Wilson York Gateley
 

WHEN - WHERE - WHAT (also see Details)
1926	May	McFadden, WY	Being born...
1927	?	Fairplay, CO	Growing up a bit.
1929	?	N. Weber, Colorado Springs, CO	Still growing.
1930		1806 Cheyenne Blvd, Colorado Springs	See Sid & Edna photos
Some photos of the Stratton  Park area in the early 1900's (From the Pikes Peak Library collection of digital photographs) The bridge across Cheyenne Creek Much used by the Gateleys and Yorks in the 1930's A swing in the playground A streetcar at the pavilion at the west end of the park Harry York used such a streetcar to go to and from work at the  Golden Cycle Mill. Mail Delivery in 1928 Some tourists at Seven Falls A Chimney Sweeper
1931		"	Cheyenne Mt. School--Kindergarten
1932		"	Sept.: Started 1st grade
1933		"	June: Finished 1st grade Class Photo
1934		"	June: Finished 2nd grade
1935		"	June: Finished 3rd grade
1936		"	June: Finished 4th grade
1937		"	June: Finished 5th grade August: my sister Betty died.
1938		"	June: Finished 6th grade Class Photo
1939		"	June: Finished 7th grade
1940		1628 Cheyenne Road (1806 had been sold for taxes)	June: Finished 8th grade Class Photo Spent the summer in Lakewood, CO, with my mother and her boyfriend, Charley Brandon, who was working on the construction of the Remington Arms Plant.
1941		"	June: Finished 9th grade
1942		1810 Willow Circle, Colorado Springs (Harry and Linnie York's house) and Lawrence, Kansas	June: Finished 10th grade Spent part of the summer in Lawrence, Kansas, where my mother and Charley were living.
1943		1810 Willow Circle, Colorado Springs	January: my mother died in Lawrence, Kansas June: Finished 11th grade Bought (separately) a 1929 Pontiac coupe (great body, terrible engine) and a stripped-down Ford Model A coupe (lots of fun, and it even took me and several classmates on a skiing trip to Glen Cove on Pikes Peak!)  My grandparents were dubious...  I think the money for them came from a job I had at the Broadmoor greenhouse.
1944	June	1810 Willow Circle, Colorado Springs	June: Finished 12th grade Class Photo   (appendix removed there).
		Chicago, IL: US Navy boot camp & pre-radio school  Became an "RT" (Radio Technician)	After boot camp I had a leave back to Colorado Springs. On my return to Chicago I visited Kith at DePauw University.
		Gulfport, MS: basic electronics
1945		Treasure Is., San Francisco, CA: radar and sonar theory and repair training; became an "ETM-2C" (Electronics Technicians Mate-2nd Class)   August 15: World War II ended...   Assigned to the Naval Repair Base in San Diego and from there to USS Cadmus, AR-14 at Tampa FL. While there, I had my appendix removed.
1946	July 8	Discharged from the Navy at Norfolk, VA  On my way home to Colorado, visited Kith in NY
August	1810 Willow Circle, Colorado Springs	Enrolled as a freshman at Colorado College.
September	Kith moved to Colorado Springs.
November	Kith and I were married!
December	4 Winfield Ave, Colorado Springs	At CC
1947	June	Alma, CO	Rafting in Lake Criterion (cold); sorted ore (finger infection).
	September	29 Ramona Ave.,  Colorado Springs	At CC; busboy at Broadmoor Hotel; Ned born.
1948	February	Apt. 15, Hazel Ave,  Colorado Springs	At CC; waiter at Broadmoor Tavern.
	September	110 Tigertown at CC, Colorado Springs	At CC; cheap rent (Quonset hut); cheap transportation (Cushman motor scooter with sidecar); graduated from CC (B.A., Mathematics; summa cum laude); my dad bought us a car in which we drove east.
1949	July	Oakdene, Wolcott, NY	Worked at canning factory in Redcreek (nightshift).
	September	119 Magazine St., Cambridge, MA	At Massachusetts Institute. of Technology * studying for a Masters degree in mathematics--didn't make it at this time. (But made it in 1955!)
1950	July	1624 Cheyenne Blvd., Colorado Springs	Drove a Yellow Cab (nightshift).
	September	402 W. 2nd St., Julesburg, CO	Taught mathematics at Julesburg High School; Kithie born.
1951	June	822 McKelligan Dr., El Paso, TX	Taught radar maintenance at Army Artillery School for Philco Corp.
	July	219-E Alicia Dr., El Paso, TX	Excessive cockroaches prompted a move; same job.
1952	August	Darlington, MD	El Paso job ends--biding time with Philco.
	December	2605 Taney Rd., Baltimore, MD	Working for Bendix Radio; Chris born.
1953	May	415 W. Juniper St., Oxnard, CA	Bendix Radio missile guidance system tests.
1954	May	415 E. Juniper St., Oxnard, CA
1955	September	616 Graduate House, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA Kith, Ned, Kithie & Chris at Ogden home at 280 Kilbourne Rd.  in Rochester.	Finished the Master's degree in mathematics at M.I.T.   Kyle born in Rochester.
1956	February	The whole family reunited at 43 Main St., Potsdam, NY.	Taught mathematics at Clarkson Institute of Technology; sought and got job offers at Colorado State University and Colorado College.
	June	Oakdene, Wolcott, NY	???
	September	1926 S. Franklin St., Colorado Springs (Stratton Meadows)	Started teaching mathematics at Colorado College.
1957	August	Box 205, Green Mt. Falls, CO	CC;
1958	December		Brian born in Colorado Springs
1960	June	Cordell Hall, OSU, Stillwater, OK Kith & kids at Oakdene.	On leave of absence from CC; obtained Ph.D. in Mathematics (Statistics) from Oklahoma State University.
	September	Route 4, Stillwater, OK
1961	June	Burgess Road, Colorado Springs	We and the Rose family lived at Cogswell's place; I worked at Kaman Sciences.
	September	Route 4, Stillwater, OK	Back to school at OSU.
1962	August		We and the Rose family lived temporarily at the Shearn's place in Black Forest; we bought a home in Woodmen Valley; Toby was born on the day we moved in.
	September	Route 1, Box 205, Woodmen Valley, Colorado Springs	Horses, 4-H, Fire Department, Ned, Kithie, Chris, Kyle & Brian graduated from high school.  Kith's mother joined us in 1969 and built on an addition to our house.
1977	August	Delling Road, Wolcott, NY	I quit my job with Kaman Sciences, & we retired to our 15 acres at Oakdene; built our house; Kyle & Peggy joined us later and built their house.
1982	April		I accepted a job with Kaman Sciences, where I had worked part-time while teaching at Colorado College (we were running out of money...), and we, together with Kyle, rented a U-Haul van,  pulled a pickup and returned to Colorado Springs.  We first stayed with Kith's mother at 416-A Valley Hi Circle until we bought a car (Mazda station wagon) and found a place to rent.
	May	3707 Manchester, Colorado Springs	The landlady was very unhappy with the concatenation of a new carpet and Pax, Kyle's dog whom we had taken over.
	July	1289-2 Willowbend Circle, Colorado Springs	A small, newish and comfortable three-level apartment.
1983	June	3201 W. Platte Ave., Colorado Springs	We purchased this house (3201 W. Platte Ave. on the west side of Colorado Springs) from Max Taylor. The lower level was remodeled into an apartment for Kith's mother, Doris Ogden, who assisted in the mortgage payments. Later, Kith's aunt Winkie (Helen Andrew) and even later her sister Helen also lived here. Winkie died in 1992, Doris in 1997.
2002	January		Helen, Kith and I are still here...

 

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SOME DETAILS

1926

May 17: I was born to Sydney and Edna Gateley at McFadden, Carbon Co., WY.

      

1931

1937

Aug. 13: My sister, Mary Elizabeth (Betty), was injured by slipping over the Silver Cascade Falls in N. Cheyenne Canyon while on a picnic. She died at 0330 the next day. She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs.  [P.S. (2004): The 4-grave plot now holds Betty, her mother Edna and her grandparents Harry and Linnie York.]

1938

My '37-'38 6^th grade report cards were all signed by my mother.

My mother and I spent some of the summer with my father in the Lander-Atlantic City region of Wyoming. He was probably engaged in some mining venture. I worked for a bit helping run some survey lines and became entranced with boysenberry jam…

In the fall Dorothy Butcher (now—March, 1999—Dorothy Ramsey, living in Loveland, CO) moved into our household at 1806 Cheyenne Blvd. as a foster child. She was a couple of years older than I and became a good friend of us all. I was into serious Boy Scouting.

1939

My '38-'39 7^th grade report cards were all signed by my mother.

1940

Around this time my parents were divorced (my father was living in Montana, I think).

My mother visited the Gateley relatives in Alma (she and they remained good friends after the divorce. During this visit she became acquainted with Charlie Brandon, who was supervising the building of a new water plant for Alma. They probably met through music at a local bar, Charlie playing the violin and Edna the piano—an activity they continued up to her death.

My '39-'40 8^th grade report cards were all signed by my grandmother Linnie York, so I was presumably staying with the grandparents.

During the summer my mother stayed with Charlie Brandon in Estes Park where he was constructing a water plant. I stayed with them for at least some of the summer and, among other things, learned to play the guitar, the three of us having frequent musical sessions.

In the fall my mother and I lived in a small rented house at 1628 Cheyenne Road. The house at 1806 Cheyenne Blvd. had been sold for taxes.

1941

My second '40-'41 9^th grade report card was signed by my mother (we were apparently still living at 1628 Cheyenne Road).

During the summer she and I lived with Charlie Brandon in Lakewood, Colorado, where he was involved in the construction of the Remington Arms plant in Lakewood. (This plant was later converted into the Denver Federal Center.)

In the fall I lived with my grandparents at 1812 Willow Circle in Colorado Springs. My mother and Charlie moved to Salt Lake City on a different construction job (I went there during Christmas vacation, taking the D&RG Prospector train.)

1942

My second '41-'42 10^th grade report card was signed by my grandmother.

In the spring my mother and Charlie moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he was involved in another construction job. During the summer I lived with them and was even gainfully employed on the same job. I returned to live with my grandparents at the end of the summer and remained with them until I left for the Navy in 1944 (at some point they purchased and moved to the house next door at 1810 Willow Circle).

1943

On January 28th my mother died at age 46 in Lawrence, apparently of complications related to intestinal scarring from a hysterectomy done at some earlier date (possibly in Fairplay in the early '30s). She was buried under the name of Edna May Brandon in Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs next to my sister. (She had never actually married Charlie because he had been unable to obtain a divorce from his wife.)

In the summer I stayed with my father in Alma. He had married Hazel Singleton, the widow of the town banker. Her son Millard and I worked for my father, who was engaged in various mining ventures—unfortunately, none successful. At the end of the summer, I worked for a couple of weeks with Charlie Brandon doing some logging in the Arkansas Valley near Granite—the first and only time I ever drove a Caterpillar tractor! (I believe this was the last time I ever saw Charlie.)

1944

Jun 7: I graduated from Cheyenne Mt. High School in Colorado Springs which I had attended for thirteen years (including kindergarten). My second '43-'44 12^th grade report card was signed by my grandmother.

Sep 8: I entered active duty in the U. S. Navy (I had enlisted on May 3) and was sent to boot camp at the Great Lakes Training Station near Chicago. While there, I had an appendectomy.

December: I finished boot camp and on my leave returned to Colorado Springs for a brief visit. On the trip back to Chicago I paid a quick visit to Katherine Ogden, who was attending school at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.

1945

I attended electronics schools: 4 weeks at Chicago, 12 weeks at Gulfport, Miss., and 27 weeks at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. I was then assigned to the Naval Repair Depot in San Diego and then to the repair ship USS Cadmus (AR-14) which was being commissioned in Tampa, Florida. After recovering from the mumps, I and the Cadmus took a round trip shakedown cruise to Norfolk, Virginia; and I was finally discharged at Jacksonville, Florida, on July 8, 1946, with the rating of Electronics Technician's Mate Second Class, V-6, USNR.

1946

Following the discharge, I hitchhiked via Washington, D. C., to upstate New York where I visited Katherine Ogden, with whom I had conducted an increasingly friendly correspondence while in the Navy. From there I returned to Colorado Springs and lived with my grandparents, Harry and Linnie York

September: I enrolled in Colorado College, and Katherine Ogden decided to be a college dropout and went to Colorado Springs. The friendship continued to grow.

Nov 30: I was married to Katherine Gertrude Ogden at Alma, Park Co., CO, at the home of my Aunt Mary Gately. We lived in a motel on West Colorado Ave. in Colorado Springs until the Christmas vacation, when we took the bus and visited her family in Rochester, New York. After returning to Colorado Springs we moved into a small apartment at 4 Winfield Ave. where we lived until June, 1947.

1947

June - August: For the summer we moved to Alma, Colorado, where I worked for my father, who, at the end of the summer, gave us a Ford Model A sedan (the Hoopey) and a kitten (Gizmo). We lived at 29 Ramona Ave. in Colorado Springs where Gizmo died (we buried her in North Cheyenne Canyon) and our first son, Edward York, was born on December 9^th (the Hoopey failed us at that critical moment - it was very cold - and we had to resort to a taxi to get Kith to the hospital).

1948

February: I obtained a part-time job as a busboy (and later as a waiter) at the Broadmoor Hotel and, as such, was permitted to move into a brand new employee apartment near the hotel (at Apt. 15, Hazel Ave. - luxury!!!) where we stayed until September when a Quonset hut at 110 Tigertown on the Colorado College campus became available. While at the Broadmoor, the Hoopey was replaced by a Cushman motor scooter with a sidecar, a vehicle purchased with the tips I received as a waiter and which served us well until graduation from CC in June, 1949.

1983

          August: Pax (Kyle's dog) put down.

1985

        August: Ned & Barb moved to Denver.

1996

November 26: Our 50th Wedding Anniversary: the kids all came

2000

July 28: I returned my Boy Scout Eagle Badge which I had earned in the early 1940s. At that time I was a member of Scout Troop 34 and a student at Cheyenne Mountain School in Colorado Springs.

Note: 6/12/01; regarding Barbara Frick Gateley's Family:

I recently ran across  in some unknown reference a comment regarding Charles Shedd who lived in Frisco, CO. Shedd is Barbara Frick Gateley's mother's family name. I've asked her about this but have had no positive response. The comment--from page 11 of something--read:

Ohio-born lumber yard owner was Charles. F. Shedd; born 23 June 1830 in Mt. Gilliad, Morrow Co., Ohio, to Henry Shedd and Mary Gerrish.

 

This was apparently needed when Kith and Bill were getting passports for a trip to England