Lyda Sylvia Beeker ^{1 4 5 6 7 8}

   FamilySearch ID: LJ5L-K9D.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1950 in Wilmington, New Hanover, NC. ⁹ The 1950 census recorded at 119 Morningside Drive: George A. Beeker, coal stripping for drainage company, 42, living with wife Lyda S., 35; Janet S., 15; George A. Jr. 10, Cecil B., 9; Lyda S., 7; and Lloyd A. 5. Everyone was born in North Carolina except Lloyd in Pennsylvania.

2. Newspaper: News and Observer: Syvia Beeker Almost Killed, 27 Oct 1953, Raleigh, Wake, NC. ¹⁰ (photo caption) Little Sylvia Beeker, 10, of 1429 Wake Forest Road. picks up her crushed bike shortly after the tractor-trailer truck behind her crashed into the wall in front of her home. She was riding the bike along the sidewalk and saw the truck bearing down on her out of control. She jumped from the bike and scampered over the wall to safety a fraction of a second before the truck hit the wall. The wheels crushed her abandoned bike. Two other vehicles, a city bus and another truck, were involved in the accident in the 1500 block of Wake Forest Road. Two of the bus passengers were hospitalized with injuries received in the wreck.
Child Safe
A 10-year-old girl riding a small bicycle narrowly escaped death or serious injury yesterday in a three-vehicle collision in which two city bus passengers were hurt. Sylvia Beeker of 1429 Wake Forest Road thought quickly when she saw a towering transfer truck heading toward her as she was riding her bike on the sidewalk in the 1500 block of Wake Forest Road. She jumped from the bike and scampered up a five-foot stone wall into her yard. The truck demolished the wall where the child had been a fraction of a second earlier. Her abandoned bike was crushed beneath the truck wheels. Hurt in the accident involving two trucks and a White Tran portation bus were L. R. Bridges, 51, of Wake Forest Route 1, and Mrs. Pauline Jeannette Cash, 44, of 323 E Martin Street. Bridges, who was descending from the bus door, received a fractured hip, police said. Mrs. Cash, sitting in a right front seat on the bus, suffered chest injuries officers reported. Investigating officer G. E. Grimes said that both victims were admitted to Rex Hospital and that their condition was described as "good" last night. Grimes said the wreck occurred when the bus driven by James Floyd McConnell, 47, of Cary Route 1, stopped to discharge passengers at Wake Forest and Courtland Drive. As Bridges was alighting from the bus, a truck driven by Harold Wayne Peele, 22, of 564 New Bern Avenue collided with the rear of the bus. Peele told Officer Grimes that his brakes failed. The third truck, a tractor-trailer type vehicle driven by Charles Eugene Blanton Jr., was following Peele's truck and had to swerve over the sidewalk and into the wall to keep from colliding with the two wrecked vehicles. Sergeant Williard Bunn of the police traffic division said it was a miracle the Beeker child wasn't crushed to death under the wheels of the truck. Only her quick action saved her. Officer Grimes charged Blanton with operating with improper brakes. McConnell was charged with following the bus too close and improper brakes.

3. Residence: on 26 Feb 1958 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward, FL. ⁷

4. Residence: on 13 Mar 1968 in Miami, Miami-Dade, FL. ⁸

Lyda married William Lauth Loranger in Jan 1961 in , Dade, FL.^{1 2} The marriage ended in divorce in Feb 1966.

Lyda next married Jonel Eugene Jorgulesco Jr. in Mar 1966 in , Dade, FL.³ (Jonel Eugene Jorgulesco Jr. was born on 1 Nov 1932 in , , NY ¹¹ and died on 18 Sep 1970 in -Salisbury, Litchfield, CT ^{11 12}.)