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VERTIO DAMERON
Date of Birth: 13 October 1914
Date of Death: April 1981
Est. Age at Death: 66Y 6M
Issuing State: Railroad Board
Last known residence: Shawnee, Johnson, Kansas
SSDI

He appears on these two Censuses with his parents:
1920/ Missouri/ Randolph
h/ Claude Dameron, 36y b.MO, occ: Fireman/Locomotive
w/ Carrie, 25y b.MO
s/ Vertio, 5y b.MO
d/ Marie, 1y 6m b.MO
residence: 119 Collins Avenue, Moberly

1930/ Missouri/ Randolph
h/ Claud Dameron, 47y b.MO, occ: Engineer/Steam Railroad, * Veteran-No *
w/ Carrie, 36y b.MO
s/ Vertio, 15y b.MO
d/ Ina M, 12y b.MO
d/ Dora M, 9y b.MO
d/ Dorothy, 6y b.MO
s/ Billy R, 4y b.MO
d/ Iris C, 7mos b.MO
residence: 1208 Buchanan, Moberly

He and his wife appear here with his father-in-law:
1940/ Missouri/ Randolph
h/ James P Van Skike, 63y b.MO, G8, occ: Custodian, Public School
w/ Winifred D Van Skike, 57y b.MO, H-4, occ: Substitute Teacher/Public School
sil/ VERTIS C Dameron, 25y b.MO, C-2, no occupation
d/ M Bertha Dameron, 23y b.MO, H-4
gd/ Meryl Lee Dameron, 8mos b.MO
residence in 1935 (first four): same place
residence: 128 Thompson Street, Moberly

Separation Record
name: Vertio C Dameron
date: 14 December 1945
place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California
branch: Army
marital status: Married
born: 30 October 1914
birthplace: Moberly, Missouri
"Missouri, Reports of Separation Notices, 1941-1946"
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1950/ Kansas/ Wyandotte (ED 106-127, pg 5)
h/ DESTIO Dameron, 35y b.MO, occ: Minister/Protestant Church
w/ Mary B, 33y b.MO
d/ Meryle Lee, 10y b.MO
d/ C Dianne, 6y b.MO, G1
d/ Julie, 1y b.KS
residence: 64 S 19th [Street], Kansas City

Links to sister, Dora M (Dameron) Tregnago and brother, Billie Roland Dameron. Sent edits to link parents 06 March 2017.

Published obituary
Former State Street Baptist Pastor Dies
Kansas City, Kansas — Services for the Reverend Vertio C Dameron, 66, Kansas City, Kansas, formerly of Rockford, who died Tuesday in Bethany Medical Center, Kansas City, will be at 2 pm Friday in First Baptist Church, Highland Crest, Kansas. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Kansas.

The Reverend Dameron was former pastor of State Street Baptist Church, Rockford. At the time of his death, he was pastor of First Baptist Church, Highland Crest.

He was a minister forty-seven years and also served pastorates at Grandview Baptist Church, Kansas City, Kansas, and Baptist churches in Keytesville, Missouri; Smithville, Missouri, Rock Island, Illinois, and West Allis, Wisconsin.

He was a former instructor for Dale Carnegie courses and was an Army chaplain during World War II. He graduated from Hannibal-LaGrange Junior College, Hannibal, Missouri, William Jewell College and Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri.

Survivors include his wife, Mary; three daughters, Meryllee Strandt, Shawnee, Kansas; Dianne Bates, Pecatonica; and Julie Julin, Kansas City, Missouri; two brothers, Bill, Tusa, Oklahoma, and Bob, San Diego, California; five sisters, Ina Donati, Columbia, Missouri; Dora Tregnano, Higbee, Missouri; Dorothy Campbell, Marysville, Washington; and Claudine Richardson and Elinore Rook, both of Moberly, Missouri; eight grandchildren and a great-grandson.

Memorial funds have been established at Cancer Action Inc, and the Urology Department of M D Anderson Hospital, Houston, Texas.
The Rockford Register STAR (Rockford, Illinois)
30 April 1981