Fisher Family History, 6th Generation
(Howard Earl Fisher Children)
Marjorie Ann (Fisher) Cambra (1928-1967)
131511 Marjorie Ann Fisher was born , in Calistoga, Napa County, California. She met Hugh Boyd Cambra, Sr., a World War II veteran, at McDonald's Chevrolet where he worked as a parts manager and she as a secretary. They married on , in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, and had four children:
| Name | Birth | Death | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1315111. | Hugh Cambra, Jr. | -- | -- | -- |
| 1315112. | Timothy Cambra | -- | -- | -- |
| 1315113. | Susan Cambra | -- | -- | -- |
| 1315114. | Richard Cambra | -- | -- | -- |
Mabel & Marjorie Fisher, 1928
Marjorie and family moved from Calistoga up into the hills between Calistoga and Santa Rosa to Rincon Hill Road, on the Sonoma side of the county line.[Cen 1930]. In 1932 their home burned down when a spark from a porch still ignited the house. Afterward her family lived for a time with her paternal grandmother, Cora Ethel (Miller Fisher) Williams8 at the Gill place, and by 1934 moved to Kellogg Precinct in Knights Valley, 7 miles north of Calistoga, over the Sonoma County line. By 1940 her family moved into town in Calistoga, on Main Street[Cen 1940], and then back up into the hills to a ranch at 3550 Calistoga Road, just past Chalfant Drive, in 1944.
Before their marriage, Hugh served in the Army Air Corps in the South Pacific during World War II. He was a motor pool parts specialist. After the war he worked at McDonald's Chevrolet and later at Pellini Chevrolet in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California, as manager of the parts department.[Obit 2001]
After their marriage, Marjorie and Hugh lived with Hugh's widowed mother, Lucille B. CambraLucile (Boyd) Cambra (1889-1953), at 1150 Humboldt Street in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County.[Cen 1950]
Marjorie served as recording and financial secretaries at the Independent Order of Foresters (1950-1967); and recording secretary (1956-1957) of Colfax Rebehah Lodge 77 of Calistoga and district deputy president of District 12 of the Rebekah Assembly of California (1962-1963).
Marjorie Ann (Fisher) Cambra died of breast cancer at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, on , at the young age of only 39 years. Her four children were between the ages of 11 and 17. Marjorie was inurned on at the Chapel of the Chimes Cemetery and Mausoleum, Santa Rosa.[Grave]
Hugh remarried to Patricia (Smart) Burns on , in Santa Rosa and that same year retired from Pellini Chevrolet in Sebastopol.
Hugh Boyd Cambra, Sr., died following a long illness on , at the age of 84. He and Marjorie are inurned together at the Chapel of the Chimes.[Grave]
Patricia (Smart Burns) Cambra died two years later on , in Santa Rosa. She was 75 years old.
Virginia (Fisher Thomas) Rannells (1930-2024)
131512Virginia “Beanie” Fisher was born on December 8, 1930, in Calistoga, Napa County, California. She married Louis Wayne “Bill” Thomas on September 27, 1947, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County. They raised four children together:
| Name | Birth | Death | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1315121. | Pamela Thomas | -- | -- | -- |
| 1315122. | Deborah Thomas | -- | -- | -- |
| 1315123. | Louis Thomas | 1953 | 2026 | (72) |
| 1315124. | Teri Thomas | -- | -- | -- |
Beanie and family moved from Calistoga up into the hills between Calistoga and Santa Rosa to Rincon Hill Road, on the Sonoma side of the county line.[Cen 1930]. In 1932 their home burned down when a spark from a porch still ignited the house. Afterward her family lived for a time with her paternal grandmother, Cora Ethel (Miller Fisher) Williams8 at the Gill place, and by 1934 moved to Kellogg Precinct in Knights Valley, 7 miles north of Calistoga, over the Sonoma County line. By 1940 her family moved into town in Calistoga, on Main Street[Cen 1940], and then back up into the hills to a ranch at 3550 Calistoga Road, just past Chalfant Drive, in 1944.
In 1946, Louis and Velma Fisher moved to a chicken ranch next door to the Fishers on Calistoga Road. Their son Bill was serving as a Machinist Mate Second Class (MM2) with the Navy Sea Bees at the time. Bill came home and met “Beanie.” They married the following year in Santa Rosa[Obit 1996], while still in Beanie's senior year of high school. She graduated from Calistoga High School in 1948.
After their marriage, the Thomas's lived at Lake Street and Grant Street in Calistoga, where Louis maintained walnut driers.[Cen 1950] Later in 1950, Bill joined the Calistoga police force and served as an officer for four years and as a relief officer for another ten years. Bill also joined as a volunteer for the Calistoga Fire Department in 1953 and retired from the department in 1981. Additionally, Bill began working for the Calistoga Post Office in 1953, was appointed postmaster in 1973, and retired from the postal service in 1981.[Obit 1996]
Beanie worked at bakery, the walnut plant, and at a convalescent home in Calistoga. She also ran the flower building at the Napa County Fair for many years.
Louis Wayne “Bill” Thomas died on May 10, 1996, at their home in Calistoga. He was 70 years old. Bill was buried in the Bors family plot (Beanie's maternal grandparents) at Saint Helena Cemetery, Saint Helena, Napa County.[Grave]
Beanie remarried to Rolland Jackson “Jack” Rannells, a native of Chico, Butte County, California, on June 15, 2002, in Calistoga.
Virginia “Beanie” (Fisher) Thomas died on June 20, 2024, at the age of 93. She was buried with Bill in the Bors family plot at Saint Helena Cemetery.[Grave]
Howard Earl Fisher, Jr. (1935-2017)
131514Howard Earl Fisher, Jr., was born on November 18, 1935, in Calistoga, Napa County, California. He married Mary Derby on January 27, 1962, at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County.[News 1962]
| Name | Birth | Death | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1315141. | Howard Fisher | -- | -- | -- |
| 1315142. | Darcy Fisher | -- | -- | -- |
Howard grew up in Calistoga and graduated from Calistoga High School in 1953. He fell in love with golf in high school and used to hitchhike to Santa Rosa on weekends to caddy.
After high school, Howard served a four-year enlistment as a gunnery yeoman in the U.S. Navy aboard the destroy escort U.S.S. Silverstein (DE-534) and participated in thermonuclear weapons testing (“Operation Redwing, 1956”) off Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Howard and Mary were married at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Rosa on January 27, 1962. Mary's brother, Ronald, gave her away before 150 guests. Nephew Dicky Cambra was ring bearer and niece Teri Thomas was the flower girl. They honeymooned in Las Vegas.[News 1962]
Howard worked as a greenskeeper at Mount St. Helena Golf Club[News 1962] in Calistoga and became a golf pro and course superintendent. He worked there 23 years before moving to Bishop, Inyo County, California, to take on the position of superintendant.[News 1983] We went on to manage the Lakewood Country Club in Dallas, Texas, and the Navy course at San Diego. He won four senior championships at the golf course superintendents association national conventions.
The Fishers returned to northern California and retired at 45200 Fish Rock Road in Anchor Bay (Gualala), Mendocino County, where Howard also enjoyed scouring tide pools for abalone along the Sonoma and Mendocino county coastlines. His cousin Hazel (Malugani) Goss would light up when he visited with a gift of abalone.
Howard Earl Fisher, Jr., died on March 6, 2017, at the age of 81 years.
Helen Marie (Fisher) Klingbeil (1938-2006)
131515Helen Marie Fisher was born June 30, 1938, in Calistoga, Napa County, California. She married Fred Clifford Klingbeil, Jr., of Angwin, Napa County, on February 8, 1958, in Calistoga. They raised two children:
| Name | Birth | Death | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1315151. | Scott Klingbeil | -- | -- | -- |
| 1315152. | Christen Klingbeil | -- | -- | -- |
Helen grew up in Calistoga and graduated from Calistoga High School in 1956 and went on to study nursing at Santa Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County.[Obit 2006]
Fred was serving in the U.S. Navy and had just graduated from Radioman School in San Diege, California,[News 1958A] when he and Helen married on February 8, 1958, in Calistoga. After their wedding, Helen continued schooling and graduated from Santa Rosa Junior College on June 14, 1958, with a nursing degree.[News 1958B] Around that time Fred was stationed in Japan where he as at the time of his father's death in April, 1959.
The lived for a time in Oakland (1961) and Berkeley (1962), Alameda County, before moving to Santa Rosa by 1966.
Helen Marie (Fisher) Klingbeil succumbed to cancer on October 11, 2006. She was 68 years old.
A few years after Helen's death, Fred remarried to Barbara.
Fred Clifford Klingbeil, Jr., died on March 26, 2016, in Oakmont, Sonoma County. He was 78 years old. Fred was buried with Helen at Saint Helena Cemetery.[Grave]