Ancestry of
Tonya Harding

Olympic Figure Skater

Josephine Marie Best

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• • Grandmother of Tonya Harding — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Best 
  • Mother:
  • Hattie Louisa Thompson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Mar 1905 
  • Birth Location:
  • Gervais, Marion, Oregon 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Feb 1990 
  • Death Location:
  • Gladstone, Clackamas, Oregon 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Harold Kirk Harding
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Aug 1924 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Portland, Multnomah, Oregon 
  • Children:
  
  

  Harold Harding

  William T. Harding

  Albert Gordon Harding (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  Naomi Harding

  Gloria Harding

• Sources for Josephine Marie Best

  • ¹ Federal Census, OR, Multnomah County, 1950, Portland, E.D. 37-777, Sheet 11, Image 12 of 24.
  • ² Oregon, U.S., State Divorces, 1925-1971, 21 JAN 1952, Divorce record for H K Harding and Josephine M West.
  • ³ Oregon, U.S., State Marriages, 1906-1971, Marriage certificate for son Albert Gordon Harding and Lavona Fay Goodmiller.
  • ⁴ Oregon, U.S., State Marriages, 1906-1971, Marriage certificate for Harold K Harding and Josephine Best.
  • ⁵ The Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 25 FEB 1990, p. 58, Obituary for Josephine Marie Harding.
  • ⁶ U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970, Birth and baptism record for son Albert Fordon [sic] Harding.
  • ⁷ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Record for Josephine Marie Harding.
  • ⁸ U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Draft registration for spouse Harold Kirk Harding.
  • ⁹ Ringer, Frederick James, A Genealogy of the Ringer Family of Nova Scotia, Victorville, California: Type manuscript (2000), 207.

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