Franklin Burgess Miller
(1863-1957)
Josephine Lyerly
(1873-1947)
Albert Erastus Beeker
(1875-1958)
Jennie Lou Leonard
(1873-1949)
Harvey Horatio Miller Sr.
(1894-1984)
Ida Susan Beeker
(1897-1989)
Juanita Miller
(1920-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Stanley Spector

Juanita Miller 2 3 4 5

  • Born: 17 Sep 1920, , Rowan, NC 3 6
  • Marriage (1): Stanley Spector in 1944 in , Brooke, WV 1

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1940 in Salisbury, Rowan, NC. 7 The 1940 census recorded owning a $2800 home at 823 North Jackson Street: Harvey H. Miller, bookkeeper at textile mill, 45, living with wife Ida B., 42; Jaunita, 19; Ned B., 16; and Harvey H., 5. Everyone was born in North Carolina. They lived in same place in 1935. Jaunita is listed as (ab) meaning she was absent from the home, likely attending college since her education level indicates she had 2 years of college education.

2. Residence: 1550 Townsend Ave., Bronx, NY on 23 Jun 1951 in Bronx, Bronx, NY. 4 8

3. Newspaper: Boston Daily Record: photo of Mrs. Juanita Spector and Professor Stanley Spector, witness in murder trial, 6 Oct 1959, Boston, Suffolk, MA. 9 Excerpts:
The Suffolk County grand jury late yesterday indicted the handsome blond radio operator of the Dutch freighter Utrecht, for the slaying of pretty 23-year-old Lynn Kauffman as the tragic climax to a torrid love affair. The first degree murder indictment against Willem Marie Louis Van Rie, 30, was reported to Judge Lewis Goldbert in Suffolk Superior Court after he heard testimony from six witnesses presented by Dist. Atty. Garret H. Byrne and two assistants.
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Mrs. Juanita Spector, wife of Prof. Stanley Spector, the employer of Miss Kauffman, who with her three children was a shipmate of the victim on the 43-day voyage from Singapore to Boston. Prof. Spector, who had an injured knee, had flown home earlier.
Mrs. Spector was dressed entirely in black, wearing a black skirt and sweater, black pumps and stockings and a black beaded straw hat.
She was escorted to the grand jury room by Det. Thomas Davis of the homicide squad, and becoming confused by the flashing bulbs of the newmen's cameras, made a wrong turn. Det. Davis took her by the arm and guided her into the grand jury room, where she remained 32 minutes.

4. Newspaper: St. Louis Post Dispatch: Suit For Divorce filed by Stanley Spector, 24 Aug 1961, Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO. 10 SUIT FOR DIVORCE FILED BY STANLEY SPECTOR
A suit for divorce by Stanley Spector, associate professor of Far Eastern Affairs at Washington University, was on file in circuit court at Clayton today. Alleging general Indignities, the petition said Mrs. Spector had been quarrelsome and accused him falsely about association with other women. He asked that his wife, Juanita, receive custody of their three minor children and that the court fix reasonable alimony and support payments. Spector is 37 years old, his wife 40. The Spec tor home is at 6300 Southwood avenue, Clayton. Mrs. Spector was a witness at the murder trial of Willem Van Rie, radio operator in a Dutch ship, in the death of Mrs. Lynn Kauffman, 23-year-old divorcee, who had been Specter's research assistant. Her badly beaten body was found in Boston harbor Sept. 19, 1959. She had accompanied Mrs. Spector and the Spector children on a 44-day voyage from the Orient. Spector had returned by air. Van Rie was acquitted of the murder charge requisite Fall 1961.

5. Residence: on 11 Apr 1989 in New York, New York, NY. 2

6. Residence: 203 Oak St, Patchogue, NY, 11772-2928 in Patchogue, Suffolk, NY. 11

7. Residence: 9820 62nd Dr, Flushing, NY, 11374 in Flushing, Queens, NY. 6


Juanita married Stanley Spector, son of Irving Spector and Sophie Braun, in 1944 in , Brooke, WV.1 The marriage ended in divorce in 1961. (Stanley Spector was born on 10 Jun 1924 in New York, New York, NY,4 12 13 14 15 died on 29 Jan 1999 in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 13 14 and was buried in Lemay: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, MO 14.)


Sources


1 FamilySearch.org, West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F1KT-TZ5 Stanley Spector and Juanita Miller, 1944; citing Brooke, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 869,651.

2 Greensboro News & Record (Greensboro, NC), 13 Apr 1989, page 58. Obituary of Mrs. Ida Beeker Miller.

3 FamilySearch.org, North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VC3Y-6P2 Juanita Miller, 17 Sep 1920 citing vol. 9, p. 875, Rowan, North Carolina, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.

4 FamilySearch.org, New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24B4-D9B Stanley Spector, 1951.

5 The Heritage of Davidson County 1982 (Lexington, North Carolina : Genealogical Society of Davidson County, c1982, 794 p. ISBN 0894591827), Albert Erastus and Jennie Lou Beeker 154.

6 Ancestry.com, U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2, Juanita Spector. Flushing, NY.

7 1940 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW36-G82 Harvey H Miller, North Ward, Salisbury, Salisbury Township, Rowan, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 80-28, sheet 10B, family 193.

8 FamilySearch.org, New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24B4-D91 Juanita Spector, 1951.

9 Boston Daily Record (Boston, MA), 6 Oct 1959, page 2. Photo and article about Mrs. Juanita Spector testifying in murder trial.

10 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), 21 Aug 1961, page 3A.

11 Ancestry.com, U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 (Ancestry.com), Juanita M. Spector, Patchogue, NY.

12 Washington University (St. Louis, MO), https://eas.wustl.edu/events/lecture-series/spector-lecture biography of Stanley Spector.

13 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), 31 Jan 1999. Stanley Spectory, 74; Taught Asian Studies at Washington U.

14 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=81220410.

15 Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 (Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.), SSN 071-18-7550 Stanley Spector Father Irving Spector. Mother Sophie Braun.



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