Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):
1) Sunday is Father's Day in the USA, and usually a time for memories and gratitude to our paternal birth person.
2) For this week's SNGF, tell us three things about your father that are special and memorable to you.
3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post. Please leave a link in a comment to this post.
Here's mine:
My father was Frederick Walton Seaver, Jr. (1911-1983), who was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, came to San Diego in 1940, married my mother, Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942, had three sons, and died in 1983. My ABC Biography for him is in ABC Biography of #2 Frederick Walton Seaver Jr. (1911-1983) of Massachusetts and San Diego, California.
1) My father was a good provider. During his youth, he had a gift for numbers and for gab, and it sderved him well, since he never did well in school. In the late 1930s, he worked as a clerk in the post office, bank loan investigator and finance company collector and sales manager. When he came to San Diego, he worked at an aircraft company in materiel control. After his World War II Navy service, he became a life insurance agent. He retired in 1971 after 25 years. His work was split between visiting customers at their homes (selling and collecting), working in the company office (reporting activities, submitting reports), and home (working at his desk with his debit books and using his adding machine). We saw only the home desk work, often into the night. The rent was paid every month, there was always food on the table, we never went hungry, I never saw money exchange hands, we took weeklong vacations, we had a car, we rarely went out to dinner, etc.
2) My father LOVED sports. Any sport, any competition. As a boy and young man (6'2", 180 pounds), he played baseball, football and basketball -- I have newspaper articles from the 1930s with his name in the game statistics. He played at Leominster High and eventually played football at Dartmouth Colllege in 1932, but was injured. He grew up rooting for the Boston Red Sox and hated the Yankees. By the time he came to San Diego, he was a ten-pin bowler, and was good enough to play in travel leagues in San Diego and be on local and state bowling tournament teams. By the 1950s when baseball and football games occasionally were on TV, he was an avid fan. He listened to the Padres games on the radio every night. In 1957, he became a Little League team manager as my brothers Stan and Scott went through Little League (ages 8-12), Pony League (ages 13-14), and Colt League (ages 15-16). In the 1960s and on, he watched every baseball, football and basketball game he could. He also watched roller derby, boxing, wrestling, and bullfights (he rooted for the bull). My parents and brother had San Diego Chargers tickets in the 1970s. By the 1960s, every family get-together included earnest and heated discussions about sports. He died in the hospital of a heart attack watching a Los Angeles Lakers basketball game, probably yelling at the referees or the announcers.
3) My father loved making and repairing things. He had a mechanical mind and a garage workshop with tools, made sturdy furniture for the house, fixed house fixtures and appliances, built the downstairs patio with sand and bricks, and did gardening, planting and tree trimming, especially after retirement.
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