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Lavina (Potter) Gray

Lavina L. Gray formerly Potter aka Avila, Burwell
Born 1920s.
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Daughter of and
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Died 2010s.
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Biography

Lavina was the oldest of four children of Joseph and Louvicy Staley Potter. Her mother also had four children from her first marriage.[1]

Lavina married Fredrick Burwell when she was about 18 years old.[2] In 1940, they were living in Shelley, Idaho where Fred was working in a potato warehouse.[3] They are the parents of a son[4] and two daughters.[5] The marriage ended in 1948.[6]

Lavina married Alec Avila about four years later.[7]

She married Lawrence Gray in 1977 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and he died in 1983.[8]

Lavina died at age 94 in Rigby, Idaho, and is buried at Little Butte Cemetery, in Annis, Idaho.[9]

Sources

  1. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XHDT-TY1 : accessed 02 Jul 2014), Livina Potter in household of Joseph B Potter, Mud Lake, Jefferson, Idaho, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0014, sheet 2B, family 54, NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 400.
  2. ↑ "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F3QM-FRF : accessed 24 Apr 2014), Fredrick D. Burwell and Lazina Potter, 21 May 1939; citing 4108, Lima, Beaverhead, Montana; FHL microfilm 1905610.
  3. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VY4X-326 : accessed 28 July 2015), Lavin Burwell in household of Fred Burwell, Shelley, Shelley Election Precinct 1, Bingham, Idaho, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 6-29, sheet 5B, family 85, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 739.
  4. ↑ "Idaho, Southern Counties Obituaries, 1943-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGTQ-9BL8 : 17 March 2018), Lavina Potter Burwell in entry for Fredrick Joseph Burwell, 2005; citing Obituary, Bingham, Idaho, United States, Blackfoot Idaho Family History Center, Idaho; FHL microfilm 100,807,811.
  5. ↑ "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSD-GM6K : accessed 28 July 2015), Lavina Potter Burwell in entry for Fredrick Joseph Burwell, 2005; Idaho Falls Regional Family History Center, Idaho Falls; FHL microfilm 100,464,628.
  6. ↑ "Idaho Divorce Index, 1947-1961," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8HZ-PPW : accessed 28 July 2015), Fredrick Burwell and Lavina Burwell, 29 Oct 1948; citing Divorce, Idaho, Idaho, United States, certificate 04836, Idaho Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Boise.
  7. ↑ "Idaho, Marriage Index, 1947-1961", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8HX-8PV : accessed 24 Apr 2014), Lavina Louvicy Burwell and Alec Bernard Avila, 1952.
  8. ↑ "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVS6-81QL : 26 July 2017), Lawrence T Gray, 1983; Idaho Falls Regional Family History Center, Idaho Falls; FHL microfilm 100,464,653.
  9. ↑ Lavina Lowvicy Potter Gray at Find A Grave.

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