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Born Aileen Nash on October 30, 1924, in Exeter, “a venerable cathedral town near the English Channel…” according to Ruth Newhall.
Bobbie never used her official first name Aileen, except for on passports and wartime I.D. cards, as “Her father, an ardent sportsman and cricketer, had been sure his firstborn would be a boy, so he promised to name the baby after his teammate Robert Newman. On the day of the baby’s birth, Newman informed his friends that he was going to the hospital ‘to see little Bobbie.’ The name stuck,” states Ruth.
Two years prior to Bobbie’s arrival in Newhall, Ruth Newhall says, “…she had reached drafting age and was assigned to do factory duty in Bath,” a town just eighty miles north of where she was born.
During Bobbie’s time in Bath, she met Fred Trueblood Jr., the son of the owner and editor of Santa Clarita’s newspaper, the “Newhall Signal,” and made plans to marry after the war.
Upon her arrival in Newhall, Bobbie and Fred Jr. stopped at MacDougall’s cafe before heading to Fred’s parents’ house, rented on William S. Hart’s estate.
They were married in North Hollywood at St. David’s Episcopal Church on July 10, 1946, and Santa Clarita’s lack of an Episcopal church led Bobbie to establish one alongside her friend Judy Stevens, changing the spelling of her friend’s name from Stevens to Stephens to get St. Stephen’s Church.
Bobbie soon became one of the first enrollees in Hart High adult school’s new citizenship class and was the first graduate of that class to become an official American citizen in 1952.
Bobbie’s sister-in-law wrote a social column for the Trueblood’s newspaper, the “Signal,” but gave up this column to Bobbie after becoming pregnant.
Through this column, Bobbie Trueblood was able to rise to the center of the Santa Clarita social scene, later being named the first female “Man of the Year” by the Boys’ Club, and was also their first female president.
“To emphasize the point that there was nothing manly about Bobbie, the Newhall-Saugus Chamber of Commerce later named her Woman of the Year. She was the one who presided over the opening meeting, in 1975, of the newly-formed Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society,” according to Ruth Newhall.
She continued writing about social events for the Signal even after the owner, her father-in-law, Fred Trueblood, died in 1960 and was bought by Scott Newhall, though she eventually left the paper after Scott Newhall’s attacks on her favorite politicians became too much for her to withstand.
Further cementing her as a central figure of the Newhall social scene was the Fourth of July parade of 1973, eventually named “Bobbie’s Parade.”
After the Chamber of Commerce had declared they were too busy to plan a parade, Bobbie and Scott Newhall decided to make a parade of their own, with Bobbie as the star.
“Bobbie’s Parade, as it was thereafter known, marched the length of San Fernando Road from Lyons Avenue to Hart Park … the centerpiece was Bobbie, in a flowing white dress, carried on high on a litter borne by six volunteer Rotarians and waving, on a single staff, the Stars and Stripes and England’s Union Jack – a pairing which would have confounded our Founding Fathers.”
After her husband Fred Trueblood Jr. died, Bobbie was the first employee of the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, where she was tasked with spreading the word about the hospital and organizing support groups.
During the 1980 election, she was on the campaign staff of Assemblyman Bob Cline, a campaign he lost to former Los Angeles Police Chief Ed Davis.
When looking for a full-time staff, Bobbie was recommended to Davis, as she knew everyone in town. After hiring her in January of 1981, they later married in January 1984.
Bobbie Trueblood Davis and Ed Davis retired to Morro Bay, where Bobbie later passed away at the age of 93 on December 16, 2017.
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