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Note: U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 Name: Charles Ray Fatchett
Gender: Male
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 24 Dec 1927 in Collinston, Louisiana
Residence: P.O. Box 227, Ferriday, Concordia, Louisiana, USA
Telephone: 180J
Registration Date: 1940-1945
Age: 18
Person who will always know your address: Mr. Arthur Ray Fatchett, father
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From his Discharge Certificate
Honorably Discharged on 28 Jan. 1948, Charles Ray Fatchett, Seaman First Class, USN
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Houma, LA; Courier Jan. 24, 1992, death date
Abstracted by: Cynthia Fatchett Daigle
Charles Ray Fatchett, 64, native of Collinston, La., resident of Bourg, died Friday Jan. 24, 1992.
Services at Chauvin Funeral Home Chapel, burial in St. Ann Cem. in Bourg.
SURVIVED by sons, Wallace Ray Fatchett, Lynwood Dean John Fatchett, and Jeffrey James Fatchett of Pointe aux Chenes; daughters, Cynthia Daigle, Christine Lyons and Patricia Smith; brother Billy Dean Fatchett; sisters, Betty Champlain and Bobbie Posey.
PRECEDED by wife, Elise Authement Fatchett, parents, Arthur Ray and Lois Deese Fatchett.
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Winnsborro, LA newspaper
Charles Ray Fatchett
Funeral services for Charles Ray Fatchett, 64, were held Jan. 27, 1992 at Chauvin Funeral (home) Chapel in Houma. Burial was at St. Anns Cemetery, Bourg.
Mr. Fatchett died Friday, Jan. 24, in Houma Following a lengthy illness.
Mr. Fatchett was a vetran of the Navy.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Elise (Authement( Fatchett and parents A. R. Fatchett and Lois Deese Fatchett of Ferriday.
Suvivors include three daughters, Cynthia Daigle, Christine Lyons and Patricia Smith; and three sons, Wallace Fatchett, Lynwood Fatchett and Jeff Fatchett, all of the Bourg and Houma area; two sisters, Bobbye Posey of Brookhaven, MS and Betty Champlin of Winnsboro; one brother, Billy Dean Fatchett of Haughton; and 14 grandchildren.
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Charles was born in Collinston, Morehouse Parish, LA, but I don't know how long they lived there. It was at least three or four years, I presume, since that's where his sisters, the twins were born. His memories were of Feriday, Concordia Parish, LA where he grew up.
Dad's mother died when he was about 9 years old and that's when a step mother entered the picture. Grace was a stern stepmother by admission of all the children, but as Aunt Betty said, Grace came into a family of four small children never having any children of her own, and she raised them to the best of her ability.
Several times in his young life, Charles (my Dad) spent weeks at a time during summers in Missouri at Grandpa's sister, Helen and her husband Lynwood Morrison's place. These were some of the best memories of Dad's life. He often told funny stories of being with them on their farm. He had the highest respect and love for them.
Billy Dean said (Jan. 11, 2004) Dad stayed at Helen and Lynwood's home and Billy Dean stayed at one of the other Aunts's home. He said they loved going there in the summers.
When Charles was in high school, he was on the football team in Ferriday. He must have made pretty good grades because he said he graduated second highest in his class. I've never checked that out. Of course, we heard the stories about walking however many miles to school with no shoes. He said he got his first shoes when he went to work driving a dump truck at age 14 (said he lied about his age to get the job).
He loved to fish, play cards, and socialize. He enjoyed good health until the last three years of his life. As a young husband and father he went to work every day, missing very few days due to illness. He came home every night and brought home his whole paycheck to provide for his family.
He was also very diligent about going to Ferriday, La., his home town, to visit his Dad and sister, Betty. Sometimes we visited his brother, Billy, and another sister, Bobbie (twin to Betty). We didn't always get to see them because they lived in other towns.
When Charles was discharged from the Navy he went to work offshore for Humble Oil Company (now called Exxon). He came in one hitch and came to Houma with friends. He went to a place on Barrow Street called Peco's (it used to be located in the general vicinity of across the street from the power (or water?) plant) which is where Elise was working and that's how they met and soon married.
The first three children came along fairly quickly. For cheap entertainment that they could enjoy with three small girls, they used to take the family out to the Drive Inn Theater. After the movie they had to go and get the best hot tamales in town and that, of course, was at Peco's.
He was in the Navy for 4 years and served some of that time in Japan (during the reconstruction?). Upon discharge, he went to work for the Humble (Exxon) company and retired from there around 1986.
When I was little we lived on the next block from Grandma and Grandpa Authement on Peach St. (Elise's parents) until about 1955 and then we moved to 117 Juanita St. on Coteau Rd into a big house Grandpa Authement built. We stayed there until June of 1967 and moved for the last time to 110 LeCompte Dr. in Bourg, La.
When Dad made Houma his permanent home he also made the Cajun lifestyle his own. For as far back as I can remember, Dad always had a boat and fished a lot. When I got to be about 7 yrs. old I became his fishing partner (when one of his buddies wasn't available). Sometime's we tromped through the marsh to get crawfish and sometime's we all went crabing on the side of Robinson's Canal. We fresh water fished and we salt water fished. Oh, and sometimes we trawled.
For sure, one of the things I can thank my Dad for is my love of being on the water.
Lovingly Submitted by Cynthia Fatchett Daigle
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