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- Alfonzo never married. See below.
Email response to me, David H. Drollinger from Richard John Drollinger dated 2 Mar 2013:
Alfonzo (we called him Fonzo) is my Dad's youngest brother. He never married. I knew him personally and he lived with our family several times before my Dad passed away in 1956. He and my Dad were the last two children left at home when my Grandfather married his last spouse. I'm not sure when he left Idaho; however, the 1940 census shows him in Sacramento, California, living with a Mrs. Ella McCloud and her mother as hired help. He was an all around handy man and could do most anything. He enlisted in the military in June of 1942 and served in the Italian theater in World War II. Following the war, he went back to Sacramento and lived with Mrs. McCloud. I remember taking trips before my Father passed away to California to visit Uncle Fonzo, as I recollect the last time we went to visit him was in 1956 just prior to my Dad's death. After my Dad passed away, my Mother bought property in Idaho Falls and he came to help "remodel" and finish the basement of the house. He could have had a home with my Mother and me in Idaho Falls; but he had an alcohol addiction which my Mother could not tolerate. On one occasion, he fell asleep in his bed and the mattress caught on fire and he nearly burned our house down. Fortunately, we were able to get it put out before it spread to the house. At that time, my Mother told him he would have to leave. He went to California and lived in the Veteran's Home in Sacramento. He would come out to Idaho from California occasionally to help in the harvest. He would live with my sister, Colleen, and her husband and help them in the harvest. He was excellent help as long as he didn't have any money for alcohol. As soon as he got his paycheck or pension he would disappear and we wouldn't see him for a long time. Then, suddenly he would re-appear. When he wasn't drinking, he was very helpful and kind. When he drank, however, he would become obnoxious and wasn't too delightful to be around. Also, when he was drinking, it was easy to take advantage of him; and I'm sure the people he associated with at the bars, etc. knew that. Later on, he came to Boise, Idaho, and lived there in the Veteran's Home until he passed away on November 5, 1981. He is buried in the Dry Creek Cemetery in Boise, Idaho.
This is about all I can tell you about him. [end]
Email response to me, David H. Drollinger from Beverly Carpenter-Hansen dated 2 Mar 2013:
Richard has given you a great deal of information that I knew. Uncle Fonzo was kind and good to help but yes he did learn to lean on the alcohol during his time in the war and never able to recover from it. The smoking so often goes with the drinking and it did for Fonzo as well. He did come and stay in a trailer house on the farm a few times while he helped as a hired hand but did eventually end up in the veteran's home. At the veteran's home they would teach the veterans skills if they wanted to learn. I remember every year around Memorial Day we would get one of those crepe paper flowers the vets would make and it was always from Uncle Fonzo. That was one way they helped to support themselves is by making things like that. He also learned how to knit. I know many men feel that would be beneath them but it was something that helped sooth Uncle Fonzo and pass the time away while during his later years in the veteran's home in Boise. Every year for Christmas he would send a package to us and it would hold knitted scarves for us to wear during our winter activities. The scarves have long since worn out but the memories still remain. [end]
The following information provided by Beverly Jean (Carpenter) Hansen Feb 2005.
Alfonzo Drollinger - Never Married
Born: 8 September, 1906
Place: Marysville, Fremont County, Idaho
Died: 10 November, 1981
Place: Boise, Ada County, Idaho
Buried: November, 1981
Place: Boise, Ada County, Idaho
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1906 - 1981 (75 years)
