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Martella Anna "Marty" Telgard McCoard

16 Mar 1920 – 1 Dec 2002

Birth16 Mar 1920
Death1 Dec 2002
CemeteryRose Memorial Park Cemetery
Fort Bragg , Mendocino County , California , USA
Added byL R-Wahl on 11 Nov 2020
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54727748

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adopted daughter of Martin and Caroline (Koehler) Telgard . =========================== Martella Telgard Boettcher McCoard died Dec. 12, 2002 in Joliet, Ill. She was born in Ann Arbor, Mich. on March 16, 1920, and was adopted by Martin and Caroline Telgard when she was three weeks old. Her father worked for the U. S. Coast Guard on Lake Michigan and asked that he be transferred to a remote area so that Martella would never discover that she was adopted. Soon the couple and baby moved to Caspar, Calif. where Martin became the second lighthouse keeper at the Point Cabrillo Lighthouse. Their next move was up Point Cabrillo Lane to a house on Highway 1. The Telgards built an auto court next to the house and called it Point Cabrillo Auto Court. It was the second motel on the Mendocino Coast. Martella attended local schools and graduated in 1938 from Mendocino High School in the new gymnasium that was completed that year. She married Arthur Boettcher, a young man from St. Joseph, Mich. on May 24, 1938 and moved to Michigan in 1940. When she was 65 she located her birth mother and discovered, much to her joy, that she was the firstborn of 14 children. She met her mother and her siblings in the years to come. In 1953 the Boettchers settled in Fort Bragg where they finished raising their five children. Marty, as she preferred to be called in her later years, returned to Fort Bragg from Santa Rosa after the death of her husband of 56 years. A year after that she married Waldo McCoard, who died in 1998. She spent time at Sherwood Oaks nursing home in Fort Bragg and then moved to her daughter, Vivian Sumner's home, in Joliet, Ill. She will be remembered as a sweet, loving and joyous person. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Dec. 21, at Chapel by the Sea. She will be buried at Rose Memorial Park between her husband, Arthur Boettcher and her son, "Jimmy" James Edward Boettcher, who preceded her in death in 1966. Survivors include four children, Carl Boettcher, of San Carlos, Vivian Sumner, of Joliet, Ill., Sam (Shirley) Boettcher, of Willits, and Tom Boettcher, of Santa Rosa; 14 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. The Mendocino Beacon Mendocino, California 19 December 2002

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