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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Claybourne Walker Dyer ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Claybourne Walker Dyer
LAST NAME: Dyer FIRST NAME: Claybourne MIDDLE NAME: Walker NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY: WWII
BORN: 22 Jul 1917 DIED: 4 Feb 1971 BURIED: 17 Feb 1971
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Saint Louis, Missouri
NOTES: 

Marriage of Parents William C. Dyer (21y 8m 9d, of Salem, b Washington, civil engineer) and Madeleine D. Walker (20y 11m 1d, of Salem, b Oregon) mf 15 Nov 1911, Salem, Marion co, Oregon

NOTE Parents buried in City View Cemetery

BIRTH Clayborn Walker Dyer, b 22 July 1917, 330 N Summer, Salem, Marion co, Oregon, male; father Wm Connell Dyer (26, of 330 N Summer St, b Ellensburg, Washington, insurance man); mother Madeleine Walker (26y, of 330 N Summer St, Salem, b Portland, Oregon, mother of 2 children, 2 living); physician H.E. Clay of Salem

1920 OR CENSUS Claiborne Walker (2y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents W. Connell (29y, b Washington, insurance agent) and Madeleine (29y, b Oregon), brother W. Connell Jr (5y, b Oregon) and a servant Hazel Bostrack (18y, b Oregon)

1930 OR CENSUS - Claibourne [Claybourne] W. Dyer, age 12, b. Oregon, is enumerated with W. Connell, age 39, occupation director of ins. mortgage loan, b. Washington, and his wife of 21 years, Madeleine W., age 39, b. Oregon, along with W. Connell Jr., age 15, b. Oregon.  Also enumerated in the home is Mildred E. Elliott, age 21, identified as maid, b. Oregon.

1st Marriage Clayborne W. Dyer (22y 1m 24d, of 495 N Summer, Salem, b Oregon, salesman) and Lois H. Walton (22y 11m 16d, of 1577 Court, Salem, b Idaho, clerk) md 30 Sept 1939, Marion co, Oregon

1940 OR CENSUS Clayborne W. Dyer (22y, b Oregon, insurance company, living in same place in 1935) enumerated with wife Lois W. (23y, b Idaho, stenographer, living in Portland, Oregon in 1935)

WWII Draft Registration Card Clayborne Walker Dyer, 33, of 555 N Winter St, Salem; b 22 July 1917, Salem; person who knows address wife Lois W. Dyer, 555 N Winter St, Salem

WWII Army Enlistment - Clayborne W. Dyer, b. 1917, of Marion Co., Oregon.  Enlistment date 24 Apr 1944 in Portland.

1950 OR CENSUS Clayborne W. Dyer (31y, b Oregon, insurance salesman) enumerated with wife Lois W. (30y, b Oregon), 2 children, Shannon (7y, b Oregon) and Clayborne W. Jr (3y, b Oregon) and mother Madeline W. (58y, b Oregon, widowed, fraternity housemother). Madeline’s line is crossed out

DIVORCE Lois Walton Dyer (270 13th NE, Salem, b 30 Sept 1917, Boise, Idaho, personnel assistant at Meier & Frank Co) vs Clayborne Walker Dyer (1488 State St, Salem, b 22 July 1918, Salem, insurance); md 30 Sept 1939, Salem, Oregon; divorce granted 19 Feb 1962, Marion co, Oregon

NOTE Lois Dyer remarried to Allen Rogers. She died 16 June 2001 at Springfield, Lane co, Oregon

2nd MARRIAGE Clayborne Walker Dyer (44y, divorced) and Geraldine L. [Cossey] Usery (33y, divorced) both of Salem, Oregon, md 12 May 1962, Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai co, Idaho

NOTE Geraldine died 1 Oct 1971 in Marion co and was buried in City View cemetery

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

Missouri DC (1971 St Louis) #7759 Clayborne Walker Dyer, male, insurance salesman, divorced; b 22 July 1917, Oregon; father William C. Dyer; mother Madeleine Walker; d 3 Feb 1971, St Louis hospital, of 100 N Broadway, st Louis, age 53y; remains removed to Valhalla Crematory, St Louis

OBITUARY: 

Clayborn Walker Dyer. Late resident of 185 15th SE, Salem, died in St. Louis, Missouri at the age of 53. Survived by mother, Madeline W. Dyer, Salem; brother, William C. Dyer, Jr., Salem; daughters, Shannon Kessler, Salem, Georgia Ann Dyer, Portland; sons, Clayborne Dyer, Portland, Paul Dyer, Salem. Two grandchildren also survive. Private services Wed., Feb. 17, at 1:00 p.m. in Rigdon's Colonial Chapel, Cottage at Chemeketa NE. Rev. George Swift officiating. Interment City View [sic] Cemetery.
Source - newspaper clipping attached to AFB

INSCRIPTION: 

Clayborne Walker Dyer
Oregon
PFC 289 SIG CO
World War II
July 22, 1917 - Feb. 4, 1971

SOURCES: 

LR
LD
AFB
Saucy marker photo

Missouri DC (1971 St Louis) #7759

Oregon Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

Oregon Birth Records (Ancestry.com)

1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 343, sheet 11B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 53, sheet 4A)

1940 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 24-54A, sheet 2A)

WWII Draft Registration Card (Ancestry.com)

1950 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 24-36, sheet 8)

Oregon Divorce Records (Ancestry.com)

Idaho Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

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