Gerald B. Wohlford

1914-1991 · Jackson Township

Born 1914, Jackson Township, Huntington County, Indiana

Died 1991

Father: William E. Wohlford

Mother: Pearl Leah Stetzel

Gerald B. Wohlford was born on 2 June 1914 in Jackson Township, Huntington County, Indiana. His family and friends called him Tiny, and the name is cut into his grave memorial as Gerald B. "Tiny" Wohlford.

On 23 November 1939 he married Velma B. Heinlein at the Zion parsonage in Huntington County. The date is carved on their shared stone with two linked rings: "Married Nov. 23, 1939." Velma was the only daughter of Charles Loriston Heinlein and Gladys Anna Miller of Clear Creek. Her mother had died when she was thirteen.

Their one child, Robert Wohlford, was born at Huntington about 1943.

On 14 April 1950 the census taker came to the house at 352 Allen Street in Huntington. Gerald was the head of the house and gave his age as 32. He was working as a cabinet finisher for a radio cabinet company and had put in 44 hours the week before. Velma kept house, and Robert was six. Gerald, Velma and Robert were all born in Indiana.

The family stayed at Allen Street. In November 1973, when word came from Florida that Velma's father had died at Sarasota, the Huntington paper reported it as news received by "Mrs. Gerald (Velma) Wolford, 352 Allen Street."

Gerald died at Huntington on 3 June 1991, the day after his 77th birthday. He is buried in Union Cemetery in rural Huntington County. Velma outlived him by eighteen years and was buried beside him in 2009.

Parents

William E. Wohlford 1887-1952

Pearl Leah Stetzel (1887-1947)

Sources

1950 United States census, Indiana, Huntington County, Huntington city, enumeration district 35-14, sheet 29, lines 22-24, National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov

Obituary of Velma B. Wohlford, Myers Funeral Home, Huntington, Indiana, December 2009, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 53609380

Find a Grave memorial 53609340, Gerald B. "Tiny" Wohlford, Union Cemetery, Huntington County, Indiana, grave photograph added 12 June 2010

Huntington Herald-Press, Thursday 8 November 1973, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 142820778

1950 United States census, Huntington city, Huntington County, Indiana, enumeration district 35-14, sheet 29, lines 22-24; obituary of Velma B. Wohlford, Myers Funeral Home, Huntington, December 2009; obituary of Charles Loriston Heinlein, Huntington Herald-Press, 8 November 1973; grave memorial 53609340, Union Cemetery, with the stone photograph, and the memorials of his parents and brothers (44729102, 44728423, 37063788, 44727443, 11195341), which link him to William E. Wohlford and Pearl Stetzel

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