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Eugene Lloyd Catchings
1931–1972
✦ direct ancestor — Owen's grandfather · mother's side
✦ A story has been written about this person: Correspondence between Eugene Catchings and Chloye West — Five years of letters, from sixteen years old to married, 1947–1952 — in their own hands.
Life
- Born
- 23 Jan 1931 · Taft, San Patricio, Texas, USA
- Died
- 22 May 1972 · Taft, San Patricio, Texas, USA
- Buried
- Taft, San Patricio County, Texas, United States of America
Parents
Marriage & children
Spouse✦ Chloye Ann West (1931–2002) m. 20 Dec 1949 · Taft, San Patricio County, Texas, United States of America
a living family member
Timeline
- 1935ResidenceSan Patricio, Texas
- 1 Apr 1940ResidenceSan Patricio, Texas, United States — Age: 9; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
- 15 Apr 1948MilitarySan Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA — Joined the Air Force
- 10 Aug 1948AddressTokyo, Tokyo, Japan — Left the US for deployment in the Pacific - radar school in Tokyo then on to Okinawa's Kadena Air Base
- 20 Dec 1949MarriedChloye Ann West — Taft, San Patricio County, Texas, United States of America
- 1972Residence
- —ResidenceTaft, San Patricio, Texas, USA
- —ResidenceTaft
Records behind this page
1940 United States Federal Census
Year: 1940; Census Place: San Patricio, Texas; Roll: T627_4133; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 205-14
Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index
Number: [SSN redacted]; Issue State: Texas; Issue Date: Before 1951.
Birth date: 23 Jan 1931Birth place: Death date: May 1972Death place: <line />
Ancestry.com, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Texas Department of State Health Services; Austin, Texas, USA; Texas Birth Indexes
Birth date: 23 Jan 1931Birth place: San Patricio, Texas<line />
Ancestry.com, Texas Divorce Index, 1968-2002
Texas Department of State Health Services; Austin, TX, USA; Texas Divorce Index, 1968-2015
Birth date: 1932Birth place: Marriage date: 19 Dec 1949Marriage place: Divorce date: 1 Nov 1971Divorce place: Harris, Texas<line />
Ancestry.com, Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013)
Texas Department of State Health Services; Austin, TX; Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Ancestry.com, Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013)
Texas Department of State Health Services; Austin Texas, USA
Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012)
Ancestry.com, U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020)
Ancestry.com, U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2019)
The Corpus Christi Caller; Publication Date: 23 May 1972; Publication Place: Corpus Christi, Texas, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/756881446/?article=0d712bf9-c086-46bc-9887-787978dc4f90&focus=0.032246716,0.72111684,0.15369709,0.8383595&xid=335
Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015)
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Texas Department of Health; Austin, Texas, USA; Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000
Research notes
Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open.
Research note · 27 Jul 2026
Audited 27 Jul 2026. BOTH PARENTS EVIDENCED. Death certificate, San Patricio Co., 22 May 1972, state file 38969, image 33154_b062860-00892 (Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982 (Ancestry coll. 2272)): field 13 FATHER = 'James T. Catchings'; field 14 MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME = 'Ada Mae Johnson'. Also records U.S. armed forces service 1949-1953 and occupation Technician, Television. Buried Taft Cemetery. SSN on the certificate, deliberately not recorded.
Elsewhere
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