Julio Marcello (Jack) Semadeni and Lucile Elmyra Harris
Husband Julio Marcello (Jack) Semadeni
Born: 14 Jan 1904 - Poschiavo, Switzerland Baptized: Died: 6 Mar 1995 Buried: - Cedar Point Cemetery, San Juan County, UT Find A Grave ID: 14494335Marriage: Cir 1936
Wife Lucile Elmyra Harris
Born: 27 Apr 1917 - Charlie, Clay County, TX Baptized: Died: 4 Dec 1996 - Dove Creek, Dolores County, CO Buried: - Cedar Point Cemetery, San Juan County, UT Find A Grave ID: 14494355
Father: William Earl Harris Mother: Orpha Antonia Hazel Garvin
Children
1 M John Lorenzo Semadeni
Born: 15 Sep 1937 - San Juan County, UT Baptized: Died: 19 Nov 2013 - Yucaipa, San Bernardino County, CA Buried: Find A Grave ID: 120627334Spouse: Doris Stigge Marr: 29 Aug 1961 - Burlington, Des Moines County, IA
2 F Beatrice Yvonne Semadeni
Born: 27 Feb 1939 - San Juan County, UT Baptized: Died: 4 Mar 1939 - San Juan County, UT Buried: - Cedar Point Cemetery, San Juan County, UT Find A Grave ID: 14494359
3 F Anna Ruth Semadeni
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:Spouse: ? Koppenhafer
4 M William Marcello (Marc) Semadeni
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:
5 M Paul Wayne Semadeni
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:
6 M James Matthew (Jim) Semadeni
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:
7 F Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Semadeni
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:Spouse: Steve Tanksley
8 M David Edmund Semadeni
Born: Baptized: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Julio Marcello (Jack) Semadeni
from Glenn Gohr
Page 10 - DÓVE CREEK PRESS - Thursday, March 23,1995
Obituary
Jack M . Semadeni
1904-1995
Julio "Jack" Marcello Semadeni
was born January 14, 1904 in
Poschiavo, Switzerland. He was the
youngest of five siblings born to
Alfonso Lorenzo and Anna Steffani
Semadeni.
Poschiavo (meaning "key") is a
small village in a beautiful mountain
valley just 17 km north of Italy.
Reportedly, Poschiavo served as a
"key barrier" to halt the Napoleonic
conquest from penetrating
Switzerland.
Jack spent his growing-up years
there, and in Santander, Spain -
where his father was a hotelier who
counted royalty among his
customers. As an infant, Jack was
dandled on the knee of the King of
Spain (Alfonso Doce), and all the
children and grandchildren who have
ridden Jack's knee can feel as though
they, too, were dandled by royalty.
After completing Agriculture
College, at age 18, Jack and his
brother Alfonso came to America -
following their oldest brother,
Aldeberto, who had already settled
on Cedar Point, UT.
It was during those ensuing years
of shepherding, railroading,
cowboying, tending Charlie
Griffith's moonshine still (during and
after Prohibition) that Julio took the
name "Jack." He said the other
cowboys teased him about being
"Julia" in English, and Jack was the
hero in one of the first books he read
in the English language.
Also, during those pre-war years
of dust bowl and depression. Jack -
the youngest of a very convential,
staid and patriarchal Old-Country
family, met and married the eldest
daughter of a many-generations
Americanized farming family who
had just moved to Dove Creek from
Texas. She was good-looking,
intelligent and very independent!
The sparks that were struck then
ignited a fire that has burned brighüy
- complete with brilliant flare-ups
and showers of sparks - for fifty eight-and-a-half
years. You can
expect the embers to keep glowing
into Eternity.
Setting up farming was no easier
then than now, but Jack and Lucile
did so, and were among the
frontrunners in practicing and
promoting good stewardship of the
land with which God blessed them.
To their union were born eight
children, seven of whom survive
today. They are: John Lorenzo of
Yucaipa, CA; Anna Ruth
Koppenhafer of Mancos; William
Marcello (Marc) of Dove Creek;
Paul Wayne of Sahuarita, AZ; James
Matthew (Jim) of Overland Park,
KS; Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Tanksley
of Newfield. NY; and David
Edmund, of Marvel, CO.
Jack was the last surviving in the
family of his birth, and was also
preceded in death by one daughter,
Beatrice Yvonne, who died in
infancy. He is survived by his wife
Lucile Harris Semadeni, seven
children , twenty-seven
grandchildren and seventeen greatgrandchildren
- as well as their
spouses and many others who were
drawn into his family through
marriage, fostering and unofficial
adoption - all of whom know
"Grandpa Jack" in their own special
way.
For instance: Do you know how
many matches it took lo light his
pipe? That depended on how many
shiningly expectant little ones there
were who neded a match to blow
out! And Jack always needed gentle
milk cows - so that we could "drink
from the faucet," or better yet, get a
great big cheer of applause from him
for squeezing out a liny stream of
milk. And how many of you - even
not so little ones - went expecting
(and rarely disappointed) lo be
greeted with a pat on the head and
"Quack, Quack" or "My, what a cute
little girl (or boy)?"
How many of you older ones
have gone back and re-done a job -
not because it wouldn't have been
acceptable, but because it wouldn't
have been up to Jack's standard?
And though there were the times we
kids resisted his unwillingness to
compromise quality for convenience,
I can still hear the phrase "If Jack
did it, it's OK." - and that from
people who don't have a reputation
for flattery! Many's the time when
Jack would re-do something when
no one else would ever have known
the difference.
More than a few of you not-so-closely-related
wil recall times when
seeking advice about a problem or
an issue almost automatically
included "Let's see what Jack thinks
about it."
How many of you remember
when large deals were sealed with a
spoken promise and a handshake?
Jack was an integral part of that era.
Before the age of computers,
virtually everybody and most of the
businesses from Blanding to
Durango knew and respected the
word of Jack Semadeni, or his check
- even if written on a grocery sack.
The first time I asked for credit, I
was met with "Jack Semadeni's boy,
huh? Well, I guess we can take a
chance on you." I can't count the
number of times when I went to
town for parts armed with only the
phrase "Charge it to Jack Semadeni."
Integrity is a word more often
used in electronics nowadays than
about people, but people like Jack
Semadeni have kept its true meaning
alive, and can still serve as our
models to preserve the concept for
ourselves and revive it for our
posterity.
Jack Semadeni lived largely - in
ways that matter. What is the
measure of a man? Is it physical
size? - 5'8" and a size 8 shoe doesn't
seem very large nowadays, but
Daddy was plenty big enough
inside! Possessions? Enough is as
good as a feast. Quality is a longterm
and subtle thing, and a few...
***Note: unfortunately the narrative runs out here as the digital copy of the newsletter Glenn published this in has repeated pages after this point.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14494335
Birth: Jan. 14, 1904
Death: Mar. 6, 1995
Husband of Lucile Elmyra Semadeni.
Family links:
Spouse:
Lucile Elmyra Semadeni (1917 - 1996)
Children:
John Lorenzo Semadeni (1937 - 2013)*
Beatrice Yvonne Semadeni (1939 - 1939)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Cedar Point Cemetery
San Juan County
Utah, USA
Created by: Mary Ann Mellott
Record added: Jun 03, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 14494335
General Notes: Wife - Lucile Elmyra Harris
FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF21873
given names from Glenn Gohr
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14494355
Birth: Apr. 27, 1917
Death: Dec. 4, 1996
Wife of Jack Marcello Semadeni.
Family links:
Parents:
William Earl Harris (1895 - 1967)
Orpha Antonia Hazel Garvin Harris (1895 - 1979)
Spouse:
Jack Marcello Semadeni (1904 - 1995)*
Children:
John Lorenzo Semadeni (1937 - 2013)*
Beatrice Yvonne Semadeni (1939 - 1939)*
Siblings:
Lucile Elmyra Harris Semadeni (1917 - 1996)
William Earl Harris (1919 - 2008)*
James David Harris (1923 - 2012)*
Ruby Jean Harris Barber (1925 - 2015)*
Betty Lou Harris Waterman (1926 - 2015)*
John Pyron Harris (1931 - 2015)*
Orvil Thurman Harris (1935 - 2008)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Cedar Point Cemetery
San Juan County
Utah, USA
Created by: Mary Ann Mellott
Record added: Jun 03, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 14494355
Notes: Marriage
from Glenn Gohr
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14494335
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