Albert "Beanie" Rhode

Albert "Beanie" Rhode was the youngest of the three children of Charlie and Nettie Rhode. He was born August 15th 1901 and died June 3rd 1977. He went to high school in Oxford, Indiana where his sister Dorothy later taught 4 th grade. In 1924 he graduated from Wabash College and the following summer he and two of his friends started for the West Coast in an old car. The car made it as far as North Dakota. His two friends made their way back to Indiana, but Beanie decided to stay with his uncle Ed Reed (his mother's brother) and make his way on to California when the weather cleared in the spring. He was able to get a job teaching for the winter in a one-room schoolhouse. He told about riding a horse to the school where the snow sometimes came up to the windowsills. He did finally get to the Los Angeles area where he sold insurance for a few years, and married Evelyn in 1928. Beanie's wife Evelyn Wright was born August 6th, 1901 in Scotland and migrated to the United States in 1922. They were married in 1928. In l933 Beany joined B. L. Russell & Co Appliances located in Huntington Park, Ca. which he owned until he died in 1977.

Nettie Rhode & Beanie Beanie and Sister Dorothy

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