Webb Genealogy - Person Sheet
Webb Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameChester Lee Webb 
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1MemoDied from skin cancer
Cause of deathMelanoma on back went into lungs. Listed cause, Bronchial Pneumonia
MemoHandled by Worden Funeral Chapel, Chowchilla, CA. Officiated by Francis Millard and Lloyd Stephens. Organist, Gail Walker, Soloist, G. Burgdorf "The Love of God" Pallbearers: H. Zinke, L. Dunford, F. Burgdorf, F. Walker, JP McDaniels, E. Hansen
Census1910, Roswell, Chaves County, NM, USA13
MemoLine 81: Chester L Webb, son. Age 10 born in Tennessee.
Census1916, Swift Current, SK, Canada14
MemoLine 5: Chester T Webb, age 15, born in the US. Immigrated in 1912.
Census1930, Merced, Merced County, CA, USA15
MemoLine 95: Chester L Webb, son. Age 29 born in Tennessee. Working as foreman on ranch.
Census1940, Township 2, Madera County, CA, USA16
MemoLine 15: C Lee Webb, age 39, born in Tennessee. 8th grade education. Lived in same place in 1935.
OccupationFarmer
Education6 years of school in Canada17
ReligionSeventh-day Adventist Converted by Mable within a year prior to marriage
Alias/AKAFamily called him Chester but he dropped that in favor of Lee when he left home.
DescriptionHeavy build, legally blind in right eye, always turned right eye away from camera
Employment1923, Ford Factory in Detroit, Wayne County, MI, USA
Employment1930, Cal-Pak Orchards, Merced, Merced County, CA, USA
MemoForeman
Employment15 Jul 1958, Triangle T Ranch, Chowchilla, Madera County, CA, USA
MemoIrrigator
Employment12 Mar 1964, Bright's Nursery, LeGrand, Merced County, CA, USA
MemoTractor Driver
Eye colorLeft Eye Hazel and Right Eye Brown
Hair colorDark Brown turned Grey
Height5' 9"
Skin colorRedish skin, especially when tanned
WeightHeavy build--250 lbs
FlagsDeceased
FatherJohn Smith Webb (1863-1932)
MotherFrances "Fannie" Belle Dewees (1875-1935)
Spouses
MemoPassed quietly away at a nursing home in Fremont, CA
Burial22 Dec 1995, Plainsburg Cemetery, 8943 E Gillette Rd, Le Grand, Merced County, CA, USA19
OccupationNurse
FatherJohan “John” Oscar Larson (1860-1926)
MotherMatilda Josefina Hoaglund (1877-1942)
Notes for Chester Lee Webb
Lee, as he preferred to be called, did not get along with his father. When Lee was 18 he swore at a horse after it kicked him. His father, John Smith Webb, overhearing this picked up a 2"x 4" (piece of lumber) threatened to teach Lee not to swear. John came at Lee with the lumber but (assumedly because Lee was larger than him) stopped before actually striking Lee. Lee told him, "If you do that again, I'll kill you!" Soon after this incident Lee left home.17
Lee played semi-pro baseball as a catcher. As an exhibition game in Central Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada (think Lee was on the home team) was about to start Lee found himself without his catcher's mask. He decided to catch the first batter without the mask. Unfortunately, the first pitch was tipped and caromed up to hit his right eye.17
Lee also played semi-pro hockey. While playing hockey he took a puck to the same right eye. As a result of the two injuries the lens in Lee's right eye was heavilly damaged leaving him functionally blind in that right eye. The eye was discolored and could only make out shapes. In the 1960's it was discovered that the vision in his right eye could be repaired but by this time the "lazy eye" in the right eye was so ingrained that Lee determined it would not be worth the hassle to have his vision restored.17
Lee worked at many jobs during his lifetime. In 1923 he worked at a Ford plant in Detroit, Michigan where his job was to drill holes in the carrier bearing pillow block for grease zerks. During his time in Detroit he had a girlfriend. One day he happened upon his girlfriend and her mother on the street and had to turn and spit some chewing tobacco before he could greet them. He was so ashamed that he determined right there to discontinue chewing tobacco.17
Lee next moved to San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, CA where he worked as an elevator operator. He developed a relationship with a girl named Lorna and proposed to her. We do not know what became of her or the relationship, but even after he had married Mable Larson, Lee was concerned that Lorna would sue him for breaching their marriage agreement.17
After San Bernardino, Lee moved to the Hollister/San Juan Batista area where he worked as a day laborer in the fields. Before 1929 he moved to Merced, Merced County, CA where he worked as a foreman at a Cal-Pac peach packing plant. While living in Merced, he met Mable Larson when visiting his sister Frances Webb in the hosptial and again found her massaging his hands when he awoke from anesthesia after having his appendix removed.17
Lee and Mable started dating but after the third date Mable informed Lee that she could not continue to date him because she could not marry a man that was not a Seventh-day Adventist. Lee went to the local SDA pastor to ask why Mable was so sweet and he decided to take Bible studies. Lee and Mable were married on Lee's 30th birthday.17
After their marriage, Lee and Mable invested all of their money into chickens and started farming chickens. After Jack was born, they hit hard times and lost their entire operation and money. They were forced to move in with Mable's mother in Chowchilla. During the drive to Chowchilla, their suitcase with all of the baby clothes for Jack fell off of the car and was lost leaving them both penniless and with no clothing or diapers for their child.17
Lee suffered his first major heart attack in 1947 and was forced to severly curtail his activity. In August of 1955 he had his second heart attack and had to completely discontinue active labor. His death, however, was not the result of his heart condition but rather as a result of a cancerous mole on his back that matastasized.
According to Fred Webb’s memory, Lee said the name Lee came from Robert E. Lee who was his grandmother’s uncle. Lee’s two grandmothers were Amanda E. Lee and Fannie Belle DeWees. It would be reasonable to believe that Amanda E. Lee is the Lee connection (if it really exists), but Fannie Belle DeWees had a brother named Robert E. Lee DeWees. Thus it is equally likely that the Lee connection (if it really exists) is through this grandmother.
Here’s an odd story about Chester Lee Webb and Oscar D Webb (no relation).21
Lee played semi-pro baseball as a catcher. As an exhibition game in Central Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada (think Lee was on the home team) was about to start Lee found himself without his catcher's mask. He decided to catch the first batter without the mask. Unfortunately, the first pitch was tipped and caromed up to hit his right eye.17
Lee also played semi-pro hockey. While playing hockey he took a puck to the same right eye. As a result of the two injuries the lens in Lee's right eye was heavilly damaged leaving him functionally blind in that right eye. The eye was discolored and could only make out shapes. In the 1960's it was discovered that the vision in his right eye could be repaired but by this time the "lazy eye" in the right eye was so ingrained that Lee determined it would not be worth the hassle to have his vision restored.17
Lee worked at many jobs during his lifetime. In 1923 he worked at a Ford plant in Detroit, Michigan where his job was to drill holes in the carrier bearing pillow block for grease zerks. During his time in Detroit he had a girlfriend. One day he happened upon his girlfriend and her mother on the street and had to turn and spit some chewing tobacco before he could greet them. He was so ashamed that he determined right there to discontinue chewing tobacco.17
Lee next moved to San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, CA where he worked as an elevator operator. He developed a relationship with a girl named Lorna and proposed to her. We do not know what became of her or the relationship, but even after he had married Mable Larson, Lee was concerned that Lorna would sue him for breaching their marriage agreement.17
After San Bernardino, Lee moved to the Hollister/San Juan Batista area where he worked as a day laborer in the fields. Before 1929 he moved to Merced, Merced County, CA where he worked as a foreman at a Cal-Pac peach packing plant. While living in Merced, he met Mable Larson when visiting his sister Frances Webb in the hosptial and again found her massaging his hands when he awoke from anesthesia after having his appendix removed.17
Lee and Mable started dating but after the third date Mable informed Lee that she could not continue to date him because she could not marry a man that was not a Seventh-day Adventist. Lee went to the local SDA pastor to ask why Mable was so sweet and he decided to take Bible studies. Lee and Mable were married on Lee's 30th birthday.17
After their marriage, Lee and Mable invested all of their money into chickens and started farming chickens. After Jack was born, they hit hard times and lost their entire operation and money. They were forced to move in with Mable's mother in Chowchilla. During the drive to Chowchilla, their suitcase with all of the baby clothes for Jack fell off of the car and was lost leaving them both penniless and with no clothing or diapers for their child.17
Lee suffered his first major heart attack in 1947 and was forced to severly curtail his activity. In August of 1955 he had his second heart attack and had to completely discontinue active labor. His death, however, was not the result of his heart condition but rather as a result of a cancerous mole on his back that matastasized.
According to Fred Webb’s memory, Lee said the name Lee came from Robert E. Lee who was his grandmother’s uncle. Lee’s two grandmothers were Amanda E. Lee and Fannie Belle DeWees. It would be reasonable to believe that Amanda E. Lee is the Lee connection (if it really exists), but Fannie Belle DeWees had a brother named Robert E. Lee DeWees. Thus it is equally likely that the Lee connection (if it really exists) is through this grandmother.
Here’s an odd story about Chester Lee Webb and Oscar D Webb (no relation).21