- Date Of Birth: April 7, 1920
- Date Of Death: September 16, 2019
- State: Idaho
Charles “Chuck” Jerome Cavanaugh, 99, of Idaho Falls, passed away September 16, 2019, at his home.
Charles was born April 7, 1920, in Wallace, ID, to John Cavanaugh and Alice Cyr Cavanaugh. His parents both loved the outdoors and Charles came to love it as well. Throughout his life he was a fisherman, hunter, explorer, rock hound, mushroom collector, and huckleberry picker. He grew up in the wild and woolly mining town of Wallace, Idaho. At the age of 17 Charles obtained his pilot’s license and learned to fly a Travel Air biplane. Charles worked in the Coeur d’ Alene mines near Wallace supplying timber in his teens and operating an ore train in his twenties.
On July 16, 1941 Charles Cavanaugh married 17 year-old Elizabeth Adams in Superior, Montana.
