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Personal data Jesse Louis Luis Boatwright 

• He was born on July 18, 1923 in Loving, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  Born at home in a small house

• Occupations:
• between around 1935 and around 1940 Deliver over 60 newspapers for El Paso Times during lunchtime in 7th grade using bicycle in Loving, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.
• about 1935 Helped father at a dairy just west of Carlsbad cemetery to deliver milk in Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.
• about 1950 Quit job at Santa Fe Railroad to work at Potash Corporation of America, then US Potash, then Kerr McGee in Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  Returning to civilian live, Jesse worked briefly on a ranch near Mountainair, N.M., then went to work for the Santa Fe Railroad at age 23.  For the next four years Jesse worked with a crew that repaired and rebuilt railroad bridges.  The crew traveled by rail where the work took them.. They lived in railroad "bunk cars" and a railroad "cook car" provided their meals.  Operating primarily out of Clovis, N.M., the crew worked in many areas ou the state including Carlsbad.  For a time Jesse's crew was sent to work in Kansas.

• about 1992 delivered newspapers for El Paso Times, once El Paso Times Carrier of the Month in Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.
• Education:
• between around 1929 and around 1939 Attended elementary school in Loving, New Mexico, USA, Loving, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.
• between around 1939 and around 1945 Attended high school in Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA, Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.
• Census in the year 1930, Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.
• Census in the year 1940, Loving, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  E Precinct 5 Loving

• (Move) about 1935 in Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  Moved from Loving, New Mexico, USA

• (Personality and Interests) between around 1928 and around 1939 in Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  Would float down irrigation ditches by streets in wash tubs with other kids

• (Personality and Interests) between around 1928 and around 1930 in Loving, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  Rode 12 miles on bicycyle with friend who had wooden leg to go to rodeo in Carlsbad by sneaking in through a hole in the fence.

• (Personality and Interests) between around 1928 and around 1935 in Loving, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  Would get kicked off school bus to Carlsbad High School, then hitchhike back to Loving before sister Jane could tell parents.

• (Military Enlistment) on December 20, 1940 in Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  Seaman Recruit. Enlisted in US Navy (almost a year before Pearl Harbor attack)

• (Military Service) about 1941 in California, Verenigde Staten.

  USS Morris, DD417, Destroyer. Newly commissioned destroyer less than 400 feet length and approximately 200 men

• (Military Service) between around 1941 and 1942 in USA.

  USS Morris serve convoy duty in North Atlantic before USA enters WW II.

  The Morris was soon transferred fro California to serve on convoy duty in the North Atlantic escorting ships bound for England.  While on this "pre-war" assignment, one US Destroyer was sunk and another was torpedoed by German submarines.  Jesse described the North Atlantic saying when you were on top of a wave you could look down on the top of other ships but when you were in a wave's trough you couldn't see anything.  Jesse nearly met his end in the fall of 1941 during a severe North Atlantic storm when the Morris rolled 73 degrees taking water down her stack.  Jesse said it took two hours to relight the boilers, rgain power and get the ship underway again.

• (Military Service) about December 1941 in Boston, Suffolk Cnty, Massachusetts, USA.

  USS Morris ordered to Charleston Navy Yard - first US destroyer equipped with fire control radar

• (Military Service) May 1942 in Pacific Ocean Theatre.

  USS Morris in Battle of Coral Sea, when aircraft carrier USS Lexington was sunk

• (Military Service) June 1942 in Pacific Ocean Theatre.

  USS Morris in Battle of Midway, when aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was sunk.

• (Military Service) on April 6, 1945 in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

  USS Morris hit by kamikaze, nearly cut in half. Temporary repairs in Kerama Retto, about 400 miles from southern tip of Japan

• (Military Service) on June 18, 1945 in San Francisco, San Francisco Cnty, California, USA.

  USS Morris in Hunters Point Drydock for repairs

• (Military Service) on August 14, 1945 in USA.

  Japanese military surrendered after US military drops 2 atomic bombs on Japan

• (Military Discharge) on July 19, 1946 in USA.

  Honorable discharge, rank of Boilermaker First Class

• (Move) from 1994 till 2002 in Ruidoso, Lincoln Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  Bought cabin as second home in Bonita Park Nazarene Church Campground

• (Move) in the year 1935 in Loving, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  E Precinct 5 Loving

• (Move) on June 1, 1983 in Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  510 N Mesa St

• (Move) on November 1, 2003 in Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  1018 N Spring St, Apt 1

• (Move) in the year 1960 in Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  lived at 2303 Monte Vista

• He died on June 13, 2008 in Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA, he was 84 years old.
• He is buried on June 17, 2008 in Loving, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA.

  Loving Cemetery, Chaplain Ed Kneeland of VistaCare Hospice officiating

• A child of Audie Hayden Boatwright and Bertha Nancy Nichol Shultz

Household of Jesse Louis Luis Boatwright

He is married to Anna Mae Bowling.

While working for the railroad, Jesse's youngest sister, Ann, introduced him to a girl who worked with her in the Sprouse Ritz store in Carlsbad.  The girl's name was Anna Mae Bowling and she was soon to become Jesse's wife of 57 years.  Jesse was 27 years old and Anna was 19 when they married on Sept. 1, 1950.  Anna was the daughter of Edward Dudley (Ed) Bownling and Viola Bell (Padgett) Bowling who had moved their family to Carlsbad fro Wilburton, Okla., where Ed had worked in the coal mines.

At the time of his marriage the railroad was about to send his bridge crew back to Kansas so Jesse quit tha job, settled in Carlsbad and went to work in the potash mines.  He worked first at Potash Corporation of America, later for US Potash and retired while working at Kerr McGee.  Jesse believed in hard work and was never afraid of it.  Even in times of illness he often worked 16 hour shifts.  During his many years in the potash mines there were shutdowns, layoffs and labor strikes but Jesse always supported his family.  When out of work at the mines Jesse again found work on a ranch near Mountainair and at one time moved to Lovington, N.M., where he worked in the oil fields.  Jesse always put food on the table and his children always had everything they needed and more. 

What is now known as Carlsbad Airport was an Army Air Field during World War II.  After the war ended the barracks and other Army buildings were converted into a grocery store, a school house and what was known as Thayer Apartments where may families lived.  Jesse and Anna began their married life there and didn't move into Carlsbad until their oldest child finished the first grade at Airfield School.

They got married on September 1, 1950 at Carlsbad, Eddy Cnty, New Mexico, USA, he was 27 years old.

Child(ren):

1. (Not public)
2. (Not public)

Event (Death of Spouse).

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