Lavena Hedman

  Research Notes:

Jones FT on Ancestry - has little other information

but say that she was married to: Gordon Froom who died in 1957 but no location; notes children, 'private'

A. a google search, "Gordon Froom died 1957" : "Family Record of Gordon Froom, Sr" http://froom.org/getperson.php?personID=I340&tree=tree1 - gives most detail

B. - this records similar but not has much detail as the above "Family Record ...": FamilySearch digital books "new digitalized Family Search books, june 2012 report; see page 25
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/104522-the-family-record-of-james-froom-sr-united-empire-loyalist-of-england-vermont-and-upper-canada-and-his-descendants?viewer=1&offset=0#page=7&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=


Gordon Froom, b 22 Aug 1910, died 20 Jul 1957 [ no location ]
married to: Lavena Hedman, b 13 Jul 1912 at Cherryville, BC; died 8 May 2000 at New Westminster, BC
and 5 children
Alva Pearl, b 18 Jan 1932 [no location] [B source from above, suggests married to unrecorded Williamson ]
Ivan Reginald [Reg], b 29 Jan 1934
Eila Margarat (Ella?), b 29 Oct 1935 [B source from above, suggests married to unrecorded Zimmerman]
Elenore Violet, b 8 Aug 1938 [B source from above, suggests married to unrecorded Weber]
Ira Edward Allan, b 16 Jun 1947 at New Westminster

Gordon Froom: from Newspapers.com: Vancouver Sun, 24 Jul 1957, page 32
Froom - died suddenly at his residence 16243 New McLellan Road, Cloverdale; age 46
- survived by wife Lavena; 3 daughters and 2 sons; Pearl A, Lila M; Elenore V, and Ira E at home; son Reginald I is in the RCAF in Germany
and another from Newspapers.com: Surrey Leader, 25 Jul 1957, page 1
- basically the same, but notes: born in England in 1910 {?} lived in Cloverdale for 13 yrs;

Gordon Froom: BC Death Registration, 1957-09-008172
- b 22 Aug 1910 at Flaxcome, SK; lived at 16243 New McLellan Road, Cloverdale; trucking; lived in this location for 13 years [1940], in BC for 15 years [1942]; father James Norman Froom b in Cornwall, ON; mother Alice Runion
married Lavena Hedman; informant Reginald I Froom, son, address as above

Lavena Froom Jones: no BC death since she died 2000
from : Newspapers.com: Surrey Leader; 12 May 2000, page 39
- not a lot of information - passed away at 87 yrs. Mother of daugthers Alva, Eila, Eleanore and 2 sons, Reginald and Ira [that's it!]
- nothing on funeral home website
- nothing on findagrave


in another issue of the Surrey Leader,
19 Nov 1964, page 13 - Reginald I Froom from North Surrey - completed training with United Airlines and is flying out of San Franciso
26 Oct 1950, page 1 - re; a huge potatoe displayed; from Gordon Froom farm on the New McLellan Road

Canada Voters Lists - one entry for Mrs Lavena Froom, New Westminster, sales clerk; 1962
- searching form Lavena Jones, there is one hit, Vancouver - Quadra, 1963
Lavina Jones along with Clifford Jones, a Steam-Fitter, and Derwyn Jones student; all living at 4108 14th Ave South, Vancouver

[ 6 Aug 2020; I have searched for Lavena in Newspapers com - Vanouver and Surrey; and BC death/marriage registration, but nothing more; as well as Clifford Jone and Derwyn Jones ]


Ira Edward Allan Froom. posted Nanaimo Bulletin News, obit

born 16 June 1947, New Westminster; parents Gordon and Lavena Froom; died 6 Nov 2013, Nanaimo;
married to Helen
children; Ira is survived by his wife, Helle Froom; his four sons: Vincent (Shea), Scott (Valerie), Stormy, and Mark (Connie) Froom; his grandchildren: Dorian, Mary, Thomas, George, Jayde;
his sister, Alva (Gordon) and Eleanor (Norman)
predeceased by his parents, Gordon and Lavena; his brother, Reg; his sister-in-law, Marion; sister, Eila and brother-in-law, Graham.

Gordon Froom,


Ancestry.com Family Trees
- one private
Scott and Valerie Froom FT [searched, Gordon Froom b 1910 in Saskatchewan; 14 Jun 2020]

FamilySearch digital books "new digitalized Family Search books, june 2012 report
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/104522-the-family-record-of-james-froom-sr-united-empire-loyalist-of-england-vermont-and-upper-canada-and-his-descendants?viewer=1&offset=0#page=7&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= ⁸⁸⁸⁴

Lavena married Gordon Froom. (Gordon Froom was born on 22 Aug 1910 in Saskatchewan, Canada and died on 20 Jul 1957 in Surrey, Bristish Columbia, Canada.)