Individual Details

Marvin Theodore Carlsen
Born 2/15/1917
Died 5/12/2011 of complications from COPD and heart disease.
He was born on the "Home Ranch", Petaluma, California to Martin Danklef Carlsen and Teresa Ockaline Petersen Carlsen, emigrants from the Friesian Island of Fohr.
He attended Bloomfield Grammar School and graduated from Tomales High School in 1936. In the summer of 1937, he began his love of geology, spending three summers mining for gold in the Trinity Alps of Northern California. During the winters when the snow was too deep, he worked at the Chevrolet plant in East Oakland. Following this period, he secured a Civil Service job, working for the Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Due to health problems, he returned to California just five weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
After working a short time at Richmond shipyard, he enlisted in the Army Signal Corps in Fort Logan, Colorado. He attended several radio schools, the last one in Port Arthur, Texas, where, on a blind date, he met his future wife, Mildred Musick. After serving four years in the WWII European Theater, England, France, and Germany, he returned to Texas. He and Mildred were married June 21, 1946, in Port Arthur. He attended UC Berkeley, Lamar Jr College in Beaumont and then graduated from UT Austin. He and Mildred were transferred to Midland in 1955. He also attended Sul Ross in Alpine for his graduate degree.
He was a member of First Baptist Church since 1957, the West Texas Geological Society, and Midland Gem & Mineral Society. He taught Science and Math for 13 years in the MISD, and worked many years as a staff geologist for several oil companies.
Preceded in death by his parents and brothers Iver, Fred, and Henry.
Survived by the love of his life, wife Mildred, married 64 years, daughters Andrea Harris of Midland, Laura Yates (Earl) of Shepherdsville, Ky, and Donna Cahill (Andre) of Garland, Tx. Sons Charles Michael Carlsen of Mont Belvieu, Tx, and Stephen Carlsen (Alice) of Plano, Tx. Grandchildren: Adrienne Ward, Augusta, Ga., Melissa and Stephanie Carlsen, Plano, Neal and Katie Budge, Dallas, and Joseph and Sarah Yates, Shepherdsville, Ky. Also survived by sister Anna Barbee, Petaluma, Ca, sister-in-law, Virginia Musick, Austin, Tx, and numerous nieces and nephews.
The memorial service will be Wednesday, 2:30PM, at the First Baptist Church, with reception to follow in the parlor.
Arrangements are under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory.
Source: Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home, Midland, Texas; May, 2011

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH4T-6NQ : accessed 10 May 2019), Marvin Carlsen in household of Martin Carlsen, Analy, Sonoma, California, United States; citing ED 189, sheet 1B, line 53, family 13, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 150; FHL microfilm 1,820,150.

"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJQ-RZD : accessed 10 May 2019), Marvin Carlsen in household of Martin Carlsen, Analy, Sonoma, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 13, sheet 3B, line 57, family 59, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 221; FHL microfilm 2,339,956.

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K989-7KD : 14 March 2018), Marvin T Carlsen in household of Anna Carlsen, Councilmanic District 3, Oakland, Oakland Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 61-85, sheet 2B, line 43, family 42, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 442.

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Birth	15 Feb 1917	Sonoma, Sonoma County, California
Marriage	21 Jun 1946	Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas - Mildred Estelle Musick
Residence	1 Oct 1992	Midland, Midland County, Texas
Death	12 May 2011	Midland County, Texas
Obituary	17 May 2011	Midland, Midland County, Texas
Burial		Fairview Cemetery, Midland, Midland County, Texas

Spouse	Mildred Estelle Musick (1928 - 2017)
Child	Charles Michael Carlsen (1952 - 2012)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living

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