Mildred Orlin LaForge
(1916-1998)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Lewis Everet Beeker

Mildred Orlin LaForge 3 4 5

  • Born: 4 Jul 1916, , Clark, IL, USA 1 2 4 6
  • Marriage (1): Lewis Everet Beeker on 27 May 1939 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA 1 2 3
  • Died: 22 Aug 1998, Jacksonville, Duval, FL at age 82 2 4 6
  • Buried: West Lafayette: Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, Tippecanoe, IN, USA 4

   Other names for Mildred were Milly Orlen Gaines 1 6 7 and Milly Orlin LaForge.8 9

   FamilySearch ID: LVZX-QKR.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1940 in West Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. 10 The 1940 census recorded renting a home at 502 Waldron Street: Lewis Beeker, bookkeeper with retail coal co., 35, born in Indiana, living with wife Milly, 23, born in Illinois. In 1935 Lewis lived in West Lafayette and Milly lived in Terre Haute.

2. Residence: 502 Waldron St., West Lafayette, IN on 29 Sep 1940 in West Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. 8

3. Residence: 1601 Stanforth Ave., Lafayette, IN on 30 Jun 1964 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. 11

4. Residence: 1601 Stanforth Avenue, Lafayette, IN on 7 May 1972 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. 7

5. Residence: on 17 Aug 1974 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. 12

6. Residence: 1301 Palmer Drive, West Lafayette, IN on 17 Aug 1974 in West Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. 13

7. Arrival: 1996, in Jacksonville, Duval, FL. 2

8. Obituary: Journal and Courier: Beeker, Milly O. Private service at Tippecanoe Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. Four grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren survive. A son, James L. Beeker, preceded in death. Soller-Baker fuenral directors in charge of arrangements. on 24 Aug 1998 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. 14

9. Obituary: Journal and Courier: Milly O. Beeker, 82 on 24 Aug 1998 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. 2 Milly O. LaForge Beeker, 82, formerly of West Lafayette, died at 1:15 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, in Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. Beeker was a homemaker and co-owner of Beeker Coal Co. in Lafayette. Born July 4, 1916, in Clark County, Ill., she graduated from Gertsmeyer High School in Illinois in 1933. She lived in Lafayette most of her life and in Jacksonville for two years. She married Lewis E. Beeker on May 27, 1939, in Lafayette, and he died in May 1972. Mrs. Beeker was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Lafayette. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mike (Deborah Kay) Lee of Jacksonville, Fla.; a son, Jerry L. Beeker of North Carolina; and a sister, Joan Grimes of Elkhart.


Mildred married Lewis Everet Beeker, son of Frank Ellsworth Beeker and Pearl Alice Bartlett, on 27 May 1939 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA.1 2 3 (Lewis Everet Beeker was born on 24 Mar 1905 in Battle Ground, Tippecanoe, IN,3 7 9 died on 7 May 1972 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA 2 3 7 and was buried on 9 May 1972 in West Lafayette: Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, Tippecanoe, IN, USA 3 7.)


Sources


1 Ancestry.com, Indiana, Marriage Index, 1800-1941 (Works Progress Administration, comp. Index to Marriage Records Indiana: Indiana Works Progress Administration, 1938-1940.), Lewis E. Beeker and Milly O. LaForge, 27 May 1939, Tippecanoe, IN.

2 "Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)," 24 Aug 1998, page 16. Obituary of Milly Laforge Beeker.

3 "Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)," 8 May 1972, page 4. Obituary of Lewis E. Beeker.

4 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161716554.

5 FamilySearch.org, California Death Index, 1940-1997 (Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.), https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPXB-FTP James Lewis Beeker, 09 Dec 1985.

6 Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 (Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.), SSN 307-64-8816 Milly Orlen Beeker. Father Jesse Gaines. Mother Mabel Orr.

7 Ancestry.com, "Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017," Certificate 72-019935. Lewis E. Beeker. Father Frank Beeker. Mother Pearl Bartlett. Spouse Milly Beeker.

8 Ancestry.com, Indiana, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1907-1944, Certificate 45303. Jerry Lewis Beeker b. 29 Sep 1940 Father Lewis Everet Beeker. Mother Mill Orlin LaForge.

9 Ancestry.com, U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Lewis Everett Beeker b. 24 Mar 1905.

10 1940 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1B4-QX9 Lewis Beeker, Ward 4, West Lafayette, Wabash Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 79-39, sheet 3A, line 38, family 69.

11 "Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)," 30 Jun 1964, page 14. Beeker-Shoemaker Wedding.

12 The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN), 26 May 1974, page 109. Lee-Beeker Wedding.

13 "Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)," 27 Aug 1974, page 6. Beeker-Lee Wedding.

14 "Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)," 24 Aug 1998, page 16. Obituary of Milly O. Beeker.



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