Charlotte was born on May 15, 1920 to Helene and Charles Noddin in Berkeley, CA. She attended Oakland High School and after that a vocational school to learn secretarial skills, like Gregg shorthand.
In 1942 she married Ernest (Ernie) Arthur Shamlin in Reno, NV. When WWII broke out Ernie went to work for the Army Corps of Engineers in Hawaii managing construction projects. He found a job for Charlotte which was required to allow her to join him in Hawaii during the war. Her transport to the islands was on a Navy troop transport ship in a convoy which took ten days from San Francisco to Honolulu. After the war Ernie built commercial and residential buildings. He built a house near Honolulu for Charlotte to her specifications.
Charlotte and Ernie returned to Northern CA with their daughters Gay and Jill in 1949. Five years later they moved to the South Bay. Several jobs later she began working for the City of Torrance, where she retired some 20 years later after serving as Executive Secretary in the City Attorney’s office and later for the Director of Parks and Recreation.
Travel became Charlotte’s joy and we can hardly count the number of trips she took – Spain, Morocco, England, Greece, Finland, France, Soviet Union, China, just to name a few. Her condo is full of souvenirs and albums of pictures from her trips – and a huge collection of snow globes, elephants, stuffed animals and hats – her other hobbies.
Charlotte loved playing bridge, almost daily while the girls were in grade school. After retiring, the bridge playing became a monthly “girls night out” event. The bridge continued even after she moved to Orange County in 1985 when she drove back to Torrance to meet up with the girls.
Charlotte’s family now includes her two daughters, Gay and Jill, and their husbands, Richard (Rich) and Henry (Hank). The family and all her friends will miss her very much.
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