Post by Pat (Friend) Thompson on Feb 21, 2010 17:23:12 GMT -5
Can anyone place Chester Friend on the Friend family tree (parents, etc.)?
Chester Friend
A private service was held in Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City Thursday for Chester Friend, who died Tuesday in a highway accident.
Friend was born in Alaska, Aug. 15, 1901. He was a professional boxer in the late 1920s and early 1930s, according to friends. He had more than 60 professional bouts, mostly in the Pacific Northwest. He also was a merchant seaman. He had lived in Carson City for the last 11 years.
Surviving are a son, Tom, a Carson City fireman; a grandson and a sister, Edith Friend of Portland, Ore.
Walton's Chapel of the Valley made the arrangements.
Source: The Reno Evening Gazette; Reno, Nevada; Dec. 10, 1971; page 33.
Chester Friend
A private service was held in Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City Thursday for Chester Friend, who died Tuesday in a highway accident.
Friend was born in Alaska, Aug. 15, 1901. He was a professional boxer in the late 1920s and early 1930s, according to friends. He had more than 60 professional bouts, mostly in the Pacific Northwest. He also was a merchant seaman. He had lived in Carson City for the last 11 years.
Surviving are a son, Tom, a Carson City fireman; a grandson and a sister, Edith Friend of Portland, Ore.
Walton's Chapel of the Valley made the arrangements.
Source: The Reno Evening Gazette; Reno, Nevada; Dec. 10, 1971; page 33.