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Full Name	Jeanne Gontard Hale
AKA Full Name	Jean Dumas
People ID	232205
Title
First Name	Jeanne
AKA First Name	Jean
Nickname
Middle Name
AKA Middle
Patronymic/Matronymic
Priorsurnames
Surname	Hale
AKA Surname	Dumas
Father's Surname	Gontard
Mother's Surname
Suffix
Gender	Female
Full Birth Date If Known	1904-05-19
Birth Year	1904
Birth Month	5
Birth Day	19
Full Death Date If Known	1978-03-02
Death Year	1978
Death Month	3
Death Day	2

Events, Dates and Places

Event	Date	Geo Top Level	Geo 2nd Level	Geo 3rd Level	Geo 4th Level
Birth	1904/05/19	France	Hautes-Alpes	Gap
Death	1978/03/02	USA	California	Los Angeles
Last Residence (SSA)	1978/03/02	USA	California	Los Angeles	Los Angeles

Relationships

Relationship	Related To	Relative's People ID	Relative's Birth Year	Relative's Death Year
Stepdaughter of	Rufus Edward Mackahan	358636	1892	1950
Stepdaughter of	Greta Ahrbin Hale Mackahan	358635	1897	1979
Stepsister of	Alan Hale MacKahan	693900	1921	1990
Stepsister of	Karen Hale Wookey	640250	1924	1998

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Interment, Inurnment or Memorialization Information


Cemetery	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Address	1712 S. Glendale Avenue
City/Town	Glendale
County/District	Los Angeles
State/Province	California
Postal/Zip Code	91205
Country/Principality	USA
Section	Whispering Pines
Map	3
Lot	724
Space	6

Organization
Property Type	Ground
Has Marker
No Marker
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End of Interment Record	If there are additional interments or cenotaphs for this person they will appear below

Whispering Pines
Filename P1470833.JPG
The Finding of Moses Pool - close to the northernmost point of Whispering Pines
across from Kindly Light and the Wee Kirk Churchyard
GPS Coordinates 34.12626,-118.24949
Image © 2023 by Christopher Mills

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https://mills-sfv.com/Genealogy/GLS/People/Text/232205.txt

Jeanne was never actually Alan Hale's daughter or legal stepdaughter but I have listed their relationship as such rather than trying to define some new relationship which may only be used once.

Jeanne came to the U.S. in 1921 and became a silent film actress known as Jean Dumas. In 1930 she was living with the Hale family in Beverly Hills, California, she was listed as a lodger, and her name was listed as her birth name, Jeanne Gontard.

Her U.S. naturalization paperwork issued on 10 November 1939 lists her as Jeanne Louise Gontard. Another document has a date of 17 February 1933 (presumably the date her file was opened) and a petition date of 1 August 1939.

However, when the 1940 census was taken she is listed as Jeanne Hale and her relationship to Alan Hale Sr. is listed as stepdaughter. From then on all the records I have found for her refer to her as Jeanne Gontard Hale or Jeanne G. Hale. The social security death master file refers to her as Jeanne Hale, as does the California Death Index. I checked the CADI to see if there was also a listing for her under Gontard but I couldn't find one.

Supposedly she was also an heir to Alan Hale's estate and was given $10,000 upon his death, which in 1950 was a not inconsiderable sum of money.

In addition, there is a interesting bit of post-mortem information. Jeanne is buried between Alan Hale and his wife Greta (who is buried next to her mother Agnes Ahrbin, Alan's mother-in-law. I would think that the space might have originally been intended for Alan Jr. (the Skipper from Gilligan's Island) or his sister Karen Hale Wookey, but since Jeanne died before the two of them (Alan Jr. died in 1990 and Karen in 1998) perhaps the decision was made to inter Jeanne there instead.

In any event, whatever Jeanne's relationship "technically" was with the family, apparently she was considered family and treated like family. So I don't think it's out of line to link her to them as a step-relative.

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Family Search ID	GZKJ-4B2
Find A Grave 1	70986826
Famous per Find A Grave
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Find A Grave 2	228458489
Find A Grave 3
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Other websites	https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0241449/
Record Entry Date	2011-12-13 01:00:00
Record Last Edit Date	2023-06-09 23:10:00

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