Notes:

Of Fair Oaks California when his mother died in 2009

Obit from The Morgan Messenger https://www.morganmessenger.com/2018/08/07/jeffrey-d-thatcher/
Jeffrey Douglas Thatcher (Jeff), 71, of Berkeley Springs, WV passed away at home on August 1, 2018 while under the care of Hospice of the Panhandle.

Jeff was born to Helen and Douglas Thatcher (both of whom predeceased him), in Mequon, Wisconsin where he learned to skate on frozen rivers, a precursor to his later high school and college hockey careers.

At a young age his family moved to Colorado Springs, CO, where he was the star center of the Cheyenne Mountain High School hockey team, as well as a State Baseball All-Star, graduating in 1965.

He attended Hamilton College in upstate New York on a full scholarship, was the center for his college hockey team, and graduated from Hamilton in 1969.

The friends he made at Hamilton were friends for life; all mourn his passing and have been of great comfort to his family.

Jeff is survived by his wife Jean Kiel whom he married on July 24, 1987. They enjoyed 31 years of marriage, travel, laughs and love. Jeff was an avid sailor and he and Jean took every opportunity to sail the Caribbean seas in both mono-hull and catamaran boats with long-time sailing friends. They were animal lovers and had many animal companions throughout their marriage, always a Northern breed dog or two (huskies, malamutes) and all manner of kitties who could sniff out a soft-touch from miles away to find a home filled with love and fur.

Jeff had three sons, Justin Cain Thatcher, who predeceased him in 2016. Surviving are sons Christopher Jeffrey Thatcher and Derek Jeffrey Kiel Thatcher, both of West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle. Three grandchildren lit up his life: Weilun, 12, Isamae, 8, and Darcy 5. He fervently hoped to live long enough to share some of his love with more grandchildren, as they were the light of his life.

After graduating from college, Jeff migrated west to San Francisco, spending some rollicking good times in the Haight Asbury District until moving to Gunnison, Colorado in the early 1970s. Starting out as a field technician for Homestake Mining Company, he worked his way up through the ranks to eventually become the chief legislative lobbyist for Homestake in Denver.

Jeff enjoyed a varied and interesting career in the mining business throughout the United States for over 45 years, living in Colorado, West Virginia, and California, and working in almost every state of the Union, as well as in Canada and Mexico. He was often a community liaison, and worked with community leaders to establish wildlife habitat, agricultural lands, and other productive land uses for previously mined lands. He also worked with communities to shore up community services with financing from the mining industry. He loved his job and leaves behind many friends from those years.

A Celebration of Jeff’s life will be held at the Ice House art center in Berkeley Springs on August 26 at 3 p.m. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served.

Jeffrey married Jean KIEL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Douglas married Helen Elsie JEFFREY on 5 Jan 1946 in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Helen (daughter of Fraser JEFFREY and Elsie STAFFORD) was born on 13 Jan 1918 in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; died on 26 Aug 2009 in Colorado Springs, Colorado; was buried in Shrine Of Remembrance Chapel Mausoleum, Colorado Springs. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information provided by Eileen Hutchison to John Cowan Oct 20, 1997

Obit extracts - (Library/Fraser Jeffrey/Item 3)
Helen Jeffrey Thatcher passed away at the Pike's Peak Hospice in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She graduated from Antioch College in Ohio just as World War II was breaking out. After college, Helen worked for Globe Union in Wauwatosa, where she met her future husband, Douglas Edmond Thatcher. In the winter of 1944, Helen joined the Red Cross and was sent directly to England where she worked for 6 months in the Aero Club at an 8th Air Force fighter base. Here, she ran a club for the enlisted men with the only other woman on base. After the invasion, Helen was transferred to hospital work and became head of the Red Cross at the 33rd Station Hospital. With this group, she later went to Wales, and then to France. While attached to the hospital unit she provided recreational and social work services to American servicemen. After 18 months, Helen returned home as the war ended and reunited with Doug Thatcher who had served in the Pacific Theater while she was in Europe. Helen and Doug moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1956, where they raised their two sons. Doug died in 1967 and Helen later moved to California, where she served as the administrator of a retirement home in San Clemente for many years. After retirement, Helen lived in Colorado Springs and California, spending the past 8 years in Fair Oaks, California. She returned to Colorado Springs a few months ago to "see the mountains one more time." Throughout her life, Helen was an animal lover, a dedicated Red Cross volunteer, a copious reader, and a lover of the outdoors. She will be remembered by friends and family for her quick wit and love of both a good joke and every animal that ever crossed her path. Helen has six grandchildren: Justin, Christopher, Jamie, Ian, April, and Derek; and four great-grandchildren: Juliette, Christian, Thadeus, and WeiLun. Helen will rest next to her husband Doug at the Shrine of Remembrance Chapel Mausoleum in Colorado Springs.

Notes:

Visited Aunt Jessie (Janet) in 1899 - see signature on Page 2 of Visitor Book (Janet Jeffrey Library Item 4)

In 1911 he witnessed his sister's (Belle) wedding in Toronto to Wickliffe Greig. At the time (1911) Fraser lived in Cincinnati.

Lived at 9720 Harding Blvd, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - a house he built in 1936 https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Property/HI76881

His obit in the AIEE Journal reveals that in 1905, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to work for the Bullock Electric Manufacturing Company. When this company was acquired by Allis-Chalmers in 1910, he moved to Milwaukee. He worked on the design of induction and synchronous motors and at one time was engineer-in-charge of induction motor design. He was assistant chief electrical engineer with Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wis., until his retirement in 1952. He was active on committees and ultimately a life member of the AIEE, American Institute of Electrical Engineers (now IEEE)

He patented a design for key parts of large electric motors in 1910 https://patents.google.com/patent/US970233

He may have published various articels in AIEE Transactions

Burial in the Stafford plot in Section 33 of Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee
FindAGrave MEMORIAL ID 85227003

Fraser married Elsie STAFFORD. Elsie was born on 14 Feb 1892 in Milwaukee; died on 14 Jul 1980 in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; was buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]