Sunday, October 30, 2016

William F. Morkin 1886 - 1960

William Jr. was Elaine Scholl's first friend. William's wife was named Elizabeth or Bess.
Died in El Paso, Texas and buried there.
Birth:

Apr. 9, 1886
Death: Apr. 4, 1960
Morkins

Emma Scholl:  1922  Audrey and I stayed at William and Bess Morkins while he was
building the house. Their house was at 1633 Michelorena. They
were the best neighbors I ever had in California. Audrey went to
Kindergarten and got whooping cough and was sick, vomiting and
coughing all winter. George went to Portland on account of the
sickness of his sister. Morkins were very kind to me and helped
with Audrey. We lived in the two back rooms, had a gas range in
one bedroom. We just had the rough lumber wide board floors,
which we covered with building paper and had to recover it when
it got dirty.

Special Vacation to Oregon

1928  We packed our clothes, after storing what little furniture we had
in the attic of the garage, and on June 22nd, 1928, we started
for oregon. We had an army cot and some blankets. The first
night we camped in a kind of a camping grounds in Santa Barbara.
We stayed with our old neighbor's, Morkins, in Berkeley for a
night or so

In the summer of 1934 we went to Utah and they let George have the house
without any rent for helping him paint it, etc. They redecorated
it, then sold it. George had the first chance to buy it cheap,
but he wait to write to me instead of sending a telegram. I was
sorry, as I liked it there very much and it was near the Chapel
Morkins stayed with him that summer.

George moved to 605 Lincoln while we were gone. Morkins went
there with him. We got a ride to L.A. with Petger Clayton's son
Paul in September 1934.