Alvin Dean Dunham

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Alvin Dean Dunham

Also Known As: "Al & Sonny"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Whitefish, Flathead, Montana, United States
Death: January 07, 1988 (68)
Renton, King, Washington, United States (Heart Disease)
Place of Burial: Bellevue, King, Washington, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Herbert Thurmon Dunham and Hazel Bell Littlefield
Husband of Margaret Jean Pearson
Father of Joanne Margaret Dunham; Private User; Private User and Private User
Brother of Marian Frances Dunham and Lola Lucille Dunham

Occupation: Tooling
Managed by: Joanne Margaret Dunham
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About Alvin Dean Dunham

Was he named after his mother's brother (Alvin Alden Littlefield)? Was in the Army Air Corp. As a young man lived in Laguna Beach, Calif. Had previously worked for a millionaire Texan who moved to California. Hmmm...Howard Hughes? Dad had a commercial flying license & had told me he, in his younger yrs., had taught a few movie stars to fly. Hmmm...Howard Hughes girlfriends? Dad said 'June Allyson was a ......(not a nice person). Dry sense of humor. Thining hair on top. Story has it he met my mother "at a bus stop". Many of his descendants inherited his 'one eye bigger than the other' look.

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Alvin Dean Dunham's Timeline

1919
November 13, 1919
Whitefish, Flathead, Montana, United States

Above photo is of the town of Whitefish, Montana (looking north).

1952
May 25, 1952
Age 32
Seattle, King, Washington, United States
1988
January 7, 1988
Age 68
Renton, King, Washington, United States

Heart problems thru out his life which led to triple, then quadruple sugeries. High blood pressure, 'old age' diabetes & macular degeneration. Stroke approx.'ly 6 mos. prior to his death. Went to a nursing home for therapy & then to a retirement home (his wife had passed during all of this) where he had a massive heart attack.

January 11, 1988
Age 68
Bellevue, King, Washington, United States

Funeral as he would've liked it - no police escort, quickly down the freeway to the cemetery to lie near his wife. Patriarch Stevens & Elder Clifford Wimmer were speakers at his funeral. Photo above of Sunset Hills Cemt.

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Flathead High School, Kalispell, Montana, United States