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     Tom Carman was born in 1940 at Richmond, IND.¹ He died on 10 October 2015 at Groveland, Tuolumne Co., CA.¹
     He served in the US Air Force.¹ He was Air traffic controller.¹ He lived between 1998 and 2015 at Groveland, Tuolumne Co., CA.¹

     Frank Oyung was born in 1931 at Grass Valley, CA.^1,2 He died in October 2015 at Modesto, Stanislaus Co., CA; mymotherlode.com › News › Local
Oct 29, 2015 - Sonora, CA

Sonora, CA – Many hope to pass from this life doing what they love. For Groveland’s Frank Oyung who had recently celebrated his 84th birthday it was hiking and enjoying the great outdoors with friends.

So shares his daughter Frances, who came down from her home in Medford, Ore., when she heard that her father had been airlifted from Crane Flat to Modesto Memorial Hospital after experiencing medical duress while on last week’s local Sierra Club chapter “Thursday Hike.” He died Saturday at Modesto Memorial Hospital.

“My Dad was a very dedicated outdoors person and for…more than 20 years he had been leading hikes with the Sierra Club,” she reminisces. Perhaps feeling his age, a bit, she adds, “He retired from being a leader just a few months ago but he was participating on the hike from Tuolumne Grove to Carlon Falls on the Tuolumne River and started having a difficult time.” Surrounded by friends, including two nurses, she says he was being well-cared for in the mountains he loved. While initially, it appeared he was having a stroke, it turns out he had suffered a brain hemorrhage.

Born and raised in Grass Valley, Frank was one of six or seven children, according to Frances. His parents, Chinese immigrants, worked on grounds at Empire Mine, now a state park, where his father and grandfather were caretakers and where he was actually born. Drafted at 18, he served in the Army Signal Corps in Germany during the Korean War; before retiring over 20 years ago to Groveland, he spent about 30 years as a forester with the US Forest Service.

A regular participant at the Chinese Camp 10K until recently, Frances jokes that her dad stopped skiing, “Mostly because of the drought, I think.” A familiar sight riding his bike around Groveland, Oyung served on the Resource Advisory Board for the Forest Service and on Tuolumne County Planning Commission for many years as well as on the Sierra Club chapter executive committee. The last few summers, she says he enjoyed working part-time as a hiking guide at San Jose Family Camp, leading hikes several times a week along the Middle Fork of the Tuolumne River and places on the forest in Yosemite.

She recalls Frank’s reputation as the local “can man” around Groveland, where he set up and every week serviced drop off spots, hauling the cans each month to Modesto, where he collected the deposits for local causes. Among his pet projects, Frances shares, “He was really involved in the skateboard park and fundraising for it, because he knew that kids needed something to do in a town like Groveland.”

Along with his daughter, Frank leaves behind son Alec, of Richmond, two grandchildren and his former wife Catherine, of Medford. Frances says funeral arrangements are still being made; these are being handled by Terzich and Wilson Funeral Home in Sonora. The family additionally plans to dedicate a park bench in his memory.

Written by Tori James.^1,2
     He was educated at UC Berkeley, CA; Forestry Degree.² He served in the US Army Signal Corp.² He was US Forest Service between 1925 and 1955.² He lived between 1955 and 2015 at Groveland, Tuolumne Co., CA.² He Brief Bio:

By the late 1970's or early 1980's Bill Ouyung was living at Pine Mountain Lake and leading weekly hikes for anyone who wanted to join in. The hikers met weeking on Thursday mornings in Wayside (now Laveroni) Park. He died while on a hiking trek in Yosemite National Park.
--- active in Sierra Club,
--- per Rolene Kiesling, had been having "episodes" recently -- hit by car while riding bicycle near Two Guys Pizza less than 1 month before his death.

     Lucy (Harris) Hobron married Samuel H Hobron.¹ Lucy (Harris) Hobron was born in 1798.¹ She died on 3 April 1873 at New London, Connecticut.¹
     Lucy (Harris) Hobron was also known as Lucy Harris.¹

     Frances Hobron was born on 4 October 1829 at Connecticut.² She was the daughter of Samuel H Hobron and Lucy (Harris) Hobron.¹

     Ellen E Hobron was born on 29 December 1832 at New York, New York.¹ She was the daughter of Samuel H Hobron and Lucy (Harris) Hobron.¹ Ellen E Hobron died in 1889.¹

     Benjamin Franklin Hobron was born on 10 January 1842 at New London, Connecticut.¹ He was the son of Samuel H Hobron and Lucy (Harris) Hobron.¹