Charles Clark Jelke1
#5953, (30 May 1927 - 11 August 1983)
Citations
- [S504] Wikipedia, online Wikipedia.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCormick_Blair,_Jr.; "William McCormick Blair, Jr. (born October 24, 1916) served as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark from 1961 to 1964 and as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from 1964 until 1967. A lawyer, he also was a close associate of Adlai Stevenson.
"On September 9, 1961, in the chapel at Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, Denmark, Ambassador Blair married Catherine "Deeda" Gerlach (born 1931), the former wife of oleomargarine heir Charles Clarke Jelke and the only daughter of Norman Harbridge Gerlach (1904-1980), a partner in the Chicago law firm Gerlach & O'Brien, and his wife, the former Joanna Powell. Deeda Blair was named director and vice-president of the Lasker Foundation in 1965 and is a noted advocate for public health issues. The Blairs had one child, William McCormick Blair 3rd (1962–2004)." - [S2656] L Effingham de Forest, Jelke and Frazier and Allied Families (New York: de Forest Publishing Co., 1931), pp. 13-14.
- [S1411] Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, (Washington, D.C.: Social Security Administration), index online Ancestry.com, Charles Clarke Jelke, son of John F Jelke and Elizabeth Carke, b. Chicago IL 30 May 1927, d. 11 Aug 1983, SSN 359204020, death cert. 74996.
- [S81] Florida Death Index 1877-1998, online Ancestry.com, Charles Clark Jelke, b. 30 May 1927, d. Palm Beach 19 Aug 1983, age 56.