Daniel Ellis Lounsbury^[1]

1915 - 1981  (66 years)

• Name	Daniel Ellis Lounsbury  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
  Born	21 May 1915	Marble, Madison County, Arkansas, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10]
  Gender	Male
  Military Service	11 May 1945	Fort MacArthur,San Pedro,Los Angeles County,CA
  	Private, US Army
  Died	5 Jun 1981	Oxnard, Ventura, California, USA   [3, 4, 5, 6, 8]
  Buried	06/09/1981	Riverside National Cemetery,Riverside,CA   [4, 6]
  Person ID	I34554067305	Miller & Lounsbury
  Last Modified	4 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Elmore Lounsbury,   b. 31 Jul 1872, Sedan, Chautauqua, Kansas, USA ,   d. 19 Jan 1947, Fresno, Fresno, California, USA  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Nancy Jane Sterling,   b. 5 Apr 1885, Lowe, Chautauqua County, Kansas, USA ,   d. 9 Nov 1976, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, California, USA  (Age 91 years)
  Married	26 Aug 1900	Sedan, Chautauqua, Kansas, USA   [13]
  Family ID	F15453	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Lillian Elsie Seybold,   b. 29 March 1916, Elk City, Chautauqua County, Kansas, USA ,   d. 28 February 2003, Oxnard, Ventura County, California, USA  (Age 86 years)
  Married	23 Feb 1935
  Children	+ 1. Living + 2. Clinton Leroy Lounsbury,   b. 16 Nov 1941, Bishop, Inyo County, California, USA ,   d. 4 September 2016, Hammond, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 74 years)
  Last Modified	4 Dec 2021
  Family ID	F15494	Group Sheet

  
  

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  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmcid=46988653&GRid=26517186&15 April 1940 census of Ukiah, Mendocino County, CA, found the Lounsbury family living in dwelling #187. They said that they lived in Chautauqua County, KS, on 15 April 1935:Dan Lounsbury 24 AR - Completed 4 years of high school education, Attendant - State hospital, Earned $1200 in past yearLillian Lounsbury 24 KS - Completed 4 years of high school educationJoyce Lounsbury 2 CADuring World War II, Dan E. Lounsbury of Fresno, CA, enlisted in the US Army on 11 May 1945 at Fort McArthur, San Pedro, CA. His records show that he was born in Arkansas in 1915, had 4 years of high school and was married. The 1945 edition of Polk's City Directory of Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, found Dan E. Lounsbury and wife Lillian Lounsbury living at 3171 Oregon Avenue. Dan showed his employment as a sheet metal worker. The 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956 and 1958 California Voter Registration records showed the following individuals living at C Street, Box 236, Victorville, San Bernardino County, CA. Dan showed his address as 501 C Street and Lillian showed hers as 503 1/2 C Street:Dan E Lounsbury - DemocratLillian E. Lounsbury - Republican-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ASSIGNED -Private Dan Lounsbury of 3546 Liberty Avenue has been assigned to the army service forces training center at Fort Lewis, Wash., for basic training.The Fresno Bee 16 June 1945------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Lounsbury graduated from Sedan High School, Sedan, Chautauqua County, KS. He moved his family to California in 1936.During WWII, Dan worked in the California shipyards building US Navy ships until he was drafted into the US Army on 11 May 1945 at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, Los Angeles County, CA. At the time, he was married and living in Fresno, Fresno County, CA. He stated that he had 4 years of high school and was a sheet metal student/worker.After Dan was released from the US Army at the end of WWII, he moved his family to Oxnard, Ventura County, CA, then to nearby Port Hueneme, Ventura County, CA, where he opened a sheet metal business. In 1949 he moved the business and family to Victorville, San Bernardino County, CA.The 4 Dec 1947 issue of Oxnard Press Courier (Oxnard, Ventura County) had an article about the Lounsbury Shops being set up by Dan Lounsbury (32), his brother Fred Lounsbury (28) and shop assistant Olen D. Seybold (21) at C Street in Port Hueneme, CA. The article states that Dan, an Army veteran, had just finished a year of employment as a sheet metal mechanic at the Camarillo State Hospital, having won his appointment as a result of passing the civil service exam with the highest mark made, 99.06 percent. He also studied advanced phases of sheet metal engineering at Santa Rosa Junior College and at Stanford.Dan and his wife Lillian were both avid rock and mineral collectors. They were often seen on collecting expeditions and showing and trading their polished stones and stone jewelry at "rock hound" conventions.Dan is buried at the Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, CA. Sec 4 Site 1277. His headstone reads "Dan Ellis Lounsbury, Pvt US Army, World War II, 5-21-1915 to 6-5-1981".-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Living in Victorville, California:According to their daughter, when Dan and Lillian first moved to Victorville they lived in a small house across from the first shop that Dan rented at the far end of C street. Dan was sleeping on a work bench in the shop when the renters moved out of the apartment upstairs. When the building owners came home from a vacation in Mexico, Dan jumped off the bench and told them he wanted to rent the apartment upstairs. The owners (Lane and Doris Buck) didn't even know the apartment had been vacated. Then the old man that owned the shop and property at nearby 2nd and C Streets came up the street to see Dan to sell him his shop and property. Dan told him he didn't have the money. The old man said he would take their new car and their dog (Bubbles) for the down payment. Dan said "You can have my car but you can't have my dog". The man said he respected a man that respected his dog and made the deal for the car. Dan made a deal with Sam Bryant to give him 1/2 the property for him to remodel the front of the shop and build the beauty shop and the apartment upstairs. Lillian gave the shop, beauty shop and the apartment to Beth and Bill Sowers many years after Dan passed away.

  
  

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