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He is survived by his wife Ann Brown; his son, Jack, daughter-in-law, Linda, and granddaughter, Heather Brown; daughter, Sandra, son-in-law, George McKee, and grandson, Jim Crase, all of Antioch. He is also survived by his sisters, Laura Huber of Hayden, Idaho, and Lena Potts of Cozad, Nebraska.
Sam was born May 9, 1920, in Gothenburg, Nebraska, to Samuel L. and Laura A. (Potts) Brown. He was married to Ann Yenter in 1941. He served in the Army in WWII in New Guinea and the Philippines. He was a retired electrician of Local 302. He enjoyed his family, traveling, and taking long walks.
Laid to rest in Ft. McPherson National Cemetery, Maxwell, Lincoln County, Nebraska.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, March 29 in the chapel of the J.W. Sams and Sons Funeral Home, Arvin for Mr. George W. "Jiggs" Force 62, of San Pablo, who died March 24. The Reverend Gary Force will officiate with the interment following in Arvin District Cemetery.
Force was born in Boynton. Oklahoma. He married Lucille Kirkley in June of 1943, working as a ranch foreman for the Frink Farms for 22 years until he moved to San Pablo 25 years ago and worked as a service engineer for Chevron Petroleum Company.
He was a member of the Arvin Assembly of God Church and served as a Sunday School Teacher. He was a veteran of World War II, serving his country with the U.S. Navy. He was also a member of the Boy Scouts of America.Survivors include his wife Lucille of San Pablo, three sons, Kenneth of Camarillo, Gary of Napa and Robert of Arvin A brother, Lewis of Los Hills three sisters Hester Johnson and Ruby Boatwright both of Arvin, Doris Carter of Bakersfield and six grandchildren.
Casterbearers will be Richard Boatwright, Steve Force, Lenoard Johnson,
Bill Force, Eddie Carter, James Darrel Kirkley,
Honorary bears are Cleo Brown, Archie Weeks, Bob Johnson and Emanuel Henitz
The Arvin V.F.W. Post 8809 will participate in the grave side services.
The J.W. Sams and Sons Funeral Home in Arvin handled all burial
arrangements.
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SSDI INDEX
GEORGE FORCE 20 May 1922 Mar 1985 94806
(San Pablo, Contra Costa, CA) 94806 (San Pablo, Contra Costa, CA) 442-18-6531
Oklahoma
J W Force 42 (June 1957)
Martha Force 26 (StepMother)
James L Force 11
Julia C Force 9
Sylva Holeman 7
Jessie J Force 1
(Information provided by
Shelly Lynch
- November 2006)
November 10, 1926 – November 17, 2006
Andrew was born at the Rancho Buenavista near Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, to Lorenzo and Victoria (Moreno) Soto. He is survived by his children Andres (Diana), Yvonne (John), Armando (Monica) and Yvette (Felipe) and their partners; his former wife Juanita Solinsky; his siblings Manuel (Henrietta), Mercedes Cardiel, Angelina Vela, Helen Morales and Vicente (Rebecca) and their families; and his grandchildren Ché and Alejandro (Danfeng), and Felipe and Micaela.
Andrew was preceded in death by his parents Lorenzo and Victoria, his brother Jesse, sister Victoria, his beloved son Dana, his special friend Midge Mouritsen and brothers in law Fernando Vela, David Morales, and Tony Cardiel. Andy is also survived by his Tia Isabel and his Tio Herman Soto, and numerous cousins, nieces, including recently elected State Representative Mara Candelaria Reardon, and nephews, compadres and friends in Mexico, around the country and locally in northern California. Andy will be missed by all who knew him.
Andy was raised in the Harbor section of East Chicago, Indiana. He survived the public school system that labeled him retarded because he spoke only Spanish to eventually retire as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer. He began working at age 10 years old with his brothers Jesse and Pup, and took pride in being a hard worker until he retired at 65 years old. He enlisted in the Marines in 1945, which took him out of East Chicago to Camp Lejuene, NC, Officer’s Training School at Quantico, VA and ultimately Guantanamo, Cuba. He was honorably discharged as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1947 and granted U.S. citizenship.
Andy returned to East Chicago working in the steel mills, driving cabs and selling shoes at Kostel’s on Main Street and enjoying jazz until 1953 when he came to Berkeley, California, along with his brother Pup, sister Angie and brother in law Fernie to begin his education and family. He transferred his class units from Los Angeles City College to Contra Costa College and shortly thereafter began working as a draftsman for Safeway Stores.
Andy, through his dedication to education and on the job training, learned architecture and mechanical engineering. He worked for Cal Steel, Yuba Manufacturing, PACECO, Weigman and Rose, and Chevron from where he retired. His education at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he studied under famed Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, came in handy in 1972, when he was sent to Tamano, Japan, by PACECO to supervise the construction of container cranes. While there Andy developed a deep appreciation for Japanese people and culture.
Andy remarried to Joyce Stanfill and created a special relationship with Midge Mouritsen, with whom he spent the last fifteen years of her life.
Andy enjoyed traveling to Indiana to visit family and friends as well as Mexico, especially his condo in Puerto Vallarta and the Rancho Buenavista. He was an avid reader of diverse subjects and a fan of Jazz, Mariachi and Classical music. Andy enjoyed playing softball with co-workers and family and remained a loyal Chicago Bears fan even though he came to also be a 49ers fan.
Andy was involved civically in San Pablo in the 1950s and 1960s with the Leroy Heights Improvement Club and served as President of the San Pablo Salesians Boy’s Club. Andy took great pride in designing, and with the help of his colleagues, constructing houses with his friends Cecil Wilson, Steve Ghigliotto, Joe Silva and Kenny Snodgrass throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the 1990’s Andy served as a Boardmember of United Concilio West.
Family and Friends are invited to join in the celebration
of Andy’s life on December 27, 2006 at Pepito’s Deli Restaurant at 1087 – 23rd
St., Richmond, CA from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. For more information and to RSVP,
please call, Andres Soto at 510.237.6866 or e-mail at adcsoto@hotmail.com
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Linda Brown
elldabee@prodigy.net