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Note: Note: Adele was born at the first Enloe Hospital in Chico, which opened its doors in 1913 on the 300 block of Flume Street with a staff of three doctors and five nurses, plus 25 beds. The community's first ambulance service started by Dr. N. T. Enloe.
Chico Record, Sunday morning, September 21, 1924: "Mrs J. G. Coon was admitted at the Enloe hospital yesterday."
One of the supporting documents for the issuance of Adele's Delayed Birth Certificate was a letter from the Durham Unified School District, Butte County, Durham, CA, dated April 20, 1966:
"To Whom It May Concern: School records stored at the Durham Elementary school show that Adele Coon, now Mrs. Adele Hackett, was a first grade student on September 8, 1930. Her birthdate in that document was recorded as being September 20, 1924. Five years and eleven months was her recorded age at the time. Miss Vesta Cory was her teacher and the recorder of vital statistics contained in the school record. Signed, Jack L. Lutz, Principal.
1930 census Durham, Butte, CA: Jesse Coon, aged 44, farmer, bp CA, father IL, mother MO; Grace aged 37, both first married aged 37 & 30, respectively, bp CO, both parents IL; Adele aged 5, bp CA. They are living on the original homestead next door to Jesse's father, Emmett.
"Certificate of Promotion, The United Brethren Sunday School --- This is to certify that Adele Coon has completed the Course of Study for the Third year of the Primary Department, and is hereby promoted to the First year of the Junior Department in United Brethern Sunday School of Durham. E. A. Griffith, Pastor; Ernest Nelson, Superintendent; Mrs. E. H. Nelson, Teacher; Date Oct. 7, 1934."
The Chico Enterprise, Chico, CA, Wednesday Evening, May 24, 1939:
"Durham News --- Grammar School Graduation May 25 --- Class Roll: Pauline Edwards, Irvin Merrifield, Betty Jean Craven, Kendall Blasingame, Ruth Biggers, Ivan Kezich, Lucille Franklin, Walter McNair, Sarah Brines, Clarabel Boelans, Harold Murphy, Martha Armstrong, James Lewis, Betty Ann Troxel, Robert Neff, Lois Brinson, Max Vandruff, Virginia Jenkins, Nellie Belle Pyle, David Vice, Marie Boyles, Warren Dailey, Adele Coon, Earl Neff, Mae McLane, L. V. Miller, Dorothy White, Kenneth Hoenike."
October 19, 1942 (10:30 AM): Post card to Miss Adele Coon, Route 3, Chico, CA. Dearest Bernice. Here I am down here in L.A. Got here about 10 p.m. Wish you were here. Four of us are going boat riding on the ocean. My what a time we could have. All my love, George." Card a picture titled "The Golden West," The California Coast. Postal stamp South Gate, CA.
October 19, 1942 (7:30 PM): Post card to Miss Adele Coon, Route 3, Chico, CA. "Dearest Darling. Had a swell time yesterday. Wish you had of been with me, would of had a better one. Will be seeing you Wednesday or Friday, if every thing turns out O.K. Love George" Card is a picture of Home of Warner Brothers & First National Pictures, Burbank, CA. Postal stamp Los Angeles.
November 11, 1942: Post Card from Pvt. G. C. Hackett, U.S. Army, S.N. 39678,440, to Miss Adele Coon, Rt. 3, Chico, Calif. "Dear Adele - Darling, I am sorry I wasn't there to see you when you got to Sacramento. Hope you enjoy yourself. I'm on my way. Will write more when I get their. All my love, George." Card is a picture of the Cantara Loop, Eighteenth Crossing, Sacramento River, CA. Postal stamp Portland.
Letter to Howard & Norma Jenkins from Howard's mother, Dora Coon, dated Monday night, Jan 18, 1943. Letter in Adele Coon Hackett's collection: (I have not corrected the spelling or punctuation, except for a period at the end of a sentence to make it clearer. Carolyn Dowd) ....... Excerpt: "I told you in my other letter of Adele & George well he got her the ring now and are they happy -- they are the perfect pair of Love Birds."
January 20, 1943: Post Card to Miss Adele Coon, Route 3, Chico, Calif. "Hello Darling. I arrived here in Portland at 1:00 p.m. Will have to lay over untill 9:00 p.m. So I guess will go to a show. Will rite more when I get to Spokane. All my love, George." Card is a picture of the Power Plant, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River between Washington and Oregon. Postal stamp Portland.
May 2, 1943: Post Card to Miss Adele Coon, Route 3, Chico, Calif. "Dear Adele. Hello Darling. Sorry I haven't wrote before, but have been busy. Hope you are being a good girl. Will write more later. Good day, Dear. All my love for you. George." Card is a picture of the Davenport Hotel & Restaurant, Spokane, WA. Postal stamp Spokane.
May 27, 1943: Post card to Miss Adele Coon, Route 3, Chico, Calif. "Hello Darling. How are you today. Every thing around here is about the same. Hope you will be coming up pretty soon. Am sure lonesome for you, darling. All my love, George." Cpl. George Hackett, 1031 Guard Sqd., Spokane, WA. Card is a picture of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. Postal stamp Spokane.
News article, ca 1943: "Durham Boys In the Service. Cpl. George Hackett and wife (nee Coon) have been here from Spokane, Washington to visit at the home of Mrs. Hackett's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Coon for a week."
Note: Roman and Grace Stracken were very close friends of George and Adele. Both couples were married about the same time, and Roman was stationed at the Army Air Corp Depot, Spokane, WA with George in 1943. Both couples lived in the Stanford Hotel in Spokane, across the hall from one another. Adele and Grace were both pregnant at the same time, Adele misscarrying and Grace's baby living only three days. They have stayed in touch with one another all these years, Adele receiving a Christmas card from Grace as recently as 2014. Grace lives in or near Minneapolis.
THE FORUM, Durham, CA, March 2, 2005: "Durham Library Honors Adele Hackett by Karen S. Read.
Adele Coon was born on September 20, 1924, to Jesse and Grace (nee Jamerson), about 400 feet down the road from her current home. Adele's son, George, now occupies the home of her birth. This land was settled by Adele's great-grandfather William Coon in 1860; he had traveled from Illinois with his wife, Elizabeth, and their five children and it took six months to make the journey with a wagon train, coming across the Honey Lake Route to Butte County. When he first arrived in the Durham area, he stayed for a little while on the other side of Butte Creek, but then came over to the west side and built his home. Adele states it is her personal belief that coming into the world (she only weighted about four pounds) was some kind of "omen" for her family; that May was one of the few years that the almond crop froze and the entire crop was a loss. The same year she was born, her father lost his huller to a fire that had started as only a brush burn.
"Adele went all through school in Durham, graduating from Durham High School, and soon after marrying (on June 18, 1943) George C. Hackett, a soldier stationed at the airport. Adele and George had six children: Carolyn (retired from banking), Marilyn (Registered Nurse), George (carpenter), Lynn (Registered Nurse), Debbie (bookkeeper for Butte Home Health), and Randy (Respiratory Therapist). Adele and George were almond growers in Durham for 30 years before he passed away in 1985, and Adele kept up the family business until just a few years ago when she gave the land to the children and the orchards were leased. Adele has 15 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren, and a number of step-grandchildren.
"Adele was a very busy room mother at the Durham schools while bringing up her family, and was a member of the Durham Junior Women's Club for several years. While these volunteer activities took time, her main passion was developing her family tree for posterity and she devoted hours and hours toward genealogy research. Adele began her interest in genealogy at about age 5. Her family slept out under the stars (they did not have today's mosquito problem) and her father would say "Well, there is no beginning and there is no end up there" and after discussing the heavens for a while, he moved on to family history, telling stories about the family crossing the plains to get to California. When Adele joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she worked in the libraries for the church for many years. This gave her numerous resources to do quite a bit of research on her family. Three of Adele's daughters are now interested in keeping up the family tree information, so she has given all her books and research to her children.
"Adele's current passion is to play bingo. She loves to go to the Eagles Hall and states she can win in "spurts" -- right now she's not doing as well as she would like. She has also always enjoyed going to the family cabin (built in about 1872) located in Butte Meadows. Adele's great grandfather got the Durham and Butte Meadows properties via land grants signed by Ulysses S. Grant.
"Adele's mother and father took care of the Dayton Cemetery for many years, taking over the work from Steve Lewis. About ten years prior to her mother's death, Adele took over for her. Nita Pyle, Raymond Pyle, Leroy Cartwright and Adele were organized into a group to take care of the cemetery; this group used an attorney named Price to help with setting up the legal framework. Many is the day Adele would be seen at the cemetery doing maintenance work, mapping and selling plots. She was able to contribute invaluable information about the cemetery for the book compiled by Marilyn Corley and Adriana Farley entitled DAYTON CEMETERY AND MOUND CEMETERY. Adele's great grandfather helped to start the cemetery along with a gentleman named Leroy L. Wait (Mr. Wait's wife, Mary, was the first to be buried at the cemetery in 1862). Joan Cabral now does the hiring of maintenance and heads the Dayton Service Group, one of their activities being the annual Ghost Stories just before Halloween to raise funds to keep the cemetery looking as beautiful as it does. Linda and Ken Wilbur took over Adele's responsibilities for selling plots in January 2001, but by then Adele had contributed 30 years of service to this community and the cemetery.
"The Durham Friends of the Library are very enthusiastic about our selection of Adele Hackett as a 2005 Honoree. Adele has chosen the book THE HANDYBOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS, in keeping with her interest, knowing it will help others in search of ancestry. Please come to the library on April 21st to help Adele celebrate her many years of community service, and give her a special Thank You!"
Note: Mother, Adele, wrote her own obituary; she died this morning, so I have posted it here. Carolyn Hackett Dowd
Adele Coon Hackett, aged 91, passed to the other shore on October 23, 2015, at her daughter, Debbie Hamilton’s home in Paradise, CA.
Adele was born September 20, 1924 in the Old Enloe Hospital in Chico to Jesse Grove Coon and Grace F. Jamerson of Durham. She attended Durham Schools and graduated with the class of 1943. It was at a dance held at the Durham Grange during WWII that she met Army Corpsman George C. Hackett, and they were married a short time after in Spokane, Washington on June 18, 1943, honeymooning in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. She worked in Spokane on the Air Force base until George was reassigned to Ft. Hamilton in Marin County, California.
After the service, Adele and George settled in Durham on Burdick Road on property that had been in the family since the 1860’s. There they raised their family of six children, growing almonds and row crops.
When she joined the Church of Latter-Day-Saints in 1953, she became interested in genealogy, which became her lifetime hobby. She was the custodian of records for the Dayton Cemetery for over thirty years, as was her father and mother for many years, eventually turning the records over to the Dayton Service Group. She was a member of the Durham Junior Women’s Club.
George passed in 1985, but she is survived by four daughters and two sons: Carolyn (Bill) Dowd of Forest Ranch; Marilyn Loofbourrow of Magalia; George Hackett Jr. (Debra) of Durham; Lynn Sandoval, Deborah (Jim) Hamilton and Randy Hackett (Annie), all of Paradise --- also fifteen grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren.
Some of her fondest memories are of summers spent with her children near Butte Meadows on 160 acres homesteaded by her great-grandfather, William Coon, in 1870. The original cabin still stands and the property still remains in the hands of Coon descendants. As she grew older she loved to play bingo with an uncanny amount of luck. At the age of 75 she purchased her first computer and continued her genealogy research. Although she had turned her work over to her daughter, she continually added information to the genealogy file titled “Coon & Hackett Connections - Butte County” which can be viewed at rootsweb.com. Her life work was the genesis of this file, which has connected Butte County’s pioneers through marriages.
Adele requested no services, but she did ask that her children gather together for dinner, ponder the merits of their challenges, and love one another.
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