Miller Family History, 9th Generation (Kivett Children)

Ogle London Kivett (1905-1968)

118274271. Ogle London Kivett was born on June 27, 1905, in Asti, Sonoma County, California. He married Ora Marie Barnette on July 21, 1930, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, but separated in 1935 and divorced in early 1936. He remarried to Helen Leona (Schauer) Terry on August 28, 1945, in Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada. He is not known to have had any children, aside from a stepson.

The Kivett family moved to Graton by 1908 where Ogle grew up. He moved out by 1930, rented his own place in Analy Township (perhaps in the Graton area, where his parents continued to live), and worked as a farm laborer.^{[Cen 1930]}

Ogle and Ora Marie Barnette were engaged in June 1930 and were married on or about July 21, 1930, in Santa Rosa, by Elmore R. Evans (1897-1959). He was 24 years old and she 18, of Sebastopol.^{[News 1930A, Mar 1930, News 1930B]}

After their marriage, the newlyweds moved south to 324 North Palm Avenue in Ontario, San Bernardino County, where Ogle worked as an architect.^{[City 1931]} However, the two separated on September 15, 1935, and Ora filed for divorce, which was granted on January 20, 1936, presumably in Tulare County.^{[News 1936]} They were not known to have had any children and what became of Ora afterward is not yet known.

Ogle worked for Lindsay Citrus Growers Association in Lindsay, Tulare County, by 1940, however, when registering for the draft that year, he listed his residence as Graton. At the time, age 35, he was described as 5' 10" tall, 185 pounds, with brown eyes, brown hair, and dark complexion. Interestingly, he filled out his draft card in San Ramon, Conta Costa County.^{[Draft 1940]}

Ogle later moved to Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada, where he remarried to Helen Leona (Schauer) Terry, a divorcée with a 12-year-old son and a native of San Francisco, on August 28, 1945, in Boulder City. They were married by Winston Trever, Minister of the Grace Community Church in Boulder City. Ogle's brother Warren and his wife Kittie were witnesses.^{[Mar 1945]}

Ogle and Helen returned to San Francisco before 1950 and soon after resettled at 1030 Kedith Street in Belmont, San Mateo County, along with Helen's 16-year-old son Donald, and her 64-year-old mother Martha E. (Orr) Schauer. There Ogle worked as an inspector in the freight business for an unspecified army base.^{[Cen 1950]} The city director for 1950 listed him as a clerk.^{[City 1950]}

Ogle returned to Graton by 1967.^{[Obit 1967]}

Ogle London Kivett died unexpectedly on February 18, 1968, at the age of 62, while on vacation in Lone Pine, Inyo County. He was buried with a Seventh Day Adventist service at Park View Cemetery in Manteca, San Joaquin County, on February 22, 1968.^{[Obit 1968, Grave]} His father was buried there the year before.^[Grave]

Helen Leona (Schauer Terry) Kivett reportedly remarried a Bursby and died on April 22, 1993, in Sonoma County, perhaps in Guerneville, at the age of 80.^{[Dth 1993]}

Warren Luciene Kivett (1908-1972)

118274272. Warren Luciene Kivett was born on June 27, 1908, in Graton, Sonoma County, California. He married Kittie Caroline Orr on October 30, 1934, in Salinas, Monterey County, California, and adopted a daughter after 10 years of marriage:

Warren moved to Spreckles, Monterey County, by 1934, and married Kittie Caroline Orr, also a native of Analy Township but a resident of Oakland, Alameda County, at the time, on October 30, 1934, in Salinas. He was 26 years old and she 19.^{[News 1934]}

Warren and Kittie moved to 820 E Street, San Rafael, Marin County, by 1940, and worked across the bay for “Heafey-Moore Co. & Frederickson Co.” at 873 81st Avenue, Oakland, Alamada. His draft registration, at age 32, described him as 5' 9" tall, 154 pounds, with brown eyes, brown hair, dark complexion, and with a scar on his right cheek.^{[Draft 1940]}

The Kivetts moved to 1319 Colorado Street, Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada, by 1950. There he worked as a truck driver for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the Hoover Dam.^{[Cen 1950]} The Kivetts lived in Boulder City through at least 1968.^{[Obit 1968]}

Warren Luciene Kivett died on December 14, 1972, in a local hospital near Sonora, Tuolumne County. He was 64 years old. Warren was buried on Saturday, December 16, in Jamestown Cemetery.^{[Obit 1972]}

Kittie reportedly remarried seven years later to Fredrick “Fred” Henry Hohstadt, the widower of her eldest sister, Leona (Orr Norris) Hohstadt (1910-1980) on July 11, 1980, in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, and lived in Jamestown. Fred died six years later on May 18, 1987, at Kaiser Hospital in Vallejo, Solano County, California. He was 87 years old.

Kittie Caroline (Orr) Kivett died on September 21, 1992, at Boulder City Hospital. She was 77 years old. Kittie was buried with Warren in Jamestown Cemetery on Saturday, Septembe 26.^{[Obit 1992]}

Oceola Elma Kivett^Δ (1910-1990)

118274273. Oceola Elma Kivett was born on August 3, 1910, in Graton, Sonoma County, California. She almost exclusively went by her middle name, Elma. Elma married Donald Cameron Oswill, a native of San Ramon, Contra Costa County, California, between 1933 and 1934. They had three children:

Don served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army during World War I, 1918 to 1919, in 31st Company, 8th Battalion, 166th Depot Brigade^[Vet], at Camp Lewis, Washington, and later at Fort McDowell, Angel Island, Marin County, California. He had two children from a previous marriage, Barbara and Warren Oswill.

Elma and Don first settled in Danville, Contra Costa County, by 1935 and then moved south about 5 miles to Depot Road in San Ramon.^{[Cen 1940]} Next they moved another 6 miles south to Building 27, Apartment 2, Komandorski Village in Alameda County.^{[Cen 1950]} Komandorski Village was built as temporary, affordable housing for military personnel and families from Camp Parks.

Donald Cameron Oswill died on December 11, 1953, in Livermore, Alameda County, at the age of 58. He was buried on December 16 at Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, San Mateo County.^[Grave] Their children were ages 15 through 18.

Elma lived in San Ramon Village, Dublin, by 1967.^{[Obit 1967, 1968]}

Oceola Elma Kivett died 36 years later on November 10, 1990, in Sonora, Tuolumne County, California, at the age of 80. She was buried with Don at Golden Gate National Cemetery.^[Grave]

Amy Isabell Kivett^Δ (1922-1991)

118274274. Amy Isabell Kivett was born on May 28, 1922, in Graton, Sonoma County, California. She married Arnold Oliver Malvick, native of Minnesota, by 1938. They had four children:

The Malvicks started their family in a rental in or around Manteca (enumerated as “Castoria Judicial Township”) on Louise Avenue. Arnold worked as a mechanic involved in sewer construction.^{[Cen 1940]} Arnold soon after worked at Manteca Canning Company^{[Draft 1940, News 1956]}, Manteca's first industrial company that formed in 1914, and worked his way up to foreman^{[Vote 1944]}, assistant superintendant^{[Cen 1950]}, and superintentant.^{[News 1956]}

The family resettled at 140 South Garfield Avenue, four blocks from the center of town in Manteca, by 1950, where lived through at least 1968.^{[Cen 1950, City 1968]} Amy's father lived with them from as early as 1952 until his death there in 1967.^{[Obit 1967]}

Arnold became a Manteca city councilman by 1958, mayor pro-tem of Manteca by 1960, and mayor by 1963, serving with the city government through at least 1967.^{[Obit 1967]} He concurrently worked an an engineer for Tri-Valley Growers.^{[City 1968]}

Arnold Oliver Malvick died on April 14, 1989, in Manteca, at the age of 76. He was buried at Park View Cemetery in Manteca.^{[Dth 1987]}

Amy Isabell (Kivett) Malvick died two years later on May 30, 1991, in Manteca, two days after her 69th birthday.^{[Dth 1991]} She was also buried at Park View Cemetery in Manteca.