Individual Details
Betty Gayle SMOTHERS
(20 Feb 1923 - Oct 1990)
Events
| Birth | 20 Feb 1923 | Craig, Burt, Nebraska, United States | |||
| Census-shared | 1930 | (Jack Bruce SMOTHERS) Prairie, Phelps, Nebraska, United States |  |  | |
| Residence | 1935 | Salem, Missouri, United States | |||
| Census | 1940 | Tract 368, Culver City, Venice Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 5 Nov 1944 | Los Angeles, California - Emanuel Joseph "Manny" MERMIS | | ||
| Death | Oct 1990 |
Families
| Spouse | Emanuel Joseph "Manny" MERMIS (1920 - 2005) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Ward Miles SMOTHERS (1898 - 1928) |
| Mother | Clara Ruth "Ruth" BRUCE (1901 - 1987) |
| Sibling | Eade SMOTHERS (1920 - 1920) |
| Sibling | Jack Bruce SMOTHERS (1921 - 2000) |
| Sibling | Russell Eugene SMOTHERS (1924 - 1961) |
| Sibling | Richard SMOTHERS (1926 - 1926) |
Notes
Census-shared
Grandmother placed Dad, Aunt Betty and Uncle Russell in a Orphanage so that she could be with Al Davis. She told Dad that Al Davis was the love of her life and that she and Al were having an affair before Ward's accident. Near the end of her life, Grandmother was in sever pain. She told Dad that she thought God was punishing her for abandoning her children to be with Al.Endnotes
1. "United States Census, 1930".
2. "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K9WG-G24 : accessed 6 January 2017), Betty Smothers in household of Wayne E Smothers, Tract 368, Culver City, Venice Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 19-797, sheet 61A, line 3, family 164, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 258..
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