Notes: Hosea Leon Walker and Torma Andrus were married on 31 Mar 1933 in Cedar City, Iron, Utah.
They moved to California, and were living in Anaheim, Orange, California in 1935. In the 1940 U.S. census,
Hosea, 32, and Torma, 25, were living at 690 North 8th Street, Colton, San Bernardino, California. They were
renting for $15.00 per month. Hosea was a bookeeper in the cement industry. Their daughter Joan was
one year old. The 1940 City Directories list the family at 691 North 8th Street, Colton, and list Hosea as a
beekeeper. They are shown at left when some of Torma's family visited California in 1941.
Hosea and Torma moved to Northern California, where Hosea
worked first for the Coca Cola Bottling Company in Marysville, then for the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company in
Yuba City. The City Directories, from 1944 through 1954, list his rise from salesman to foreman, plant
manager, and supervisor. Their residence was at 676 Olive, Yuba City, California. Torma was a pianist
for the Yuba City/Marysville Oratorio Society, and taught elementary school for seven years. The 1954 City
Directory lists Hosea alone at their home address. This must be about the time the couple divorced.
Following their divorce, Torma married Emil Elmo Henderson on 23 Dec 1955 in
Bountiful, Utah. Hosea married Etha B., some time before 1964, when they appear together in the
City Directories, living in Yuba City.
Torma is said to have have five daughters. However, other than Joan, the other four may have been
step-daughters, the daughters of her second husband Emil. |
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