Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.

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name
Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
aka
[Dick Ellingwood]
sex
male
access
public
summary
Dick Ellingwood, president of the family's Culligan Soft Water Service in Spokane, a Rotarian from 1956 and president of the Spokane club in 1971-72, whom friends called "Civic Leader #1". Son of Richard Everett Ellingwood and Ruth Short, he was drafted in 1951 and served as a radio specialist until 1953, and married Frances Fairchild Holbrook in 1955. After selling the business he moved to Wickenburg, Arizona, where he died in 2019.
born
date
15 Nov 1929
place
Madison, Wisconsin
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
"On November 15, 1929, Ruth went again to the hospital for another daughter ... we had a son." His obituary and the Ancestry tree have 14 Nov 1929.
died
date
24 Apr 2019
place
Wickenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[newspaper-spokesman-review-2019-04-28-ellingwood, online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry]
note
The date from his obituary, which does not give the place. He died at Wickenburg, where he lived, as the family knows (ruled 8 Oct 2026, research/decisions.md); FamilySearch's Glendale is not followed.
residences
date
1930
place
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1930-madison-ellingwood]
note
In his parents' household, an infant. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
date
late Nov 1937
place
Spokane, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
The family moved to Spokane.
date
1957
place
Detroit, Michigan
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
In Detroit 1957-59.
date
1960
place
Spokane, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970, newspaper-spokesman-review-2019-04-28-ellingwood]
note
President of the family's Culligan Soft Water Service.
events
what
College at Cheney
date
1948
place
Cheney, Washington
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Eastern Washington College.
what
Army, Fort Jackson
date
1951
place
Fort Jackson, South Carolina
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Drafted; a radio specialist.
what
Army, Fort Knox
date
c. 1951
place
Fort Knox, Kentucky
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
what
Army, Fort Hood
date
c. 1952
place
Fort Hood, Texas
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
what
Army, Camp Atterbury
date
c. 1952
place
Camp Atterbury, Indiana
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Discharged in February 1953.
what
University of Washington
date
1953
place
Seattle, Washington
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
what
Hike up Lookout Mountain
date
summer 1970
place
Priest Lake, Idaho
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Cudge's memoir, p. 87: he climbed the trail to the lookout that his parents had climbed on their honeymoon.
what
Family trip to Hingham
date
summer 1950
place
Hingham, Massachusetts
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, pp. I31, I36-I37: drove east in the new Chevy with his father and sisters to visit a married sister at Hingham, then home by Vermont, Niagara Falls, Chicago, Estes Park and Salt Lake City; he had hoped to ship out on a freighter from New York with a friend, until the friend was drafted.
what
Drive home via Juarez
date
Feb 1953
place
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, p. I31: discharged at Camp Atterbury in Feb 1953, he and his friend Neill drove home the long way: Texas, Phoenix, Juarez, El Paso, Tijuana, Pasadena.
what
Over the line, Tijuana
date
Feb 1953
place
Tijuana, Mexico
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, p. I31: on the long drive home from his army discharge he and a friend went down to Tijuana, then called on his uncle's family at Pasadena before going up the coast.
what
Culligan training class
date
1956
place
Northbrook, Illinois
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, p. I32: sent with Lee Shrontz for a month's course at Culligan's Northbrook headquarters, then home by train through Iowa, Texas and California, visiting other operators.
what
Drafted at Fort Lewis
date
Feb 1951
place
Fort Lewis, Washington
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Drafted in February 1951 and sent to Fort Lewis, Tacoma, before training as a radio specialist at Fort Jackson.
what
Stranded at Sauk Centre
date
Nov 1937
place
Sauk Centre, Minnesota
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
On the family's move west: while his father rebuilt the broken-down furniture truck near Eau Claire, the children waited with their mother in a Sauk Centre rooming house in 20 below weather.
father
id
richard-ellingwood-1895
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970, newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood]
mother
id
ruth-short-d1974
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
spouses
name
Linda
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[newspaper-spokesman-review-2019-04-28-ellingwood]
note
His second wife; with her he moved to Wickenburg. Married September 1987 (the family research file). He and Frances were divorced in 1983.

"Dick". High school 1947; Eastern Washington College at Cheney from 1948; drafted February 1951 and served as a radio specialist (Fort Jackson, Fort Knox, Fort Hood, Camp Atterbury) until February 1953; then the University of Washington. Married Frances Fairchild Holbrook in 1955 (see her page for the date). In Detroit 1957-59, then back to Spokane, where in 1960 he took over from his father as president of the family's Culligan Soft Water Service (the memoir; his obituary has 1963, and his father's 1964). Children named in the memoir: Kit (born September 1955) and Brook (born early 1959); and John.

In the 1930 census at Madison, an infant in his parents' household (record).

His obituary (Spokesman-Review, 28 April 2019) adds a Rotarian from 1956 and president of the Spokane club in 1971-72, a Paul Harris Fellow, the YMCA's Red Triangle Award, and boards from the Chamber of Commerce to Washington Mutual; friends called him "Civic Leader #1". After selling the business he and his second wife Linda moved to Wickenburg, Arizona, where he died on 24 April 2019, aged 89 (record).

Open questions

  • His birth day (15 November in his father's memoir, 14 November in the obituary).
  1. ---
  2. name: Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
  3. aka: [Dick Ellingwood]
  4. sex: male
  5. access: public
  6. summary: >-
  7. Dick Ellingwood, president of the family's Culligan Soft Water Service in Spokane, a Rotarian
  8. from 1956 and president of the Spokane club in 1971-72, whom friends called "Civic Leader #1".
  9. Son of Richard Everett Ellingwood and Ruth Short, he was drafted in 1951 and served as a radio
  10. specialist until 1953, and married Frances Fairchild Holbrook in 1955. After selling the
  11. business he moved to Wickenburg, Arizona, where he died in 2019.
  12. born:
  13. date: 15 Nov 1929
  14. place: Madison, Wisconsin
  15. basis: documented
  16. confidence: probable
  17. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  18. note: '"On November 15, 1929, Ruth went again to the hospital for another daughter ... we had a son." His obituary and the Ancestry tree have 14 Nov 1929.'
  19. died:
  20. date: 24 Apr 2019
  21. place: Wickenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona
  22. basis: documented
  23. confidence: proven
  24. sources: [newspaper-spokesman-review-2019-04-28-ellingwood, online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry]
  25. note: 'The date from his obituary, which does not give the place. He died at Wickenburg, where he lived, as the family knows (ruled 8 Oct 2026, research/decisions.md); FamilySearch''s Glendale is not followed.'
  26. residences:
  27. - date: "1930"
  28. place: Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
  29. basis: documented
  30. confidence: probable
  31. sources: [census-1930-madison-ellingwood]
  32. note: In his parents' household, an infant. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  33. - date: "late Nov 1937"
  34. place: Spokane, Washington
  35. basis: documented
  36. confidence: probable
  37. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  38. note: "The family moved to Spokane."
  39. - date: "1957"
  40. place: Detroit, Michigan
  41. basis: documented
  42. confidence: probable
  43. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  44. note: "In Detroit 1957-59."
  45. - date: "1960"
  46. place: Spokane, Washington
  47. basis: documented
  48. confidence: probable
  49. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970, newspaper-spokesman-review-2019-04-28-ellingwood]
  50. note: "President of the family's Culligan Soft Water Service."
  51. events:
  52. - what: College at Cheney
  53. date: "1948"
  54. place: Cheney, Washington
  55. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  56. note: "Eastern Washington College."
  57. - what: Army, Fort Jackson
  58. date: "1951"
  59. place: Fort Jackson, South Carolina
  60. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  61. note: "Drafted; a radio specialist."
  62. - what: Army, Fort Knox
  63. date: "c. 1951"
  64. place: Fort Knox, Kentucky
  65. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  66. - what: Army, Fort Hood
  67. date: "c. 1952"
  68. place: Fort Hood, Texas
  69. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  70. - what: Army, Camp Atterbury
  71. date: "c. 1952"
  72. place: Camp Atterbury, Indiana
  73. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  74. note: "Discharged in February 1953."
  75. - what: University of Washington
  76. date: "1953"
  77. place: Seattle, Washington
  78. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  79. - what: Hike up Lookout Mountain
  80. date: "summer 1970"
  81. place: Priest Lake, Idaho
  82. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  83. note: "Cudge's memoir, p. 87: he climbed the trail to the lookout that his parents had climbed on their honeymoon."
  84. - what: Family trip to Hingham
  85. date: "summer 1950"
  86. place: Hingham, Massachusetts
  87. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  88. note: "Memoir, pp. I31, I36-I37: drove east in the new Chevy with his father and sisters to visit a married sister at Hingham, then home by Vermont, Niagara Falls, Chicago, Estes Park and Salt Lake City; he had hoped to ship out on a freighter from New York with a friend, until the friend was drafted."
  89. - what: Drive home via Juarez
  90. date: "Feb 1953"
  91. place: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
  92. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  93. note: "Memoir, p. I31: discharged at Camp Atterbury in Feb 1953, he and his friend Neill drove home the long way: Texas, Phoenix, Juarez, El Paso, Tijuana, Pasadena."
  94. - what: Over the line, Tijuana
  95. date: "Feb 1953"
  96. place: Tijuana, Mexico
  97. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  98. note: "Memoir, p. I31: on the long drive home from his army discharge he and a friend went down to Tijuana, then called on his uncle's family at Pasadena before going up the coast."
  99. - what: Culligan training class
  100. date: "1956"
  101. place: Northbrook, Illinois
  102. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  103. note: "Memoir, p. I32: sent with Lee Shrontz for a month's course at Culligan's Northbrook headquarters, then home by train through Iowa, Texas and California, visiting other operators."
  104. - what: Drafted at Fort Lewis
  105. date: "Feb 1951"
  106. place: Fort Lewis, Washington
  107. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  108. note: "Drafted in February 1951 and sent to Fort Lewis, Tacoma, before training as a radio specialist at Fort Jackson."
  109. - what: Stranded at Sauk Centre
  110. date: "Nov 1937"
  111. place: Sauk Centre, Minnesota
  112. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  113. note: "On the family's move west: while his father rebuilt the broken-down furniture truck near Eau Claire, the children waited with their mother in a Sauk Centre rooming house in 20 below weather."
  114. father:
  115. id: richard-ellingwood-1895
  116. basis: documented
  117. confidence: proven
  118. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970, newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood]
  119. mother:
  120. id: ruth-short-d1974
  121. basis: documented
  122. confidence: proven
  123. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  124. spouses:
  125. - name: Linda
  126. basis: documented
  127. confidence: probable
  128. sources: [newspaper-spokesman-review-2019-04-28-ellingwood]
  129. note: His second wife; with her he moved to Wickenburg. Married September 1987 (the family research file). He and Frances were divorced in 1983.
  130. ---
  132. "Dick". High school 1947; Eastern Washington College at Cheney from 1948; drafted February
  133. 1951 and served as a radio specialist (Fort Jackson, Fort Knox, Fort Hood, Camp Atterbury)
  134. until February 1953; then the University of Washington. Married Frances Fairchild Holbrook
  135. in 1955 (see her page for the date). In Detroit 1957-59, then back to Spokane, where in
  136. 1960 he took over from his father as president of the family's Culligan Soft Water Service (the memoir; his
  137. obituary has 1963, and his father's 1964). Children named in the memoir:
  138. Kit (born September 1955) and Brook (born early 1959); and John.
  140. In the 1930 census at Madison, an infant in his parents' household
  141. ([record](/files/sources/census-1930-madison-ellingwood/)).
  143. His obituary (Spokesman-Review, 28 April 2019) adds a Rotarian from 1956 and president of the
  144. Spokane club in 1971-72, a Paul Harris Fellow, the YMCA's Red Triangle Award, and boards from
  145. the Chamber of Commerce to Washington Mutual; friends called him "Civic Leader #1". After selling
  146. the business he and his second wife Linda moved to Wickenburg, Arizona, where he died on 24 April
  147. 2019, aged 89 ([record](/files/sources/newspaper-spokesman-review-2019-04-28-ellingwood/)).
  149. ## Open questions
  151. - His birth day (15 November in his father's memoir, 14 November in the obituary).
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