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MALUGANI Family History, Part IIIA

Alvin Frederick MALUGANI^Δ (1917-1993)

11B1. Alvin Frederick Malugani^Δ was born June 16, 1917, at the Peterson Ranch above Calistoga, Napa County, California. He is recalled to have nearly died as an infant because he refused mother's milk and cow's milk. He finally accepted goat's milk. Al married Marion E. Russe of Mendocino County, California, around 1937 and had 11 children within 11 years:

11B1A.	Altia MaluganiΔ	--	--	--
11B1B.	Alvin "Sonny" Malugani	--	--	--
11B1C.	Bertram Lydell Malugani	16 Dec 1940	24 May 2010	(69)
11B1D.	Lloyd Ray Malugani	25 Nov 1941	28 Apr 2010	(68)
11B1E.	Tom Malugani	--	--	--
11B1F.	Marion Malugani	13 Aug 1943	28 Dec 2018	(75)
11B1G.	Marylin L. Malugani	13 Aug 1943	19 Aug 1943	Infancy
11B1H.	Harry Malugani	1945	2020	(75)
11B1I.	Michael Malugani	1946	2020	(74)
11B1J.	Elwood "Woody" Malugani	--	--	--
11B1K.	Pearl Malugani	--	--	--

After their marriage, Al and Marion moved in with Al's parents by 1940, where he worked as a farm hand with his father and brother Bert.^{[Cen 1940]} Soon after, Al and Marion moved closer into town to 1537 Steele Lane. Here he was recorded to be self-employed across town at 730 Aston Avenue, which is where his uncle, Joe Malugani, lived and farmed. Al's draft registration at that time, at age 23, describes him as 5' 11" tall, 167 pounds, with brown eyes, brown hair, and dark complexion. Come 1943, his draft registration was amended with a new residence at 1019 Bush Street, on the opposite side of the Santa Rosa Fairgrounds from his Uncle Joe.^{[Draft 1940]}

The Maluganis moved north to Ukiah, Mendocino County, around 1950, and lived along Highway 20.^{[Cen 1950]} There Al worked as bus driver and eventually retired from Greyhound.

They later moved back to Santa Rosa to 781 Calistoga Road, at the time that sons Al and Bert were in military basic training; and afterward across town to 4189 Concord Avenue.

Alvin Frederick Malugani died on January 3, 1993, in Willits, Mendocino County, at the age of 75. Services were held by Rev. Ervin Jenkins at 2:00 p.m. on January 6, 1993, at the Anker-Lucier Mortuary Chapel in Willits. He was buried at Little Lake Cemetery in Willits.

The year 2010 started off with Marion's 91st birthday in March, but the following month son Lloyd sadly passed away. Barely a month after that, son Bert suffered a tragic heart attack and died. Marion followed seven weeks later on July 13. Marion E. (Russe) Malugani was 91 years old.

At the time of Marion's death, she and Alvin had 21 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren, and 19 great-great grandchildren.

Hazel Elizabeth (MALUGANI) GOSS⁴ (1919-2018)

11B2. Hazel Elizabeth Malugani⁴ was born in 1919 along Humbug Creek where Gates Road forks off of Calistoga Road below "Buchi Grade" in the hills above Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. She was baptized as "Maria Philomena," apparently named after her aunt Filomena Malugani. Hazel married Lloyd Andrew Goss³ on March 27, 1937, in Carson City, Nevada, and had three children:

11B21.	Gayle GossΔ	--	--	--
11B22.	Judith GossΔ	--	--	--
11B23.	Gary Goss5	--	--	--

Hazel's maternal aunt Elsie Williams recalled that she, then age 4, and her 2-year-old sister Gladys hid behind the stove and watched their niece's birth.

Hazel was named by her maternal grandmother, Cora Williams, for her grandmother's niece, Hazel Miller. This followed a disagreement with Hazel's paternal grandmother, Aurelia Malugani, whose choice of "Daisy" reminded Grandma Williams of "a cow's name."

Hazel attended Alpine School in the hills above Rincon Valley in Santa Rosa. At age 13 she moved in with her uncle Dan Malugani and his new bride Stella, on A Street in Santa Rosa, to help them care for her grandmother Aurelia Malugani. While in downtown Santa Rosa, and under the care of her uncle and grandmother, Hazel attended Catholic school.

Hazel rejoined her family by about 1935, when her great grandmother Harriet Williams came to live with the Maluganis at their fruit orchard on Fulton Road. Not long afterward, she moved in with grandmother Cora Williams upon Sharp Road in Porter Creek, above Rincon Valley. She started her freshman year of high school at Santa Rosa High School, but at the time there were no buses running up and down from the hills so it was difficult to attend on a daily basis. She transferred to Calistoga High School and restarted her freshman year the following year. Hazel attended Calistoga High School until she married in 1937.

When Hazel was about 16 years old she met Lloyd Goss for the first time at a dance hall up St. Helena Road. Lloyd offered to buy her a drink and she ordered a soda, which, not realizing how young she was, puzzled Lloyd. They met again a couple years later at the "Midway" dance hall on Sebastopol Road when Lloyd mistook her for someone else.

On March 27, 1937, Hazel, age 18, married Lloyd Andrew Goss, age 24, in Carson City, Nevada.

After their marriage, Hazel and Lloyd lived in the lower level of Lloyd's parents' home in Santa Rosa on Roberts Avenue. They then found their own place on Barham Avenue on the other side of the railroad tracks. Daughters Gayle Ann and Judith Lorraine were born there and in 1942 the family moved back to Roberts Avenue where son Gary Andrew was born. Around 1946, the Goss family moved to Lloyd's father's new home at 1200 Brush Creek while Lloyd built their new home at 939 Middle Rincon Road.^{[Cen 1950]}

In 1970 Hazel visited daughter Gayle on the Big Island of Hawai’i, the first of her family (besides Gayle of course) to travel by air.

Hazel loved playing cards, especially pinochle, and dice. Grandchildren often played Yahtzee on the small table in the dining room half of her small kitchen—the main gathering place at the Goss household. Later the domino game of "chicken foot" became a family favorite.

When gatherings got bigger or the weather was nice, everyone headed out under the big oak tree where Hazel maintained dozens of potted plants of all varieties, most notably her geraniums.

Growing up during tough times, Hazel inherited from her mother the skill to make a meal out of anything on a moment's notice. Family favorites include her "spaghetti more," tamale pie, raviolis (a Christmas dinner tradition), polenta, "green jello," carrot cake, and mayonnaise cake. She also learned cake decoration and created beautiful cakes for special occasions like weddings for her granddaughters Gari and Stephanie, niece Cindi Beaman, son Gary, and daughter Gayle; and a 50th anniversary cake for her neighbors and long time friends Dot & Howard Fish.

Her grandchildren recall that there was always a ball game on the television, or other favorites like "Hee Haw," "Lawrence Welk," "Wild Kingdom," or "The Wonderful World of Disney." Later her favorites were "American Idol," "Dancing with the Stars," and re-runs of the "Golden Girls."

Lloyd Andrew Goss died at home under hospice care at Middle Rincon Road on August 1, 1981, following a battle with lung cancer. Lloyd was 68 years old. He is inurned at Franklin Cemetery in Santa Rosa.

After Lloyd

With her sisters Cora and Barbara, Hazel took to dancing once again at favorite country bars. She was especially fond of country stars like Marty Robbins and Ricky Van Shelton—and even into her 90's she wasn't too old to have a pin-up of George Strait hanging in her little office! Hazel sold the fifth-wheel camper trailer and downsized to a Class-C RV camper and continued to camp out at some of her favorite spots.

Hazel sold the family home of about 40 years on Middle Rincon Road, around March 1988, and moved to a new, doublewide trailer home at 530 Colonial Park Drive.

Hazel followed in the footsteps of Grandma Williams, serving as the family matriarch, and inherited her grandmother's sharp memory of the scores upon scores of uncles, aunts, cousins, and their families.

Her home was always open to friends and family visiting from afar, on leave from duty in the armed services, or needing a temporary refuge to weather troubled times. She lived by the simple creed of "treat people like you want them to treat you."

Hazel Elizabeth (Malugani) Goss died at her home in 2018 at the age of 99. She joined Lloyd at Santa Rosa Memorial Park. Her celebration of life was held the following week at the Thanksgiving Lutheran Church in Santa Rosa and was held in conjunction with the annual family reunion. It was attended by 122 relatives and friends. Hazel was survived by her three children, 11 of 12 grandchildren, 23 of 24 great-grandchildren, and 14 great-great grandchildren.

Bertram Charles MALUGANI (1921-1973)

11B3. Bertram Charles Malugani was born at the Tucker Ranch near Calistoga, Napa County, California, on November 28, 1921. He worked at a slaughterhouse near Dutton Avenue in Santa Rosa and later at his cousin Richard's shale pit on Porter Creek Road.

Bert's father bought 2289 Francisco Road from the Knutsens, in the Fulton area of Santa Rosa Township. In 1950, Bert was enumerated as the head of household and lived with his father; younger sister Cora, her husband George, and their son Ronnie; and younger sister Beverly and her son Darrel. Bert worked as a meat cutter at a horse slaughter house.^{[Cen 1950]}

After his father died in 1956, the Malugani place at 2289 Francisco Avenue was left to his younger brother Bud, but because Bud was serving in the U.S. Air Force, Bert lived at the place until he died.

Bert Malugani never married and died at the age of 52 on June 5, 1973. He is inurned with his parents at the Chapel of the Chimes in Santa Rosa.

Cora Aurelia (MALUGANI) OLDHAM^Δ (1923-1990)

11B4. Cora Aurelia Malugani^Δ was born on July 13, 1923, in a converted chicken house at the Joseph Gemmet place on Alpine Road in the hills above Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. She was named for both of her grandmothers, Cora Ethel (Miller Fisher) Williams and Aurelia (Cerini) Malugani. She married George Francis Oldham, a native of Franklin, Sacramento County, California. They had six children, all born in Sonoma County:

--	Ellis Eugene (Oldham) Farley	7 May 1934	3 Sep 1987	(53)
11B41.	Juanita "Punky" Frances Oldham	19 Jun 1942	31 Oct 2012	(70)
11B42.	Verda "Toddy" Oldham	1943	2024	(81)
11B43.	Ronald Oldham	--	--	--
11B44.	Debra Oldham	--	--	--
11B45.	Gordon OldhamΔ	1965	2023	(58)
11B46.	Deanna Oldham	--	--	--

George had been previously married in 1933 to Mae Ingred Kiergard and had a son, Ellis, in Willows, Glenn County, California. By 1935 George was living in Manton District of Red Bluff Township, Tehama County, California, and by 1940 was boarding there with the William B. and Camilla O. (Land) Shell family. There he was noted as a "widower" and worked as a farm tractor operator^{[Cen 1940B]}; however, his ex-wife and son were living at the time on the outskirts of Healdsburg, Sonoma County.^{[Cen 1940C]} Later that same year, George worked for Chisholm Farm Company in Healdsburg and registered for the draft, but soon after moved to Shipyard Acres in Napa, Napa County, California. His draft registration, at age 26, describes him as 5' 6-1/2" tall, 145 pounds, with hazel eyes, brown hair and light brown complexion. He had a tattoo of a red heart on his left arm with "G. O." in the center.^{[Draft 1940]}

Cora's father bought 2289 Francisco Road from the Knutsens, in the Fulton area of Santa Rosa Township. In 1950, Cora, George, and son Ronnie lived there with her father, elder brother Bert, younger sister Beverly, and Beverly's son Darrel. George worked as a ranch keeper.^{[Cen 1950]}

The Oldhams moved north to Entiat, Chelan County, Washington, around the late 1970s.

George Francis Oldham died on October 26, 1986, in Entiat, at the age of 72 years. Cora and George were just two weeks shy of their 45th anniversary.

After George's death, Cora moved in with her elder sister Hazel in Santa Rosa.

Cora Aurelia (Malugani) Oldham died three years later on March 27, 1990, at Hazel's home, at 530 Colonial Park Drive at the Colonial Park mobile home park in Santa Rosa. She was 66 years old. Services were held at the Healdsburg Chapel and she was buried at the Chapel of the Chimes in Santa Rosa. Cora later joined George at Entiat Cemetery.

Aurelia "Rae" Katherina (MALUGANI) BLISSARD^Δ (1925-2003)

11B5. Aurelia "Rae" Katherina Malugani^Δ was born April 12, 1925, at the Derby Ranch on Calistoga Road, just below Alpine Road in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. She was named for her paternal grandmother Aurelia Caterinia (Cerini) Malugani. She married Wesley James Blissard on July 22, 1944, and had four children:

11B51.	Sandra Lee Blissard	17 Jul 1945	12 Dec 2010	(65)
11B52.	Dennis James BlissardΔ	11 Oct 1946	9 Jul 2016	(69)
11B53.	Wendy Blissard	--	--	--
11B54.	Jennifer Blissard	--	--	--

After Rae and Wes married they lived in Santa Rosa and by moved up to 3815 Porter Creek Road in the hills to the north of Santa Rosa, by 1950. Wes worked a a shovel operator for road building.^{[Cen 1950]}

Later during the 1950s they lived on Brush Creek Road in Rincon Valley, Santa Rosa, near Montecito Boulevard, perhaps at 2000 Brush Creek Road.

Their first three children were born in Santa Rosa. Then by 1960 they moved back east to Wes's native McCurtain County, Oklahoma, and settled in Broken Bow, where Wes grew poultry for Tyson Foods.

Rae and Wes's daughter and son-in-law, Wendy and Mike Hubbard, held a 50th wedding anniversary reception for them on Saturday, July 23, 1994, at the Hubbard home.

Rae (Malugani) Blissard died on March 11, 2003, she was 77 years old. Rae was buried at Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, 6 miles east of Broken Bow.^[Grave] She and Wes had been married for 58 years.

Wesley James Blissard died four years later on October 6, 2007, in Hugo, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, at the age of 84. He was buried with Rae on October 9 at Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church.^[Grave]

Beverly Jane (MALUGANI) BEAMAN^Δ (1928-2011)

11B6. Beverly Jane Malugani^Δ was born on May 26, 1928, in Calistoga, Napa County, California. At the time the Malugani family lived at the Derby Ranch on Calistoga Road, just below Alpine Road in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, but Beverly's mother was visiting her sister Carrie (Fisher) Shelly in Calistoga. Beverly married Walter "Jay" Day Beaman on November 10, 1946, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, and had five children:

11B61.	Darrel Beaman	--	--	--
11B62.	Buddy Charles BeamanΔ	2 Aug 1950	May 1983	(32)
11B63.	Mark BeamanΔ	--	--	--
11B64.	Stephan Beaman	--	--	--
11B65.	Cynthia BeamanΔ	--	--	--

After Walter was discharged from the Army in 1946, Beverly and Walter were married by Rev. Willis J. Loar, a First Baptist minister, on November 10, 1946, at the Church Built from One Tree in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. Beverly's younger sister Barbara served as a bridesmaid and Walter's yourger brother Dale as best man.

The newlyweds moved south to Freedom, on the north side of Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, where Walter's parents had resettled. Walter worked as a gas station attendant for Standard Oil and their first son, Darrel, was born in nearby Salinas.

Walter reenlisted in the Air Force in 1949 and shipped out to Japan and Korea when second son Buddy was born at Hamilton Field, Marin County, California. Beverly moved the following year back to Santa Rosa where she and her two boys lived at 730 Aston Avenue, to the southwest of the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, near her Uncle Joe and a couple blocks south of her father (?) on Frazier Avenue.

Beverly's father bought 2289 Francisco Road from the Knutsens, in the Fulton area of Santa Rosa Township. With Walter serving in the Air Force, Beverly and son Darrel lived with her father in 1950, along with her elder brother Bert, elder sister Cora, her husband George, and their son Ronnie.^{[Cen 1950]}

After Walt passed away, Beverly lived with her daughter Cindi and her family in Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kansas, for two years. She returned to Washington state in 2010.

Beverly Jane (Malugani) Beaman passed away on July 4, 2011, after a series of illnesses. She was 83 years old. Beverly is buried with her husband Walter at the St. Francis Xavier Mission Cemetery in Toledo, Lewis County, Washington.

Barbara (MALUGANI) MARSHALL^Δ

11B7. Barbara Malugani^Δ was born at the Derby Ranch on Calistoga Road, just below Alpine Road in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. She married G. Douglas Luney in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, in 1948. They divorced and she later married Marlin "Joe" Marshall in 1952. Altogether she had four children:

11B71.	Elizabeth Luney	--	--	--
11B72.	Toni Lorraine MarshallΔ	1 Apr 1953	10 Jul 2020	(67)
11B73.	Walter Frederick MarshallΔ	4 Sep 1954	7 Jan 2014	(59)
11B74.	David Marshall	--	--	--

Barbara and Joe married on December 11, 1952.

Marlin Joseph "Joe" Marshall died on May 24, 2020, following a struggle with cancer. He was 87 years old. Joe is buried at Hermiston Cemetery.^[Grave]

Theodric "Bud" Fisher MALUGANI^Δ (1932-2001)

11B8. Theodric "Bud" Fisher Malugani^Δ was born August 14, 1932, at the home of his uncle Dan Malugani on "A" Street in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. At the time his family lived at the Derby Ranch on Calistoga Road, just below Alpine Road in the hills above Santa Rosa so his uncle Ben Magatelli drove his mother down into town for his birth. He was named for his deceased maternal grandfather, Theodoric Leathe Fisher. He married Jonita Terry and had four children:

11B81.	Dale Malugani	--	--	--
11B82.	Janice Elaine Malugani	4 Jun 1958	5 Jun 1958	(1 day)
11B83.	David Malugani	--	--	--
11B84.	Janice MaluganiΔ	--	--	--

Theodric "Bud" F. Malugani
Jonita "Jo" (Terry) Malugani
Janice Lynn Malugani
David Lee Malugani

Bud was fascinated with aviation as a child and joined the U.S. Air force when he was only 17 years old (1949/1950). He attended 13 weeks of basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Later he was assigned to Fort Warren (later renamed as Francis E. Warren Air Force Base) near Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he likely underwent technical training under Air Training Command. After Fort Warren, Bud was reassigned to Fort Worth (Carswell Air Force Base), Texas, around 1950 or early 1951, where he met and married Jo. Bud went on to serve at Aviano Air Base, Italy (~1961-1962), Osan Air Base, Korea (early 1970s), and others, making a career as an explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) technician.

Bud went on to retire from the Air Force as a Senior Master Sergeant (E-8). Afterward he worked real estate in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Theodoric "Bud" Fisher Malugani died on March 21, 2001, at his home in Weatherford, Texas. He was 68 years old.