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Alice Vera Clements Toeckes

Birth	:	20 Jun 1914 Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Death	:	19 Mar 2005 Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
Burial	:	Faversham Cemetery, Faversham, Swale Borough, England
Coordinate	:	51.3110470, 0.9053170
Description	:	Alice "Vera" Penland Toeckes, age 90, died of natural causes at the Cooney Convalescent Home on Saturday afternoon, March 19, 2005. Vera was born June 20, 1914, in St. Louis, Mo., to Rolla Y. and Olivia P. Clements. When Vera was a young child her mother died of tuberculosis. She and her brother Rolla were temporarily placed in an orphanage because their father's work took him out of town. During these years, she and her brother became extremely close. Oddly enough, she wasn't too fond of the orphanage but found solace in learning and excelled in schoolwork, eventually jumping two grades. In... Read More	Alice "Vera" Penland Toeckes, age 90, died of natural causes at the Cooney Convalescent Home on Saturday afternoon, March 19, 2005. Vera was born June 20, 1914, in St. Louis, Mo., to Rolla Y. and Olivia P. Clements. When Vera was a young child her mother died of tuberculosis. She and her brother Rolla were temporarily placed in an orphanage because their father's work took him out of town. During these years, she and her brother became extremely close. Oddly enough, she wasn't too fond of the orphanage but found solace in learning and excelled in schoolwork, eventually jumping two grades. In her early adolescent years, she was afforded the opportunity to travel with her aunt Alice who was in the entertainment business. Vera had many interesting stories to tell of the sites and sounds she experienced in her travels to the East Coast, especially New York City. Vera eventually moved to Great Falls with her family, where she met and married Frank Carl Penland in 1929. They later moved to Helena where they owned and operated the Coulter Transfer Co. and later the Rocky Mountain Transfer Company. Vera also worked as a homemaker taking care of their two daughters, Marlene and Sharon, and at several dress and hat shops in downtown Helena. In the late 1950s she and Frank owned and operated a Kirby vacuum/Bernina sewing machine business in the Grand Hotel on 6th Avenue. When the Grand Hotel burned down in the '60s they moved their business to the Capital Hill Mall, changing the name to PenJand & Co. Frank died in 1967. In 1968 she met Alex Toeckes, a hard-working, successful wheat farmer at Avalanche Gulch, and they married in 1970. She and Alex traveled, wintered in Las Vegas and had a beautiful home in the East Helena Valley. Alex preceded her in death in 1989. Vera loved the Lord, her family, whistling while she worked, her flower gardens, cooking/entertaining, shopping at Wal-Mart and watching old movies. She always said she felt like everything she had ever dreamed of wanting had come true; she survived the Depression of 1929, bought the little brick bungalow on Ewing Street, did some traveling, kicked up her heels a bit, became financially sound and owned a Cadillac and Mercedes Benz. Her grandchildren have fond memories of Friday night sleepovers, cable TV, yummy cinnamon French toast, sugar-bread, the pink rocking chair and the rollaway bed. Thanks for the memories Mimi. Surviving Vera are her daughter, Sharon (Bob) Strainer; grandchildren Cynthia (Paul) Buchi, Rhonda (Skip) Score, Tony (Edwina) Strainer and sister-in-law Vi Clements, all of Helena. She also has several great- and great-great-grandchildren. Preceding her in death is great-grandson, Robert "Bobby" Carl Buchi, in 1983; her brother Rolla Y. Clements in 1990, and most recently her daughter, Donna Marlene Chamberlain on Feb. 17, 2005. Services will be conducted on Wednesday, March 23, at 2 p.m. from Hagler-Anderson Chapel, interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the Cooney Convalescent Home, 2555 Broadway, Helena, MT 59601, where both her and her daughter Marlene were cared for with much love and tenderness.

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Where is Alice Vera Clements Toeckes's memorial?
Alice Vera Clements Toeckes's memorial is located at: Faversham Cemetery, Faversham, Swale Borough, England.
When did Alice Vera Clements Toeckes death?
Alice Vera Clements Toeckes death on 19 Mar 2005 in Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
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Latitude: 51.3110470
Longitude: 0.9053170

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Spouse

Frank Carl Penland

(1910 - 1967)

Alexander P “Allie” Toeckes

(1916 - 1989)

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Coordinate: 51.3110470, 0.9053170

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