Grace Mary Douglas Burch

b. April 29, 1905 Tucson, Arizona
d. October 1979

  Grace was born in Tucson, Arizona at Fort Lowell, the daughter of Irvin Douglas and Maude 'Daisy' Jacobs Douglas. Her parents were running a boarding house there. She had a sister Ann Olive and two brothers, Volney Marx and Irvin, Jr .

 In 1918 the family moved to the Searchlight mining camp in Clark County Nevada where her father had found a job. She was present when in January 1919 her mother Maude was killed in their home by Queho, a Native American accused of but never convicted for a number of killings. Senator Harry Reid writes about this in his book Searchlight: The Camp that Didn't Fail.

 In 1920, she lived in Yuma, Arizona with her mother's brother and sister. She married Frank Burch in 1927. They had 7 kids between 1928 and 1943: Wanda, Norma, Joe, Bruce, Lila, Joanne and Frank Kimball. In 1940, the family lived in Casa Grande, Arizona.

 She passed away in October 1979.

Written and edited by Corbin Smith from the entry by Grace's grandson Mark Burch on Wikitree.

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