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Harris, Lydia Marie
Maiden Name: Koch
Cemetery: Lancaster Cemetery
AVGS ID: 5 B 62
Born: 12/17/1874
Germany
Died: 8/23/1945
Monterey Park, Los Angeles County, California
Inscription:
Find A Grave: Find A Grave listing ID 12317382
Notes: Daughter of George Koch and Marie Roman, both born in Germany.

Married first Charles Frederick 'Fred' Nixon. To this union were born four children. Lydia 'Bessie' Nixon married Daniel 'Roger' Ledbetter; Bessie and Roger are also buried here at Lancaster Cemetery. Pearl Esther Nixon is buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Owned and operated a general merchandise store with her husband Fred at Llano, California. Fred died young and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.

Bessie re-married to Francis P. Harris on December 27, 1931 in Tujunga, California.

Images of America - Palmdale by Norma H. Gurba with Nicholas J. West, pages 36 and 37.

Los Angeles County Marriage Certificate

Los Angeles County Death Certificate

Sources:

  • California Death Index
  • U. S. Census
  • Lancaster Cemetery District Burial Register

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