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Pauline <I>Voeks Enander</I> Johnson

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Pauline Voeks Enander Johnson

Birth
Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Death
10 Jul 1967 (aged 85)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Cremated, Ashes scattered at sea Add to Map
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Pauline was a millner by trade, with her husband Oscar a tailor; but she always talked about going to the "Land of Golden Dreams" (California). Assumption is that Oscar also made the move to California, but he died in 1939 and was buried in Milwaukee. That left Pauline alone for the next 28 years. She lived in a "shoddy" rooming house on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles well into her 80's. She befriended some woman, who eventually moved in with her, only to rob her of anything that might have some value. The manager of the rooming house would cash her social security checks... who knows if she ever got the money and that she was taken advantage of repeatedly by the neighborhood. When she died of a heart attack in 1967, the authorities were at a loss to contact any next of kin. But she was carrying a Christmas card from her niece Anita Voeks Ahlborn in Wisconsin on her person at the time of her death. So Anita was contacted as next of kin. Anita couldn't go to California, so she contacted her sister Verna Voeks Nelson (who lived in California) and asked her to take care of the funeral arrangements, which Verna did. Verna explained that Pauline had been living in very bad conditions for a very long time. This was also a Puerto Rican neighborhood, and everything she had, had been looted repeatedly (even her clothing had been ripped to shreds). A very sad epitaph for such a beautiful woman! Her body was cremated and her ashes spread at sea.
Pauline was a millner by trade, with her husband Oscar a tailor; but she always talked about going to the "Land of Golden Dreams" (California). Assumption is that Oscar also made the move to California, but he died in 1939 and was buried in Milwaukee. That left Pauline alone for the next 28 years. She lived in a "shoddy" rooming house on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles well into her 80's. She befriended some woman, who eventually moved in with her, only to rob her of anything that might have some value. The manager of the rooming house would cash her social security checks... who knows if she ever got the money and that she was taken advantage of repeatedly by the neighborhood. When she died of a heart attack in 1967, the authorities were at a loss to contact any next of kin. But she was carrying a Christmas card from her niece Anita Voeks Ahlborn in Wisconsin on her person at the time of her death. So Anita was contacted as next of kin. Anita couldn't go to California, so she contacted her sister Verna Voeks Nelson (who lived in California) and asked her to take care of the funeral arrangements, which Verna did. Verna explained that Pauline had been living in very bad conditions for a very long time. This was also a Puerto Rican neighborhood, and everything she had, had been looted repeatedly (even her clothing had been ripped to shreds). A very sad epitaph for such a beautiful woman! Her body was cremated and her ashes spread at sea.

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