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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2598093, member: 111&quot;]That&#039;s quite a distinct combination of surnames, and I see &#039;Dean&#039; too (in what looks exactly like my grandmother&#039;s writing) - maybe that name is misspelled, perhaps by a grandchild who&#039;d heard the name &#039;Diana&#039; pronounced &#039;dee-anna&#039;, and was a bad speller.&nbsp; My aunt, whose name was spelled &#039;Joan&#039;, was always called &#039;jo-ann&#039;, and even in fairly recent written records in my family there are errors in the spelling of given names</p><p><br /></p><p>Little access to genealogical records, but just suggesting the lady here, with the same three surnames, and who died at 67 in a 1913 Long Beach pier collapse, as a long-shot possibility:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6890153/lester-howard-bentley" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6890153/lester-howard-bentley" rel="nofollow">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6890153/lester-howard-bentley</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cemeteryguide.com/gotw-empireday.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cemeteryguide.com/gotw-empireday.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cemeteryguide.com/gotw-empireday.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]271208[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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