San Sebastian Avenue
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John Presco
Bertha was my favorite aunt. I stayed a week at the Bigalow home in San Mateo, ad helped my cousin deliver newspapers. Mike did not mind all the snails on the sidewalk, and invited me to step on them. All in a days work. I killed thirty – at least!
I did not learn she married Thurlo Ashton, before she married Jim Brigalow, who owned Sam’s Anchor Cafe. He appears to be a CIA agent who divorced Bonnie when he found out her father, who ran as a socialist for the Ventura city Council
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Bertha Mae Ashton “Bonnie” Rosamond Bigelow
BIRTH28 Apr 1915
Ventura County, California, USADEATH20 Jan 1992 (aged 76)
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, USABURIAL
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(Marriage to Thurlo Ashton, 29 April 1940): A wedding of interest to many Oxnard CA residents was solemnized in San Buenaventura Mission, Monday, at 12:30 p. rn., when Miss Bertha Mae (Bonnie) Rosamond, daughter of Mrs. Mary Rosamond of Ventura, became the bride of Thurlo Ashton, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Ashton of Whittier. Rev. Father Daniel Hurley officiated. The bride was given in marriage by her cousin, Harold Kelly, and was beautifully gowned in white crepe, the wedding dress her mother. She wore a veil and carried larkspur. Guests Entertained at her home on Vineyard avenue, Miss Nazarine Donlon entertained as her weekend guests, Mr. and Mrs. John Cronin. Airs. Harvey Dickerson and Martin Montighetti, all of San Francisco: Miss Helen Cronin and Miss Betty Sullivan of Beverly Hills; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Erring of of Van Nuys, brother-in-law and sister of the hostess made for her by wore a fingertip a muff of white led by an orchid. Miss June Rosamond, sister of the bride, was maid of honor and Charles Sanders of Whittier served as best man. Ushers were E. I. Robinson and Lew Avers. Following the rites, a reception was given at the bride’s home and later the newlyweds left by motor on their honeymoon trip to Northern California. They will make their home in Ventura, California. The new Mrs. Ashton is well-known in Oxnard, having become acquainted with numerous of this city’s younger set while attending the Ventura Junior College. [Oxnard Daily Courier, 1 May 1940, p4; machine transcription, may contain errors] According to the 1940 Federal census, Thurlo Ashton was living as a lodger with the five Rosamond family women & their male cousin Harold Kelly from Iowa, at 1540 Santa Barbara St., San Buenaventura.
This marriage did not last long. Bertha M Ashton married James L Bigelow on 25 Nov 1942 in Cook County, IL, Marriage license: 026B521C-0AD4-4726-8B85-156B2F5A3833 File Number: 1755128
Last Residence at Walnut Creek, 94595, Contra Costa, CA
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Col Thurlo Martin Ashton
BIRTH1 Jul 1913
Lexington, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, USADEATH4 Jan 2010 (aged 96)
Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida, USABURIAL
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Col. Thurlo M. Ashton, U.S. Air Force retired, age 96, passed away Jan. 4, 2010, at his home in Niceville, Fla.
Mr. Ashton was born in Oklahoma. He moved with his family to Whittier, Calif., and graduated from Whittier College with a degree in mathematics. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and served overseas. He remained in the Air Force after the war and served in Argentina, Illinois, Texas, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Pentagon, specializing in international affairs. He retired from the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 1963.
Mr. Ashton continued to work with the governments of South America in the 1960s and early 1970s as manager of the Latin American division of Fairchild Hiller Aircraft Corporation.
In the mid-1970s, Mr. Ashton moved to Cusseta, Ala., and began a cattle farm near the Lee County line adjacent to Interstate 85, eventually maintaining a herd of more than 100 head of Limousin cattle. He worked with the staff at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Auburn University to develop more efficient management procedures for his cattle. After more than 20 years in Cusseta, he then retired to the Bluewater Bay resort in Niceville in 1995.
Mr. Ashton is survived by his wife, Amanda Ashton of Niceville. He is also survived by his sister, Frances Martindale of Oakland, Calif.; his daughters, Kathryn Ashton of Winter Park, Fla., and Michelle Graf of Stafford, Va.; his son, Michael Ashton of Marietta, Ga.; his grandchildren, Kellie Williams, Joe Williams, Kristi Davis, Katy Ashton, Max Ashton, Austin Graf and Bryce Graf; as well as five great-grandchildren.
Col. Ashton will receive a full military funeral at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Posted on July 6, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
Where did Sydney Morris, a partner of Robert Brevoort Buck, get the idea we could not handle our own history, and thus he brought in outsiders to be our substitutes. Morris allowed Stacey Pierrot to be the New Rosamond, and Tom Snyder to be the sober, me. These imposters are not historians, custodians, psychiatrists, or artists. They defiantly are not writers and publishers.
There were other success stories besides that of Christine Rosamond Presco. Our uncle, Jim Bigalow owned Sam’s Anchor Café located in Tiburon in Marin County. Oscar Presco owned Oscar Presco & Sons located in San Rafael, in Marin County. William Stuttmester was a successful dentist who purchased two properties in San Geronimo, located in Marin County.
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