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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 saved at the age of 17, 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).
=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).
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.
After one year of college, David enlisted in the U.S. Army on Oct. 6, 1942 in Abilene, near Coleman where he was residing at the time. He earned the rank of TEC 3 while serving with the medical department during WWII. He later lived in Denton, and in 1950 was self-employed as a drugstore salesman. David is buried at the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Lemay, St. Louis, his gravestone reads "Praise God I'm Home".
=Sources=
* Ancestry.com