Lorraine A. Beecher ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: L84C-GZ8.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Coatesville, Chester, PA. ² The 1930 census recorded Walter Beecher, 43, living with wife Mary, 50; Mildred, 15; Vera, 13; Lorraine, 8. Also in the home: Thomas D. Smith, father-in-law, 86, and Alexander Winfield, 39, a boarder from Virginia. Everyone else was born in Pennsylvania.

2. Residence: 14 Second Avenue in Coatesville on 6 Nov 1944 in Coatesville, Chester, PA. ¹

3. Occupation: defense work on 6 Nov 1944 in , , PA. ¹

4. Obituary: Lorraine A. Bair on 23 Nov 2012 in West Chester, Chester, PA. ⁴ Lorraine A. Bair, 90, of Coatesville, died on Thursday, November 22, 2012 at the Masonic Villages in Elizabethtown .

She was the wife of the late S. Lewis Bair who died in 1987 and her first husband William W. Melrath who died in 1961.

Born in Coatesville, she was the daughter of the late Walter and Mary Smith Beecher.

An area resident most of her life, she was employed by the former Devitts Hardware of Coatesville. She was a member of West Grove United Methodist Church and the Order of The Eastern Star.

She is survived by one son Theodore B. Melrath and wife Judith of Coatesville, one grandson William Gregory Melrath and wife Julie of Pequea, PA and five great grandchildren; Chelsea and Katherine Melrath, Ryan, Jared and Ian Aston, step great grandson Bryan Speece and five nieces.

She was preceded in death by a granddaughter Audra Melrath Aston, two sisters and one brother.

Graveside services will be held on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 10am at the Fairview Cemetery in Coatesville.

Lorraine married William Weir Melrath, son of Theodore Lewis Melrath and Mabel Weir, on 6 Nov 1944 in Wilmington, New Castle, DE.¹ (William Weir Melrath was born on 2 May 1909 in Wawa, Delaware, PA,^{1 5} died on 9 Feb 1961 in Parkesburg, Chester, PA ^{4 5} and was buried on 12 Feb 1961 in Oxford: Oxford Cemetery, Chester, PA ⁵.)

Lorraine next married S. Lewis Bair. (S. Lewis Bair was born on 2 Feb 1922 in , , PA,⁶ died in Jul 1987 in West Grove, Chester, PA ^{4 6} and was buried in Coatesville: Fairview Cemetery, Chester, PA.)