On Ancestry.com's, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995", she was found as "Jessie A. Stroemer", born July 21, 1905, female, born in San Francisco, mother's maiden name Brown. She appeared on Ancestry.com's, "California Death Index, 1940-1997", as Jessie Agnes Toohig with a birth date of "July 21, 1913", a death date and place of August 6, 1984, Los Angeles County, mother's maiden name Brown, and father's surname "Storemer". The birth index would have presented her correct birth year; the death index would have presented her correct death year, but not necessarily her correct birth year. Jessie, her mother, her maternal aunts, and her maternal grandmother all played fast and loose with their years of birth. With every census appearance, their years of birth were later. Jessie was petite and easily trimmed eight years off her true age.
Jessie was the namesake of her maternal aunt, Jessie Brown Kalmar, the famous vaudevillian. For a time, Jessie Agnes Stoermer was an entertainer known as Jessie Brown.
Jessie Stoermer married Raymond McDonald, aka Robert Strouss McDonald, son of Walter Neely McDonald and Emily Elizabeth Strouss, on January 25, 1936, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. The marriage ended in November of 1945 in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada; Jessie resumed her maiden name. The couple had no children.
Jessie A. Stoermer married Harold G. [Gerard] Toohig, son of Claud Ernest Barnes and Martha Kate Ann (Paulsen) [Barnes] Toohig, on November 28, 1945, in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada; they were married until her death. Harold died just eight months later. The couple had no children. [When Harold's mother married Joseph E. Toohig, Harold took Mr. Toohig's name; the change was later legalized by a court order.]
On Ancestry.com's, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995", she was found as "Jessie A. Stroemer", born July 21, 1905, female, born in San Francisco, mother's maiden name Brown. She appeared on Ancestry.com's, "California Death Index, 1940-1997", as Jessie Agnes Toohig with a birth date of "July 21, 1913", a death date and place of August 6, 1984, Los Angeles County, mother's maiden name Brown, and father's surname "Storemer". The birth index would have presented her correct birth year; the death index would have presented her correct death year, but not necessarily her correct birth year. Jessie, her mother, her maternal aunts, and her maternal grandmother all played fast and loose with their years of birth. With every census appearance, their years of birth were later. Jessie was petite and easily trimmed eight years off her true age.
Jessie was the namesake of her maternal aunt, Jessie Brown Kalmar, the famous vaudevillian. For a time, Jessie Agnes Stoermer was an entertainer known as Jessie Brown.
Jessie Stoermer married Raymond McDonald, aka Robert Strouss McDonald, son of Walter Neely McDonald and Emily Elizabeth Strouss, on January 25, 1936, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. The marriage ended in November of 1945 in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada; Jessie resumed her maiden name. The couple had no children.
Jessie A. Stoermer married Harold G. [Gerard] Toohig, son of Claud Ernest Barnes and Martha Kate Ann (Paulsen) [Barnes] Toohig, on November 28, 1945, in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada; they were married until her death. Harold died just eight months later. The couple had no children. [When Harold's mother married Joseph E. Toohig, Harold took Mr. Toohig's name; the change was later legalized by a court order.]
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