Donald Vingoe Trevorrow
1926 to 2004aged 78
US Navy 1944 to 1946; miner, Empire Mine, to 1956; then Pacific Gas and Electric, 24 years
- Born
- 11 February 1926, Grass Valley, California
- Died
- 3 November 2004, Grass Valley, California
Born in California to a father from St Just, and carried his grandmother's maiden name as a middle name without ever being told why. He served in the Pacific on a fleet oiler at eighteen. He came back and went into the Empire behind his father, and the Empire closed under him in 1956, which is the same thing that happened to his Cornish cousins thirty four years later, and neither side knew it about the other at the time. He went from the mine onto the power lines and stayed twenty four years.
Accomplishments
- US Navy, Pacific, 1944 to 19461944
On a fleet oiler, at eighteen.
- Twenty four years with Pacific Gas and Electric1956
He went from the mine onto the lines in 1956 and retired as a district line foreman. He worked the Drum-Spaulding hydroelectric system across Nevada and Placer counties, which has twelve powerhouses, thirty reservoirs, thirty one dams and diversions and eighty miles of flumes, tunnels and canals, and which was begun in 1912.
- Volunteer fire captain, Grass Valley, for eleven yearsabout 1962
His younger son did the same thing for a living for thirty.