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GODDARD Eleanor

 
Known as Bebe, Eleanor Thompson.

Date of birth : December 17, 1926, Austin, Texas.

Date of death : February 11, 2000, Burbank, California 

 

Portrait ,

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* 1930 : 115 Pennsylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas

* 1950 : 702 12th avenue, Huntington, West Virginia.

Story

Daughter of Doc Goddard and Eleanor Barbara Maronde Roeck (October 18, 1917, Texas-May 16, 1983, Los 

Angeles) ().

Her parents divorced during her childhood. The relation between her parents was difficult and she had to look after her brother and sister, John Frederick (June 4, 1928, Austin, Texas - January 10, 1983, Los Angeles) and Nona Josephine (October 19, 1930, Fort Worth, Texas - July 10, 1986, Ojai, California).

Since 1939, after Norma Jeane came out of the orphanage and her arrival at her guardian's home, Grace McKee Goddard, they shared the same room and became friends.

Their friendship ended in 1942 when the Goddards left to Virginia and Norma Jeane married Jim Dougherty.

Letter to Marilyn dated May 25, 1942

In Virginia, circa 1944 ()

In 1945, when Doc and Grace Goddard went back to California, Bebe stayed in Huntington to finish her studies 

.

Graduated from Huntington High School in Spring 1945, she worked at the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company, and stayed 6 years in Virginia.

 

Until 1955 they remained in contact occasionally, then Marilyn left California to New York.

From a first marriage she had a daughter Carole ().

In 1967 she married Reinhart Louis Bippert (November 22, 1918, Texas-2009).
They divorced in 1971.
  

On May 23, 1973 in Las Vegas she married Luis Roberto Schnierle. They divorced in December 1974 in Los Angeles.

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