Named in 1948 after Dennis Tyre Haggott (1935-2002), eldest child of this neighborhood’s subdivider Edward Benjamin “Ben” Haggott (1904-1982) and his second wife Yvonne (1913-2002). I’ve been told by a Haggott descendant that Dennis was born with the surname Sexton, suggesting a different biological father, which makes sense since he was born in New York, Ben was based here in SoCal, and he apparently didn’t marry Yvonne Baker until 1940. (Adding to the confusion, our subject’s tombstone reads Dennis Tyre Haggott-Baker.) Dennis and his siblings split their time between L.A. and the Lake Arrowhead/Big Bear area after their parents divorced in 1944. He joined the Navy in 1954 after graduating from Big Bear High and achieved the rank of chief petty officer twenty years later. In 1966, he married Virginia González Muñiz in Puerto Rico, which is also where he died. They had three kids. Dennis’s siblings Reese and Sharynne also have namesake streets here.
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