General Notes

m. (1) RALPH CLINTON ASHBROOK June 13, 1953 in Liberty Indiana.
b. December 15, 1935 in Nashport, Licking Co. Ohio.
m. (2) RICHARD PORTER Abt. 1964 in Liberty, Indiana.

Children of BETTY WILKIN and RALPH ASHBROOK are:

i. CYNTHIA MARGARET ASHBROOK
b. January 28, 1954.

ii. GREGORY PAUL ASHBROOK
b. December 15, 1956, Newark, Licking Co. Ohio.

Child of BETTY WILKIN and RICHARD PORTER is:

iii. ANGELA SUE PORTER
b. June 16, 1964.

Betty Louise Wilkin was the first child born to Emmitt Richard and Millie Mabel Hunt Wilkin.
b. in Highland Co, Ohio on Feb 14, 1935. She graduated in May of 1953 from Homer High School in Homer, Licking Co., Ohio. She married Ralph Clinton Ashbrook in Liberty, Indiana on June 13, 1953.

Betty and Ralph had two children born to their marriage who were Cynthia Margaret born Jan 28, 1954 in Newark, Ohio and Gregory Paul born on Dec 15, 1956, also in Newark, Ohio.

Shortly after Gregory was born, Betty and Ralph separated and divorced a year later. Betty continued to raise her children and worked at various jobs to support them and herself. She attended Barber School in Columbus, Ohio and after receiving her license as a stylist went to work cutting hair. After several years of working in other shops, she opened her own shop.

In about 1962 Betty had one fellow in her life by the name of Richard Porter, Together they had one child, Angela Sue Porter born June 16, 1964 in Columbus, Ohio.

Betty moved to Chevrolet Ave, East of Pataskala, Ohio where she ran her shop out of a converted railroad caboose. After her youngest daughter graduated from high school, Betty moved her home and business to Newark, Ohio. After having some health problems that would no longer allow her to work at her profession in about 1994, Betty moved to California which had been her dream for years. She soon purchased a distressed house in Moreno Valley where she set about retrofitting the place. Today she is still working on the place but enjoying the California weather and climate in the comfort of her home that she has made quite livable again. She is now retired on Social Security and has adapted to her new surroundings.
by Rick Wilkin, her brother and Wilkin Historian