San Joaquin-San Francisco County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Dawson, Elda Sophia Roegner October 14 2004
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The Record  October 31, 2004
Stockton
Elda Sophia Roegner Dawson 
July 14, 1909 - Oct. 14, 2004



Elda Sophia Roegner Dawson, 95, was born July 14, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois to 
Arthur and Lydia (Arndt) Roegner. She passed away on Thursday, October 14, 
2004. She was raised in Illinois and Wisconsin. She came to San Francisco, 
California in 1930 to marry Harold King Dawson. They had met in High School in 
Wheaton, Illinois. They lived in the Bay Area for nine years before moving to 
Stockton. Harold died in 1973. Elda worked at the Naval Annex during World War 
II, then at Sharpe Army Depot. In 1949, she went to work at the County Clerk's 
office as a clerk typist rising to master calendar clerk before retirement. She 
served as secretary to the 49er Boy Scout Council and San Joaquin County Peace 
officers. She was a past member of the International Club, the Cosmopolitan 
Club and Treasurer of the Filipino Methodist Club. She was a member of the 
Legal Secretaries and very active in M.A.D.D. She was also very interested in 
Politics and a frequent contributor to Letters to the Editor (Record). She was 
a member of Grace United Methodist Church for 60 years. 
She is survived by two daughters, Dianne Alta Bingham of Stockton and Dale Dow 
of Eugene, OR, and one son, Harold Emil Dawson of Stockton; sons-in-law, 
Laughvon Bingham and Vernon Delk and daughter-in-law, Penny Stevens Dawson; 
eight grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, 9 great-great grandchildren; a 
brother, Emil A. Roegner of Danville, Illinois and many nieces and nephews.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 p.m., November 5, 2004, at Grace 
Methodist Church, 1625 N. Lincoln St., Stockton. 



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