Children of Garth and Edna - Garth

Child and son #4 - Garth Randolph Beckington, was born December 5, 1910 at the family farm on Whittaker Road in Willis, Michigan. For those of you keeping track, this means Edna had four boys within 41 months - or six months less than four years! Thank goodness she then took a break!  Garth is named after his father and I assume the Randolph is from FitzRandolph. In fact, there are many Randolphs in the US that WERE FitzRandolphs and when you are researching FitzRandolphs you need to look at both names. Garth, from a very early age was known as "Toot."  When I asked an aunt why, she only assumes it was because he make a horn noise as a young child.

Uncle Toot was the only son who served in WWII. I believe he was mostly stationed in England. Toot married Dorothy Marie Bruner on June 6, 1942 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dorothy had a child, Michael "Mickey" from a previous relationship. Mickey was born about 1937 and died in 1949 from polio. Toot and Dorothy lived most of their married life in Whitmore Lake, Michigan. Toot died October 22, 1994 at a nursing home in Grass Lake, Michigan of (possibly) pancreatic cancer. Dorothy died on 29 July 1996 in Benton, Michigan. I believe they were separated in the later years of their marriage. They did not have children.

I have added a picture of the four boys. Don't you wonder how they got them to stand quietly long enough to take the picture?