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		 Data on Emma:

		Born     July 12 1884		Place    Winsor Henry County Missouri

		Married  In 1904		      Place    Missouri
		
		Died     Feb 24  1956		Place    Independence Jackson County Missouri

		Buried   Feb 27  1956		Place    Mound Grove Cemetery Independence Missouri

		Emma was the 3rd child of Frank Houk and Martha Ellen Prine
		Frank's first wife. Emma's mother Died When she was only 5 or 6. 
		Her father then married Cora Isabelle pace.
		At the age of 20 Emma Married William Ernest Vader#2459. William had 
		three children from a previous marriage to Almedia Means.
		(I discovered the Vader Genealogy website created by Elgin Vader,
		has everything you could hope for on the Vader family. Check it out!) 

		Delbert Dee       Aug 03 1894 
		Elsie Vader       Apr 02 1892 
		May Vader         Oct 22 1895    
		
		On 18 Dec 1924 Emma and William and a son of their own, Edward Vader.
		
		
		My Grand mother Yvonne and husband Albert Houk left Utica South Dakota
		to move to Oceola Missouri and it may have been William that helped them
		plan the move. I have a photo some where that William is in. It is at the farm
                in Utica. William may have set up the land that they were moving to. 
		On their trip they Stayed with William and Emma for a couple of days. 
		Albert had a camera and took this photo of the familys at the Vader home
		in Independence Missouri.

		
 		
		Emma and William bottom Right Delbert behind William.
		
		Emma was my Grandfathers older half sister. 
		Yvonne told me the stories while on a trip around the midwest to see 
		all these places.


		Name:  	Edward Vader
		Birth Year: 	1924
		Race: 	White, citizen (White)
		Nativity State or Country: 	Missouri
		State: 	Missouri
		County or City: 	Jackson
	 
		Enlistment Date: 	24 Nov 1942
		Enlistment State: 	Kansas
		Enlistment City: 	Fort Levenworth
		Branch: 	Air Corps
		Branch Code: 	Air Corps
		Grade: 	Private
		Grade Code: 	Private
		Term of Enlistment: 	Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, 
		plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
		Component: 	Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments 
		effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose 
		State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of
		Source: 	Civil Life
	 
		Education: 	3 years of high school
		Civil Occupation: 	Tracktor Driver* or Truck Driver, Heavy or Chauffeur or Truck Driver, 
		Light An asterisk (*) appearing after a job title indicates that a trade test for the particular 
		occupation will be found in the United States Employment Service Manual, Oral Trade Test
		Marital Status: 	Single, without dependents
		Height: 	72
		Weight: 	144
		Death Date:  	24 Feb 2001
		Cemetery:  	Oak Ridge Memory Gardens
		Cemetery Address: 	1101 W. Walnut Independence, MO 64050

		

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