Lorraine Loretta Martin ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

  Birth Notes:

Name: Loraine Loretta Martin
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 29 Jul 1928
Event Place: Muscatine, Iowa, United States
Event Place: Muscatine
Gender: Female
Father's Name: Russell Martin
Father's Birthplace: Ill City
Father's Age: 19
Father's Birth Year (Estimated): 1909
Mother's Name: Susie Lucile Whisler
Mother's Birthplace: Muscatine
Mother's Age: 17
Mother's Birth Year (Estimated): 1911

Citing this Record
"Iowa, Birth Records, 1921-1942," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPKB-LSLG : 21 May 2019), Susie Lucile Whisler in entry for Loraine Loretta Martin, 29 Jul 1928; citing Birth, Muscatine, Iowa, United States, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.
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  Death Notes:

Age: 73
Given Name: Lorraine
Middle Name: L
Surname: Diehl
Birth Date: 29 Jul 1928
State: Iowa
Last Place of Residence: Muscatine, Iowa
Previous Residence Postal Code: 52761
Event Date: 30 Jan 2001

Citing this Record
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JTSZ-J3F : 20 May 2014), Lorraine L Diehl, 30 Jan 2001; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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  Noted events in her life were:

• Birth Image: 29 July 1928, in Seventy-Six Township, Muscatine County, IA. ²

• She appeared on the 1930 US Census in Fruitland Township, Muscatine, IA on April 1930. ³

1930 US Census
Sheet 5A, District 3, Household 64, Roll 670
Fruitland Township, Muscatine County, Iowa
Lorraine L. Martin..Daughter..1..IA

(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1940 US Census in Seventy-Six Township, Muscatine County, IA on April 1940. ⁴

1940 US Census
Sheet 5B, District 70-24, Family 87, Roll 1186
Seventy-Six Township, Muscatine County, Iowa
Last Place of Residence: Muscatine, Muscatine, Iowa
Lorraine Martin..Daughter..11..IA

(Living with father and step-mother.)
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• Her obituary was published in the Quad City Times on 31 January 2001.

⁵ Lorraine L. Diehl, 72, Muscatine, died Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001, at Muscatine Care Center.

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home, Muscatine. Visitation is noon until the time of services Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Muscatine.

Lorraine Martin was born July 29, 1928, in Muscatine. She married Maynard Diehl in 1947 in Muscatine. He died in 1991.

Survivors include a son, Lester, Wapello; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Helen Moore, Topeka, KS.; a stepsister, Mary Martin, Muscatine' and half brother, Walter Martin, Muscatine, and Wayne Martin, Atalissa.

(Source: Quad City Times, 31, Jan 2001)
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• She was buried on 2 February 2001 in the Greenwood Cemetery in Muscatine, IA.

Find A Grave Memorial 139031494. ^{5 7}

Lorraine married Maynard E. Diehl, son of George R. Diehl and Mary Welch, on 2 December 1947 in , Muscatine County, IA.¹ (Maynard E. Diehl was born on 13 February 1920 in , Mercer County, IL,⁸ died on 3 November 1991 in Muscatine, IA ⁸ and was buried after 3 November 1991 in Muscatine, IA ⁸.)

  Marriage Notes:

Name: Maynard E. Diehl
Birth Date: 1920
Age: 27
Spouse's Name: Lorraine L. Martin
Spouse's Birth Date: 1928
Spouse's Age: 19
Event Date: 02 Dec 1947
Event Place: Muscatine, Muscatine, Iowa

Citing this Record
"Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJ4V-SLS : 10 February 2018), Maynard E. Diehl and Lorraine L. Martin, 02 Dec 1947; citing Muscatine, Muscatine, Iowa, reference r Q p 484; FHL microfilm 1,853,566.
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