The story my mother told took place in the late 1930s, shortly after the opening of the Bay Bridge. At this time Bob had a problem with alcohol. However he married Nelda Johnston in 1940, not too much later. He had at least two children with her I note from the pictures. There is a family picture with his wife and two children. He also took employment in Napa. My mother indicates he often came home to work in the sugar beet run at the factory in Lincoln. This marriage must have ended in divorce, as Nelda remarries in 1950. I imagine alcohol problems continued to haunt Robert.
Chicken Ranch in Napa, CA |
family picture, Robert's wife is in center back row with Robert to the right. The children on either side of Grandmother Johnston would be Robert's birth children |
Napa Ranch |
Robert William Springall |
Robert with oldest son |
Although Robert passed away in the Solano County Hospital in California, his body was shipped by train to Idaho and he was buried in Ammon. |
Robert's wife's headstone |
Robert William Springall |
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