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Submitted by: Chris Havnar
Article Title: Redding Record-Searchlight
Article Date: 1946
Article Description: Misc. Obits
Article Text:
Redding Record-Searchlight
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 1946
Martin Shelton, 57, of Redding, veteran of World War I, died at the Veterans
Administration hospital at Livermore Sunday.
Born at Harrison Gulch, he served with the 91st aerial squadron in France during
World War I.
Surviving are his son, Martin Shelton Jr., U.S. navy; four brothers, Edward Shelton
of Ono, Arthur Shelton of Castella, F. B. Shelton of Sacramento, and A. J. Shelton
of Battle Mountain, Nevada, and one sister, Mrs. C. R. Gossett of Red Bluff
Services will be announced by McDonald's chapel.
* * *
Thursday, Feb. 26, 1946
Leonard Willis Vinson, 28, of Redding, veteran of World War II, died at Oroville
Curran hospital Sunday night of an internal infection. He entered the hospital on
Thursday.
Vinson was born July 16, 1917 at Grants Pass, Ore. He was currently employed by the
bureau of reclamation as an engineering aide at Oroville.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Vinson of north Redding, and four
sisters, Mrs. Elsie Upham of Trinity Center, Mrs. Edith Herrick of Santa Cruz, and Mrs.
Leila Phelps of Trinity Center.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at McDonald's Chapel, with the Rev. H. A.
Luckenbach officiating.
Interment will be in the family lot in Redding cemetery.
* * * *
Thursday, Feb. 28, 1946
Clarence William Rankin, 54, former operator of The Gables resort, died of a heart
attack last night at Lakehead, where he was employed as a Southern Pacific truck
driver.
A one time Marysville clothier, he came to Shasta county seven years ago.
Surviving are his wife, Myrtle; a son, William of Yuba City; a brother, Ray, of
Paradise; and three sisters, Mrs. Jennet Ruiz and Mrs. Mary Burst, both of Marysville;
and Mrs. Margaret Graves of Yuba City. He was a member of the Marysville lodge of
Elks.
The body is at the Meininger funeral home.
* * *
Sat., March 2, 1946
Mrs. Zenora Orina Whitt, 77, who formerly operated a theater in Anderson, died early
today at a Red Bluff hospital.
She was born May 9, 1868, in Pittsburg, Pa., and came to Anderson in 1912 with her
husband, Joseph Whitt.
He died there in 1917. She left Anderson in 1924 and has resided in Red Bluff since
that time.
Surviving is a son, William C. Whitt, fire chief of Red Bluff.
Mrs. Whitt was a member of the G.A.R. and W.B.A. in Red Bluff and of the Women's
Relief corps in Redding.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 10:30 p.m. at Fickert's chapel in Red Bluff,
with the Rev. Merlin Donaldson of the Baptist church officiating.
Interment will be in the Anderson cemetery at 2:30 p.m.
Originally transcribed by Robin Bills
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