Cynthia Elizabeth Smith

Family/Spouse: Harold Harris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Jane DeWolf. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Albert married Violet Lydia Willadsen. Violet was born on 13 Mar 1904. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He had served in the Merchant Marines prior to 1939 when he married Elizabeth Rix.

He left for Oakridge in Nov 42, where he helped build what he found out later to be the A-Bomb. Six months later my mother, brother and I joined him in Oakridge for 2 1/2 years. My father knew Robert Oppenheimer, had been in his home on base and had dinner with him, even though my father was not a high level scientist, but a draftsman/ machinists at the time and had yet to graduate from UC Berkeley, which he did in 1949. The first test of the A Bomb was in New Mexico, July 16, 1945. It is most likely that my dad was there. I do know that Dad was there for the first H bomb blast near Enewetak Oct. 31, 1952. I remember him leaving for the trip and Grandma DeWolf babysitting for Roger and me.


I was in 3rd grade at the time and we were living in Grandma's home in Oakland on Virmar Avenue. She had not been living there for a few years. I think she was in Texas with Coe after Grandpa died a few months before we returned from Oakridge- when I was about 3 1/2. This was the home which was the background for the movie clip you shared.

Charles married Elizabeth Rix. Elizabeth was born on 20 Jul 1914; died on 13 Mar 2008. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Charles Capp DeWolf was a civil engineer from the first graduating class of engineering - then called the School of Mechanics or something like that. He was a classmate of Gordon Sproul- later president of the University of California. I believe UC Berkeley was the only UC campus at the time. In early marriage he worked on mining projects and they spent their honeymoon in a tent. Later he worked on FDRoosevelt inspired New Deal constructions. I think dams.
He was a civil servant and the secretary to the City Manager. He may have been the Asst. City Manger, and he was best known for cleaning up the Civil Service system which at the time of his hire was an old boy network with no entrance criteria but knowing the right person. Grandpa DeWolf created the first Civil Service Exam, according to my father- which may not be accurate. He was well respected for his integrity. Of course he was an Eagle Scout, a tradition in the family and a Boy Scout leader. He was a Mason and active in that organization. He was Presbyterian and Grandma DeWolf was raised Catholic or her mother was. Grandpa DeWolf was know to make negative comments about Catholics and ethnic groups as well. He died of a heart attack.

Charles married Mary Jane McCabe on 01 Mar 1913 in Berkeley, CA. Mary (daughter of Peter Ross McCabe and Coe Celestia Ellis) was born on 02 Nov 1885; died on 18 Sep 1967 in CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]