Husband: Wesley Russell UPDIKE (1,2)
Birthdate: 22 Feb 1900
Birthplace: Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA (3,4,5)
Death date: Apr 1972
Place of death: , , Pennsylvania, USA (6)
Burial: Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Father: Hartley Titus UPDIKE (1860-1923) (7,8)
Mother: Virginia Emily BLACKWOOD (1865-1939) (9,10)

Marriage date: 31 Aug 1925
Marriage place: , Tompkins, New York, USA (11)

Wife: Linda Grace HOYER (12,13,14)
Birthdate: 20 Jun 1904
Birthplace: , , Pennsylvania, USA (15,16)
Death date: 11 Oct 1989
Place of death: Morgantown, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA (17)
Burial: Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Father: John Franklin HOYER (1863-1953) (18,19)
Mother: Katherine Ziemer KRAMER (1873-1955) (20,21,22)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John Hoyer UPDIKE (23)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 18 Mar 1932
Birthplace: Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA (24)
Death date: 27 Jan 2009
Place of death: Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Burial: Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: He was married twice, both still living.
 
 
Documentation:
1. United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (FamilySearch.org), Updike, Wesley Russell #3780.
2. New Jersey Births, 1670-1980 (FamilySearch.org), Updike, Westleigh R.
3. United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (FamilySearch.org), Updike, Wesley Russell #3780. age 18, 22 Feb 1900.
4. Social Security Death Index, Updike, Wesley. 22 Feb 1900.
5. New Jersey Births, 1670-1980 (FamilySearch.org), Updike, Westleigh R. 22 Feb 1900, Trenton, Mercer County.
6. Social Security Death Index, Updike, Wesley. Apr 1972; last residence, Chester, Pennsylvania.
7. 1920 Federal Census, New Jersey, Mercer, ED 112, pg 7B. Hartley F Updike.
8. New York County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936 (FamilySearch.org), Updike, Wesley R. Hartley T Updike.
9. 1920 Federal Census, New Jersey, Mercer, ED 112, pg 7B. Virginia Updike.
10. New York County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936 (FamilySearch.org), Updike, Wesley R. Virginia E Blackwood.
11. New York County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936 (FamilySearch.org), Updike, Wesley R. to Linda G Hoyer, 31 Aug 1925, Tompkins County.
12. New York County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936 (FamilySearch.org), Updike, Wesley R. to Linda G Hoyer.
13. 1940 Federal Census, Pennsylvania, Berks, ED 6-84, pg 14A. age 35, Pennsylvania.
14. 1910 Federal Census, Pennsylvania, Berks, ED 113, pg 15B. Linda Grace Hoyer.
15. 1910 Federal Census, Pennsylvania, Berks, ED 113, pg 15B. age 5, Pennsylvania.
16. Social Security Death Index, Updike, Linda G. 20 Jun 1904.
17. Social Security Death Index, Updike, Linda G. Oct 1989.
18. New York County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936 (FamilySearch.org), Updike, Wesley R. John F Hoyer.
19. 1940 Federal Census, Pennsylvania, Berks, ED 6-84, pg 14A. John F Hoyer.
20. New York County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936 (FamilySearch.org), Updike, Wesley R. Kattie Kramer.
21. 1940 Federal Census, Pennsylvania, Berks, ED 6-84, pg 14A. Katie Z Hoyer.
22. Pennsylvania County Marriages, 1885-1950 (FamilySearch.org), Hoyer, John F. to Kate Z Kramer.
23. 1940 Federal Census, Pennsylvania, Berks, ED 6-84, pg 14A. John H Updike.
24. 1940 Federal Census, Pennsylvania, Berks, ED 6-84, pg 14A. age 8, Pennsylvania.

Wesley Russell UPDIKE
1. He enlisted in the draft on 12 Sep 1918 in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, USA. Wesley Russell Updike, age 18, born 22 Feb 1900, is a student. His nearest relative is Virginia E Updike (mother) of 913 Edgewood Avenue, Trenton. He is tall, with a medium build, gray eyes and brown hair.
2. He was employed as a cable-tester for AT&T in 1925 in Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, USA.
3. He appeared on the Census in 1940 in , Berks, Pennsylvania, USA, ED 6-84, pg 14A. Shillington Borough, 117 East Philadelphia Avenue
John F Hoyer Head M 76 Pennsylvania
Katie Z Hoyer Wife F 66 Pennsylvania
Wesley Updike S-in-l M 40 New Jersey
Linda G Updike Dau F 35 Pennsylvania
John H Updike G-son M 8 Pennsylvania
John Hoyer is a laborer for the street department and Wesley is a teacher at the high school.

Linda Grace HOYER
1. She was educated at Keystone Normal School graduating in 1918 in Kutztown, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA.
2. She was educated at Ursinis College graduating in 1923 in Collegeville, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA. Bachelor of Arts
3. She was educated at Cornell University graduating in 1924 in Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, USA. Master of Arts.
4. Her obituary was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 21 Oct 1989 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Linda G Hoyer Updike

John Hoyer UPDIKE
1. He was educated at Harvard graduating in 1954 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Summa Cum Laude.
2. He wrote Rabbit, Run in 1960.
3. He wrote Bech, A Book in 1970. The second book in this series is Bech is Back.
4. He wrote Rabbit Redux in 1971.
5. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Rabbit is Rich.
6. He wrote The Witches of Eastwick in 1984. In 2008, he published The Widows of Eastwick about the ladies in old age.
7. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for Rabbit at Rest. (He finished this series with a novella, Rabbit Remembered.)
8. He wrote Bech at Bay in 1998.
  * John Updike started his career at The New Yorker and was a prolific writer; I have listed only a few of his accomplishments here. He also wrote poetry, non-fiction, a play, and many, many short stories. Most of his work is about everyday life in America but he also tried his hand at science fiction, a historical novel and a historical saga, as well as a novel inspired by a trip to Africa. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes, his work was awarded with the O. Henry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle, National Arts Club Medal of Honor, Ambassador Book Award and a National Humanities Medal among others. [Gina]
  * He published "26 novels in 49 years" [Louis Menand in The New Yorker].

This sheet is intended to be genealogical, not biographical. I am not related.
As always, if there is no SOURCE, there is no PROOF. Much of this came from secondary sources.