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<\/a><\/p>\nAfter High School Michael enlisted in the US Navy where he served four years as a radioman during the Vietnam War. After his discharge from the Navy, he began his college career. Earning a BA in Political Science\/Journalism and a MA in International Affairs. He then became a fellow at the UN for UNICEF.<\/p>\n
In 1975 he married his wife, Linda. In 1978 he became the Chief Consultant for the Business and Professions Committee for the State Legislature. After 10 years Michael moved his family to Calaveras County. He and Linda purchased Dorrington Realty where they ran a successful business for 10 years while they raised their children. When the kids got older they built their home in Murphys. At this time Michael became a Professor at Sacramento State College. Here he was the Academic Advisor for the State Assembly Fellowship Program, and the Director of the Sacramento Semester Program. He helped many students reach their career goals. He was honored for his outstanding work by the Ca Senate.<\/p>\n
Michael’s interests were diverse, he loved to hike, backpack, cross country ski and sail his boat on Lake Tahoe. He played a mean blues guitar, loved to cook and bake and listen to his favorite singer, Frank Sinatra.<\/p>\n
Above all Michael adored his family, his wife Linda of 52 years, Sons Zach (Sedina), Dane and sister Rosemary (Gordon). He also leaves six grandchildren, Sienna, Sasha, Bria, Bryant, Kaden and Koen. Predeceased by his daughter, Casey. The family had many adventures together.<\/p>\n
We will miss Michael so very much. Our memories will be with us!<\/p>\n
Sleep with the Angels until we meet again.
\n-Your family<\/p>\n
A celebration of life will be planned at a later date.<\/p>\n
To\u00a0send flowers<\/a>\u00a0to the family or\u00a0plant a tree<\/a>\u00a0in memory of Mr. Michael Jerome Wadle, please\u00a0visit our floral store.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Murphys, CA…Mr. Michael Jerome Wadle December 10, 1947 ~ September 3, 2026 (age 78).Michael was born on December 10, 1947 in Cottage Grove, Oregon. He moved to Citrus Heights, California at a young age, so his father could work on Folsom Dam. After High School Michael enlisted in the US Navy where he served four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-murphys","category-news","category-obituaries","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa08b42bcdfc.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204815,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204735\/revisions\/204815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}