1 3 31 https://herculeshistory.org/files/original/75ecebf06136f7989bc20a7d4ef8d376.jpg 10b9ebf407c7ae3c22e68ecd0cdc2881 https://herculeshistory.org/files/original/4cc6f91d5be75544b47fc4068e1fdc13.jpg 373928b3bd9d96f2994ca141b7d359fa https://herculeshistory.org/files/original/a0329887c207e16a1be723abb5e68da5.jpg ccda6ea687ea693f1e4feb0e42320e36 https://herculeshistory.org/files/original/e27992949983114929bcc612d8a8901f.tif 78a1a4d8fa09204e1e890824750a468f https://herculeshistory.org/files/original/194c822caa60f5fd80575428789ff0b7.tif 247ce9ae1b1be1140b40bce143b57f51 https://herculeshistory.org/files/original/5bd8e0bd8dd09bfd1d034a008ca30b1e.tif d199b5a00bef39e54fd1e840b090f99f https://herculeshistory.org/files/original/5cabf65acf636a3e23279a67fe8cc743.jpg e5b55b5a3074a9f538e6f0e03af9b063 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Bender Person An individual. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bender Family & Friends Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Families People Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Person An individual. Birth Date March 26, 1930 Birthplace Richmond, Calif. Death Date Feb. 19, 2022 Biographical Text William Russell “Bill” Bennett’s dynamic approach to life was finally stopped by a force greater than he.  Bill passed away peacefully at 11:59 p.m. Feb. 19, 2022. He was born on March 26, 1930, to Russell and Mabel Bennett in Richmond, Calif. Bill was so proud to be a true native Californian. He grew up in Hercules, Calif., and spent much of his youth on the San Pablo Bay. He spent his school years in Richmond. Leaving school in 1948, Bill enlisted in the Coast Guard. He served honorably for four years and then spent the next nine years as a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Post Coast Guard, he worked for the Standard Oil Company in Richmond, Calif. In 1963, he was offered an opportunity to help open a new refinery in Pascagoula, Miss. Bill never turned down an opportunity and moved his young family (Lynn 13, Bo 11, Rich 4, Mike 2 and infant Rob) to Bayou La Batre, Ala. After the refinery was successfully opened, he moved back to Pinole, Calif. He then became chief maintenance manager, working on the Bevatron at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. He worked there many years and finally retired in 1993. Retirement did not slow him down a bit. He and his wife Verna spent many years traveling — going on cruises to Russia, Europe, Panama Canal and spending many summers on Vancouver Island fishing and boating. They also were docents at the Point Bonita Light House in the Marin Headlands. Bill taught several years at the Maritime Academy in Vallejo, Calif. Oceans and water were very important factors in his life. One of his greatest adventures on the water was crewing as an Able-Bodied Seaman on the Liberty Ship, the Jeremiah O’Brien, as she sailed from San Francisco to Normandy (and returned) to honor those who lost their lives on D-Day. Bill lived a full and adventurous life. He will be greatly missed by family and friends. He loved his family very much, nothing showed this more than his care for his mother Mabel during her last years — he and Verna visited her every day to ensure that she was comfortable. We will miss his contagious smile and his wicked sense of humor. 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Birth Date January 20, 1876 Birthplace Mobile, Alabama Death Date March 25, 1959 Biographical Text The Hercules Historical Society recently acquired photographs, newspaper articles, and documents from Madeline Wallace and Warren McBryde Ryder, the grandchildren of Warren Horton McBryde. Mr. McBryde was born in Mobile, Alabama on January 20, 1876 and died in San Francisco, California on March 25, 1959. He was discharged in California after service with the corps of engineers during the Spanish American War where he was aboard the United States transport Sheridan when it made its first trip through the Suez Canal to Manila from New York and on via Japan to San Francisco. He worked as an engineer for companies that later were merged with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. In 1905 he was put in charge of all California engineering and construction of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. During World War I he was assistant superintendent of the Hercules Powder Company plant. For many years he was an active civic leader in the East Bay by serving as president of the Contra Costa County Chamber of Commerce, Mayor of Hercules and member of the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors. During World War II, Mr. McBryde was a government consultant who redesigned all mechanical equipment used in the Army’s construction programs and standardized designs of all Army ordinance and chemical warfare service projects. He also served as consultant to the Army Transportation Corps and the Army-Navy Explosives Safety Board. Additional achievements in his life include: President of the Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association (1926), member of the building committee for Grace Cathedral (1928), a judge in the 1932 SF Bay Olympic Yacht Races, and President of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) (1940-41). He loved the San Francisco Bay Area; his passion throughout his life was sailing. It would take scores of pages to enumerate the many skills Mr. McBryde brought to the professions in which he was employed throughout his lifetime. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Warren H. McBryde Subject The topic of the resource Warren H. McBryde Description An account of the resource Assistant superintendent of the Hercules Powder Works during World War I. Men