Charles W. Jenkins
Today we said our last ‘Good Bye’ to our dear Charles ‘Chuck’ W. Jenkins.
Born in Confluence, Pa., he grew up in the town of Markleysburg, attended one-room schoolhouses and graduated from South Union High School in Uniontown, Pa.
As a young man, he made his way across country with a medical cabinet building company and finally settled in Concord, Calif.
He took his profession very seriously as a Carpenter and a 56-year Union member. He was the owner of Jenkins Construction, leaving many beautiful homes, built by him, in the San Francisco Bay area behind.
In 1991 he retired in West Virginia near his boyhood home on a Christmas Tree Farm, but after 9 years he and his wife, Annette, moved back to the SF Bay area, California, where the climate was more suitable.
Chuck was also a ‘flyboy’, belonging to the local Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter 393.
Since he never stopped going to College, he managed to earn an AS degree in Aeronautics at Solano College.
He enjoyed archery, Martial Arts, skiing, ballroom dancing, playing piano and guitar, woodworking, needlepoint and traveling.
Charles was prede-ceased by his father Orel Jenkins, his mother Lettie Spear Jenkins Turney, his sister Linda G Jenkins Hartman, his ex-wife Mary Barrera Sandoval Jenkins Naranjo and stepson Michael Sandoval.
Charles is survived by his wife Annette Mundelein Bridges Jenkins; children from his first marriage: Calvin C Jenkins, and his wife Ruth, Saundra L Jenkins Blanchard, and her husband Daniel, and stepchildren from his first marriage: Daniel Sandoval and Leandra Sandoval; stepchildren from his second marriage: Audrey Lenette Bridges Fairchild, and her husband Kelly, and Greg Len Bridges; three brothers, Edgar Jenkins, Paul Jenkins, and his wife Betty, Wendel Jenkins and sister Edna Mae Jenkins Firestone; many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, cousins, nieces, nephews and numerous good friends.
We will treasure the memories made with Charles through the years.
I, as his wife, will miss him terribly and always keep a special place in my heart for my ‘Chuck’.
A private ‘Celebration of Life’ and Interment at the Family Cemetery is planned in Markleysburg, Pa. in the Spring of 2017.