Descendants of John Belconger JR

Notes


10945. Raymond Lester Conger


Raymond Lester Conger

DIVORCE: The marriage of Raymond Lester Conger and Helen Oisted ended in divorce.

RESIDENCES: 3852 Bronson Lake Road; Lapeer, MI

SSN:
Individual: Conger, Raymond
Social Security #: 381-01-0053
Issued in: Michigan
Birth date: Oct 2, 1919
Death date: Sep 21, 1991
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-K, Ed. 7, Social Security Death
Index: U.S., Date of Import: Nov 13, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.7.54153.20]


Doris Johnson


Doris Johnson

SPOUSE: Doris Johnson was the 2nd spouse of Raymond Lester Conger.


10946. Maurice James Conger


Maurice James Conger

RESIDENCES: 1342 Peppermill Road; Lapeer, MI 48446

SSN:
Individual: Conger, Maurice
Social Security #: 373-16-7613
Issued in: Michigan
Birth date: Aug 5, 1923
Death date: Jul 21, 1996
ZIP Code of last known residence: 48446
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
Lapeer, Michigan
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-K, Ed. 7, Social Security Death
Index: U.S., Date of Import: Nov 13, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.7.54152.20]


Marguerite Michelle La Claff


Marguerite Michelle LaClaff

Problem: Was her first name, Marguerite or Margaret, both listed in CFA I, p. 373 & 418?


14821. Brenda Michelle Conger


Brenda Michelle Conger

COMMENT: Not found on the SSDI


10947. Omar David Conger


Omar David Conger

RESIDENCES: 565 Wilder Road; Lapeer, MI 48446

DEATH: 16 Sep 1972 (CFA II, p. 721)

SSN:
Individual: Conger, Omar
Social Security #: 364-20-8878
Issued in: Michigan
Birth date: Jul 29, 1925
Death date: Sep 1972
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-K, Ed. 7, Social Security Death
Index: U.S., Date of Import: Nov 13, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.7.54152.145]


14835. Eric Anthony Ghiami


Eric Anthony Ghiami

CONFLICT-NAME: Listed with the surname, Champ, CFA II, p. 277.


14836. Timothy Ghiami


Timothy Ghiami

CONFLICT-NAME: Listed with the surname, Champ, CFA II, p. 277.


10960. Buel Milton Conger


Buel Milton Conger

OCCUPATION: Lineman

HOBBIES: Sailing

RESIDENCES: 4470 Gratiot Avenue; Port Huron, MI 48060

CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Catholic


Margaret Barbara Rumenapp


Margaret Barbara Rumenapp

HOBBIES: Knitting

CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Catholic


10961. Richard Russell Conger


Richard Russell Conger

ADOPTION: When Richard Oscar Conger and Ruth Russsell divorced, Richard Russell Conger went with his mother. The two girls were left with their father, who could not make a home for them. The girls were both adopted and Phyllis became, Peggy Kellerman. The three children went to school together, not knowing they were siblings. They were adults when they learned the truth.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. II, p. 190 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)

MILITARY: Retired Lt. Commander USN; air photo officer in WWII, did photos for maps from Gaud. to mainland in Japan.

OCCUPATION: Top man in the National Archives (Photo Microfilm Div), made 5 trips to Antartica in charge of photos. CFA II, p. 190.


OBITUARY: Richard R. Conger, Navy Specialist In Underwater Photography, Dies by Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post Staff Writer
Richard Russell Conger, 82, a Navy photographer who specialized in underwater and cold-weather photography, died Oct. 9, [2003] of complications from colon cancer at his home in Ijamsville, [MD].

Mr. Conger was a resident of Chevy Chase, [MD] from 1967 until 1996, when he moved to Leisure World in Silver Spring. He had lived in Frederick County, [MD] since 1999.

Mr. Conger, who was born in Detroit, enlisted in the Navy in 1938. He was one of five people chosen to learn cinematography from the staff who made the "March of Time" newsreels, an experiment to see if non-Navy training would be useful to the military. On his nights off, he worked at Life magazine to learn still photography.

Assigned to aerial mapping, he photographed or filmed many Pacific islands and Japan during World War II.

In 1946, he went to the Antarctic, where he would travel three more times.

The Bluejacket, a civilian publication that covers the Navy, reported that a plane carrying an eight-person crew and the captain of the USS Pine Island crashed into the icy mountains. After the wreck was discovered 23 days later, the plane that Mr. Conger was assigned to undertook the rescue mission, but the closest place to land was 12 miles away. The rescue plane's commander and Mr. Conger set out in a lifeboat, threading their way through ice-chocked waters and pulling a sled. They reached the crew, got them aboard the lifeboat and arrived back at their plane just in time to take off before they would have been iced in. Six of the rescued crew members survived.

Mr. Conger told a Pensacola, Fla. newspaper that he and his crew were enthusiastically received during one Antarctic trip to a naval station. But when their plane had engine trouble and the visitors were stuck at the station for six weeks, the personnel there turned standoffish. The station didn't have enough food, bed[s] or space for the extra people, but the visitors redeemed themselves by pitching in on chores and other work.

In 1947, Mr. Conger and a commander found the Mount Erebus hut that was abandoned in 1910 by polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Mr. Conger's photographs showed that the hut was just as Shackleton's team had left it.

A glacier was named for Mr. Conger in 1948, according to the policy at the U.S. Board of Geographic Names of honoring those who have advanced hydographic and geodetic work. The glacier flows to Antarctia's Knox Coast, five miles east of Glenzer Glacier.

Mr. Conger also made amphibious-warfare training films. He developed underwater motion photography to make training films for demolition teams. In 1949 and 1950, he was lent to the 20th Century Fox studio to shoot underwater sequences for the 1951 movie "The Frogmen," starring Richard Widmark. He was sent to the Arctic in the early 1950s to shoot photos for maps. In 1963, he took the first combat photo team to Vietnam.

He retired in 1969 as a lieutenant after 28 years in the service. Among his awards was the Air Medal.

He worked briefly as government sales manager for a photo chemical company and in 1974 went to work in the micrographics department at the National Archives. From 1981 to 1986, he worked in Bechtel Power Co.'s micrographic division in Rockville, [MD] and also ran his own business, Conger Consultants, to repair and service microfilm equipment and cameras. In the 1990s, he worked part time at a tropical fish and pond retail shop in Ijamsville.

His wife of 55 years, Eleanor M. Conger, died in 1998.

Survivors include three children, Sue Bernard of Augusta, W.Va., Richard S. Conger, of Rockville, and Laurie J. Ridgway of Frederick; two sisters; a half brother; six grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and three great great grandchildren.
(Source: The Washington Post, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003, Metro Section, p. B8, included photograph of Mr. Conger photographing penguins; typed by REH)


14846. Sue Conger

RESIDENCES: As of Oct 2003, Sue Bernard of Augusta, WV


14847. Richard S. Conger

RESIDENCES: As of Oct 2003, Rockville, MD


14848. Laurie J. Conger


Laurie J. Conger

RESIDENCES: As of Oct 2003, Laurie J. Ridgway of Frederick, MD


10963. Peggy Ray Kellerman


Peggy Ray Kellerman

AKA: Born, Phyllis Lou Conger

ADOPTION: When Richard Oscar Conger and Ruth Russsell divorced, Richard Russell Conger went with his mother. The two girls were left with their father, who could not make a home for them. The girls were both adopted and Phyllis became, Peggy Kellerman. The three children went to school together, not knowing they were siblings. They were adults when they learned the truth.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. II, p. 190 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)

HOBBIES: Likes to draw and sew

CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Active in service to the Lord. Through The American Society she speaks to chruches, organizations and student nurses and those afflicted with cancer. She says her faith has helped her through her trials.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. II, p. 257 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)


De Vere Be Dour


DeVere BeDour

AKA: The surname may have been spelled, Badour, at one time.

MILITARY: 4 years in the Navy during WWII

OCCUPATION: Salesman; enjoys being a part-time policeman

PUBLIC_SERVICE: Active in the Boy Scouts and has a Silver Beaver Award;

APPEARANCE-TRAITS: A good husband, father and provider

RESIDENCES: 185 Lake Street; Harrison, MI 48625


10964. Lawrence Richard Conger


Lawrence Richard Conger

AKA: Larry

MILITARY: U.S. Navy as a deck swab on USS Midway

OCCUPATION: Had his own print shop in Milwaukee, WI

RESIDENCES: 3535 W. Greenfield Avenue; Milwaukee, WI 53215

HOBBIES: Liked art and sailing


Nobuko Kaneko


Nobuko Kaneko

HOBBIES: Sewing, sailing


10972. Muriel Rozelle Conger


Muriel Rozelle Conger

NAME-CONFLICT: Muriel Rozelle Conger Morton, p. 225 of CFA II. (Evaleena) Muriel Conger and Muriel Conger (Morton) on p. 332 of CFA II.

QUESTION: What was the name of this person? Did she marry a Mr. Morton?

EDUCATION: 1 year of college at Morningside in Sioux City

OCCUPATION: Was in the ladies ready to wear business

HOBBIES: Dancing, plants, Literary Club, books, grandchildren


Kenneth Elton Hendrickson


Kenneth Elton Hendrickson

OCCUPATION: Retired from the dry cleaning business

ORGANIZATIONS: Member of the Masonic Lodge, Consistory, Shrine

HOBBIES: Drawing, woodworking, gardening