Henwood Pictures For Steve and Dustin

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

                                                                         

Charles Ernest Henwood was born in Winchfield, Hartley Wintney Row, County of Hampshire, England on February 6, 1897.  Charles's parents died when he was a young boy.  This may have been around 1912-1913 since Charles was 16 and in the British Army in 1913.  He had gone to Australia as a young man and was the first to drive around the country on a motorcycle. He was also living in New Zealand.   He met his wife, Queenie Dorothy there, who already was a divorcee with a son, Dennis Llewelyn Philip Trevissick, while in New Zealand.  Dorothy had been married to William Llewellyn Trevissik, and it hadn't worked out.  Dennis had been born on June 26, 1919.  Charles had rented rooms from some people in Auckland, New Zealand.  It must have been a boarding house.  He met Dorothy there.  They met Alice and her husband who were either boarders or the owners and became friends for a long time.  They had two boys about Marie's age.  When Alice visited the USA, they saw her again, and the Henwoods saw her when they went back to New Zealand for visits.  

After marrying Queenie Dorothy in New Zealand, they moved to Victoria, Canada.

I had met Dennis's wife on my several occasions of visiting with Dorothy and Charles.  She was "Joseph "Joey" Henry Beddy," called Joey, i thought short for Josephine.  

Queenie Dorothy Disney was born in Hornchurch, Romford District,  Essex County,  England on March 3, 1997.  She was the 10th of 12 children born to 
Alfred James Cooper Disney and Laura Victoria Whitehead.  I've search many times to find a connection to Walt Disney of Disneyland, but could find none.  It may be a connection way back.  Dorothy always believed she was connected to this famous family.  
                                                     

Charles's brother, Frederick James Henwood
born in Cranleigh, Ewhurst, Surrey,  England
who obviously was in the Navy and enlisted in March 1927.  He was born June 1900.  Their father was a Charles Henwood born
February 13, 1854 in Farnham, Surrey, England.
Charles had been a blacksmith and general servant-and this
was back in the days when lots of people were servants in England.   

What Dorothy wanted to do, Charles went along with it.  He was a mild-mannered gentleman who didn't argue in my presence, and usually was smoking a sweet smelling pipe.  He was so traditionally correct an Englishman.  His occupation had been that of an English gardener of huge estates.  He knew everything about gardening, and when he came to visit our home in Portland where my mother still lived, would immediately find something he could repair outside among her trees or bushes, even mowing the lawn and in those days that meant an old-fashioned hand pusher; no electric or gas then.  Ah, we loved Charles's easy manner and knew he could only make things more beautiful.
                                                      

Son Wes and I at Cannon Beach, Oregon
taking a break from Lewis and Clark and Reed Colleges
anytime from Summer 1951-1952  I was 16 or 17
and Wes was 20 or 21.  

The two of them, Dorothy and Charles, would travel between southern California and Victoria, BC.  Dorothy just couldn't stay long in one place.  One time Dorothy, traveling alone, was in Portland visiting us and I was talked into allowing my son to take my newly bought car and his sister and Dorothy to Vancouver BC so Dorothy could buy some special books in a special book store there.  Somehow, I had given in.  It was a car my son had liked, who hadn't appreciated my white bug, the Volksvagen.  This one was jazzier.                                                   

                                            Wes, myself and Steve, born February 9,  1953

                                       Picture used on Wes's Reed College obituary.

                                         b: October 11, 1930   d: April 16, 2012  

               died at 81 years 6 months and  5 days  in La Ceiba,  Atlantida, Honduras.  

                                                     

Dorothy with daughter Marie

How they managed financially was that they would get jobs being motel managers; and of course, Charles could handle all situations from landscaping to fixing after building so many homes himself.  They were saving any money they had to put their son, Wes, through Reed College, which he graduated from in Pre-Med, and then had gone on to become a Radiologist.  

His son, Wesley Charles Henwood, who passed away on April 16, 2012 in 
La Ceiba,  Atlantida, Honduras from a heart attack, enjoyed living in Lakewood,
Tacoma, Washington, where his father, Charles, built homes.  He would build a home and they would live in it for awhile, then sell it after building another there.  I don't know how many he had built.  Wes, who was my first husband, would fish on the lake and enjoyed this solitary activity very much which stayed with him all his life.  

Marie and myself before I married Wes, maybe 1952.  

                                                           

Marie and Dorothy out on the town, probably in California

He also enjoyed jitterbugging which he practiced with his older sister, Mary Dorothy Henwood born October 6, 1929.  Marie married Alroy Mortimer Flack on June 20, 1954.  

I remember that when Wes and I married, Dorothy and maybe Charles also, were having a fit about it because I was Jewish.  Then we met and all went well.  She liked my mother even more.  They were a Mutt and Jeff combo, Dorothy being very short and my mother being taller than I was at 5'6", almost as tall as Wes who must have been 5'7".  
                                                       

Here's the car Wes bought that took us on a visit to meet his parents
in Washington.  

Dorthy and Charles were seekers.  They went to a different type of church every Sunday.  Dorothy eventually became a guru and was always talking to my son about it, which made me a little nervous.  That introduction stayed with him, and affected some of his decisions in life as well, I think.
                                                            

Yes, Wes was a smoker.  He also played the ukulale.
I got him to perform once at my old grade school while
I also did a ballet dance number-not together, of course.
He was a compliant guy in those days.  He was also in the
National Guard, which helped him later in life.  He could add 
Lieutenant Colonel to his M.D. He spent some time in Panama
in charge of a hospital unit.  

                                                    

Dorothy when visiting my father's feed lot in Ontario, Oregon
I believe that's a bird on her shoulder nibbling her hat!  

Whereas Dorothy became a vegetarian and certainy outlived her husband; Charles dying on September 10, 1984, and Dorothy dying on March 3, 1997, outliving him by 13 years, she would fry him a steak for dinner and not eat any herself.  In the end, Dorothy had arthritis badly in her hands and could barely write letters anymore.  She died in Seal Beach, Anaheim, California, one of her favorite places.   
                                                       

Wes went on and dabbled in many things besides being a Radiologist.  He owned a ski resort at one time.  We had gone skiing on dates where he introduced me to skiing by bringing me all the clothing I needed.  I was a terrible skier.  When he retired he went to Central America for more of an adventurous life.  He discovered two computers were better than one when he dabbled in making money and playing something like the stock market.  His mind was always active.  He even studied about how to sell cars and had the license to do so.     

Wes's obituary from Reed College that I wrote:  with picture

https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/september2012/wesley-charles-henwood-1953.html          

Reference:
My genealogy searches; Dorothy's memory, and pictures.