Leona Jane Neer

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.