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MARTIN Ida
Date of birth : December 1st, 1879, Los Angeles.
Date of death : August 18, 1952, California (
;
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).
* 1930 : 2013 Selby Avenue, Los Angeles (
)
* 1940 : 3265 Greenfield Avenue, Los Angeles (
)
Story
His parents were John William Henderson (December 6, 1853, Los Angeles-November 25, 1933, Los Angeles)and Olive Augusta Wharton (December 13, 1858, Iowa-June 7, 1948, Los Angeles)(
). They married on March 16, 1879 in Arizona (
) and had 2 daughters, Ida and Margaret Borst (May 31, 1885, Arizona-October 24, 1953, Los Angeles).
;
From her first marriage with Jack Brunings (born in New Orleans), she had a daughter Olyve Lavina (March 6, 1905, Oregon-December 1st, 1988, California).
Olyve married Marion Monroe
;
;
,
).Norma Jeane lived with her from November 1937 to August 1938, in Lankershim, north suburb of Los Angeles.
At that time, Ida was taking care of her grand-children while her daughter Olive worked in farms.
During her stay, John, Norma Jeane's cousin would have raped her (that's what Marilyn would later tell to Bebe Goddard and Norman Rosten).
Grace McKee took her back in Los Angeles and placed her to her own aunt, Ana Lower.She married for her second wedding, Edward Lee Martin (December 4, 1887, Georgia-May 24, 1943, San Francisco).
They had a son John Edward Martin (September 25, 1911, California-February 7, 1985, Los Angeles).
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