Marilyn Monroe
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Evidently shortly after Grace married her last husband Ervin Silliman Goddard (1904-72), she sent Norma to the Los Angeles Orphans' Home from September 1935 to June 1937. Whatever caused this displacement must have later been corrected, as Grace took Norma back out of the orphanage at the end of this time. | Evidently shortly after Grace married her last husband Ervin Silliman Goddard (1904-72), she sent Norma to the Los Angeles Orphans' Home from September 1935 to June 1937. Whatever caused this displacement must have later been corrected, as Grace took Norma back out of the orphanage at the end of this time. | ||
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| + | Clara Grace Atchison was born in Montana, she first married Reginald Evans, then to John Wallace Mr McKee. She was a co-worker of Marilyn's mother Gladys. Sometime after her divorce from McMcKee, she and Gladys roomed together for a while. After Gladys psychotic breakdown, Grace became both the guardian of Marilyn and the custodian of Gladys estate. By 1936, Grace at that time a film librarian, had married to Ervin Silliman "Doc" Goddard (1904-72) who that year states his occupation as "actor"; they are living in Los Angeles. It's possible they seperated as by 1938, Grace is registered, without him, at the home of her Aunt Ana Lower. | ||
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| + | Norma Jeane "Marilyn" lived off-and-on with Grace and Grace's husbands, as well as in foster homes and perhaps an orphanage as well. It was during her last time living with Gladys that Norma was encouraged to marry her then-boyfriend James Dougherty. After encouragement from Grace, Norma and her half-sister Berniece (Baker) Miracle, began writing and finally met when Norma was 19. Working together and with the help of "Glady's aunt Dora Graham in Oregon", they finally got Gladys released from the psychiatric hospital. Gladys lived in Oregon for about a year with Dora, then came to Los Angeles and lived with "Aunt Ana Lower" (Grace's aunt), and at times apparently with Grace and Ervin as well. | ||
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| + | By 1950 Grace and Ervin are back living in Los Angeles. Ervin died in 1972 in Ventura County, I'm not yet sure when and where Grace lived. | ||
===First marriage=== | ===First marriage=== | ||
