Lorraine Rachel (Cooper) Kuehn 1927–2000

Catalog ID p.2376 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/2376/

Lorraine Rachel (Cooper) Kuehn was born on 25 Jun 1927 in Eden, Marshall Co., South Dakota, the daughter of George Melville Cooper and Pauline Katherine (Janisch) Cooper. She married Norbert H. Kuehn (1945). She died on 15 Oct 2000 in Coos Bay, Coos Co., Oregon and was buried at Ocean View Memory Gardens and Crematory, Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon, USA. Two children are recorded.

Facts

Event	Date	Place / detail	Certainty	Sources
birth	25 Jun 1927	Eden, Marshall Co., South Dakota	certain	N.60, G.661
residence	1930	Eden, Marshall Co., South Dakota - her father's household, family 23	certain	D.731
residence	1940	White Rock Twp, Roberts Co., South Dakota - her father's household, household 32	certain	D.732
residence	1 Apr 1950	Browns Valley, Traverse Co., Minnesota - serial 15, Block 4 N.W. corner, ED 78-2 page 71	certain	D.859
residence	2000	Coos Bay, Coos Co., Oregon	certain	N.60
death	15 Oct 2000	Coos Bay, Coos Co., Oregon	certain	N.60, G.661
burial		Ocean View Memory Gardens and Crematory, Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon, USA	certain	G.661

Family

Parents

Father George Melville Cooper 1885–1962 N.60, G.661
Mother Pauline Katherine (Janisch) Cooper 1889–1945 N.60, G.661

Spouses

Norbert H. Kuehn 1922–2005
married 12 Jul 1945
N.60, G.661

Siblings

Evelyn Anna (Cooper) Robertson 1923–1992
Helen Laura (Cooper) Dew 1925–2005
Clarence F Cooper 1931–1946
Eugene George Cooper 1933–1977

Children

Living (2) D.859

Family tree

Solid lines and outlines: certain. Dashed: probable or weaker. Open the full tree (four generations)

In the documents

Every published document that names Lorraine Rachel (Cooper) Kuehn, in date order, with what that document itself records.

Date	Document	Role	What it records
24 Apr 1930	D.731 census population 1930 1930 U.S. census, Eden Village, Marshall Co., South Dakota, ED 46-5, sheet 1B (stamped 7001), lines 82-87 (family 23) - NARA T626	child as "Lorene"
5 Apr 1940	D.732 census population 1940 1940 U.S. census, White Rock Township, Roberts Co., South Dakota, SD 3, ED 55-39, sheet 2B, lines 57-63 (household 32) - NARA T627	child as "Lorraine"
1 Apr 1950	D.859 federal census 1950 US Federal Census — Browns Valley, Traverse Co., Minnesota, ED 78-2, page 71, lines 4–7 (serial 15, Block 4 N.W. corner): the Norbert Kuehn household.	spouse as "Lorraine"	residence: 1 Apr 1950, Browns Valley, Traverse Co., Minnesota occupation: 1 Apr 1950, Keeping house

6 further documents not published (they may name living people).

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Searches recorded

ancestry all 2026-10-19 · HER 1950 CENSUS, the one gap of the three that the catalog could not supply from disk. Run on her MARRIED surname, because she married...

Searched for: HER 1950 CENSUS, the one gap of the three that the catalog could not supply from disk. Run on her MARRIED surname, because she married Norbert H. Kuehn on 12 July 1945 [N.60] and no Cooper-keyed search reaches her after that: coll. 62308, ?name=Lorraine_Kuehn&name_x=1_1&birth=1927_south+dakota-usa&birth_x=1-0-0&count=50 — both name halves exact, bounded on a South Dakota birth, no place filter.

Result: ONE ROW IN THE UNITED STATES, AND IT IS HERS → [D.859]: Browns Valley, Traverse Co., Minnesota, aged 22, keeping house, husband Norbert a well digger. AND IT NAMES TWO SONS THE CATALOG HAD NEVER HEARD OF — Earl, 3, born Minnesota, and Ronald, born March 1950 in South Dakota. Her children: key did not exist; it does now. Her census series is complete to 1950 — 1930 [D.731] and 1940 [D.732] from disk, 1950 here.

ancestry all 2026-10-19 · NO ENGINE WAS RUN FOR 1930 OR 1940, AND NONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN. Both plates were already in the catalog — [D.731] (1930 Eden, Marshall...

Searched for: NO ENGINE WAS RUN FOR 1930 OR 1940, AND NONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN. Both plates were already in the catalog — [D.731] (1930 Eden, Marshall Co., S.D.) and [D.732] (1940 White Rock Twp, Roberts Co., S.D.), her father George Melville Cooper's households, transcribed line by line, and both already cited by her sisters Evelyn Anna (Cooper) Robertson and Helen Laura (Cooper) Dew. The catalog was asked before the engine.

Result: BOTH CLOSED FROM DISK, leaving 1950 as her only remaining census gap — she married Norbert H. Kuehn on 12 July 1945 [N.60], so a 1950 search must be run on Kuehn, not Cooper. WHY THEY READ AS GAPS: each entry carried all three sisters in a single compound subjects: row — ‘Evelyn 7, Helen 4, Lorene 2 (Cooper)’ and ‘Evelyn 16, Helen 14, Lorraine 12 (Cooper)’ — with no p-numbers, beside properly linked rows for their brothers Clarence F Cooper and Eugene George Cooper. ⇒ The daughters were invisible to every consumer while the sons were not. Six links added across the two entries, plus three more on [D.823].

findagrave 2026-10-14 · Find a Grave: Kuehn, Lorraine, b. 1927 +/-1, d. 2000 +/-1.

Searched for: Find a Grave: Kuehn, Lorraine, b. 1927 +/-1, d. 2000 +/-1.

Result: FOUND memorial 115801406 -> [G.661]; Ancestry links opened per the 2026-10-14 rule -> [N.60].

newspapers com 2026-10-14 · Image 338445450 (The World, Coos Bay, 17 Oct 2000), via the obituary-index link.

Searched for: Image 338445450 (The World, Coos Bay, 17 Oct 2000), via the obituary-index link.

Result: Page 'not found' - not available to this subscription. Obituary not read.

Documents

D.731 1930 U.S. census, Eden Village, Marshall Co., South Dakota, ED 46-5, sheet 1B (stamped 7001), lines 82-87 (family 23) - NARA T626
D.732 1940 U.S. census, White Rock Township, Roberts Co., South Dakota, SD 3, ED 55-39, sheet 2B, lines 57-63 (household 32) - NARA T627
D.859 1950 US Federal Census — Browns Valley, Traverse Co., Minnesota, ED 78-2, page 71, lines 4–7 (serial 15, Block 4 N.W. corner): the Norbert Kuehn household.