Velma Pearl Mangum1
b. 15 August 1917, d. 1 June 2012
Birth | 15 Aug 1917 | Velma Pearl Mangum was born on 15 Aug 1917 in Gallup, McKinley County, New Mexico.1 |
Childhood | 22 May 1918 | Velma was less than 1 year old when her mother died. Velma's obituary states that she grew up on or around cattle ranches and loved riding horses and gathering cattle with her father.2 |
Cens-1940 | 19 Apr 1940 | As a teenager she lived with her widowed maternal grandmother Sallie Carter in Catron County, New Mexico.3 |
Marriage | 24 Nov 1945 | She married first Frederick Ralph Steese on 24 Nov 1945.4 |
Marriage | 20 Aug 1947 | She married second Adam Hartley Greenwood on 20 Aug 1947.1 |
Death | 1 Jun 2012 | Velma died on 1 Jun 2012 in Taylor, Navajo County, Arizona, at age 94.2 |
Burial | | She was buried at Reed S. Hatch (Taylor) Cemetery in Taylor, Navajo County, Arizona.2 |
Citations
- [S2945] Robert Gardner research, 2881 Pruneridge Ave., Santa Clara, California, 95051, email to: e-mail address.
- [S1777] Find A Grave Website (http://www.findagrave.com/index.html : accessed Feb. 2013). Velma Pearl Mangum Greenwood memorial #91380974, Taylor Cemetery, Taylor, Navajo Co., Arizona (entry includes photo of Velma and copy of her obituary).
- [S3099] Salie B. Carter household, 1940 U.S. cens., Catron Co., New Mexico, pop. sched., ED 2-24, sheet 1A, household 7, viewed online at Ancestry.com, Feb. 2013. Household includes: Salie B. Carter, 66, wid, highest grade of school: 5th grade, b. TX, same address in 1935, rents home for $5 mos; Velma Mangum, granddaughter, 22, sgl, b. NM, same address in 1935, highest grade of school: 1 yr high school.
- [S2594] "Public Member Trees", database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Sept. 2013), "Benjamin and Fewell Ancestors" (owner: Gladys Dillard), entry for Velma Pearl Mangum (1917-2012).