Eva Beatrice Jenner was born on 22 December 1889 in Elwood, Indiana, at the home of her grandfather, Rev. Moses German Jenner, and step-grandmother, Mary (Upp) Jenner. Some records list her birthplace as Anderson, Indiana, which was the legal residence of her parents, Almond Lewis Jenner and Gabriella Belle (Phelps) Jenner at the time.
Bee (sometimes spelled as "Bea") spent her formative years in Iola, Kansas, where she was educated in a one-room schoolhouse along with her sisters, Grace and Clare. According to her sister, Grace, all three girls were bright and precocious.
Bee married Frederick Jasper Funkhouser in 1909 in Iola. Fred was a vaudeville performer and manager and the couple traveled extensively throughout the Midwest vaudeville circuit performing and producing shows. According to Bob Hope's autobiography, Have Tux Will Travel, it was Fred Hurley who gave Bob Hope his big break in vaudeville.
Bee died of pulmonary tuberculosis in Cleveland, Ohio on 30 June 1925. Her body was moved to Iola, Kansas, where she was buried on 02 July 1925.
Bee (sometimes spelled as "Bea") spent her formative years in Iola, Kansas, where she was educated in a one-room schoolhouse along with her sisters, Grace and Clare. According to her sister, Grace, all three girls were bright and precocious.
Bee married Frederick Jasper Funkhouser in 1909 in Iola. Fred was a vaudeville performer and manager and the couple traveled extensively throughout the Midwest vaudeville circuit performing and producing shows. According to Bob Hope's autobiography, Have Tux Will Travel, it was Fred Hurley who gave Bob Hope his big break in vaudeville.
Bee died of pulmonary tuberculosis in Cleveland, Ohio on 30 June 1925. Her body was moved to Iola, Kansas, where she was buried on 02 July 1925.
Eva Beatrice Jenner was born on 22 December 1889 in Elwood, Indiana, at the home of her grandfather, Rev. Moses German Jenner, and step-grandmother, Mary (Upp) Jenner. Some records list her birthplace as Anderson, Indiana, which was the legal residence of her parents, Almond Lewis Jenner and Gabriella Belle (Phelps) Jenner at the time.
Bee (sometimes spelled as "Bea") spent her formative years in Iola, Kansas, where she was educated in a one-room schoolhouse along with her sisters, Grace and Clare. According to her sister, Grace, all three girls were bright and precocious.
Bee married Frederick Jasper Funkhouser in 1909 in Iola. Fred was a vaudeville performer and manager and the couple traveled extensively throughout the Midwest vaudeville circuit performing and producing shows. According to Bob Hope's autobiography, Have Tux Will Travel, it was Fred Hurley who gave Bob Hope his big break in vaudeville.
Bee died of pulmonary tuberculosis in Cleveland, Ohio on 30 June 1925. Her body was moved to Iola, Kansas, where she was buried on 02 July 1925.
Bee (sometimes spelled as "Bea") spent her formative years in Iola, Kansas, where she was educated in a one-room schoolhouse along with her sisters, Grace and Clare. According to her sister, Grace, all three girls were bright and precocious.
Bee married Frederick Jasper Funkhouser in 1909 in Iola. Fred was a vaudeville performer and manager and the couple traveled extensively throughout the Midwest vaudeville circuit performing and producing shows. According to Bob Hope's autobiography, Have Tux Will Travel, it was Fred Hurley who gave Bob Hope his big break in vaudeville.
Bee died of pulmonary tuberculosis in Cleveland, Ohio on 30 June 1925. Her body was moved to Iola, Kansas, where she was buried on 02 July 1925.
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