Gracia Lionardi

Mohammad Hatta was the first vice president of Indonesia.

Joyce Vandever (as she was known in her later years) was a loving mother of two daughters Kathleen Rae (Kroetch) Pinna & Pam (Kroetch) Marks who she had with Frank Kroetch, and grandma to two grandchildren Daniel J Pinna & Layne. Joyce had a half-sister, Lois (Benning) Ewen, the product of her father's first marriage. She also had a step-brother, Charles Henry Barrett Jr., from her mother's second marriage to Charles Henry "Heine" Barrett. She had many friends and relatives in California, Washington state, England and Wales. Her best childhood and lifelong closest friend was Beverly Clarice (Washington) Scoffone in Monte Sereno California. Joyce loved being a grandmother and spent countless weekends with her grandchildren. She lived in the California Hawaiian mobile home park at 3637 Snell Ave in San Jose for many years when it was an adult community. To hear Joyce describe herself see Joyce Vandever In Her Own Words

Gilbert Mclaughlin of Lebanon, Linn County, Oregon was born on May 2, 1915, and died at age 72 years old in October 1987.

Tanya Marie Petro was born to Lora (Young) Jacques and had a sister named Tracy who was 9 years older than her, as well as a brother Greg eight years older. The siblings were very close and Tracy and Greg took care of their baby sister while growing up. In her 30s, Tanya had two children, a family dog, a steady job and lived in an apartment complex around Lake Elsinore California. Tanya had recently broken up with her boyfriend Ronald Wayne "Paulett" Paoletto when discovering his drug addiction, and disappeared while recovering from wrist surgery to repair a workplace injury. Her sister Tracy knew something was wrong when on January 6th 2011 during a girl's day out with her friend she called Tanya and didn't get a call back. Tracy called their mother Lora and found out that she was having difficulties reaching her as well. In fact, when Lora called Tanya's apartment she found it odd that her ex boyfriend Ron answered the phone. After learning about this, Tracy immediately contacted law enforcement to file a missing person's report. Soon after, relatives who were watching Tanya's children called Tracy to find out why Tanya hadn't come to pick them up. By January 9th a search of Tanya's car and apartment had been performed by police. They found it strange that her car was found in the apartment lot complex, and her purse and dog were in the apartment. Tracy, feeling scared and not appreciating the urgency of the police, began investigating her sister's disappearance on her own. She broke into Tanya's car and found an address book with contact details for someone she didn't recognize. When Tracy's friends contacted the number a meth-addicted individual answered and said that Tanya had been there previously. The police were provided this information but did not follow up. Tracy and a group of friends drove to this address where they discovered Tanya had been there along with Ron and one of his friends. One of the people at this address led the caravan to a one-room shack in an isolated area in the Mojave desert where it looked as though blood was on the floor. The man who led the caravan to the shack left without word and headed back to the address where they had all met. By this time Tracy and her friends had called the police who arrived and investigated the scene. It turned out that the people at this home had rather colored pasts, including Ronald who had a criminal history as a child sex offender. At this time police began digging deeper and treating this case as a homicide. On Tuesday January 11th 2011 law enforcement found the body of Tanya Marie Petro in a shallow grave. The police did not immediately contact Tracy or any of Tanya's relatives, so the family discovered her death via the local evening news. See How Did Tanya Petro Die? Who Killed Her? Is Ron Paoletto Still Alive? to read about the murder of Tanya and what happened to the man arrested for her death - updated March 2021. See her obituary at Tanya Marie Petro: Obituary

Marjorie (Moehlenkamp) Finlay was born to Elmer Henry (1897-1972) and Cora Lee (1900-1962) (Morrow) Moehlenkamp and had a sister Virginia Humphrey (1924-2005). In the 1930 census, when Marjorie was one year old, she was living with her grandparents Henry J. (age 72) and Emma (age 66) Moehlenkamp. Also in the St. Louis Missouri household were her parents and Martin (age 35), Irene (age 35), Ruth (age 16), and Virginia (age 5) Moehlenkamp. Marjorie married Robert Bruce Finlay (1920 -2003) on March 22nd 1952 in Palm Beach Florida. Bruce was president of Raymond Construction Co. See Moehlenkamp, Finlay Wedding in South Mar. 22 for a copy of Marjorie and Bruce's wedding announcement which appeared in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in Missouri. Marjorie had a love and talent for music, especially singing, since an early age. She began her singing career while in high school at St. Charles High School in Saint Charles Missouri. Her first singing teacher was Miss Pearl Walker of Lindenwood College, who she studied under while attending high school, and who she continued studying with while attending Lindenwood. After college Marjorie's signing career really took off. An article in the January 13th 1962 edition of the St Louis Globe Democrat says that Marjorie, a native of St. Charles and former Lindenwood College student sang with the Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys and the St. Louis Symphony at it's 3rd pop concert of the season. Marjorie was a soprano and sang 2 operatic arias: "Fanciulla Sbocciato d l'amore" (Puccini, "La Rondine") and the "Jewel Song" (Gounod's "Faust"), however, she also sang several popular songs. Marjorie toured after graduation with the "Music With the Girls' network radio show (as a soloist.), and was described in the paper as "the attractive soprano". After marrying her husband Robert, whose work took him to Havana, Puerto Rico, then to Caracas and back to Puerto Rico, Marjorie sang with symphony orchestras and in opera at each city. In San Juan, she had her own tv program called "El Show Pan-Americano". Musical talent (and beauty) obviously runs in the family as she is the grandmother of the famous singer Taylor Swift. Track 13 on Taylor Swifts' album released on December 11 2020 is titled "marjorie" - a song dedicated to and about her grandmother. Read the lyrics: Marjorie Lyrics - Taylor Swift - they embody what all of us feel when someone we love and admire passes and what AncientFaces is all about. Swift said about Marjorie "starring my grandmother, Marjorie, who still visits me sometimes . . . if only in my dreams." In the track, Swift honors her late grandmother, singing, "And if I didn't know better, I'd think you were talking to me now. If I didn't know better, I'd think you were still around." Grandma Marjorie died in June 2003 in Swift's hometown of Reading, PA, when Swift was 13 years old.

Frank Kroetch was one of four siblings and was born to Dorothy Elaine (Ferguson) Kroetch and Hollis "Joe" Joseph Kroetch. As far as I know (grandson), Frank and his brother & two sisters had a bit of a rough childhood, having been separated into different groups living with various family members. He was one of the youngest to serve on the USS Killen for the U.S Navy in World War II. In fact, he lived his entire life thinking he was the youngest crew mate on the ship (he lied about his age to serve in WW2), but found out in the late 1990's at a Killen shipmates reunion in San Francisco that one lad had him beat by a handful of days. He married Marian "Joyce" Benning and had two children Kathy Pinna and Pamela Marks. He later married Carol (Antonsen) Kroetch and they raised John Kroetch. He was a very smart man (with an IQ that tested between 165 and 185) and good looking - charismatic! He was a life-long entrepreneur starting numerous businesses in various industries after attending the University of Washington and graduating from San Jose State University. He lived in both California (where his daughters were born) and Washington (where he was born and died). Frank was never baptized (as far as his child Kathy knows) and has no burial site. He was cremated and his ashes distributed between his wife and two daughters. He was quite a human being and we all miss him every day.

Howard G Beebe of Wallace, Duplin County, NC was born on December 6, 1905, and died at age 86 years old on April 26, 1992.

Steve Wozniak, aka "Woz", is best remembered as being co-founder of Apple in 1976, but he is also an extremely talented electronics engineer and programmer, big time philanthropist (especially with education) and entrepreneur. Everyone who knows him in Silicon Valley holds Woz in high respect due to his kind nature, sense of humor and care for humanity. Wozniak lives in Los Gatos with his wife Janet Hill and is a non-active Freemason at Mt. Moriah Lodge 292. He has three children with his ex-wife Candice Clark (married from June 13th, 1981-1987) and of course many of us know of his relationship with actress Kathy Griffin. Woz was born to Margaret Louise (Kern) Wozniak (1923-2014) and Lockheed engineer Francis Jacob "Jerry" Wozniak (1925-1994) in San Jose, California. According to his Santa Clara County birth certificate, his name is listed as "Stephan Gary Wozniak". His mother Margaret said that she had intended his name to be spelled "Stephen", so to rectify the situation he just goes by "Steve". He began working with Steven Paul Jobs to form Apple in 1975. He was the lead with designing the Apple II which was introduced in 1977 and was the one of, if not the, first successfully mass-produced computers. This was during a time when numerous ventures were attempting to figure out the potential of computers and how they would be utilized for business & personal use. So if you're reading this right now, you have Woz, in part, to thank!

My personal records indicate that John Cornelius Butler married Mary Agnes Lerg in a catholic service by a Father Duval on August 4, 1917 in the Church of the Sacred Heart in Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. John, who called himself “Jack”, first met Agnes in the recreation room of the catholic Sacred Heart Church in Prescott, Arizona where Agnes spent her summers; Jack was playing pool with the priest there. They began dating some years later. Agnes took a narrow gage railroad from Jerome to Ash Fork to meet Jack who came in from Kingman to meet her. He was working for the Standard Oil Company at the time. On that day, they were engaged to be married. They planned to marry in June, but put off the wedding because of the war. Congress declared war on Germany April 6, 1917. Agnes returned to her sister Ida’s home in Prescott while Jack was transferred to Clifton, Arizona. Agnes obtained a job in Clifton and moved there. They were then married in August of that year in Nogales. After the First World War, Jack and Agnes settled in the small town of Williams, Arizona. They loved living in Williams and desired to establish their roots there; however, his position with Standard Oil Company caused him to be frequently transferred throughout the state of Arizona. Jack continued working for Standard Oil for 15 years (from about 1915 to about 1930) until he was transferred to Winslow. They moved to Winslow, but then he decided to quit his position with Standard Oil and took on the position of town clerk in Williams so that they could live there. Jack retired from the city of Williams on April 15, 1953. Jack and Agnes owned and ran a motel located at 437 West Bill Williams Avenue (aka, Highway 66) for about 28 years – calling it the Butler Motel. This motel was called the Mountain Country Lodge in 1929. Considering the name hadn’t changed yet, this may be before Jack and Agnes owned it; however, they were living in Williams off and on since prior to 1920. They loved the town and the area and kept coming back to it. Running a business like this was nothing new to Jack; Jack’s father, John B. Butler, was also keeping boarders in 1880. Running a motel requires a variety of skills to provide services to weary travelers; but there is more to it than offering a comfortable room with all the amenities. Management of a small motel such as this requires the handling of many important tasks that lead to loyal customers who tell others about their stay and book again when they are in the area. It requires organization, a focus on customer service, maintenance, and promotion. Our grandmother, Agnes, fit the bill perfectly! Our mother, Frances, described her mother, Agnes, as an “extremely intelligent” woman.