Van Hees Family History
Josephine Ethel Melville
1896 - 1987 (90 years)-
Name Josephine Ethel Melville Born 8 Dec 1896 Brookfield, Cook, Illinois, USA [1] Gender Female Died Jun 1987 Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA [1] Notes - Jo Myers and her children lived at 3522 Park Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois.
From Kermit Myers:
My mother and dad (Josephine Melville and Homer Myers) met at Northwestern University law school. When US declared war on Germany in 1917 he joined the American Expeditionary Forces
made up of young men from Northwestern, Princeton, Harvard, etc. Because his glasses got broken on ship going over he (luckily) spend service time as an orderly in medical centers behind the front. In France.
When he and my brother drowned in August 1931 mother didnt know what to do. Within a couple months she brought down from Michigan her namesake aunt: Jo Smith Burge. Aunt Jo was separated from her husband and the depression was on so she was happy to find work as a house keeper for my mother, sister and me. She stayed with us from about 1931 to about 1941
We lived in a sort of a family compound (in Brookfield , IL) so my grandpa Judge Melville and his wife Lillian Smith Melville lived a house or two way. Lillian was, of course, Aunt Jos sister. (Aunt Jo was my great aunt, my mothers Aunt.)
Person ID I1751 vanhees Last Modified 20 Nov 2019
Father Willis Melville, b. 1 Aug 1867, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin , d. 2 Nov 1952, Brookfield, Cook, Illinois, USA (Age 85 years) Relationship Natural Mother Lillian May Smith, b. 26 Feb 1867, West Bend, Washington, Wisconsin, USA , d. 14 Jul 1951, Brookfield, Cook, Illinois, USA (Age 84 years) Relationship Natural Married 20 Mar 1893 Neillsville, Clark, Wisconsin, USA Family ID F217 Group Sheet
Family Homer Clyde Myers, d. Aug 1931, Chippewa Falls, WI Married 8 Dec 1919 Brookfield, Cook, Illinois, USA [1] Children + 1. Living Myers + 2. Sybil Jesse Myers, b. 3 Apr 1922, Sheldon, O'Brien, Iowa, USA , d. 6 Dec 2012, Webster Groves, St Louis, Missouri, USA (Age 90 years) 3. Melville Myers, b. Apr 1924, Iowa , d. Aug 1931, Chippewa Falls, WI (Age ~ 7 years) Last Modified 20 Nov 2019 Family ID F596 Group Sheet
- Jo Myers and her children lived at 3522 Park Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois.
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Event Map Born - 8 Dec 1896 - Brookfield, Cook, Illinois, USA Married - 8 Dec 1919 - Brookfield, Cook, Illinois, USA Died - Jun 1987 - Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA = Link to Google Maps = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend : Address : Location : City/Town : County/Shire : State/Province : Country : Not Set
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Sources - [S165] Kermit Myers correspondence, Kermit Myers.
- [S165] Kermit Myers correspondence, Kermit Myers.