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GODDARD Ervin

 

Ervin Silliman Goddard ; "Doc".

 

Date of birth : January 30, 1904, Holland, Texas.

Date of death : December 4, 1972, Ventura, California, from a car accident.

 

Profession engineer in charge of research at the Adel Precison Products Company (231 South Olive Street, Burbank and 1444 Washington Avenue à Huntington, Virginia).

 

Portrait ,

Addresses

* 1926 : 2711 Guadalupe Street, Austin

* 1928 : 307 W, 18th Street, Austin, Texas

* 1930 : 1103 Fairmont, Apartment n° 3, Fort Worth, Texas

             115 Pennsylvania avenue, Fort Worth, Texas

* 1936-1937 : 3107 Barbara Court, North Hollywood 

* 1940 : 11 336 Nebraska Avenue, Los Angeles .

* 1950-1953 : 6707 Odessa Avenue, Van Nuys ().

Story


On June 18, 1925 he married Eleanor Barbara Maronde Roeck (October 18, 1917, Texas-May 16, 1983, Los 

Angeles)(). They had 3 children : Eleanor "Bebe" (December 17, 1926 - February 11, 2000

) John Frederick (born Ervin Roeck Goddard) (June 4, 1928, Austin, Texas - January 10,

1983, Los Angeles ,) and Nona Josephine (October 19, 1930, 

Fort Worth, Texas - July 10, 1986, Ojai, Californie ). Josephine would become an actress known as Jody Lawrence.

Fort Worth, circa 1934

He met Grace McKee in Spring 1935. He was 10 years younger than her.

They got married on August 10, 1935 in Las Vegas (); Kirby Allen Willett, Grace's maternal uncle, who was one of their witness.

 

Picture with Grace 

In April 1942, he was promoted head of the commercial service of the Adel Precison Products Company and moved in Huntington, Virginia.

In West Virginia, circa 1944

Years later he offered Marilyn to be his manager but she refused.

Card sent for Marilyn's birthday -

It's not known if they met each other after 1945.

After Grace's death, he remarried twice : with Anna Alice Long, then with Annie Rundle.

Letter from Berniece Miracle dated September 8, 1954 .

He died on December 4, 1972 with Annie Rundle in a car acident in Ventura.

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