Laura Charlotte (Mundo) Marxer (1913 - 1989)

Born 6 Mar 1913 in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Otto Herman Marxer — married Nov 1931 (to about 1950) in Dearborn Heights, Wayne, Michigan, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Oct 1989 at age 76 in Dearborn Heights, Wayne, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Birth

6 MAR 1913 ^[1][2][3][4]

7 Ramsey St., Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk, MA ^[5][6][7]

Census

12 Jan 1920 ^[8]

Boston Ward 19, Suffolk, Massachusetts

114 Morwell St., Albert E Sheain: Head, M, age 48, born in Maine, married, can read and write, father born in New Brunswick Canada English, mother born in Maine, Carpenter in Construction Co.

Alberta A Sheain: Wife, F, age 45, born in Massachusetts, married, can read and write, parents born in Massachusetts no occupation

John H Mundo: Stepson, M, age 20, born in Massachusetts, single, not in school, can read and write, parents born in Massachusetts, Laborer in Construction Co.

Caroline Mundo: Stepdaughter, F, age 17, born in Massachusetts, single, not in school, can read and write, parents born in Massachusetts, Cashier in Department store

Mary J Mundo: Stepdaughter, F, age 15, born in Massachusetts, single, in school, can read and write, parents born in Massachusetts

Laura C Mundo: Stepdaughter, F, age 6 9/12, born in Massachusetts, single, in school, can read and write, parents born in Massachusetts

Burnice M Woodman: Daughter, F, age 24, born in Maine, married, can read and write, parents born in Maine, no occupation

Elwin A Woodman: Son-in-law, M, age 26, born in Canada English, married, can read and write, unknown immigration year, naturalized, parents born in Canada English, Carpenter in Construction Co.

3 April 1930 ^[9]

30 Englewood Ave. Everett, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Fred M Tilden: Head (Father-in-Law is crossed off), M, age 47, born in Massachusetts, Divorced, renting house for $47.50 per month, can read and write and speak English, parents born in Massachusetts, working, Manager for furniture store, not a veteran

Fredrick Tilden: Son, M, age 6, born in Massachusetts, single, parents born in Massachusetts, not in school

Carolina Tilden: Relative (Head is crossed off), F, age 27, born in Massachusetts, widowed, can read and write and speak English, parents born in Massachusetts

Carolyn J Tilden: Daughter, F, age 2 5/12, born in Massachusetts, single, parents born in Massachusetts, not in school

Laura C Munds: Sister, F, age 17, born in Massachusetts, single, can read and write and speak English, parents born in Massachusetts, working, Typist for insurance

8 April 1940 US Federal Census ^[10]

22606 Beech, Tract 826, Dearborn, Dearborn City, Wayne, Michigan

Otto Marxer, Head, male, age 29, renting $45 per month, not a farm, 2 years of college, born in Liechtenstein, worked 50 hours during the week of March 24 - 30, 1940, Chef at an Inn, private worker, worked 52 weeks in 1939, made 3000 in 1939, earned no other income, naturalized in MI.

Laura Marxer, Wife, female, age 27, born in Massachusetts, 4 years of high school, lived in Dearborn, Wayne, Michigan in 1939, Keeping House, earned no income

Occupation

Dearborn Little Theatre, Michigan - Founded in Sept. 1941 by Mrs. Laura Marxer and Henry Schubert. She penned Family Man performed by the Player's Guild in 1941. Laura Marxer was casted in play in the Village Players Feb. 22, 1945.

Abt 1950 - Women's Editor on WKMH. Originally a daytime-only station at 1540 on the AM dial, WKMH moved to its current 1310 frequency and began 24-hour operations in 1948. In its early years, WKMH (joined around 1950 by sister station WKMH-FM, simulcasting at 100.3 on the FM dial) was a typical suburban full-service radio station specializing in local news, information, sports, and mainly Middle-Of-the-Road-oriented pop music.

Here's the new look in radio programs. After 15 years of writing, producing and acting, Laura Marxer, joined the free lance ranks of radio drama in Boston. She is also a charter member of the WKMH club having presented a program on the air everyday except Sunday since the station started. She is the WKMH fashion editor and her chatty, human interest radio column "over the backyard fence" is a "must" with Detroit housewives. ^[11]

1952 - 1953 - She played Midge on 'Playschool', a TV show for children aged 18 months to 5 years old, broadcasted from Detroit.

Playschool was started by Walt Kosti. On Jan. 20, 1952, the show made its debut, the first program of its kind on television.

Most Detroit Mothers feel "Playschool" is much better than "Ding Dong School," its more famous, and younger, counterpart in Chicago. At one time, NBC was considering "Playschool" for the network. But shortly after, "Ding Dong School" made Its debut. Since network transmission is easier from Chicago, Detroit's program was bypassed. But Detroiters have let "Playschool" know how they feel about the show. Last summer when time changes threatened to remove it from the air, 13,500 letters of protest flooded the station in five days.

For the youngsters, all the characters of the - cast are real. One mother told Midge that her young daughter observed, "Midge doesn't talk mean to her babies on 'Playschool'." Lady Dooit, on a personal appearance, patted a young admirer on the back. That young person promptly announced she wasn't ever going to wash her back again. Eko, who illustrates "The Story Spinner's" tales, daily receives the handiwork of young artists for his expert opinion.

All the cast has had experience working with children. Merrie Melody is Elenora Welch, a graduate of Wayne University in music education. She worked with youngsters as part of her training. Most of the little tunes she sings and plays are her own. Midge, with her menagerie of stuffed animals and who is the guide to cartoonland, is Laura Marxer. She has had wide experience in Michigan little theater groups and was managing director of the Dearborn Children's Theater and women's editor of WKMH. Lady Dooit is Ona Sidoff off camera. Her do-it-yourself ideas first attracted televiewers' attention when she was a guest on the Bud Lanker show over WXYZ-TV. In the nearly two years she has been on "Playschool," she has never duplicated "a work project for the youngsters. Behind Eko'S artist's tie and smock, is Edward Kozak. A well-known artist and muralist, he has done illustrating work for children. He does most of his drawing on camera, although occasionally he does a complicated background beforehand. Eko's associate, "The Story Spinner," who never appears on camera, is Frances Boddy. A lecturer and public speaker, Frances writes most of the stories Eko illustrates. Mr. Good Health, who presides at Playstore for the commercials, is better known as Jim Deland. Deland is a radio and television veteran. He has had music shows on WWJ-TV' and WJR. The Magic Fairy is Ardis Kenealy, the only member of the cast who didn't start with the show. She has been on "Playschool" eight months. She is also hostess on "Commander Theater" every Sunday over WWJ-TV.

Author and UFO-logist

Wrote and published regular newsletter called "Update" still published by Jim Wales. 7803 Ruanne Court, Pasadena, MD 21122

1961 - First wrote for a newspaper at Northville, MI a column about UFOs

She wrote the "Mundo Report".

Wrote in Inkster, MI at The Institute for Cosmic Science between 1967 and 1974. Over a hundred people worked on the construction of a flying saucer. Interplanetary Space Center -- Laura Mundo is a contactee (not born here).

She wrote "Doomsday coming up? or How to survive the accelerating sunspots". Laura Mundo, The Emergency Press. 36 pages. copyright Laura Mundo Marxer; 15 Oct 1970; A207947.

Laura Marxer scans the heavens for saucers.

One day in 1954, Mrs. Laura Marxer took down the floral prints from her living room walls at 24720 Carlysle, Dearborn, and substituted eight flying saucers. Next to the closet where her son John, now 13, keeps his baseball mitt, she began a file of interplanetary data. She began to correspond with other devotees in England and France. She became vice president of the Flying Saucer Club. When George' Adamski came to Masonic Temple to discuss his book "Flying Saucers Have Landed," she sat on the platform with him. Mrs. Marxer hasn't worked a day since January, 1954, when she and some friends decided to contact Mr. Adamski. She went on faith until September 1954, when she and John and a group of six others on a Port Huron picnic spotted two flying saucers leaving a cloud.

THE TWO or three sightings" Mrs. Marxer says she has had since spurred her on. Meanwhile, the job of keeping her home became more difficult. This week the scrapbooks, the 20 flying saucer publications from all over the world, the lending library of books and the bulging files will be moved from the Marxer home to donated headquarters at 643 West Forest, where an information bureau is being established. Tuesday, the Interplanetary Foundation will present the controversial film "Unidentified Flying Objects" which has been produced by Russell Rouse and Clarence Green. Friday. Mrs. Marxer drove the family car down to the Broadway Capitol to help introduce Green to the public Before she left, she pinned a note about Mike's dinner to the refrigerator, and put out the caL A few of the neighbors called "hello". She collected books,' photographs, testimonials.

MRS. MARXER'S neighbors on the quiet street retreated in suspicious disorder. She hasn't dared borrow a cup of sugar since. Those who didn't think the housewife in the green cinder block house had rocks in her head, put her at least in the pebble stage. Or called her a Communist. Her elder son, Michael, now 15, who has since been invited to discuss flying saucers before his science classes at Edsel Ford High School, took a lion's share of ridicule. Although children, remembering Mrs. Marxer as Midge on a popular TV show, paid her Pied Piper homage, adults shied away when she stepped out in her back yard and scanned the heavens.

TODAY, MRS. MARXER, director of the Interplanetary Foundation, heads one of the most active flying saucer research groups in the country. She is still ridiculed. But the voices are softer, the skepticism "healthy, but not bitter. She has been instrumental in bringing Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, Tmman Bethurum, Desmond Leslie, Major Donald E. Key hoe, John Otto and many other confirmed believers into Detroit to lecture. She flew to Missouri to investigate the Mountainview farmer. Buck Nelson, who claimed to have visited with flying saucer passengers. She met the bus last July when Mr. Nelgon came to Veterans Memorial to speak.

MRS. MARXER has lectured before groups as diversified as a church Bible class, a group of Detroit school principals, an engineering society and an air force squadron. Her bankroll has disappeared She's discontinued one of her daily papers. An extra bottle of pop for John's post-baseball thirst creates a problem. The stream of people including Air Force experts, speakers, university students and citizens is never ending at the little green house. ^[12]

For eleven years the presence of Laura Mundo's Planetary Space Center at 24720 Carlysle Street, Dearborn, made her neighbors uneasy.

Laura has seen flying saucers, she says. Not once, but several times.

She has talked with their occupants, whom she calls The Visitors, and who she says are primarily from Venus.

She says Venusians are living incognito among earth people, and she says she knows why.

But all this, in the eyes of her Dearborn neighbors, was not Laura's crime. It was the fact that she shared her "understanding" with anyone interested in listening, free of charge. And for years there were lots of listeners, especially neighborhood children. That's what finally finished her on Carlysle.

It was like a witch hunt.

Young toughs began pelting Laura's house with rocks and eggs. Frightened neighbors called police and threatened to have her arrested. Anonymous telephone callers swore at her and called her a communist, an atheist, a paranoid . . . and worse, for two years.

Wearily, reluctantly, five months ago, Laura sold the house that had been her home for 15 years and moved into a Dearborn Heights apartment, rented in the name of a friend.

I'm hiding out," she said. "Someday I hope to find a place in the country where I can continue my work and not annoy my neighbors. There is so much yet to be done."

Laura is a pleasant looking woman, 56 years old, graying hair, glasses, the mother of two grown sons. She has a friendly way with children and is naturally hospitable with adults. Unless she begins to talk about The Visitors, there is nothing in her manner or appearance to set her apart from other middle-aged earth-lings.

When saucer fever broke in 1947, after one Kenneth Arnold reported seeing a saucer shaped object near Mt. Rainier, Wash., Laura didn't pay much attention.

"I was too busy with my home and my professional work," she explained. Laura had a full-time job as women's editor of a local radio station. She was active as a dramatics coach for the Dearborn recreation department, on the board of the YWCA and a member of the Dearborn Players Guild.

She was preoccupied, too, with her marriage it was foundering. In 1950 Laura and Otto Marxer, a bar owner whom she had wed in 1931, were divorced. Laura reclaimed her maiden name, Mundo, and launched a new career in television as Midge, a story-telling character on a local children's program.

IT WAS THREE YEARS later, in 1953, that a friend gave her a copy of "Flying Saucers Have Landed," by George Adamski and Desmond Leslie.

"It changed my whole life," she said. "It seemed almost too good to be true," But she accepted it as true, and with that acceptance it became the pivot of her life.

Adamski tells, in his book, of a meeting on the New Mexico desert with a young man from Venus. Adamski arbitrarily calls the man Othon. Orthon, Adamski says, took him for a saucer ride and explained to him that "saucer people" are advanced human beings from other planets, here to help us learn to live together in peace and harmony with the universe.

Laura's metamorphosis from housewife to metaphysician began. And with it began a love-hate relationship with George Adamski that lasted until his death in 1965.

Adamski came to Detroit to lecture at the Masonic Auditorium in 1954. Adamski related to 4,500 fascinated listeners that Orthon, the young, blond Venusian, told him all planets are inhabited and are watching earth closely, constantly sending emissaries here in mother ships and saucers to observe us. report on our activities and help us find the way to a more godlike life, which is lived on all other, planets.

After the lecture Laura, the local television personality stood with Adamski on the platform and helped field questions from the audience. It was an exciting, heady experience.

"The first time I met Adamski he drew in his breath sharply," Laura said. "He had met his opposite polarity, at last! And he was obviously afraid of it.

"The day after the lecture my telephone started ringing and it hasn't stopped since! Whether I liked it or not I had become a public information bureau on flying saucers!"

Soon Laura was having personal experiences she attributed to The Visitors. Once while doing housework she heard her own voice "only more beautiful, my soul-self," she said. The voice encouraged her to be patient and let herself be used by The Father.

A month later, Laura said, she became aware one day that The Visitors came over her house in a saucer. "They sent a beam of radiant neutronic energy to my brain, re-activating brain cells that had been put to sleep. This returned greater universal understanding to me," she explained.

By the end of the summer Laura's television show went off the air. She was depressed. Coincidentally. she experienced her first saucer sighting. It happened in Port Huron.

As Laura tells it, she was sitting in the backyard of a friend's home with a group of seven people, enjoying the warmth of friendship and the late summer sunshine.

"I suddenly noticed a huge, cigar-shaped cloud, on a cloudless day, traveling in from our left, toward us. As it neared the area in the sky just in front of us it stopped, as though it had put on brakes, just above the treetops, probably less than a half mile away.

"It was as large as a several-storied house and as long as a city block. As we watched two disc-shaped objects as large as automobiles dropped out of the bottom of the cloud, then shot back up underneath it, dropped back down again as if they were playing tag with each other. But not too fast for us to see they were gray metallic objects, with no visible details. Then, just as suddenly as they had appeared, they chased each other up over the treetops, off to the right and disappeared!"

Later that same week Laura said a small disc the size of a dinner plate came down and "stared me in the face," across the street from her Carlysle Street home. Laura was standing on the porch at II p.m. No one else saw it.

"I learned later it was the type used by The Visitors to monitor conversations and measure reactions, to find out who is afraid or disturbed by The Visitors," she said.

But that was not all. Twice, later that fall, Laura says, she saw saucers at a distance frisking through the skies over Dearborn. "After months of trying to help others understand what they had seen I had my first sightings! I knew I must devote my full time to the work!" Laura said.

She did.

She became, an avid newspaper, book and magazine reader, keeping extensive clipping files on everything pertaining to space and saucer sightings. She began a newsletter as a means of disseminating information. She notified the Air Force of her civilian "research."

She interviewed or corresponded with everyone she heard about who had reported sightings, including several in Detroit. She sold her car, her jewelry, her life insurance, to finance her newsletter and pay expenses.

She kept up a lively correspondence with Adamski and made sure he was informed of her new "knowledge" and "insights" gained from her research.

By now a group of co-workers had gathered around Laura. Her home was the site of saucer meetings and Laura was the center of excitement. She was invited to lecture to church and women's groups. She became a local authority on saucer sightings and saucer theories.

In 1955 Laura handled two more lectures in Detroit by Adamski and one by his co-author, Desmond Leslie.

Leslie had compared strange sky sightings collected from records in monasteries, letters, literature and folklore. The Egyptians believed "sky boats" carried the dead to afterlife. Greek gods appeared in luminous hollow clouds. Christ ascended to heaven on a beam of light. Even the American Indians had legends of white gods riding through the skies in "fire baskets." These were all ways of describing saucers as far as Laura is concerned.

Laura evolved theories of human reincarnation and rebirth, assisted by The Visitors, who, she decided, had been around since the beginning of human life on earth.

It was during this time that Adamski accused her of non-objectivity and psychic tendencies, which she denied. A rift developed between them which Laura attributed to his jealousy of her "developing understanding.

BY NOW LAURA HAD come to "understand" a great deal about The Visitors. She contends:

. . . Earth beings have all been demoted from more advanced planets.

. . . We were sent here to continue to refine physically and to grow spiritually, through many lifetimes

. . . The Visitors are here to help us gain understanding of ourselves and of our progress.

. . . When we die we are either taken by spaceship to be reborn on another planet, or reformed to be reborn again on earth.

. . . The Visitors originally told man all about The Plan, but the message has been garbled, romanticized and misinterpreted by religious leaders and philosophers. Hence The Visitors are now incognito and won't identify themselves for fear of upsetting us emotionally.

. . . We are all mental "atomic beings" at various stages of evolution and "vibrating" at different rates. We must try to bring the vibrations of our various electronic parts electrons, neutrons, protons into balance, and then gradually raise our total vibrations to the higher level of the Venu-sians and beyond.

Perhaps remembering Adamski's success and sudden fame after publication of his book, Laura began to work on one of her own, "The Visitors' Plan."

But if everything was falling into place for Laura, her group of devotees was splintering.

Some deserted her because she wasn't objective enough. Some thought she was too objective and wanted her to try to contact space people through psychic or telepathic means. She refused.

She steadfastly contends her understanding is not psychic in origin, but arises from experience, observation and analysis. "If anyone wants to send me a message they'll have to use Western Union," she said.

By mid 1957 there were 14 organized saucer groups in Michigan. The first Detroit Saucer Convention was planned and Laura's group played host. Adamski came, along with other writers and

And the friction between Adamski and Laura grew. She thought he was trying secretly to turn her co-workers against her.

In a magnificent show of dramatic timing Laura quietly announced to her group of devotees that she had seen Adamski's own Orthon in the convention audience! .

"He didn't come up and introduce himself to me as Orthon, of course. This Visitors do NOT do, except in particular instances where it is necessary as part of The Plan," Laura explained. (So much for Adamski's encounter on the desert!)

She described Orthon as young, slight, blue-eyed and blond, "with hair cut in the square-necked fashion of a juvenile exhibitionist." When Adamski told people later that HE had spotted Orthon at the convention, Laura's stock in her group skyrocketed -- even if she hadn't gone on a saucer ride.

The person she called Orthon began to show up at meetings at Laura's house and she discovered he sometimes wore men's clothes and sometimes women's. She also discovered heshe had been a member of the saucer group for some time. And she found Orthon's real name and address on the mailing list.

Laura finally was pressed into including Orthon's earth name in an issue of her bulletin. Maybe this would put her one up on Adamski.

The maneuver backfired badly. Some people in the saucer group had known Orthon for years. They said he was a blatant homosexual who had been dating another male saucer "researcher."

"They seized on this as proving I was wrong and many who had hesitated to deny me totally before now thought they had their proof," Laura said. Disgruntled co-workers left the group en masse, accusing Laura of fraud, mental unbalance and roaring insanity.

Laura endured.

She developed an intricate "understanding": The Visitors often help homosexuals to "rebalance sexually." To be most helpful Orthon disguised himself as a girl, "but only to be in close proximity to the researcher, not to be intimate," Laura said. If Orthon wore makeup (which he did) it was "to hide his beautiful translucent skin," according to Laura.

The researcher later made what Laura calls "a normal adjustment" and married, which she contends proves Orthon's help was effective.

But the incident still rankles. Laura contends, "There'll come a time when Orthon will have to back me up publicly. There are those who do not have the understanding I have."

ADAMSKI VISITED Detroit again in September, 1961. By now Laura "understood" that Adamski was Lucifer, formerly a resident of the sun.

"I understand that he was reawakened at the lesser and condensed frequency octave of being as Adam. Reborn as Noah, Moses, David, Elijah, improving and rising in vibration most lifetimes. Going to Venus, alive, in a fiery chariot as Elijah, and reborn back here from Venus as Jesus!

"Jesus/Lucifer was reborn back on earth as Adamski for this time around as our examination test, not his only. He will be reborn back here for his final earth lifetime as a little girl, in order not to perpetuate his unbalanced thinking any further," Laura said.

She added Adamski's girl name will be Lucy. Now she had completely emasculated him and reduced him to a Lucy, the baby girl.

In July, 1962 Laura saw Adamski in Los Angeles. He offered her a free scholarship at his new Cosmic Science School in New Mexico (for which he was raising money). She refused.

"He might have considered it a good way to shut me up," Laura said. The adoration of Adamski was over. "He could tell me nothing that my own Father Mind had not already revealed," Laura said.

In April, 1965, Adamski died at the age of 74, in Washington, D.C. Although he never ascribed to Laura's atomic theory of the human body protons, neutrons, electrons in balanced, accelerating vibration his body was cremated, as she recommends. Cremation is the best way to free the particles of the soul-mind for gathering by the saucer people, she says. Her triumph was complete.

But the long battle had taken its toll. Barely six months after Adamski's death Laura closed the Dearborn house, sold it, and moved to the apartment. "Everyone needs from time to time to rest and replenish energies," she said a few weeks ago.

The lecturing, talking, theorizing have slowed to a lazy pace. There is still the newsletter, a hard core of perhaps 100 Mundo disciples throughout the world who regularly request and get copies of Laura's latest writings. But the fever and excitement are gone.

Laura's co-workers have dwindled to Carmella Falzone, a friend of many years, and John Walev a Baltimore (Md.) man who "helps promote our writings," according to Laura.

She isn't sure how many names are currently on her public and private mailing lists. "Through the years there have been 10,000 to 12,000 on the public list, those that get the newsletter and information about saucer sightings. But the list keeps changing. We winnow out some, to keep expenses down," Laura explained.

According to the most recent bulletin, the names that go are of those "who do not recognize the authority in Laura's writings."

Laura is writing a textbook that will be called "The Atomic Nature of God and Man." It will contain an amalgam of her "understandings" and "is probably in advance of its time," she said with a sigh.

It's easy to consider Laura Mundo a psychotic: She hears voices and sees things that most people don't but so did Joan of Arc.

And Laura likes to remind detractors of Galileo. In the sixteenth century he announced that his research with mirrors and lenses proved the earth orbits the sun, instead of the other way around. He was laughed out of the Italian equivalent of MIT, and tortured by the Inquisition.

"But, finally, I see the pendulum swinging the other way," Laura said with some satisfaction. "For years people laughed at flying saucer reports, but now the public and even the government have recognized that saucers are real, not swamp gas or weather balloons.

"If people are realizing that this is an unprecedented event, they may realize that it needs unprecedented explanation. A gradual acknowledgement of the possibility that my theories are correct is all that I can ask. I know I have been living in two different worlds."

Laura is confident she knows which of the two is real. ^[13]

Events

21 May 1928 - Laura Mundo won 2nd place in the 50 yard dash at the Belfast high school field day. ^[14]

1934 - age 21, sailed on S.S. Veeham, from Boulogne Sur Mer on 1 Sept 1934 to New York on 11 Sept 1934 ^[15]

Otto H. Marxer, male, age 23, married, Cook, can read and write English, nationality: Liechtenstein, race: German, born in Ischen, Liechtenstein, residency permit: 981961, Appl.: 984338, passport issued in Washington, D.C. on June 6, 1934, Last permanent residence: Dorchester, Mass., U.S.A., father: Mr. E. Marxer of Ischel, Liechtenstein, final destination: Dorchester, Mass., he paid for his own passage, possessed $60, was all over the US from 1928 - 29 June 1934, home: 16 Fairmont Street, Dorchester, Mass. c/o Sunb. Mrs. Dorothy Everts, intends to stay always in the U.S. and become a citizen, good mental and physical health, 5'11, fair complexion, dark hair, dark eyes, no marks of identification

Laura C. Marxer, female, age 21, born 6 March 1913 in Boston, Mass, U.S.A., married, home: husband: Do.

15 Aug 1941 - Mr. and Mrs. John H. Mundo and daughter, Connie, of Riverhead, N. Y., are passing a week of their vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Walter I. Bowen. Mr. Mundo was for eight years in Belfast. The family visited Mr. and Mrs. Otto Marxer in Detroit, Mich., during the first part of their vacation, Mrs. Marxer being the former Laura Mundo. ^[16]

10 April 1947 - The theft of $1000 in bills and change was reported to the police Saturday morning by Otto Marxer, 22242 Edison, who stated someone had entered his home and taken a small green box containing the money sometime between 3 a.m. and noon Friday.

Mrs. Marxer, who told police that she had left the doors to the house unlocked when she left Friday morning because she could not find her keys, said the box had been taken from a dresser drawer in the upstairs bedroom.

According to Marxer, the money was made up of one $100 bill, two $50 bills, and the rest in $10 and $20 bills. He added that about $40 in change was also taken. ^[17]

Made a social visit to brother, Arthur Mundo, in San Diego, CA.

29 July 1969 - Laura (Mundo) Marxer attended her high school reunion at Crosby High School at Belfast, Maine. She traveled the farthest as she came from Dearborn Heights, Michigan. ^[18]

Death

26 Oct 1989 ^[19]

Farmington Hills, Oakland, Michigan

Burial

Farmington Hills at Oakland, MI

Research Notes

Laura Mundo - Laura and Otto did a radio show together with their children doing the commercials -- J-E-L-L-O! Michael refused to read anything she wrote until recently. Otto was head chef at the Dearborn Hotel. Michael and wife Sandra have a menu from the Dearborn Hotel in the 1940's and it's meat and potato dishes. No specialty dishes from Lichtenstein. Her son, Michael, wouldn't step into the kitchen to boil water. Sandra Marxer - 6 Oct 2020, phone call

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• Source: S5 "Michigan Death Index, 1971-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZBS-7KY : 4 December 2014), Laura C Marxer, 26 Oct 1989; from "Michigan, Deaths, 1971-1996," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 1998); citing Farmington Hills, Oakland, Michigan, death certificate number 61221, Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records, Lansing.
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• Source: S7 "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K411-KWH : accessed 24 February 2018), Laura C Marxer in household of Otto H Marxer, Tract 826, Dearborn, Dearborn City, Wayne, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 82-8A, sheet 4B, line 64, family 82, 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 1825.
• Source: S8 "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24JQ-G1S : 2 October 2015), Laura C Marxer, 1934; citing Immigration, New York, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• Source: S9 "Laura Mundo, of Dearborn, Earth And the Visitors From Venus" by Glenda McWhirter, Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan · Page 12 - 15
• Source: S10 She's on the Lookout For Flying Saucers BY JEAN SHARLEY Free Press Staff Writer Publication: Detroit Free Press i Location: Detroit, Michigan, Issue Date: Saturday, May 26, 1956Page: Page 10
• Source: S11 "Playschool Kids Love It" Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, Issue Date: Sunday, May 31, 1953, Page: 26 [2]
• Source: S12 "Thief Nets $1000 in House Robbery" Dearborn Press, 10 April 1947, page 5 [3]
• Source: S13 [4]
• Source: S14 "Class Of 1929 Has Reunion" The Bangor Daily News, BANGOR, MAINE, Tuesday, July 29, 1969, page 16 [5]
• Source: S14 "Class Of 1929 Has Reunion" The Bangor Daily News, BANGOR, MAINE, Tuesday, July 29, 1969, page 16 [6]
• Source: S15 "Belfast / High School Basketball Game and Field Meet -- Social Events -- Locals" The Bangor Daily News, BANGOR, MAINE, Tuesday, May 22, 1928, page 11 [7]
• Source: S34 Untitled, The Bangor Daily News, BANGOR, MAINE, Friday, Aug. 15, 1941, page 5, 6th column [8]
• Source: S59 Title: Address Book of Mary Edith (Mundo) Rollins [sister]

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