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Billie Jennings was born in 1926 at St. Louis, [[Missouri]], a daughter of Ward Detrich Beaver (b. 1903 Cobden, Union, IL - d. 1988 St. Louis, MO) & Ruth Evelyn Baldwin Beaver (b. 1908 Pleasant Mound, Bond, IL - d. 1955 Buena Vista, Fayette, OH). She was raised in an unsaved home, but after she was saved at the age of 17, she and subsequently was instrumental in leading her parents, siblings (and their children) to Christ. In 1950, Billie lived in Shawnee, Pottawatomie, [[Oklahoma]] where she lived with, and babysat for a widowed student of Oklahoma Baptist University named Norma Jo Bratcher Henley-White (b. 1926 Byars, McClain, OK - d. 2017), daughter of Benjamin Franklin Bratcher (b. 1902 Walters, Cotton, OK - d. 1971 Shawnee, OK) & Mildred Mattie Cowger Bratcher (b. 1910 Maxwell, Pontotoc, OK - d. 1997 Shawnee, OK). After declining health, Billie was promoted to Glory on May 11, 2023. She was in fellowship for many years with the meeting room in Fenton, originally in St. Louis, that was founded prior to 1878.
=Parents=
* Ward Detrich Beaver (b. 1903 Cobden, Union, IL - d. 1988 St. Louis, MO), son of William Howard Beaver (1857-1927 [[Pennsylvania|PA]]; m. 1897 Union Co., IL;) & Delia E. Sifford Beaver (b. 1871 South Pass, Union, IL - d. 1955 St. Louis, MO). In 1930, Ward was managing a local meat market in St. Louis, and owned the business by 1940.
* Ruth Evelyn Baldwin Beaver (b. 1908 Pleasant Mound, Bond, IL - d. 1955 Buena Vista, Fayette, OH), daughter of John Edward "Ed" Baldwin (b. 1876 Seminary Twp., Fayette, IL - d. 1958 East St. Louis, MO) & Effie Lucy Smith Baldwin (b. 1883 Fairview, Bond, IL - d. 1960 St. Louis, MO). 1860-1870, the Baldwin family lived in Bond Co., in 1860 at Mulberry Grove, and 1870 at Pleasant Mound.
** Effie was a daughter of Aaron Smith (b. 1839 - d. 1899) & Lydia Hale/Hehl Smith-Baldwin (b. 1842 Guilford, Franklin, [[Pennsylvania|PA]] or Adams Co., PA - d. 1928 Pleasant Mound Twp., Bond, IL).
=Marriage=
Billie married David Getson Jennings (b. 1923 Coleman, TX - d. 2012 Lemay, St. Louis, MO), son of Dr. William Leonard Jennings (b. 1885 Kirk, Limestone, TX - d. 1971 Coleman, TX) & Mattie Asenath Horne Jennings (b. 1888 Coleman, TX - d. 1979 Lubbock, TX). She was his second wife. They had no No children togetherwith this union, but David had five children from his first marriage. See [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85183796/david-getson-jennings FindAGrave]. David's first wife (3-14-1950 @ Webster Groves, St. Louis, MO) was Jane Finlay Van Hook Jennings (b. 1922 Webster Groves, MO - d. 1978 Kirkwood, MO), daughter of Lawrence Newell Van Hook, Jr. (b. 1888 Ferguson, St. Louis, MO - d. 1973 St. Louis Co., MO) & Olive Andrews Van Hook (b. 1892 St. Louis, MO - d. 1978 St. Louis, MO). See [[Who's Who at Bermuda Bible Chapel, MO]] for more on the Van Hook lineage.
=Sources=
* Ancestry.com
* uncredited family sources