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'''7. Leona Jane Neer <nowiki>[</nowiki>5<nowiki>]</nowiki>''', daughter of '''[[Lee Neer]]''' <nowiki>[</nowiki>10<nowiki>]</nowiki> and '''[[Charlotte George]]''' <nowiki>[</nowiki>9<nowiki>]</nowiki>, was born on 5 Jun 1909 in Douglas, AZ, died on 3 Sep 1971 in Bakersfield<sup>1</sup> at age 62, and was buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park.<sup>1</sup> | '''7. Leona Jane Neer <nowiki>[</nowiki>5<nowiki>]</nowiki>''', daughter of '''[[Lee Neer]]''' <nowiki>[</nowiki>10<nowiki>]</nowiki> and '''[[Charlotte George]]''' <nowiki>[</nowiki>9<nowiki>]</nowiki>, was born on 5 Jun 1909 in Douglas, AZ, died on 3 Sep 1971 in Bakersfield<sup>1</sup> at age 62, and was buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park.<sup>1</sup> | ||
Revision as of 01:52, 15 June 2012
7. Leona Jane Neer [5], daughter of Lee Neer [10] and Charlotte George [9], was born on 5 Jun 1909 in Douglas, AZ, died on 3 Sep 1971 in Bakersfield1 at age 62, and was buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park.1
General Notes:
Leona Jane Neer.
Jane Neer. So attested in various newspaper clippings about her singing.
Jane L. So attested in Floyd Manning’s 1920 census entry.
Her birth: Leona Jane’s birth certificate gives June 5, 1909, as her date of birth in Cochise County, Douglas, Arizona. It does not specify a given name. It gives her parents as "O.L. Neer, Jr.", and "C.R. George."
1920: She appears as "Jane L" under Floyd Manning’s 1920 federal census entry in Washington State. Her birth-state is given there as Arizona.
1923-1927: Jane is in high school in Douglas.
1925: Jane won a preliminary singing contest in March, 1925, which meant she advanced to Nogales on April 3rd and 4th. (Lee Neer’s diary, 3/17/1925) We have a newspaper clip of this preliminary competition. Her daughter Charlotte describes her as accomplished on the piano.
Peggy has a xerox of a newspaper clipping without newspaper name visible, dated 5 April 1925. Under the title "Douglas High Third in Music Contest" the front-page article reads "Jane Neer, 15 year old Douglas high school girl, and a member of the Sophomore class, who won the soprano solo had keen competition, but the judges graded her above any of the contestants." On the next page it states: "Girls’ soprano solo--Jane Neer, Douglas, first." Lee says she has her mother’s singing trophy.
She is listed as the lead in "Once in a Blue Moon" and appears in a picture of the cast on the front page of the Douglas Daily Dispatch, December 6, 1925.
A "Leona J Neer" appears in the Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory living at 1104 Taylor.
c. 1936: The certificate of marriage between Robert Edward Quinlan and Leona Jane Neer is in our possession, but I have not yet entered its details.
1940: We have a letter to Jane from a friend of hers named Florence, in Santa Monica, mentioning Bob, Raymond and mama, and commenting on Jane’s child Charlotte.
Leona married Harold Edward Quinlan [4] [MRIN: 3] circa 1936 in San Francisco, CA. The marriage ended in divorce.
Leona married William H. Bradfield (Harry Bradfield) [557] [MRIN: 500919639] in Tulare on April 25, 1960.
