Ancestors of Victor Lee Fortin

First Generation - including siblings

1a. Victor Lee Fortin [scrapbook] was born on 29 Aug 1921 in Ogden, Weber Co., Utah. He died on 07 Aug 2000 in Rockport, Aransas Co., Texas. [Parents]

BIRTH: Copy of birth certificate obtained from Victor Fortin. Certificate states that Nellie and Oscar were living at 650 - 24th Street, Ogden, Weber County, Utah, which is also where Victor was born at 3:15 a.m. Document came from the State of Utah, Division of Health, Vital Statistics Section.

SSN: From Ancestry.com's Social Security Death Index and later from his "Application for Social Security Account Number", which I ordered from the Social Security Administration, Office of Earnings Operations, FOIA Workgroup, 300 N. Greene Street, P.O. Box 33022, Baltimore, Maryland 21290, and received 13 March 2001

OTHER MARRIAGES: He married several other women after the divorce and later divorced each one. He died unmarried.

MILITARY: Drafted in Libby, Montana, 15 JUL 1942. Discharged 6 FEB 1946, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. Was a Staff Sargeant in the Army with an I.P.W. team (Interigating Prisoners of War) in the 89th Infantry Division in Rhinelandand Central Europe. Staff Sargeant in 667th Field Artillery Battalion. Army serial #39-608-377. Received a Good Conduct Medal. Followed General Patton most of the way. Info obtained from Victor Fortin.

MARRIAGE: Date and place originally obtained from Victor Fortin. Later, a photocopy of the Marriage Licence and Certificate was obtained from the El Paso County Recorder, P.O. Box 2007, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80901, on 08 March 1991.

BAPTISM: Baptismal Certificate obtained from Victor Fortin. It Reads: This Certifies that Victor Lee infant son of Oscar Lee Fortin and Nellie Bartlett Fortin, born at [blank] on the 29 day of August A.D. 1921 was this day Baptized by me in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit according to the usages of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is therefore entitled to be received into full membership in the Church, when the requirements for the Discipline shall have been met. Kelso, Methodist Church. W.W. Switzer: Pastor. June 24, 1923. Assisted Rev. T.A. Colsen, district superintendent

EDUCATION: Diploma for graduation from the eighth grade. It reads: LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, This Certifies That Victor Fortin has completed the Course of Study for the Eighth Grade and is now eligible for promotion to 9th Grade. Given at Libby, Montana, this 28th day of May, 1937. Jessie T. Staudacher, Earle E. Price, Mary Hatfield (Teacher), Ruth Nordstrom (County Board of Educational Examiners)

1b. Kay Adele Fortin [scrapbook] was born on 06 Aug 1924 in Kelso, Cowlitz Co., Washington. She died in Jun 1968 in Seattle, King Co., Washington. The cause of death was suicide by shooting herself. She was buried on 17 Jun 1968. [Parents]

BIRTH: Announcement of her birth was given to Shauna on May 20, 1990. Originally the small pink card was mailed from Kelso, Washington to Mr. & Mrs. Octave Fortin, Trego, Montana on Aug 9, 1924, with 2 cents postage.. It reads: To announce the arrival of a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs.: O. L. Fortin on: Aug 9th, 1924. Name: Kay Adele Fortin. Weight: Six and three quarter lbs.

EMPLOYMENT: According to Victor Fortin on 19 May 1990 she worked for Boeing in Seattle.

DEATH: According to Victor Fortin, she committed suicide by shooting herself. Her ex-husband never forgave himself, reason unknown.

!MEMORIAL:       A Memorial to Kay Stover - June 17, 1968 - Written by Gerald Stover
      Kay didn't want a funeral.
      I don't think she would have objected, though, to our gathering here to remember her and trying to take some comfort in so doing.
      The effect we have on each other, as human beings, is indestructible and irreversible. Every word, every act, every glance, contributes to the image we retain.
      Each of us in this room retains an image of Kay.
      We cannot re-create her by compiling our individual images but, she continues to live through these images, and as they influence and modify our lives, she, in effect, is perpetuated to infinity.
      But this was not something special about Kay. It is true of all human relationships. What was special about Kay was that she always gave in her light-hearted, casual way she gave herself unselfishly to all of us.
      And secretly she took each of us, and our problems, into her heart -- her private garden -- and nourished us with her secret tears.
      In return, what did she ask of us? Very little. She rationed our her superficial burdens, but her personal doubts and fears were carefully hidden so as not to trouble us.
      Kay didn't want a funeral for fear of being thought a hypocrite. Not realizing that her own unselfish standards, which she developed and lived by, were as valid as those formalized by doctrine. She believed in God, but she didn't believe in religion.
      Kay didn't want a funeral, so rather than offering a prayer for Kay maybe we should offer a prayer for ourselves, a prayer for unselfishness, for love, for understanding the needs of others and a will to satisfy those needs through contributing of ourselves.
      I believe that if each of us examines his private image of Kay, that under that unique, comical exterior we will recognize these qualities as her personal creed.
      We need the insight to recognize the Kay's in this world in time to share their burdens.
      May God bless us and keep us and give us strength.

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