Vera Beatrice Chapman

Notes:

I spoke with two of Vera's daughters, Nancy and Laurie. They informed me that their mother (Warren's daughter) had never even known of his first marriage until near the time of her own mother's death. Her mother either did not know or did not tell her that she had three half-siblings from Walter's first marriage. Late in daughter Vera's life she received a call from a Warren researcher (the same one that contacted me). He was not aware that she did not know about Walter's first three children and brought them up. She (Walter's daughter Vera) was shocked and very disturbed. She had been raised as an only child and had never known that she had half-siblings. The three siblings were dead by the time she knew about them. She was unable to reconcile her image of her kind, loving, faithful father, with his desertion of his first family, and his lack of interest in or relationship with the children of that marriage.

After learning of her half-sibilings, Vera realized that she had met Della, his first wife, and Gae/Kathleen, his daughter from that marriage. When she was a very small girl a woman named Della visited them. She had with her a daughter "Kathleen," who lived in Las Vegas. Nancy (Mudge) Coggon said that they learned that KAthleen had wanted to meet her father, and Della took her. Vera, very young, was present at the meeting, but had no idea of who they were--or that the girl was her half-sister.

Walter told his second family that he served in WWI and his granddaughters seemed to believe that his marriage was at least partially a result of that separation. Whereas Della always said that he went to South America and was never heard from again. Clearly, she knew where he was since she took her daughter to meet him.

Nancy M Coggon
65+ years old
Phone number
360-293-0103
Address
12937 S Wildwood Ln
Anacortes, WA 98221-8783

Granddaughters of Walter Warren and Vera B. Chapman.

Laurie Nelson
65+ years oldOptions
Phone number
208-835-3953
Address
1291 Orchard Loop Rd
Troy, ID 83871-9646

Vera married Walter Louis Warren on 31 Dec 1919 in Fountain, Pueblo County, Colorado, USA. Walter (son of James A. Warren and Elnora Parmenter) was born on 25 Jan 1881 in Ellis County, Kansas, USA; died on 30 Jul 1960 in Anacortes, Skagit County, Washington, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

1. Vera Chapman Warren was born on 12 Mar 1921 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA; died on 9 Apr 2013 in Sedro-Woolley, Skagit County, Washington, USA.