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Author: jennielynnjoy1
Surnames: Tolva, Whitehead, Chopard
Classification: queries
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I'm trying to find information on Tolva Roberts Whitehead. I would like to have more
information about her and where and how she is connected to Mrs. Raymond H. Whitehead.
Raymond H. Whitehead was my grandfather (mother's step father, who had been married to
"Pat" Marta Tolva. If the records are from 1960, he had already been divorced
and remarried Virginia Kelly. I'm assuming it was Virginia (or as I knew her Grandma
Whitehead) that supplied information since she was sited in the information by Tolva
Roberts Whitehead to the library of congress. I would like to have more information on
Tolva Roberts (nee Whitehead) to see how she fits into my family geneology. The Tolva and
Whitehead families only intersected with my granparents marriage, they had no children
together. Ray Whitehead raised my mother, aunt and uncle, and they considered him their
father, however their biological father Norman Chopard never would relinquish parental
rights to allow a formal adoption. !
The Chopard Family lived in Tillamook Oregon. The Tolva Families lived in Ilwaco and
Long Beach Washington. The Whiteheads lived in Portland Oregon and Rockaway Oregon
mainly, but had a few years living in San Fransisco when my mother was a teenager.
Virgina Kelly Whitehead had two children from her previous marriage (she had no children
with Ray Whitehead. Her children were a boy and a girl, the girl died, and the boy's
name was Benny). Ray Whithead was a best friend to Norman Chopard, when Norman abandoned
his wife, infant twin girls and young son, it was Ray who stepped in to help, and
eventually fell in love with "Pat." They were married most of the kids life
growing up, but divorced when the children were teenagers. He married Virginia Kelly and
remaind married to her until he died in the mid 1990's (about 1995-96). He died at my
parents home, they had been taking care of him, he died of cancer, Virginia was in a
nursing home in California at the time, I do not!
know her fate. Ray Whitehead had been married, his first wife died i
n childbirth, they had a daughter who was raised by her maternal grandparents and Ray was
forced to relinquish custody to them since he could not raise her himself. I believe her
name was Euelamae. If anyone has any information regarding any of these people, I'd
love to hear from you.
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