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Virginia Bernice (Losey) Wade (1906 - 1986)

Virginia Bernice Wade formerly Losey aka Fessenden Keegstra Green
Born in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United Statesmap
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Died at age 80 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United Statesmap
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The daughter of Ernest Losey Sr. and Florence (DeTray) Losey, Virginia was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1906. She married Jesse D. Fessenden (1905-1927) in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 23, 1926.[1] Jesse died of pneumonia 14 months later, in 1927. Virginia remarried, marrying Ike Keegstra on December 24, 1927.[2] They had one son together, and divorced on May 11, 1929.[3] At the time the 1930 U.S. federal census was enumerated, on April 11, Virginia and her son were living in with the Decker family in Grandville, Michigan, in Kent County, where Virginia worked as a domestic.[4] Virginia married again, marrying George Lovell Green (1907-1963) in Grandville two weeks later, on April 22, 1930.[5] They made their home in Kelloggsville, in Kent County, where George was employed as a laborer at an airport.[6] The couple had three children together:

  1. Robert Green (1935-)
  2. Ardith (Green) Provenzano (1936-)
  3. Marilyn (Green) Woods (1938-2002)

George passed away in 1963 and Virginia married a fourth time, marrying Roy Oscar Wade, who had been married previously to Gertrude A. Harker. Oscar passed away in 1980, and Virginia resided fir in Cedar Springs[7] and then in Grand Rapids.[8]Virginia passed away at the age of 80, in 1986, at Butterworth Hospital in Sparta, Michigan.[9][10][11]

Sources

  1. ↑ Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 109; Film Title: 41 Kent 02750; Film Description: Kalkaska (1937)-Kent (1927). Ancestry.com. Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Ancestry Record 9093 #4705330 with attached Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "_"
  2. ↑ Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 110; Film Title: 41 Kent 02751-06020; Film Description: Kent (1927-1928). Ancestry.com. Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Ancestry Record 9093 #4980987 with attached Image
  3. ↑ Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, Michigan; Michigan. Divorce records: Kent Certificates 501 - 5,090 (no. 41 3217, docket no. 30969. Ancestry.com. Michigan, Divorce Records, 1897-1952 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Ancestry Record 9092 #6225669 with attached Image
  4. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQBG-WFC : accessed 30 July 2020), Virginia B Keegstra in household of Harry J Decker, Grandville, Kent, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 143, sheet 11B, line 59, family 293, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1005; FHL microfilm 2,340,740.
  5. ↑ Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 111; Film Title: 41 Kent 06021-09299; Film Description: Kent (1928-1930). Ancestry.com. Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Ancestry Record 9092 #4966413 with attached Image
  6. ↑ United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Year: 1940; Census Place: Home Acres-Kelloggsville, Kent, Michigan; Roll: m-t0627-01775; Page: 23A; Enumeration District: 41-30A: PARIS TOWNSHIP IN SECTION 19 TOWNSHIP 6 N RANGE 11 W BOUNDED BY (N) ALLEN RD; (E) JEFFERSON, JORDAN, MADISON ST; (S) LAWNDALE; (W) DIVISION; ALSO GODWIN HEIGHTS (PART), HOME ACRES-KELLOGGSVILLE (PART). Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Ancestry Record 2442 #84953947 with attached Image
  7. ↑ "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJHR-17JT : 16 May 2020), Virginia B Wade, 1996-2001.
  8. ↑ "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KYL4-2WS : 8 January 2020), Virginia B Wade, 1993.
  9. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JYV3-MPL : 22 July 2020), Virginia Wade, Nov 1986; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
  10. ↑ "Michigan Death Index, 1971-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ1C-4S3 : 4 December 2014), Virginia B Wade, 23 Nov 1986; from "Michigan, Deaths, 1971-1996," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 1998); citing Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, death certificate number 67676, Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records, Lansing.
  11. ↑ "Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVP1-HQCR : 1 April 2020), Mrs Virginia Wade, 1986; citing Grand Rapids, , , United States, Obituary, Grand Rapids Public Library, Michigan; FHL microfilm 7,597,951.




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