Beatrice deClaire was born in 1920 in Detroit to Madeline and Benjamin deClaire.   She graduated from Saint Ambrose in Grosse Pointe.  Beatrice was a "shopper," meaning a comparison shopper for Marshall-Field Department store.  She graduated from Academy Sapho, a fashion school.  She married George A. Fairweather in 1942, who served as a Ensign in the U.S. Navy.  

 

Beatrice had two daughters, Elaine and Sue.  She spent most of her adult life in Illinois and Delaware as her husband was a plant lay-out man for Chrysler Corpoation and remained in both states for many years.  Beatrice died in 2007.