Beecroft/Becraft Ancestors

Chase and Anna Becraft

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Husband Chase [11259] (details suppressed for this person)

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Wife Anna Becraft [6182] ¹

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           Born: 23 Aug 1928 - Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States 1
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           Died: 23 Dec 1992 - Glendora, Los Angeles, California, United States
 Cause of Death: cancer
         Buried:  - Sloatsburg Cemetery, Sloatsburg, Rockland, New York, United States
FamilySearch ID: GH23-HQZ
Find A Grave ID: 178439098

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         Father: Arthur Augustus Becraft [6179] (1894-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Anna Dorothy Forney [6180] (1896-1992) 1

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Events

• She appeared on the Federal census in 1930 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States. Arthur Becraft, age 35, born 1894, NY; Dorothy, age 33, 1896; John, age 8, born 1921, son; Anna, age 1, 1928, daughter; Mary J, 0, 1930, daughter.

• She appeared on the Federal census in 1940 in New York, Kings Co, NY. 135 South Oxford St
Becraft, Arthur A, head, age 45, born NY, civil engineer, Edison; wife, Dorothy, age 43, born PA; son John, age 18, born NY, messenger boy, drug; daughter, Anne, age 11, born NY; daughter, Mary, age 10, born NY.

• Her obituary was published. Anne was born in Brooklyn, New York to Anna Dorothy (Forney) Becraft and Arthur Augustus Becraft; she is in the U.S. Census (Brooklyn, Assembly District 10, New York) in 1940 listed with her parents and siblings (brother John born 1922, and sister Mary). When in her 20's she worked a a file clerk in General Motors Foreign Distributors Division located at Broadway and 57th Street in Manhattan. She would later move across the country to Glendora, CA where she and her husband Frank Chase raised their three daughters (Vicki Clayton, Barbara Klaus, and Laura Flanders) and one son Doug Chase. The family lived in a rambling older home in Glendora which suited Anne's taste as she was raised in an historic brownstone on Clinton Street with her parents and siblings in Brooklyn, New York in the 1930's and 1940's. In Glendora she found her niche in real estate and received an honorary lifetime membership to the Azusa-Glendora Board of Realtors. Per her obit, "her dedication and involvement in all areas of the community earned her recognition from numerous organizations including the Glendora Republican Club, and the Glendora Unified School District." Sadly, Anne died of cancer in December 1992.

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Sources

1 davidmw00@yahoo.com (David Wallace
email: davidmw00@yahoo.com).

2 Majorie Smeltzor-Stevenot, Families of the Ramapos: Becraft, Call, Charleston, Hogencamp, Pitt, Starr and related families (N.p.: FamilySearch International, n.d.), 15.