About the Ladds

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Since Forrest and Jean retired one of their major activities has been researching each of their family lines. The Ladds are the family line of Forrest's father, Forrest E. Ladd, Sr. Forrest has done most of the work on the photographs. Jean has been the major researcher, working on the current families linking the Ladds back to Wisconsin and the Andersons to Sweden.

Forrest was born and raised in his early years in the Happy Valley School community southeast of Cushing, Oklahoma. He also has lived in such towns as Enid, Oklahoma and Coffeyville, Kansas. He graduated from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma (then the name was Bethany-Peniel College).

Jean was born and raised near Ford, Kansas. She attended Bethany-Peniel College where she and Forrest met. they were married two years after graduation. They both taught in Miltonvale Wesleyan College, Miltonvale, Kansas for two years, then moved to Lawrence, Kansas where Jean taught in the Perry, Kansas high school while Forrest was in graduate school at the University of Kansas.

From 1955 to August 2001 they lived in Bethany and Oklahoma City. Jean retired from being manager of the Bethany Book Store and Forrest retired from teaching at Southern Nazarene University. In August 2001 they moved to the Spanish Cove Retirement Village in Yukon, Oklahoma.

They are eager to make contact with the viewers of these pages. Their email addresses are:
forladd@ionet.net        for Forrest, and
jladd@ionet.net           for Jean