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Chico Enterprise, Friday Evening, May 4, 1928: "Durham Boy Badly Hurt. Gordon Locey, 13 year old son of Mrs. Nora Locey and a student at the Durham Grammar school, was seriously injured yesterday noon when he was accidentally struck in the back of the head by a baseball bat wielded in the hands of a schoolmate while playing ball on the grammar school grounds. The boy was rendered unconscious for almost a half hour after the blow after which he was treated at the Enloe hospital where it was found he suffered slight concussion of the brain. He was later...
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Chico Enterprise, Friday Evening, May 4, 1928: "Durham Boy Badly Hurt. Gordon Locey, 13 year old son of Mrs. Nora Locey and a student at the Durham Grammar school, was seriously injured yesterday noon when he was accidentally struck in the back of the head by a baseball bat wielded in the hands of a schoolmate while playing ball on the grammar school grounds. The boy was rendered unconscious for almost a half hour after the blow after which he was treated at the Enloe hospital where it was found he suffered slight concussion of the brain. He was later taken to his home and today is improving quite rapidly."
Durham's World War II Honor Roll - A History of Service compiled by Adriana Farley March 2005 for Durham Friends of the Library, page 126.
Gordon Locey -- US Army, 1941 - 1945.
Chico Enterprise, Monday, July 9, 1945: "First Durham Draftee Released. DURHAM, July 9 --- Gordon Locey, who was the first man drafted into the service from the Durham district, is now in Durham visiting his mother, Mrs. Nora Locey, after receiving his honorable discharge from Camp Beale last Tuesday. Locey, who entered the army on February 18, 1941, is also visiting members of the family in Nelson, Chico and Pentz. During his time in the service, Locey was in Ireland, England, Africa and Italy. On the day he received his discharge papers at Camp Beale, his nephew, Harlan Compton, was inducted there, but the two did not meet."
Chico Enterprise-Record, Saturday, March 9, 1968: "Gordon B. Locey. Oroville (E-R) --- Gordon B. Locey, a 53-year-old native of this town, died Thursday in the Martinez Veterans Administration hospital. He was a World War II Army veteran.
"Surviving are his wife, Elsie-mae of the 36 Canyon Drive home in Oroville; two daughters, Mrs. Jeanette Schlemmer of Sacramento and Mrs. Anita Shafer of Whittier; two brothers, A.C. of Chico and D.A. of Nelson; four sisters, Mrs. Margie Compton and Mrs. Connie Miller of Chico, Mrs. Eleanor Ray of Durham and Mrs. Natale Smith of Eldridge; and seven grandchildren.
"A Christian Science service will be read by Ramona Lewis at 2 p.m. Monday in the Scheer Memorial Chapel, Oroville. Interment will follow in Glen Oaks Cemetery of Chico." |
