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau, California
No children, but considered Donna Jean Young as his child and whose last name she used
Married (2): May 19, 1943, Evelyn Irene (Espie) Clark, Florida
One child: Cheryl Maureen Young (1948-2016)
Married (3): Apr 2, 1971, Violet Andrea (Madsen) Scott, Carson City, Nevada
No children
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Charles Alphonso “Chuck” Martinez
Son of Joseph Ozmee Martinez & Carmelite Caillouet
Born: Jan 12, 1913, Chackbay, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Died: Feb 20, 1989 (age 76), San Francisco, California; cerebral hemorrhage
Buried: Fair Oaks Cemetery in Fair Oaks, Sacramento Co., Calif
Occupation: Shipyard welder during WWII, Wrigley Gum, hairdresser, cook, longshoreman/San Francisco
Married (1): Jun 1942, Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau, San Francisco, California
Separated/Divorced: about 1951
Three children: Charles Alfred Martinez, James Joseph Martinez, Patricia Lynn Martinez
1. Charles Alfred “Chuck” Martinez
Born: Jul 1, 1943, San Francisco, California
Died: 2012 (age 69)
2. James Joseph “Jim” Martinez
Born: Dec 20, 1949, San Francisco, California
3. Patricia Lynn “Pattie” Martinez
Born: Apr 4, 1951, San Francisco, California
Note: Charles is not the birth father of Patricia Lynn Martinez; he raised her as his own
Married (2): abt 1957, Olga Ann “Augie” Baresin
Divorced: Dec 1970, San Francisco, California
Married (3): Jun 23, 1986, Clara Beulah (Erb) Butler, Reno, Nevada
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Ronald Earl “Ron” Wiley, Jr. (other than the marriage to Jeanne, his other information and photo are conjecture)
1st of 3 children of Ronald Earl “Ron” Wiley, Sr. & Helen May Creese
Born: Feb 7 1935, Daggett, San Bernardino Co., California
Died: Jun 3, 1996 (age 61), Riverside, Riverside Co., California
Occupation: Salesman
Married (1): 1954, Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” (Sevenau) Martinez, possibly San Diego, California or Tijuana, Mexico
(Ron, at age 19, was 17 years younger than Jeanne, who was about age 36)
Photo at right was taken in 1954, student, San Diego State College yearbook
Married (2): Jun 1, 1956, Charlotte L. (Marlin) Curl, Clark Co., Nevada
One child:
1. Janelle L. Wiley
1958-1983
Married (3): Nancy Knussmann
One child
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Olga Ann “Augie” Baresin
Daughter of Roko Mio Baresin & Katherine “Kate” Antonino, both of Yugoslavia
Born: Nov 1, 1914, San Francisco, California
Died: May 21, 1989 (age 75), Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa Co., California
Buried: Mount Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael, Marin Co., California
Occupation: File clerk for telephone company, painter
Married (1): Al Cooper(?) (died in WWII, Navy)
Married (2): Jan 28, 1950, Howell G. Hawkins, San Mateo Co., California
Married (3): abt 1957, Charles Alphonso Martinez, Reno, Nevada
Divorced: Dec 1970, San Francisco, California
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Clara Beulah Erb
Daughter of Charles Urgos Erb & Allie Leona Zumwalt
Born: Sep 3, 1909, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., Missouri
Died: Feb 22, 1992 (age 82), Sonoma Co., California
Buried: Fair Oaks Cemetery in Fair Oaks, Sacramento Co., California (with both husbands)
Married (1): 1927, Roy Lester Butler (Jun 8, 1905, California – Jun 5, 1975 (age 69), San Francisco, California)
No children (had a baby that did not survive)
Married (2): abt 1987, Charles Alphonso Martinez, Reno, Nevada
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Apr 29, 2009: Email from Linda Wright-Wood, Sacramento, California (Find A Grave contributor)
My name is Linda Wood and I am the volunteer who took Charles Martinez’ grave photo. I was able to locate his 3rd wife Clara. She was two graves over. BUT…. there is some interesting facts to go with it.
I knew from your information on Charles memorial page to look for his wives and or children. But what I found was kind of interesting. His wife Clara is probably the one who buried Charles. I did some research and found that Charles is buried in H-12; Clara’s parents are in H-11 and H-10. Clara is then buried in H-9. Then I saw her name again… on the marker for H-8 with another man. So now she has two markers. The first one is just her name and the death date stamped in a block of cement, the other is engraved on the marker with Mr. Butler. Her husband before Charles was Roy Lester Butler, who died in 1975. I am assuming that Clara and Charles were married sometime after 1975. I also assume that Roy and Clara purchased their plots when she buried her parents. She probably wanted to be buried next to them since she was an only child. Then when she married Charles they must have purchased a plot for him on the other side of her parents. I checked with the cemetery, Clara is buried by herself in H-9. Roy Butler is by himself in H-8, but has Clara’s name on the stone.
2023. Researched and compiled by Catherine (Clemens) Sevenau, with the contributions of cousins, kin, and fellow researchers, especially to Donna Warren (pictured at left), Pattie Barton (middle), and Jeanne Stoll (at right), the three daughters of Jeanne Lucille “Sissy” Sevenau who generously shared their histories, letters, stories, and family photos.
Note: The cemetery headstone photos from Find A Grave contained herein are the property of those who photographed them.