Baker gave birth to a son Robert Kermit "Jackie" (1918–1933), followed by a daughter, Berniece Inez Gladys (1919–2014). They were married on May 17, 1917, with her mother's permission and a signed affidavit that Baker was 18. He owned the apartment building that Della managed. Marriage to Jasper Baker Īt the age of 14, Baker met John Newton ("Jasper" or "Jap") Baker (1886–1951), a businessman from Kentucky who was a "violent drinker" who beat Baker during their marriage. Baker was very unhappy living with Grainger, as she had been with Graves. The couple was never married, but Della went by Mrs. Della and Baker lived off and on at his nearby two-room bungalow. In 1917, Della began a tumultuous relationship with Charles Grainger, a widower with two sons. Marion went to live in San Diego with cousins in a household that was headed by a father. Baker was a social teen at school who, like her mother, preferred older men. īy 1916, Baker lived in Venice, Los Angeles with her mother and brother. Della divorced again, this time citing alcoholism. Baker got along with this stepfather and had fond memories of living on a farm in Oregon. Young on July 26, 1916, in Portland, Oregon. Della divorced him on January 17, 1914, charging Graves with "failure to provide, dissipation and habitual intemperance." Della lived in Oregon by September 1914 and she married a man named Chitwood, or Charles E. They lived in Los Angeles at Graves' house. She married a second time to Lyle Arthur Graves, a railway switchman supervisor at Pacific Electric, on March 7, 1912. Della supported the children as a domestic worker and by renting out rooms in her house. He was insane by the time of his death on July 22, 1909. He had an advanced, untreatable case of neurosyphilis and was semi-paralyzed due to paresis. Her father was institutionalized at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino County in November 1908. Otis was prone to fits of rage and crying, migraines, dementia, and seizures. īaker and her brother, Marion Otis Elmer (born in 1905), had an unstable upbringing due to their father's alcoholism, frequent moves, and their parent's troubled marriage. In the spring of 1903, the family moved to Los Angeles County, where Otis worked for the Pacific Electric Railway Company. Della was a midwife and an unofficial teacher. At the time of Baker's birth, Otis worked for the National Railroad of Mexico painting railway cars. He also sold portraits and landscapes that he had painted and dreamed of living in Paris. Her mother, Della Mae Monroe (née Hogan), was from Arkansas, and her father, Otis Elmer Monroe, was a house painter from Indianapolis. Gladys Pearl Monroe was born on in Porfirio Dìaz (now named Piedras Negras, Coahuila) in Mexico, across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas. In her later years, she lived with her other daughter Berniece and then in a senior care facility. During that time, Baker had a three-year marriage to John Stewart Eley, who died before she could divorce him. From 1934 until the 1960s, Gladys spent most of her time in psychiatric facilities. Prone to mood swings, Baker had a mental breakdown after the death of her son, the suicide of her father, and news that her studio was shutting down. Baker struggled to take care of her daughter and placed her with a foster family weeks after her birth. She had a relationship with Charles Stanley Gifford, who was separated from his wife, and they were parents to Norma Jeane Mortenson, but Gifford was never part of Norma Jeane's life. Her short marriage to Martin Edward Mortensen ended in divorce. Baker moved to Kentucky to be near her children but left after four months.
They had two children, and at the end of the marriage, Jasper and the children returned to his native Kentucky without Baker's knowledge. She was married for the first time at age 14 to Jasper Newton Baker. After suffering from mental illness and alcoholism, her father died in 1908.īaker was married three times for three to four years each marriage. Born in Mexico, Baker grew up in the Los Angeles metro area. Gladys Pearl (née Monroe) Baker, also known as Gladys Pearl Monroe Mortensen Eley (– March 11, 1984), was the mother of American actress Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson. 3 including Marilyn Monroe and Berniece Baker Miracle
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