Elvera Beard LAST NAME: Beard FIRST NAME: Elvera MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME: Dugger AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY:  BORN: 10 Aug 1899 DIED: 4 Mar 1996 BURIED: 1996 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon DEATH PLACE: Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  1900 OR CENSUS - Elvira [Elvera] Dugger, age 9 months, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Willis Monroe Dugger, age 28, occupation tile ditcher, b. Missouri, and his wife of 3 years, Lizzie Hattie, age 22, b. Oregon. 1930 CO CENSUS - Elvera Beard, age 30, married at age 24, b. Oregon, is enumerated with husband Herbert, age 31, married at age 24, occupation farm laborer, b. Wales, along with Melvin, age 2, b. Washington. PHOTOGRAPH NOTE - The picture of Elvera Beard is courtesy of Ginni Morey. OBITUARY:  Elvera D. Beard Aug. 10 1899 - March 4 1996 Keizer-Elvera D. Beard, 96, died Monday. She was born in Independence. She lived in Washington and Colorado before moving to Salem in 1935. She worked for California Packing Co. and Thomas Kay Woolen Mills. She was a kitchen worker at the Meier & Frank Restaurant. She was a member of the Church of God of Prophecy and the Veterans of Foreign Wars and enjoyed sewing and crocheting. Her husband, Herbert, died in 1935. Survivors include her sons, Melvin and Robert both of Salem; brother, Preston Dugger of Jefferson; eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Services will be 1p.m. Wednesday in Salem Pioneer Cemetery. Arrangements are by Howell-Edwards-Doerkensen mortuary. Contributions: charity of choice. Statesman Journal 5 Mar 1996 (via Ginni Morey) INSCRIPTION:  Elvera D. Beard  1899 - 1996  (shares marker with Herbert C. Beard) SOURCES:  LR  LD  Saucy Survey & Photographs 1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Independence, ED 175, sheet 4A) 1930 CO CENSUS (Logan Co., Mt. Hope, ED 46, sheet 2A) SJ 5 Mar 1996 CONTACTS:  LOT: 656 SPACE: 2 NE LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.220' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.914' IMAGES: