Donald Jean Prestlien

  General Notes:

1. Source: www.worldvitalrecords.com

- indicates the death benefit place as Anaheim,Orange,California 92807 (death benefit zip code) ; may mean that a descendent lived here in 1978


2. Marriage - ancestry.com - CA Marriage Index, 1949-1959

- date of marriage; Beverely was age 20

  Research Notes:

1. Source: www.worldvitalrecords.com; re; US SSDI

- indicates the death benefit place as Anaheim, Orange Co, California 92807 (death benefit zip code) ; may mean that a descendent lived here in 1978

2. See mother's obit

3. Birth - likely Everett (1930 US Census for father); nothing on WA Digital,
- kurt hahn data (and some others) record birth incorrectly as Jackson Co, OR


4. Ancestry.com

- has a 4 'passenger and crew lists' from various ships - appears that for awhile he worked as a worker/laborer/crew member on various ships -- see point 6
- age on the list would match with birth in 1927


5. Ancestry.com - Ryan Fournier data

- indicates married to 'private' with marriage in Lomita, Los Angeles Co on 23 Apr 1951; with two children, male, female

--- CA Birth Index
- Dee Ann Prestlien, born 10 Nov 1952, mother's maiden name Holdsworth; Los Angeles Co
- David Michael Prestlien, born 20 Oct 1955, mother's maiden name Holdsworth; Los Angeles Co


6. Findagrave -- birth/death; includes a photo posted by 'NewtonTurp'

Birth: Dec. 8, 1927, Everett, Snohomish County, WA
Death: Jan. 22, 1978, Los Angeles County, CA


Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956:
On 20 Oct 1947 sailed from Southampton, England and arrived on 25 Oct 1947 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on the SS Aquitania. He was 19 years old and lists his birth as 8 Dec 1927 in Everett, Wash. His address in the US is Winlock, Washington.
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Don was a Merchant Marine by 1945 and traveled the world far and wide. After about 8 years with the voyagers he became a Long Shoreman at the San Pedro Harbor in Los Angeles, California. He and his wife would travel the world on a shoestring. The couple rode a motorcycle across Australia one summer. Many adventures and stories did they share.


Family links:
Parents:
Nelvin Prestlien (1899 - 1988)
Anna Lucretia Thomas Prestlien (1904 - 1998)

Children:
David Michael Prestlien (1955 - 1992)*
Sibling:
Donald Jean Prestlien (1927 - 1978)
Anna Lee Prestlien Gauss (1936 - 1979)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription:
My Honey
Donald J. Prestlien
Husband & Father
1927 - 1978

Burial: Green Hills Memorial Park, Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, CA; Plot: Memory Lawn, 166, A



7. Newspapers.com; News-Pilot, San Pedro, California; issue 25 Jan 1978, page 24
- born 8 Dec 1927 in WA; died 22 Jan 1978 [Harbor City, CA]
- foreman of Maston Navigation
- survived by wife, Beverly; son David of San Diego; Dee Ann Fraticelli of Idaho; grandaughter Rebecca; his parents Mr and Mrs Nelvin Prestlien of Oregon; sister Anna Lee Gaus of Lomita, CA

Donald married Beverley J Holdsworth.