Ancestry of
Claire Danes

TV and Movie Actress

Gibson Andrew Danes

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• • Grandfather of Claire Danes — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Bert Allen Danes 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth F. Davison   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Dec 1910 
  • Birth Location:
  • Starbuck, Columbia, Washington 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Dec 1992 
  • Death Location:
  • Litchfield, Litchfield Co., Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Olney Cemetery, Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Claire Natalie Tomowske
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 1934 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Christopher Danes (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Gibson Danes, a former dean at Yale University, killed his wife and himself in a murder-suicide. His wife, artist Ilse Getz, suffered from Alzheimer's disease. They both died from carbon monoxide poisoning in their car in the garage.

• Additional marriages for Gibson Andrew Danes

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  • Spouse:
  • Joan Patricia Dewan
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Dec 1954
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles Co., California

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  • Spouse:
  • Ilse Getz
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1964

• Sources for Gibson Andrew Danes

  • ¹ California, County Marriages, 1850-1953, Marriage certificate for Gibson Andrew Danes and Joan Patricia Dewan.
  • ² Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012, Death record for Gibson A Danes.
  • ³ Federal Census, MO, Boone County, 1940, Columbia, E.D. 10-16A, Sheet 61B, Image 49 fo 53.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, WA, Walla Walla County, 1920, Walla Walla Ward 4, E.D. 142, Sheet 2A, Image 3 of 18.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/02/2018).
  • ⁶ Hartford Courant (Hartford, Connecticut), 06 DEC 1992, pp. C1, C7, Murder-suicide of Gibson Danes and wife Ilse Getz.
  • ⁷ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Claim record for Gibson A Danes.

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