She was buried in Salinas next to her husband Nathan, and his parents Henry Lee and Vesta Van Cleave.
On 1 January 1920 Nathan L., age 9, lived with his parents in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2148 On 1 June 1925 Nathan, 14, lived with Henry L and Vesta M. Van Cleave in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2155On 1 April 1930, Nathan, single and age 19, lived with his parents in Bertram, Iowa. He was a musician in an orchestra.
2147 He moved to New York City where he studied music with Joseph Schillinger. He worked in radio, as a staff arranger to Paul Whiteman, Andre Kostelanetz, and for CBS Radio. In 1933 he married Doris Blumenfeld, a Broadway chorus girl and the child of vaudeville actors of the Blumenfeld German circus family. In 1945 Van Cleave moved to Los Angeles to pursue his musical career. His film credits as composer and orchestrator include Cinerama Holiday, The Colossus of New York, Easter Parade, Funny Face, Robinson Crusoe on Mars and White Christmas. In addition, he worked on many episodes of The Twilight Zone, where he pioneered the use of the theremin in television scores. He usually used “Van” as his first name.
1959 Nathan died in 1970 in Los Angeles and was buried in Salinas next to his wife Doris and parents Henry and Vesta Van Cleave.
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