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Jack Cadman, owner of first crime lab in OC dies of natural causesBy BARBARA GIASONEFullerton News TribuneTo his eight children, Jack Cadman was an exemplary dad. He was the builder of a Fullerton Founder’s Day float that housed daughter, Gail, in the '‘Old Woman in the Shoe” and the fisherman who let another daughter hold the pole, unaware a 12-pounder was at the other end.To wife, Evelyn, Cadman was a loving husband for 56 years and a steady provider.And to Orange County, he was the originator of the Orange County Crime Lab in 1948.Cadman died Sunday of natural causes at age 85.A viewing will be held at McAulay Wallace Mortuary in Fullerton from 4-6 p.m. Friday. Services are set for 2 p.m.on Saturday at the Brea Methodist Church, 480 N. State College Blvd.“Although he was born in Anaheim, he lived in Fullerton for most of his life,” Evelyn Cadman said. “His father, Walter, and grandfather, Robert Corcoran, developed the Golden Hill neighborhood.”Cadman graduated with Fullerton Union High School’s Class of 1936. He attended and graduated from UC Berkeley after serving as a radar technician with the U.S. Navy during World War II.He did graduate work in technical criminology - now called forensic science - and was an early pioneer in the discipline. While working for the Oakland Police Department, he was hired by the Orange County Sheriffs Department to launch a crime lab.“Jack was one of the first to hire women in a crime lab,” his wife remembered. “And now the head of a California association of criminologists is a woman.”Cadman retired in 1977 to serve as the director of the graduate program in criminology at California State University, Los Angeles. He taught at the college until 1989.In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children Kathleen Lemly, Diamond Bar; Coral Cadman, Santa Fe, N.M.; Gail Dawson, San Francisco; John, Aliso Viejo; Walter, Placentia; Robert, Newport Beach; and Christopher, Fullerton; and12 grandchildren.Donations in his memory may be sent to the American Heart Association.
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Newport Beach Current
Newport Beach, California, US
Thu, Sep 11, 2003
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