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Erma Lee ANDERSON-VARNER

Erma Lee ANDERSON-VARNER

Female 1929 - 1995  (65 years)


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  • Name Erma Lee ANDERSON-VARNER 
    Birth 30 Dec 1929  Osage, Camden, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Education 10th Grade 
    FamilySearch ID GW1P-7T5 
    Occupation Housewife, Sales Clerk 
    Religion Lutheran 
    _UID 287144B533D4445F83A12CD47F6C9E3922E7 
    Death 18 Jun 1995  Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Funeral @ Hosanna Lutheran Ch., Mesa
    Burial Velda Rose Methodist Church, Main & 56Th St., Mesa, Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Ashes buried among roses
    Person ID I23572  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 5 Dec 2024 

    Father Walter Alva VARNER,   b. 19 Jun 1904, Macks Creek, Camden, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jul 1961, Westwood, Los Angeles County, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years) 
    Mother Narcissus Snody ANDERSON,   b. 21 Apr 1912, Osage, Camden, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Mar 1975, Mt. Vernon, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage Never Married Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Never Wed
    Family ID F9139  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 James Henry CARNEY, II,   b. 11 Apr 1927, Denver, Colorado Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jan 2009, Champaign, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Marriage 5 Apr 1946  Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Lived in Kansas City, MO
    Children 
     1. Karen Evelyn HAMRE, Carney
     2. David Alan CARNEY, (Hamre),   b. 8 Jul 1947, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jan 2019, Apache Junction., Pinal County, Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)  [Father: Adopted]  [Mother: Adopted]
     3. James Henry CARNEY, III
     4. Joan Paulette CARNEY
    Family ID F10914  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Sep 2022 

    Family 2 Jack LINKER,   b. 1912, Sommerfield, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Aug 1994, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 8 Aug 1976  Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _STAT 11 Apr 1978 
    Divorced 
    Family ID F2270  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 

    Family 3 Johnnie Ray WAGLEY,   b. 8 Mar 1926, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Sep 2001, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage 8 Jul 1978  Las Vegas, Nevada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2207  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 

  • Photos
    		Erma Anderson Varner
    		Ermalee Anderson

    		Erma Lee
    		Erma Lee Anderson

  • Notes 
    • Biography
      Erma (Anderson-Varner) Wagley was a Missourian.

      Erma was born in 1929. She passed away in 1995.

      Erma was born out of wedlock, in her grandmothers farmhouse in Camdenton, where she grew up in Missouri, mostly raised by her grandmother. She was always sick as a child and entered hospital for Bronchiactus at age 12 1/2 - for 1 1/2 year confinement. Met future husband James at hospital in a later hospitalization around age 14, and wrote love notes back and forth. After marriage to James in Kansas City Missouri at age 16, they lived there from 1946 to 1949.

      They then moved to Phoenix where they lived from 1949-1950 (6 months), until moving onto Los Angeles, where they lived for 6 months. From there Lee (assumed her middle name) and James moved to Banning, California where they lived from 1950-1953. In 1953 they moved to Calimesa, CA where they lived for 6 months and adopted Karen and David, because they had been trying for 7 years to conceive children, but were unsuccessful. Afterwards, the family moved back to Banning, from 1954 to 1956 where James III was born in 1955. In 1956 the family moved to Rialto, California where they lived from 1956 to 1960, along with several foster children (at times up to 4 foster children and Karen, David and Jimmy).

      In June 1960, the family moved to Tucson, Arizona on doctors advise to help dry out the lungs of ErmaLea (new name format). Joan was born in 1960; Karen underwent a heart surgery for a hole in her heart, David underwent surgery in the groin area, Jimmy had a pin placed in a broken arm and James and ErmaLea were involved in a serious accident a mile from home, which she broke her jaw and other injuries. Soon, the family would relocate to Phoenix in 1967 where James started his own Engineering firm. James and Erma eventually divorced in 1973 shortly after Jim & Lois were married.

      Erma then married Jack Linker a retired sheriffs deputy, who had an interesting career which included shootouts and assorted scuffles. Following the divorce to Jack, which marriage lasted just over a year, Erma married Ray (Johnnie Ray) and was married to him until she died. Erma passed away due to deterioration and complications to her heart and lungs after several weeks of hospitalization on the heels of repeated hospitalizations which finally took away the strong spirit of a very optimistic and caring woman.
      DNA

      Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal MyHeritageDNA test match between Jim Carney and April Plybon, his half 1st cousin. Their most-recent common ancestor is Narcissus Anderson, the grandmother of both Jim Carney and April Plybon. Predicted relationship from MyHeritageDNA: Third cousin, based on sharing 387.4 cM across 20 segments.
      Citation generated by DNA Confirmation app, version 3.02 (updated 25.Sep.2024) - Carney-4356 05:15, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

      Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal MyHeritageDNA test match between Jim Carney and Sheila Jones, his 2nd cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are George Anderson and Pauline Crose, the great great grandparents of Jim Carney and great grandparents of Sheila Jones. Predicted relationship from MyHeritageDNA: 3rd Cousin, based on sharing 115.1 cM across 6 segments. Jim is the son of Erma Anderson-Varner who is the great granddaughter of the common ancestors George Anderson & Pauline Crose.
      Citation generated by DNA Confirmation app, version 3.02 (updated 25.Sep.2024) - Carney-4356 22:19, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

      Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Jim Carney and Anonymous Varner, his 2nd cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Edmund Riggs and Nancy Varner, the great great grandparents of Jim Carney and great grandparents of Anonymous Varner. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd cousin 1x removed, based on sharing 133 cM across 5 segments. DNA test taker Jim Carney is the grandson of Walter Varner, the son of William Varner, the son of the common ancestors Edmund Riggs & Nancy Varner.
      Citation generated by DNA Confirmation app, version 3.02 (updated 25.Sep.2024) - Carney-4356 04:10, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

      Sources

      Son - James H. Carney III with documents, photos, personal recollection, etc.



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