From the Hascall family RootsWeb site at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rkhascall&id=I27057:

• 1930 census Chico, Butte, California
• Obituary 29 JUL 2003 The Sacramento Bee

Canfield, friend of golf, dies at age 74 by John Schumacher. Golf lost an old friend, one who cared deeply about his family, other people and a game he embraced with enthusiasm. If Sacramento's Carroll Canfield wasn't playing, he was working hard to help the local golf community in any way he could. Canfield served as a director of the Northern California Golf Association from 1976 to 1982, worked as a United States Golf Association representative since 1991 and was the tournament chairman of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship at Haggin Oaks in 1992.

Canfield, an honored Chartered Life Underwriter for Equitable of Iowa, also was a founding board member of the Sacramento Area Youth Golf Association and media chairman for the U.S. Open. He and his wife, Carole, led an American delegation to Moscow for a USA-Russia Junior Golf Exchange Program in 1994. His death last Tuesday at age 74 came after a long battle with thyroid cancer.

"He was the ultimate volunteer and the ultimate representative of the game for our community," Ken Morton, the longtime director of golf at Haggin Oaks, said Monday. "He was an idea person first, a very creative person. He also had the skills with his energy and enthusiasm to pull other people in." Canfield made sure the Public Links was a success, working on the tournament for three years. When Canfield found out that only 400 spectators attended the event the year before in Charlottesville, Va., he distributed 50,000 complimentary tickets. He also ordered state flags of all the contestants to encircle the putting green. "If you're going to do it, do the best you can," Canfield told The Bee a few months before the tournament. "We're proud of Sacramento, and we're not going to blow it."

Rudy Danzinger, a close friend of Canfield's for 23 years, said his pal loved people. "Every time you saw him, he'd drive me crazy. He'd say, 'Rudy, how are you doing today?' " Danzinger said. "I'd say, 'I'm doing fine, Carroll. Why?' He'd say, 'I just want to know.' " Karen Dedman, who worked with Canfield on the SAY Golf board, said his kindness and generosity stood tall. "He's just probably the kindest person I've ever met," she said. "He loved his family. His family came first with him." Canfield, who was an All-City baseball and basketball player at Grant Union High School, earned all-Coast honors as a pitcher at St. Mary's College. He was later inducted into the St. Mary's, Sacramento Sports and SAY Golf halls of fame.

Canfield is survived by his wife, mother, five children, five grandchildren, one brother and two sisters.

Canfield started playing golf when he was 35, just before he married Carole, who called him "warm-hearted and giving." "He and golf started becoming friends with each other," said his wife, who has been putting a copy of the sports section in his garden since his death. "It was the first thing he read in the morning. He'd always say, 'Where are my glasses?' I made sure they're sitting right on top of them."