Ethner Levi PATTERSON

1907 - 1982  (75 years)

• Name	Ethner Levi PATTERSON
  Birth	16 Jun 1907	Durango, La Plata County, Colorado
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Jul 1982	California
  	as Levi Harold Patterson, b. 16 Jun 1907 in Colorado
  Notes	He married a woman named Virginia R Bean in Los Angeles on 28 Jun 1929. In the 1930 census, he was living with his father and apparent step-mother, George and Ethel Patterson in Tracy, California. He was a garage mechanic and is shown as a widower. In the 1940 census, he and his family lived in a rented apartment at 538 Lyon Street. He was not employed but apparently had been the superintendent of a cabinet shop. He had earned $1440 in 1939. He registered for the draft in San Francisco in October of 1940. He lived at 538 Lyon Street and claimed to be employed by the National Youth Industries of Mission Street in San Francisco. He listed his wife, Ruth M. Patterson, same address, as the person who would always know his address. An article in the 23 Jan 1938 edition of the Oakland Tribune: Police Feed Family of Man They Seek While police searched last night for Ethmer Patterson, 30, wanted for passing fictiitious checks, the cared for his wife and four children, found destitute in Patterson’s San Francisco home, 668 Lyon Street. Officers went there yesterday with a warrant charging him with passing two bad checks totaling $38 on John Hokokian, store proprietor. They found his wife, Ruth, and Patricia, 5, Alton, 4, Carolyn, 22 months, and Clayton, 7 months, in an unheated room without food. Mrs. Patterson said her husband had left them three days ago. Officers took groceries to the family. An article the same day in the San Francisco Examiner: When a grocer by the name of Hokokian told the police about two bum checks a guy had passon on him yesterday, he only thought he was going to get even with the so and so. He didn’t know that he was going to practically save the lives of a woman and four kids! Hokokian - his first name is John and he has his shop at 1901 McAllister Street - told police that Ethmer Patterson, of 668 Lyon Street, had gotten $$28 change from him on two checks totaling $38, the checks had come back, and he wanted Patterson arrested. That’s what took Policemen John Badagliacco and Noel Kellegher to the Lyon Street address yesterday afternoon. They didn’t find Patterson there - but they did find the most pitiful case of suffering and want that they’d seen in all of their official careers! They found 28 year-old Mrs. Patterson. They found her four children, the youngest 2, the eldest barely turned 7. All five were hungry. They hadn’t eaten for days, they said. Worse, the gas and electricity had been turned off because the Pattersons hadn’t paid their bill for a long time. In short, Mrs. Patterson and the kids had no light, no heat, no water, no money, no food, no husband and father and no hope! Patterson, the wife said, hadn’t been there since Thursday. That was the day Hokokian said the bad checks were cashed. She said she didn’t know where he was or what had become of him. Policeman Badagliacco and Kellegher forgot their immediate mission, forgot vanished Patterson, forgot everything sabe that here was a spot where help was needed before anything else was done. They telephoned Park station. Police, there, in turn telephoned the P. G. & E. and asked them to turn the gas and electricity back on at the Pattersons’. “We will guarantee the bills,” the officers said. They then telephoned Lieutenant Harry Riley, big shot of the police department’s Big Brother movement. Riley worked quickly and groceries and meat and other needs were on the way to the woman and four children. By dark, the wolf had gone howling from the front door, thanks to the bluecoats. Mrs. Patterson and the four little Pattersons were sure of food, light, heat, water for the weekend at least. But they weren’t sure of Papa Patterson. Because, when they’d taken care of the other matters, the police remembered that they were after him. Even if they find him, he probably will not be home for the weekend.
  Person ID	I32643	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	1 Jun 2021

  
  

  Family	Ruth Mendina THOMPSON,   b. 18 Mar 1904, Todd County, Minnesota d. 28 Jun 1943, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	Abt Dec 1931	San Francisco County, California
  Children	1. Patricia Ruth PATTERSON,   b. 16 Aug 1932, San Francisco County, California d. 4 Aug 2015, Sacramento County, California (Age 82 years)   2. Alton Ethmer PATTERSON,   b. 10 Dec 1933, San Francisco County, California d. 20 Jan 2016 (Age 82 years)   3. Carolyn Ann PATTERSON,   b. 10 Apr 1936, Lassen County, California d. 1 Apr 2022, California (Age 85 years)   4. Clayton Grant PATTERSON,   b. 24 Jun 1937, San Francisco County, California d. 17 Jun 2009, Napa County, California (Age 71 years)   5. George Nuel PATTERSON,   b. 1 May 1939, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California d. 23 May 1994, Calaveras County, California (Age 55 years)
  Family ID	F1205	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2021