16 December 40
marries Dr. Jay Etzell Coumbe in South Pasadena, California. He`s 24; she`s 22.
June 41
columnist Jimmy Fidler reports that "Veronica Lake`s stand-in (Cheryl Walker, ex-Rose Bowl Queen) is having a baby, too..."
November 42
in competition with 500 other cuties, she is chosen for the female lead in Stage Door Canteen by Sol Lesser and his director, Frank Borzage
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wins a Warner contract
43
is Claudette Colbert`s stand-in in No Time for Love
March 43
columnist Louella Parsons reports her off to New York. "There is more than meets the eye in this eastern jaunt of the unsophisticated girl who, in 1939, was Rose Bowl queen, born in Pasadena, and who had never set foot out of California."
May 43
columnist Walter Winchell reports her being "the three-year secret bride of Jay Coumbe, a Navy medical man in Pasadena now..."
21 June 43
she and Ray Bolger attend a special showing of Stage Door Canteen at the Mojave, California, Marine Corps air station
December 43
her husband is granted a medical discharge from the army
January 45
is pictured with Mary Rutte, the chosen queen of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses of 1945
1 August 46
her daughter, Dayle, is born in Los Angeles
c. 56
becomes a member of the San Marino Republican Women`s Club
November 57
her 11-year-old daughter Dayle is scheduled to ride as a ballerina on the Quaker Oats float in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena
Late 50s
an outspoken advocate of American principles and tradition, she travels throughout Southern California speaking to civic groups, church organizations and private gatherings on the "menace of communism"
becomes president of the Tuesday Morning Study Club. She will preside at the Huntington Hotel when the Golden Eagle Awards for patriotism are presented to the likes of George Putnam, Baxter Ward, Matt Cvetic, Chief William Parker, Congressman Donald Jackson, and Jenkin Lloyd Jones.
20 January 59
she and Coumbe separate
3 June 59
she and Coumbe enter into a property agreement
c. 22 June 60
files suit for divorce from Coumbe in Pasadena Superior Court charging extreme cruelty. Her address is given as 2875 Sheffield Road, San Marino; his, as 600 West Foothill Boulevard, Monrovia. Coumbe will die at age 44 in May 1961 in Los Angeles.
November 65
attends the marriage of her daughter and Major Joseph Leonelli of Okinawa at the Redwood Chapel of Oneonta Congregational Church in South Pasadena, California