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 1937

Norma Jeane spent the most part of the year with the Goddards at  6707 Odessa Avenue, in Van Nuys 

One evening, Doc Goddard was drunk and he brutalized the girl; she managed to free herself and escape,  shaking and in tears.

Norma Jeane complained to "Aunt" Grace who realized that the advances of her drunkard announced more serious troubles.

NOVEMBER 

Grace then placed Norma Jeane at Ida Martin's home, in Lankerschim, San Fernando Valley (now the area located between the Burbank airport and the Universal Studios).

Ida Martin, divorced, was Olyve Brunnings's mother, who had married  Marion Monroe, Gladys brother.

At that time, Ida Martin also took care of her grand-children, while her daughter, Olyve, worked as  a worker besides migrant farmers. Marion had disappeared one day of  November 1929, and had never came back.

He was offcially declared dead in 1939. During this period,  not being able to receive any help from the State, Olyve worked hard to feed her 3 children.

When she arrived,  Norma Jeane, aged 11, saw her cousins for the first time :  Olive was 8,  Ida Mae 10 and Jack 12.

Once again, she found herself in a family without parents, with children who tried to restructure a life shattered by their father's disappearance. 
 
Exactly like in Della, Gladys and Grace's life, hung over the image of men both capricious and necessary, inconsistent, not very trustworthy, elusive, unpredictable and however essential.

A new mother had also appeared; a mother substitute to who Norma Jeane had to please.

Ida Martin was an attentive foster mother but she couldn't give any answer to Norma Jeane's questions : where was Uncle Marion?  Why Olyve was so far from her family.

Norma Jeane stayed there until August 1938.

 

She attended the Lankerschim School () (6^th grade), where this year, she won 2 gold medals in jumping and running.

Gladys was still hospitalized at the Norwalk State Hospital.

 

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