Anita Bertha Howes

1904 - 2000  (96 years)

• Name	Anita Bertha Howes  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1904	Japan   [4]
  Birth	Abt 1904	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan   [1]
  Birth	1904  [5]
  Birth	Abt Mar 1904	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan   [6]
  Birth	Mar 1904	Japan   [7]
  Born	18 Mar 1904	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
  Gender	Female
  Birth	18 Mar 1904  [8]
  Birth	18 Mar 1905	Japan   [2]
  Immigration	23 Jul 1908	Seattle, King, Washington, USA
  	ship: "Kaga Maru" from Yokohama
  Residence	1 Jun 1911	1940 Beach Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada   [7]
  Residence	1 Jan 1920	Mendocino Street, Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, USA   [4]
  Physical Description	26 Sep 1930  [9]
  	Ht: 5' 5½"; wt: 110lb; brown hair; brown eyes
  Naturalization	26 Sep 1930	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA   [9]
  Residence	26 Sep 1930	1842 West 41st Place, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA   [9]
  Residence	1938	Lancaster, Los Angeles, California, USA   [1]
  Residence	5 Oct 1961	4840 West 121st Street, Hawthorne, Los Angeles, California, USA   [10]
  Death	2000  [1, 5]
  	age 96
  Name	Anita B Hambly  [5]
  Name	Anita B Howes  [4]
  Name	Anita Bertha Cunningham  [9]
  Name	Anita Bertha Dewette  [6]
  Name	Anita Howes  [7]
  Died	21 May 2000	Alhambra, Los Angeles, California, USA   [8]
  Buried	16 Mar 2001	Inglewood Park Cemetery, 720 East Florence Avenue, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, USA   [1, 5, 8]
  		Sophia Ann Barbara Dewette and Anita Bertha Howes HS
  Notes	Although name is stated to be Howes, it appears that she is a step-child - confirmed by email from Christopher Howes, as follows: Anita's father was Samuel (I'm pretty sure), last name Kuhn. He was a Hungarian businessman who ran an export business in Shanghai. However, Anita was told that because he was Jewish her mother's family had the wedding annulled.(Though in research Anita couldn't find proof that the wedding ever took place.) Sometime I believe in the 70's she found out that she had a half brother, might have even been 2, that wanted to meet her. But she never did. And I have no additional information on them. The family ran a hotel business in Yokohama. (I had the name and address at one point on a business card, but I fear that got lost in moving.) They refused contact with her father. As I understand it, there were serious family problems with Anita being Jewish and apparently they wouldn't allow contact with Samuel. So Sophia took her and emigrated to Vancouver, where she apparently met Earl. At some point the Japaneese government seized the hotel business. After World War 2 the government attempted to make reparations for that. But Sophia declined it and requested it be used towards the rebuilding of the country.
  Person ID	I31528	ONS
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	Samuel Henry Kuhn,   d. Not known
  Mother	Sophia Ann Barbara Dewette,   b. 10 Oct 1880, 49 Coleshill Buildings, Chelsea, London ,   d. 5 Oct 1961, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA  (Age 80 years)
  Married	16 Jan 1903	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan   [1]
  	We have seen later correspondence about this marriage and whether it legally existed. It was eventually determined that because it had not been registered with any of the relevant authorities, not Belgian, Hungarian, or Japanese, it had never legally taken place
  Family ID	F10063	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	George William Cunningham,   b. 4 May 1901, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA ,   d. Not known
  Married	14 Nov 1927	Los Angeles, California, USA   [11]
  Married	17 Nov 1927	1046 East 34th Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA   [12]
  	Witness Role: Witness Name: George Breslin Witness Role: Witness Name: Beryl L Quincy
  		George William Cunningham and Anita Bertha Howes MC
  Divorced	18 Oct 1938	Los Angeles, California, USA   [3]
  Documents		George William Cunningham and Anita Bertha Howes Divorce decree
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2021
  Family ID	F10064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Fred Bertram Hambly, Jr,   b. 23 Oct 1912, Mexico ,   d. 11 Jun 1996, Hawthorne, Los Angeles, California, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Married	1940	USA   [1]
  Last Modified	11 May 2023
  Family ID	F32209	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 1904 - Japan Birth - Abt 1904 - Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Birth - Abt Mar 1904 - Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Birth - Mar 1904 - Japan Born - 18 Mar 1904 - Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Birth - 18 Mar 1905 - Japan Immigration - 23 Jul 1908 - Seattle, King, Washington, USA Married - 14 Nov 1927 - Los Angeles, California, USA Married - 17 Nov 1927 - 1046 East 34th Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA Naturalization - 26 Sep 1930 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA Divorced - 18 Oct 1938 - Los Angeles, California, USA Married - 1940 - USA Died - 21 May 2000 - Alhambra, Los Angeles, California, USA Buried - 16 Mar 2001 - Inglewood Park Cemetery, 720 East Florence Avenue, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  Anita Bertha Howes Photograph from naturalisation certificate

  
  

• Sources

  [S705] Christopher Howes. [S1624] Passport application - mother. [S1171] Divorce papers. [S140] 1920 Census - US. [S275] Gravestone. [S242] Ancestry.com Migration records, www.ancestry.com. [S432] 1911 Census - Canada. [S707] Inglewood Park Cemetery, http://www.inglewoodparkcemetery.org. [S120] Naturalization certificate. [S601] Death report - mother. [S1653] WestEndVancouver website, WestEndVancouver.wordpress.com. [S50] Marriage cert.