Donald John Morilon
Elder son of John R. Morilon and Maud Noel, born at Seattle in 1911 and registered as John Noel Morilon, known as Donald, or "Mick." Stepson of Capt. Richard Blackmer Holbrook Jr., at whose death near Pollock, South Dakota, in 1923 he was twelve, and then of Hiram Wallace. In 1940 he was working in Portland, Oregon; he died in 1997.
Life
- 1911Born19 Jul 1911, Seattle, King County, Washington
Registered as John Noel Morilon, at 4023 11th Av NE; his mother's first child. His draft card gives the same day and place as Donald John Morilon.
- 1923Lived22 Sep 1923, Pollock, Campbell County, South Dakota
"Donald, age 5" [sic], among the survivors of his stepfather Richard Holbrook; he was 12.
- 1930Lived18 Apr 1930, Sioux County, North Dakota
"Donald," stepson, 18, born Washington, in Hiram Wallace's household.
documentedproven - 1940Lived16 Oct 1940, 1117 SE Umatilla, Portland, Oregon
Working for the Pacific Steel Warehouse Co.; with his wife in the 1940 census.
documentedproven - 1997Died13 Dec 1997, Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon
The date from his NUMIDENT entry, which gives his residence as Hillsboro; Kathy Jonas's tree has his death in Washington County, Oregon.
Family
- Father
- Mother
- Maud Elizabeth Noel
"Maud Doel" [Noel] on his birth certificate; "Mrs. Maude Elizabeth Wallace," his mother, of Pollock, on his draft card.
- Siblings
Pedigree
Notes
Born at Seattle on 19 July 1911, eleven months after his parents’ marriage, and registered as John
Noel Morilon, son of John Randolph Morilon, then a carpenter, and “Maud Doel,” his mother’s first
child (birth-certificate-john-noel-morilon-1911). He went by Donald, and in the family by
“Mick.” He and his brother Douglas were with their mother at Pollock, South Dakota, when Capt.
Richard Blackmer Holbrook Jr. died in Sept 1923. The Bismarck Tribune gave him as “age 5,” but
he was 12. In 1930 he was a stepson, 18, in Hiram Wallace’s household in Sioux County, North
Dakota. In Oct 1940 he registered for the draft at Portland, Oregon, aged 29, 5 ft 9, with blue
eyes and brown hair, naming as the person who would always know his address “Mrs. Maude Elizabeth
Wallace,” his mother, of Pollock (draft-wwii-donald-morilon-1940). He died in 1997, before his
brother.
He was Richard Holbrook’s stepson, not his son: he was born to John and Maud Morilon within a year
of their wedding, years before Maud is known to have met Richard. He was identified with the
Donald of Pollock on 9 Oct 2026 (research/decisions.md; the
research thread).
Open questions
- His obituary (Washington County, Oregon, 1997), and his own family.