Parents: Otis Elmer Monroe and Della Mae Hogan
Sailor Seaman at the U S Submarine Base (U S S Alert) in San Pedro, CA
Married Olive Brunings in 1924 in San Diego, CA
Children:
1- John Otis Elmer "Jack" (1925 CA – 2009 NC)
2- Ida Mae (1927 CA – after 1995 CA) m. Vincent A. Masciello (div. 1971)
3- Olive Elizabeth (1929 CA – 2003 WA)
Marion Otis Elmer Monroe was the maternal uncle of Marilyn Monroe. He disappeared on November 20, 1929 at about 2.00 PM. He left his home to go to work and told his wife he would be back around 5.30 PM, as usual; but he never came back and nobody heard about him anymore.
The Bureau of Missing Persons didn't find his trail and the local police didn't even manage to retrace his itinerary of this afternoon.
The California Motor Vehicle Department of Sacramento, having been contacted by Olive, was yet powerless, and also the police from the 4 nearby States.
Marion hadn't contact any of the members of his family, including Gladys, informed the following day of the disappearence.
He would have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
His more recent employer, Joe Zerboni, owner of the Union Storage and Transfer Company, was also flabber gasted. He had no idea about nor the place where Marion could be, neither what he could have become.
Ida Martin, his mother-in-law, contacted a detective agency, the Shayer Detective Service of Los Angeles; but 3 years of researches didn't produce any clue.
In 1935, his wife Olive, "with no resources and needed the help of the State", as she mentionned it in the official forms, started the legal procedure so that her husband would be declared dead
,,
Thus, her 3 children, considered as fatherless, could receive a social fund help (the laws allowing help to separated parent changed a lot later; this procedure, at that era, was Olive's only resort).
But she had to wait that a man was declared missing for 10 years so that the State considered him as dead. Before this end, the family had to wait without any help from the State.
He was officially declared dead in 1955.
Sailor Seaman at the U S Submarine Base (U S S Alert) in San Pedro, CA
Married Olive Brunings in 1924 in San Diego, CA
Children:
1- John Otis Elmer "Jack" (1925 CA – 2009 NC)
2- Ida Mae (1927 CA – after 1995 CA) m. Vincent A. Masciello (div. 1971)
3- Olive Elizabeth (1929 CA – 2003 WA)
Marion Otis Elmer Monroe was the maternal uncle of Marilyn Monroe. He disappeared on November 20, 1929 at about 2.00 PM. He left his home to go to work and told his wife he would be back around 5.30 PM, as usual; but he never came back and nobody heard about him anymore.
The Bureau of Missing Persons didn't find his trail and the local police didn't even manage to retrace his itinerary of this afternoon.
The California Motor Vehicle Department of Sacramento, having been contacted by Olive, was yet powerless, and also the police from the 4 nearby States.
Marion hadn't contact any of the members of his family, including Gladys, informed the following day of the disappearence.
He would have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
His more recent employer, Joe Zerboni, owner of the Union Storage and Transfer Company, was also flabber gasted. He had no idea about nor the place where Marion could be, neither what he could have become.
Ida Martin, his mother-in-law, contacted a detective agency, the Shayer Detective Service of Los Angeles; but 3 years of researches didn't produce any clue.
In 1935, his wife Olive, "with no resources and needed the help of the State", as she mentionned it in the official forms, started the legal procedure so that her husband would be declared dead
,,
Thus, her 3 children, considered as fatherless, could receive a social fund help (the laws allowing help to separated parent changed a lot later; this procedure, at that era, was Olive's only resort).
But she had to wait that a man was declared missing for 10 years so that the State considered him as dead. Before this end, the family had to wait without any help from the State.
He was officially declared dead in 1955.
Parents: Otis Elmer Monroe and Della Mae Hogan
Sailor Seaman at the U S Submarine Base (U S S Alert) in San Pedro, CA
Married Olive Brunings in 1924 in San Diego, CA
Children:
1- John Otis Elmer "Jack" (1925 CA – 2009 NC)
2- Ida Mae (1927 CA – after 1995 CA) m. Vincent A. Masciello (div. 1971)
3- Olive Elizabeth (1929 CA – 2003 WA)
Marion Otis Elmer Monroe was the maternal uncle of Marilyn Monroe. He disappeared on November 20, 1929 at about 2.00 PM. He left his home to go to work and told his wife he would be back around 5.30 PM, as usual; but he never came back and nobody heard about him anymore.
The Bureau of Missing Persons didn't find his trail and the local police didn't even manage to retrace his itinerary of this afternoon.
The California Motor Vehicle Department of Sacramento, having been contacted by Olive, was yet powerless, and also the police from the 4 nearby States.
Marion hadn't contact any of the members of his family, including Gladys, informed the following day of the disappearence.
He would have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
His more recent employer, Joe Zerboni, owner of the Union Storage and Transfer Company, was also flabber gasted. He had no idea about nor the place where Marion could be, neither what he could have become.
Ida Martin, his mother-in-law, contacted a detective agency, the Shayer Detective Service of Los Angeles; but 3 years of researches didn't produce any clue.
In 1935, his wife Olive, "with no resources and needed the help of the State", as she mentionned it in the official forms, started the legal procedure so that her husband would be declared dead
,,
Thus, her 3 children, considered as fatherless, could receive a social fund help (the laws allowing help to separated parent changed a lot later; this procedure, at that era, was Olive's only resort).
But she had to wait that a man was declared missing for 10 years so that the State considered him as dead. Before this end, the family had to wait without any help from the State.
He was officially declared dead in 1955.
Sailor Seaman at the U S Submarine Base (U S S Alert) in San Pedro, CA
Married Olive Brunings in 1924 in San Diego, CA
Children:
1- John Otis Elmer "Jack" (1925 CA – 2009 NC)
2- Ida Mae (1927 CA – after 1995 CA) m. Vincent A. Masciello (div. 1971)
3- Olive Elizabeth (1929 CA – 2003 WA)
Marion Otis Elmer Monroe was the maternal uncle of Marilyn Monroe. He disappeared on November 20, 1929 at about 2.00 PM. He left his home to go to work and told his wife he would be back around 5.30 PM, as usual; but he never came back and nobody heard about him anymore.
The Bureau of Missing Persons didn't find his trail and the local police didn't even manage to retrace his itinerary of this afternoon.
The California Motor Vehicle Department of Sacramento, having been contacted by Olive, was yet powerless, and also the police from the 4 nearby States.
Marion hadn't contact any of the members of his family, including Gladys, informed the following day of the disappearence.
He would have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
His more recent employer, Joe Zerboni, owner of the Union Storage and Transfer Company, was also flabber gasted. He had no idea about nor the place where Marion could be, neither what he could have become.
Ida Martin, his mother-in-law, contacted a detective agency, the Shayer Detective Service of Los Angeles; but 3 years of researches didn't produce any clue.
In 1935, his wife Olive, "with no resources and needed the help of the State", as she mentionned it in the official forms, started the legal procedure so that her husband would be declared dead
,,
Thus, her 3 children, considered as fatherless, could receive a social fund help (the laws allowing help to separated parent changed a lot later; this procedure, at that era, was Olive's only resort).
But she had to wait that a man was declared missing for 10 years so that the State considered him as dead. Before this end, the family had to wait without any help from the State.
He was officially declared dead in 1955.
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