Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A son of Karlis Platacis and Alida Abols Platacis (1875-1953). He served in the Latavian Army from 1918-1920.

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

Name: Vilhemis Platacis
Arrival Date: 21 Feb 1950
Birth Year: abt 1902
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race-/Nationality Latvian
Port of Departure: Bremerhaven, Germany
Port of Arrival: New York, New York to New Orleans, Louisiana
Ship Name: General J H McRae

His granddaughter, Jennifer Fawley writes that "My grandfather Wilhelm Platacis came to America aboard the Ship General J H McRae after World War II. Their family first lived in Stuttgart, Arkansas, with their sponsor, a lawyer named A. G. Meehan. They later moved to Illinois, where he worked in the Aurora Round House, working in the shop on the trains, as a mechanical engineer. Wilhelm died when my dad was in high school."

Vilhelms married Karlina Viba. Karlina was born on 16 Aug 1909 in Latvia; died on 16 Nov 2006 in McHenry, Dade County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

Name: Karlina Platacis
Arrival Date: 21 Feb 1950
Birth Year: abt 1910
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Ethnicity/Race-/Nationality Latvian
Port of Departure: Bremerhaven, Germany
Port of Arrival: New York, New York to New Orleans, Louisiana
Ship Name: General J H McRae

Listed on the SSDI as Karlina VANDERS, born 16 Aug 1909 died 16 Nov 2006, last residence McHenry, Illinois. Her grandaughter, Jennifer Fawley, writes that "My Omi married Artur Vanders just about the time I was born, maybe 1970. Artur Vanders came from Latvia too. They actually all knew each other from before the war, when Artur was a chauffeur for my grandfather's truck business." Jennifer added that she had three sisters, Anita, Christina and Elsa, all whom survived the Russian and German attacks, and whose children remain in Latvia.

Bert married Hildred "Hilly" Mamie McGuire on 15 Mar 1939 in Rock Spring, Alton, Madison County, Illinois. Hildred (daughter of Henry David McGuire and Anna Mary "Mamie" Kuykendall) was born on 23 Nov 1910 in Red Creek Farm, Dewey County, Oklahoma; died on 14 Jun 1983 in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The youngest of the McGuire sibiling, Hildred was born and raised in Dewey County, OK, with the exception of the the summer of 1914 to 1915, when she instead resided at a farm in Alexandria, LA. In 1922, Hildred moved with her mother and older sister to Oklahoma City, where they lived with brother Percy and his family. They later moved to Hurley, NM to live with her brother Elvis, moving with Elvis to Illinois in 1924.

She graduated from High School in Batavia, Illinois. In 1930, Hildred followed her parents and brothers to Idaho, where her dad and brothers found employment on the construction of an irrigation canal project.

This is where she met and married Lamar David Okelberry, and they had one daugther, Mary Ellen. Hildred and Lamar divorced.

In 1939, in Rock Spring, Wyoming, Hildred married Bert Lee Hyde. They had two children, daughter Roberta born in Twin Falls, Idaho and Sharon, born in Aurora, Illinois. The young family had moved back to Illinois after their eldest daughter was born, as Bert inheritied his parents family farm in Batavia.

After she and Bert separated in 1957, she moved into the town of Batavia with her daughters. After her girls had graduated from High School, Hildren moved to California and received an Associates Degree in Arts. In the 1970s, she moved to Albuquerque, living their until 1981, when she moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and lived their until she died in 1983.

She supported herself and her family at various times as a waitress, and as a secretary.

(Excerpted from Keith David McGuire Jr's unpublished manuscript about the McGuire family)