Earl Worley
October 4, 1912 — March 10, 2016
Earl Worley
Sacramento resident Earl F. Worley died Thursday March 10, 2016 in Fair Oaks at the age of 103. He joins his beloved wife Gladys in eternity. He is survived by his son Timothy (Susan), grandsons Austin and Roger (Maya) and two great- grandchildren Cibriana and Braden.
Earl began working as an apprentice machinist before graduating in 1930 from Sacramento High School. He was skilled in many trades and built several apartment and duplex homes in midtown and East Sacramento. Following the outbreak of WW2 he enlisted in the USN and was a Chief Petty Officer and commissioning crew member aboard a 110' wooden hulled sub chaser (SC-708) that patrolled the North Atlantic coast seeking to engage German U-boats attacking allied merchant ships. He later served in the South Pacific aboard the destroyer tender USS Prairie (AD-15) prior to wars end.
Returning to civilian life Earl trained in accountancy and was a cost accountant and fiscal manager for the City Water Department, California Department of Finance, and retired following 37 years of government service while with the Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools office. An inveterate traveler and seeker of adventure, he and Gladys accepted work assignments around the world. These included two one- year posts working for Public Administration Service headquartered in Chicago as a fiscal consultant to the Thai Ministry of Finance in Bangkok as well as another for the Philippine government in Manila. Earl also served a year as the Comptroller of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, AZ., and another year in Monrovia, Liberia serving as Business Manager for the Lutheran Church Missionary outpost in Africa, and still another managing business affairs of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley.
Earl's best efforts, however, were serving as a generous and loving Dad, Grandpa, and "Big Pop Pop" to his family. He never saw a red Fiat roadster he didn't like.
The family wishes to thank Dr. Antonio Balatbat and NP Mary Ward of Mercy Medical Group as well as the nursing staff of Eskaton Care Center of Fair Oaks for their kindness and skilled care. Burial service will be private. A Celebration of Earl's life is planned in April.
Earl began working as an apprentice machinist before graduating in 1930 from Sacramento High School. He was skilled in many trades and built several apartment and duplex homes in midtown and East Sacramento. Following the outbreak of WW2 he enlisted in the USN and was a Chief Petty Officer and commissioning crew member aboard a 110' wooden hulled sub chaser (SC-708) that patrolled the North Atlantic coast seeking to engage German U-boats attacking allied merchant ships. He later served in the South Pacific aboard the destroyer tender USS Prairie (AD-15) prior to wars end.
Returning to civilian life Earl trained in accountancy and was a cost accountant and fiscal manager for the City Water Department, California Department of Finance, and retired following 37 years of government service while with the Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools office. An inveterate traveler and seeker of adventure, he and Gladys accepted work assignments around the world. These included two one- year posts working for Public Administration Service headquartered in Chicago as a fiscal consultant to the Thai Ministry of Finance in Bangkok as well as another for the Philippine government in Manila. Earl also served a year as the Comptroller of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, AZ., and another year in Monrovia, Liberia serving as Business Manager for the Lutheran Church Missionary outpost in Africa, and still another managing business affairs of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley.
Earl's best efforts, however, were serving as a generous and loving Dad, Grandpa, and "Big Pop Pop" to his family. He never saw a red Fiat roadster he didn't like.
The family wishes to thank Dr. Antonio Balatbat and NP Mary Ward of Mercy Medical Group as well as the nursing staff of Eskaton Care Center of Fair Oaks for their kindness and skilled care. Burial service will be private. A Celebration of Earl's life is planned in April.
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