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Descendants of Abitha Dodge

Generation No. 3

3. RUSSELL IVAN³ DODGE, JR. (RUSSELL IVAN², ABITHA¹) was born November 4, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, and died February 19, 1995 in Whiteland, Indiana. He married (1) MARIE CELESTE LAMPE¹ March 25, 1947, daughter of WILLIAM LAMPE and AMY BEMIS. She was born December 4, 1924 in Clarksburg, Indiana¹. He married (2) ROSELLA KINCAID 1964. She was born June 16, and died 1996.

Notes for RUSSELL IVAN DODGE, JR.:
Russ was in the US Navy during World War II, in fact that's where he and Mom met. He was an underwater demolitions expert. As he was defusing an underwater mine his teather was suddenly cut. When he surfaced he found that his ship had left him behind when they saw a Japanese ship approaching. He was captured and spent 2 years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. He didn't talk about it much, I think it was too painful for him. He and Mom divorced when I was 3 years old so I didn't know him very well for most of my childhood. The divorce was not exactly amicable; so all the things I heard about him when the grownups didn't know I was close enough to hear what they were saying was never good. When I turned 13, he took Mom back to court asking the judge to give him custody. I was terrified! To the best of my recollection I had only seen this man twice from the time of the divorce and the time that we went back to court. I didn't know this man at all and here was a judge telling me that I had to go live with him. He was a very strict, unbending and unforgiving person. We never got along very well, we tolerated each other and that was about the extent of it. I left my Dad's house as soon as I turned 18. When I met Phill and knew for sure that we were going to marry I took him to meet my Dad and stepmom.....what a mistake that was. Dad never liked Phill and never accepted the fact that I loved him and intended to spend the rest of my life with him. As we walked down the church aisel Dad said to me, "you can still change your mind you know." His attitude toward Phill kept us away after we married. We saw Dad and Rose (stepmom) only 3 times in 25 years. We did talk on the phone fairly regularly but I refused to put Phill through the unpleasantness of visiting him. He died a bitter lonely man because he had driven all his children away, not just me.

More About RUSSELL IVAN DODGE, JR.:
Social Security Number: 365-14-2504

More About MARIE CELESTE LAMPE:
Military service: March 1944, Joined the WAVES (Navy)¹

Children of RUSSELL DODGE and MARIE LAMPE are:

5.	i.	EVELYN MARIE⁴ DODGE, b. November 22, 1947.
6.	ii.	RUSSELL IVAN DODGE III, b. December 22, 1948; d. December 5, 1999.
7.	iii.	CYNTHIA ANN DODGE, b. May 7, 1953, Detroit, Michigan.
8.	iv.	ALMA LOUISE DODGE, b. March 20, 1960, Indianapolis, Indiana.

4. LOLETA JEAN³ DODGE (RUSSELL IVAN², ABITHA¹) was born October 30, 1926. She married ROBERT PERRY.

Notes for LOLETA JEAN DODGE:
Aunt Lee was in a horrible automobile accident when she was young. She had to have extensive plastic surgery And she looks totally like a different person. I don't have the before and after pictures but I have seen them and the change is pretty dramatic. Aunt Lee was a beautiful woman before the accident and she is still a beautiful woman today, just different. Anyone who doesn't know about the accident and subscquent plastic surgery could look at the before and after pictures and swear that they are looking at two different women. What is really weird though is that Priscilla still looks an awful lot like Aunt Lee - after the surgery.

Children of LOLETA DODGE and ROBERT PERRY are:

	i.		PRISCILLA⁴ PERRY, b. 1947.
	ii.		ROBERT PERRY JR., b. 1948.
	iii.		MATTHEW PERRY, b. 1951.