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- 1930 United States Federal Census Winner W Callis
Name: Winner W Callis
Home in 1930: Township 9, Contra Costa, California
Age: 29
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1901
BirthPlace: California
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouses's Name: Ruth V
Race: White
Household Members: Name Age
Winner W Callis 29
Ruth V Callis 27
Lucile E Callis 3 6/12 (Elaine)
Edgar Callis 22 brother
Oregon Death Index, 1903-98 Winner Win Collis
Name: Collis, Winner Win
County: Columbia
Death Date: 10 Dec 1985
Certificate: 85-21987
Age: 85
Birth Date: 08 Oct 1900
Spouse: Ruby
Social Security Death Index Winner Collis
Name: Winner Collis
SSN: 543-03-1294
Last Residence: 97051 Saint Helens, Columbia, Oregon, United States of America
Born: 8 Oct 1900
Died: Dec 1985
State (Year) SSN issued: Oregon (Before 1951 )
The following was taken from a letter dated July 13, 1976, to Marilyn Parker from Uncle Winner Winwood Collis (brother to Ernest Russell Collis).
"Ruby finally prodded me into writing you about how I broke my arm. I must have been between 7 and 8 years old. It was during the summer. We lived just a short half block from the old blacksmith shop in Brentwood. Russ, your dad, and I were playing on an old hitching rack which was a 1 and 1/2 inch or 2 inch pipe run ghrough the branches of three locust trees or pepper trees. It was about 3 or 4 feet above the ground, but seemed higher to me now. I was standing on the pipe. Russ was up in the tree above me. He said he was coming down and would step on my fingers if I did not get out of the way. I let loose of the tree, turned on the pipe and started walking on the pipe to the adjoining tree. Suppose I was bare footed. Anyway, I slipped and fell to the ground with my right arm under my body and broke so many bones in my elbow, the old Dr. Cool just put it in a towel and tied the towel around my neck so I could be comfortable as possible with all the broken bones in a mess. I looked at the bones under a florescope in Portland, Oregon, in 1954 and saw all the mess of odd shaped bones with one piece of bone floating all by itself in the middle of the elbow. The Doctor said, `that' is the kind of break we always like to turn over to our competitor doctor'." I remember him also telling me that he used to carry a full bucket around in that hand to straighten out the arm. When I was between 4 and 5 years old, Arthur begged me to get him some matches from the kitchen stove, which he couldn't reach. I did so, and a few minutes later mother said, `Our barn is on fire. Where is Arthur?' Well, Arthur had gotten over the manger in the little barn, put some straw in a little pile and started a fire. Mom had to go in after him, but with no fire equipment, we lost the barn, thanks to me." "About the San Francisco fire and earthquake, I remember April, 1906, mom or dad got all we kids out of the house and into the yard. We had a water tank in the back and water was sloshing out of the top of it. I talked many years later with a Mr. Nunn, brother of George, who told me he was putting a harness on a team of horses when he noticed the horses moved up against the manger, back as far as the halter chains would let them. He ran outside to check. The ground was rolling or undulating like waves on the bay or ocean. Our Aunt Florence stood in a doorway in San Francisco watching things happen."
Winner had Bladder cancer like his father. He had several surgeries and chemotherapy. He died peacefully at age 85, as he sat down to watch the 5 o'clock news. There was no service and he was cremated as per his request.
Ruby Collis (503) 397-1466 32084 Brooks Rd. St. Helens, Or, 97051
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1900 - 1985 (85 years)
