Vera Marie (Lange) Strong (1911 - 1995)

Born 7 Apr 1911 in Nebraska, United States

Ancestors

Wife of William Dale Strong — married 5 Aug 1935 in Broken Bow, Custer, Nebraska, United States

Died 12 Sep 1995 at age 84 in Gothenburg, Dawson, Nebraska, United States

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Biography

Vera was born in 1911. She was the daughter of James Lange and Hester Richardson.

Vera attended school in Callaway and graduated from the Callaway High School in 1927. She completed one year of post-graduate study at the high school.

Vera married Billie Dale Strong in 1935 at the Court House in BrokenBow, Nebraska.

They made their home in Callaway for several years, where Dale worked as an electrician for REA, the city and Roy Taylor. Vera and Dale had a cafe for four years in the building where the Museum is now. They moved to Gothenburg in1962, where Dale worked as an electrician at Monroe Plant. They lived here for the rest of their married life. Vera was a housewife and homemaker. After the death of Billie Dale, Vera moved to Seward. She was a resident of the Sundermann West Care Center in Seward from February 1994 until her death in 1995. She is buried in Rose Hill Cemetary.

Notes

Thanks to Per for contributing the biography

Sources

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCVG-VFY : accessed 13 August 2019), Vera Lange in household of James Lange, Grant, Custer, Nebraska, United States; citing ED 87, sheet 5B, line 68, family 103, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 985; FHL microfilm 1,820,985.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQKS-S7K : accessed 13 August 2019), Vera M Lange in household of Hester A Lange, Callaway, Custer, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 15, sheet 3A, line 12, family 65, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1270; FHL microfilm 2,341,005.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM1P-MPS : 27 July 2019), Vera Strong in household of B Dale Strong, Callaway, Delight Township, Custer, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 21-16, sheet 1B, line 63, family 16, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2242.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 August 2019), memorial page for Vera M. Lange Strong (7 Apr 1911–12 Sep 1995), Find A Grave Memorial no. 39202970, citing Rose Hill Cemetery, Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska, USA ; Maintained by Don (contributor 46558676) .
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39202970
• http://www.familien-lange.dk/pafn10.htm#358