My journey ends here...
BOLENDER Ida and Albert Wayne
Albert Wayne
Date of birth : November 6, 1883, Ohio.
Date of death : May, 3 1974, Hawthorn, California (
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Registration card September 12, 1918 
Registration card April 27, 1942 
Ida E.
Born Ida Elizabeth Masheeco
Date of birth : May 26, 1887, Buffalo, New York.
Date of death : May, 7 1972, Hawthorn, California (,
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* 1920, 5301 Rhode Island Avenue (
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* 1930 215 East Rhode Island Street, Hawthorn, California (
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* 1940, 459 East 134th Street, Hawthorn, California (
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* 1950, 455 East 134th Street, Hawthorn (
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Hawthorn was a working-class suburb, now the Los Angeles International Airport.
Occupation Norma Jeane foster family
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They got married on August 8, 1917, Ohio (
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Albert Wayne was postman (
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Ida devoted herself to the upbringing of their son and of some children she had consigned, to the lady of the house tasks and to her Protestant parish.
The Bolenders were kind of a poor family.
They had a son, Lester Carl (August 23, 1926, California -December 25, 1999, California)(
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With Norma Jeane they went together to school and played together.
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They were neighbors of Della Monroe, Norma Jeane's grand-mother.
For them, a good morality and the religious rules respect constituted the bases of the children education; they learned Norma Jeane to pray every evening.They were members of the United Pentecostal Church, a branch of the Apostolic Faith Mission of Los Angeles.
They believed that the true adherence to the religion appeared in a strict obedience to a precise code of conduct. Deeply convinced that the world was shared between good and bad, they thought that drinking, smoking, dancing and playing cards were devil inventions and that order, cleanness and discipline were absolute evidences of virtue.
They calmly and cautiously taught to the children what they were allowed to do or not, without any concession to the childish exuberance and mischief.
As many families of that time, the Bolenders supplemented their income by taking care of a child. To endorse this responsabilty, they were payed 25$ a month or by the natural parents either by the State of California.
On June 13, 1926 : they took Norma Jeane (aged 2 weeks) for 5$ a week.
Norma Jeane would live during 7 years with them, in the four-rooms of their humble bungalow.
On December 6, 1926 : Ida Bolender and Della Monroe made Norma Jeane christened at theFoursquare Church (4503 then 4511 West Broadway, Hawthorn) :
July 1927 : Della was convinced that it was the end of her life. The guiltiness and the memories alternated with hallucinations : her parents, Tilford and Jenny Hogan had buried the hatchet, she told Gladys. They would rescue her and bring her back to her home.
Shortly after, she get out of her house and walked toward the Bolenders house to see her grand-daughter.
She beat at the door then angry not to obtain an answer, she broke the window glass with her elbow.
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1933 : Norma Jeane appeared for the first time on a stage during the Easter celebration at the Hollywood Bowl :
On April 23, 1948 Lester married Clarice Allene Pederson (
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On October 23, 1976 he married Jean Adair Hunt, in Nevada.
Nancy married James Jeffrey on June 2, 1933 (
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