Yolo County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....SHELL , Horace Edward  November 24 2002
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"The Davis Enterprise," Wednesday, November 27, 2002
Horace E. Shell

Horace Edward Shell died on Nov. 24, 2002, at the age of 90. A descendant of
early California Gold Rush pioneers, he was born on April 23, 1912, on the Shell
Homestead near the old mining town of Rawhide, Calif., named before the advent
of barbed wire, when enclosures for livestock were made with strips of rawhide.

He was educated in Sonora Union High School in Sonora. He received a bachelor of
arts degree in geology from UC Berkeley in 1938. He worked as a seismologist
exploring for oil in Texas; Oklahoma; Wyoming; Alberta, Canada; Australia; and
New Guinea. He was an award-winning photographer and a lifelong collector of
cameras. He was a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the
American Association of Petroleum Geophysicists and of the Del Rey Fraternity.

He is survived by his wife, Gwendolyn Dexter Shell of Davis; son, Thomas Daniel
Shell and his wife Karen of Denver, Colo.; daughter, Susan Shell Winston and her
husband Thomas of Wharton, Texas; and four grandchildren, Andrea Shell of
Denver, Jennifer Winston of Austin, Texas, Steven Winston of San Antonio, Texas,
and Janis Winston of Wharton, Texas.

Memorials in his name may be sent to the Salvation Army.


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Submitted with the permission of the "The Davis Enterprise," 315 G Street,
Davis, CA 95616.

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