Sources & Information:
Nancy Estella Colby Halla Hawkins Shockey states: " Marriage Certificate for my parents. My mom's name is spelled Emogene on birth and marriage records and Imogene on Death Certificate & Social Security". Nancy further states the following:
Quotes from e-mail of May 14, 2000 and Nancy Estelle Colby Hylla Hawkins." I do not have a marriage date or place of marriage for Emogene and Robert Edmund HYLLA. They lived in the Los Angeles area and he was in the Marine's at the time. My grandmother's bible says 12956 no month or day. So I have always thought that maybe my mom was pregnant and my grandma was embarrassed about that so she just wrote the year and not the day and moth in her bible."

" When my mother married Robert Hylla he was in the Marine's and was being sent to Hawaii for a two year tour of duty. In order for his 'Step-children' to have Military benefits, like health coverage and also for my step-dad to receive more quarter's pay (if he had proof of adoption then he would make allot more money from the military and would also qualify for bigger housing) he had to adopt my mother's children. My mom went to my dad and told him that if he did not sign the adoption papers that he would NEVER see any of his kids again. My mom NEVER let us see him again and neither did any of her brother's or sister's that adopted us after her death. In fact they did not even let him know that she had died, I suppose for fear that he would ask to see his kids. So he did agree to give up his parental rights. We went to Hawaii in the later part of 1956. I did not meet him until I was 27 years old with 3 kids of my own."

"J. D. Hawkins (NO periods between J & D The J & D do not stand for any other names his name was JUST 'JD'. He was my mother's oldest brother."

Do not find FTM Vital Records, S.S. Death Index, 1937-1998, CD #110, under the name of Emogene Hylla.