Help - any info on Ted Towendolly in Dunsmuir, CA

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Ted was a Native American of the Wintu tribe in Nor Cal.

His family lived on Butterfly Avenue in Dunsmuir, CA.

He was born in 1901 and was the first person to use/develop the upstream high stick weighted wet fly fishing system.

Ted Fay made the system popular.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29863650

http://books.google.com/books?id=Wbq6iXHvnGkC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=ted+towendolly&source=bl&ots=Q09aSzZCp4&sig=jriXtMkr3RirJBe6dSiSNteoAGI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ePvXU5uXOeaxiwL8r4CQAw&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=ted%20towendolly&f=false

http://www.tedfay.com/newsarticle.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=Z_KICU8R5pAC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=ted+towendolly&source=bl&ots=ArjNN8VNU2&sig=NTAmJL4O6UtCFmtK_Zp2w3HbSVE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ePvXU5uXOeaxiwL8r4CQAw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=ted%20towendolly&f=false

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[Langenbeck]

Here is info from Find a Grave:
Birth: Nov. 17, 1901
Siskiyou County
California, USA
Death: Dec. 20, 1975
Sacramento
Sacramento County
California, USA

Theodore Laverne Towendolly was born to Garfield Towendolly and Rose (Young) Towendolly. He was preceded in death by both of his parents, his first wife Pearl Towendolly, his brother Clinton Towendolly, sisters Harriet Towendolly, Helen Towendolly and Gladys Lapena. He was survived by his wife Julia Towendolly,his sisters Grace Arana And Ethel Hodgkin, his daughter Betty Logan and many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren including, Jane Ann White, Sandra Martin and Billy Logan. He was also survived by stepsons Elbert G and William White. Theodore was a Native American from the Nom-Ti-Pom Wintu tribe of California. An Indian burial ceremony was performed by his nephew Frank Lapena.

Family links:
Parents:
Garfield Henry Towendolly (1881 - 1919)
Rose Young Towendolly (1884 - 1968)

Spouse:
Pearl Elvina Stetler Towendolly (1903 - 1947)*

Children:
Betty Jane Towendolly Logan (1927 - 2008)*

Siblings:
Theodore Laverne Towendolly (1901 - 1975)
Clinton Towendolly (1904 - 1963)*
Ethel Towendolly Hodgkin (1906 - 1982)*
Helen Towendolly (1911 - 1936)*
Gladys Towendolly Lapena (1914 - 1957)*
Grace Towendolly Arana (1915 - 1985)*
Harriet Elizabeth Towendolly (1918 - 1936)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Sacramento Memorial Lawn Cemetery
Sacramento
Sacramento County
California, USA
Plot: holly section, row 6 grave 119

Created by: Bobby Larkin
Record added: Sep 17, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 29863650

There are a couple of photos on the site.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Thanks Gordon

[DPLee]

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[steelyman]

There have been many posts over the years about Ted Fay, Ted Towendolly and their roles in the development of short-line nymphing. Who did what and when, etc. Wintu Indian Ted Towendolly and his life on the Upper Sac was an enigma with little to nothing known about him beyond his reported development of the Black Bomber and other weighted flies beginning in the 1920s. As Joe Kimsey was heard to say at his tying bench many times "The Black Bomber was invented by an Indian fellow, Ted Towendolly in the 1920s". How and when did the stories of the two Teds intersect?

The answer to all these questions and more are revealed to subscribers of California Fly Fisher in the March/April 2015 edition.

What's the punch line? Who developed this deadly effective nymphing method on waters of the north state 60 years before anyone had heard of "Czech Nymphing". Not telling. Check your mailbox.