Ella Marie Beeker ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: L1TG-91T.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Cleveland, Rowan, NC. ⁷ The 1930 census recorded Augustus C. Beeker, farmer, 34, living with wife Alaska, 24; Ella M., 4; Dorothy L, 2 and 3 months; and daughter Gene, 4 months old on April 2, 1930 when the census was recorded. On the same census page is Gus' father, John H. Beeker, farmer, 68, with wife Annie, 68; and daughter Ollie, 15. Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina.

2. Census in 1940 in Cleveland, Rowan, NC. ⁸ The 1940 census recorded Augustus C. Beeker, farmer, 44, living with wife Alaska C., 34; and 4 daughters Ella Marie, 14; Dorothy Lee, 12; Gene E., 10; and Ruth Irene, 2. Everyone was born in North Carolina.

3. Residence: on 9 Aug 1988 in Salisbury, Rowan, NC. ⁵

4. Obituary: Salisbury Post: obituary of Ella Marie Beeker Kepley on 19 Oct 2011 in Salisbury, Rowan, NC. ⁶ Ella Marie Beeker Kepley

Salisbury - Mrs. Ella Marie Beeker Kepley, 85 of Salisbury passed away on Monday, October 17, 2011 at her home.

Born January 22, 1926 in Sparta, NC she was the daughter of the late Alaska Carrie Vaught Beeker and Augustus Clark Beeker. Educated in the Rowan Schools she was a graduate of Cleveland High School.

Mrs. Kepley was retired from Rowan County School in food services. She was a member of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church.

Preceding her in death was her beloved husband of 66 years Homer Laverne Kepley and a sister Dorothy Howie. Surviving are two daughters Jewell Broadway and husband Gerald of Salisbury and Phyllis Shepherd and husband Noel of Charlotte. Two sisters, Jeanie Stikeleather of Statesville and Ruth Bame of China Grove as well as three grandchildren, Candice Teuber and husband Peter, Kendra Meacham and husband Michael and Stephanie Broadway and 7 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be conducted at 11:00 AM-Friday (Oct. 21,) at St Matthew's Episcopal Church with Father Frederick Clarkson, Minister and the Rev. Craig Sigmon, Minister of St James Lutheran Church, Rockwell and the Rev. William V. Connelly, Lutheran Chapel, China Grove. Interment will be at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends following the services at the church.

Memorials: Memorials may be made to St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, PO Box 4401 Statesville Blvd., Salisbury, NC 28147, St James Lutheran Church, PO Box 486, Rockwell, NC 28138 or Newell Baptist Church, 9115 Newel Baptist Church Rd., Charlotte, NC 28213

Summersett Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements. Online condolences may be made a www.summersettfuneralhome.com.

Ella married Homer Laverne Kepley, son of Jacob Wesley Kepley and Annie Belle Cranford, on 25 Nov 1945 in , Iredell, NC.^{1 2} (Homer Laverne Kepley was born on 30 Aug 1923 in , Rowan, NC,^{2 9} died on 11 Apr 2011 in Salisbury, Rowan, NC ^{2 9} and was buried on 19 Apr 2011 in Salisbury: Saint Metthews Episcopal Church Cemetery, Rowan, NC ^{2 9}.)