Alma May Conklin ^{2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: 9VGC-QGZ.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1920 in Anderson, Madison, IN. ⁷ The 1920 census recorded owning a home at 233 West 11th Street: Oliver O. Conklin, general manager of electric works, 50, living with wife Mary L., 43; daughter Elma May, 9; and maid Minnie Hobbs, 37. The Conklins and their parents were born in Ohio. Minnie and her parents were born in Michigan.

2. Census in 1930 in Anderson, Madison, IN. ⁸ The 1930 census recorded owning a $15,000 home at 233 W. 11th Street: Elmer E. Stick, occupation Claim Att. for Union Fraction Co., 64, living with wife Mary L., 52; adopted daughter Alma M. Conklin, college student, 19; and son Robert G. Stick, 15. Elmer was born in Indiana and his parents in Ohio. Mary, her parents, and Alma were born in Ohio. Robert and his parents were born in Indiana.

3. Arrival: 1934, in West Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. ²

4. Newspaper: Journal and Courier: Beeker - Conklin Wedding, 26 Jan 1942, Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. ⁹ The marriage of Miss Alma Conklin, West Lafayette, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Oliver F. Conklin, of Anderson, and Ross N. Beeker, son of Mrs. Pearl Beeker, West Lafayette, took place at 4:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Beeker, Fair Park Addition, Lafayette, with Dr. T. F. Williams, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, officiating. The bride wore aqua blue crepe with brown accessories and a corsage of Johanna Hill roses. The matron of honor, Mrs. Edgar D. Randolph Jr., wore brown crepe and a corsage of Talisman roses. Lewis Beeker, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. At the reception the refreshment table was centered with pink roses and light red tapers. Mrs. Beeker attended John Herron Art institute and was graduated from Indiana university. She is a member of Phi Mu sorority and Lafayette Panhellenic association, and is employed in the purchasing department at Purdue university. Mr. Beeker is employed by the Lafayette Loan and Trust company. The couple left on a short trip after which they will reside at 236 Sheetz street, West Lafayette.

5. Newspaper: Journal and Courier: Beeker - Conklin Wedding, 26 Jan 1942, Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. ⁹ The marriage of Miss Alma Conklin, West Lafayette, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Oliver F. Conklin, of Anderson, and Ross N. Beeker, son of Mrs. Pearl Beeker, West Lafayette, took place at 4:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Beeker, Fair Park Addition, Lafayette, with Dr. T. F. Williams, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, officiating. The bride wore aqua blue crepe with brown accessories and a corsage of Johanna Hill roses. The matron of honor, Mrs. Edgar D. Randolph Jr., wore brown crepe and a corsage of Talisman roses. Lewis Beeker, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. At the reception the refreshment table was centered with pink roses and light red tapers. Mrs. Beeker attended John Herron Art institute and was graduated from Indiana university. She is a member of Phi Mu sorority and Lafayette Panhellenic association, and is employed in the purchasing department at Purdue university. Mr. Beeker is employed by the Lafayette Loan and Trust company. The couple left on a short trip after which they will reside at 236 Sheetz street, West Lafayette.

6. Census in 1950 in West Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. ¹⁰ The 1950 census recorded Ross N. Beeker, supply supervisor for telephone company, 47, living with wife Alma M., stenographer for state university, 38. He was born in Indiana and she in Ohio.

7. Residence: in 1977 in Nokomis, Sarasota, FL. ²

8. Cause of Death: breast cancer, 29 Sep 1983, Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. ⁵

9. Residence: 316 8th Street, Nokomis, FL on 29 Sep 1983 in Nokomis, Sarasota, FL. ⁵

10. Obituary: Journal and Courier: obituary of Mrs. Ross N. Beeker on 30 Sep 1983 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. ² Mrs. Ross N. Beeker
Mrs. Alma M. Conklin Beeker, 72, formerly of West Lafayette, died at 10:10 p.m. Thursday in Americana Healthcare Center. She had been in ill health since May and was admitted to the nursing facility Sept. 21. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she was reared in Anderson where she lived until moving to West Lafayette in 1934. The past six years she had lived in Nokomis, Fla., returning here when she became ill in May. She was a graduate of John Herron Art School in Indianapolis and a 1930 graduate of Indiana University. She was employed as a Purdue University administrative secretary in the office of the vice president for 38 years. In 1942 she was married here to Ross N. Beeker, who survives. Mrs. Beeker was a member of Phi Mu Sorority at Indiana University and Phi Mu Alumnae at Purdue and in Sarasota, Fla. She attended West Lafayette Federated Church. The husband is the only immediate survivor.

Alma married Ross Nathaniel Beeker, son of Frank Ellsworth Beeker and Pearl Alice Bartlett, on 24 Jan 1942 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN.^{1 2} (Ross Nathaniel Beeker was born on 26 May 1902 in Battle Ground, Tippecanoe, IN,^{1 6 11} died on 23 Feb 1986 in Rossville, Clinton, IN ^{1 6 11} and was buried on 26 Feb 1986 in Battle Ground: Battle Ground Cemetery, Tippecanoe, IN ^{1 11}.)