The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
NameArnold Beecher MOODY ®5, ®6, ®1, ®8
Birth29 May 1907, Oelwein, Fayette County, Iowa, USA ®5, ®6, ®1, ®161
Death26 Sep 1979, Park Rapids, Hubbard County, Minnesota, USA ®162, ®8
MemoSt. Joseph’s Hospital
Burial28 Sep 1979, Nevis, Hubbard County, Minnesota, USA
MemoLakeview Cemetery-Erickson Funeral Chapel, Nevis, Minnesota
OccupationTool And Die Maker And Fishing Guide
FatherREVEREND Arnold Edwin MOODY (1874-1928)
Misc. Notes
He was called "Beecher” when he was young. Arnold Beecher was born on 29 May 1907 in Oelwein, Iowa. In late March 1909 (age 1+) he moved with his family to 602 South College Avenue, Aledo, Illinois where they lived until 1 Sep 1919. His sister Mary Isabel was born in Aledo on 2 Feb 1911. From 1 Sep 1919 (age 12) to June 1921 (age 14) they lived at 1092 North Broad Street, Galesburg, Illinois. ®156 In June 1921 he moved with his family to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where they lived until his father died in 1928. He attended school through the 11th grade in May, 1926, but did not graduate from Muskogee High School. ®10 After his father's death in 1928, he lived in 1929-30 and 1930-31 with his widowed mother and sister Elizabeth with sister Mary while she attended Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri. They all then spent 3 years at Camp, Dorset, Minnesota during the Depression winters of 1931-2, 1932-3, 1933-4. He married Frances Dobbs in 1937. In 1946 he purchased property across the road from Camp, on Loon Lake, and built a house where they lived during the summer. From 1947 to 1959 the he and his family lived in Pullman, Chicago, Illinois. He worked as a tool and die maker for a firm in Chicago, Illinois, who let him have summers off in Dorset to guide fishermen. In 1964 they lived in Schererville, Indiana. He later worked as a dispatcher (?) in Naperville, Illinois. By 1969 he was retired and living in Dorset permanently, until he died in 1979. The address of his home is now 12971 Grouse Road, Park Rapids, Minnesota 56470.
Spouses
Birth19 Jan 1913, Hardington, Knox County, Nebraska, USA ®164
Death31 Aug 1996, Park Rapids, Hubbard County, Minnesota, USA
Burialaft 31 Aug 1996, Nevis, Hubbard County, Minnesota, USA
MemoLake View Cemetery
OccupationHousewife
FatherFrank A. DOBBS (-ca1936)
Misc. Notes
She graduated from Elmwood, Illinois High School on 17 May 1932.
Family ID26
Marriage27 Apr 1937, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA
Children(Private, Female) (1944-1971)
Last Modified 18 Dec 2014Created 9 Mar 2018 using Reunion v12.0 for Macintosh
Created 1 April 2018 by David L. Moody

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