Eley died three years later of a heart infection. īaker was married for a third time in 1949, to the electrician John Stewart Eley. Norma Jean became a ward of the state, and her mother's friend, Grace Goddard, took responsibility over her and her mother's affairs. After several months in a rest home, she was committed to the Metropolitan State Hospital. In January 1934, Baker had a mental breakdown and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. They shared the house with lodgers, actors George and Maude Atkinson and their daughter, Nellie. In the summer of 1933, Baker bought a small house in Hollywood with a loan from the Home Owners' Loan Corporation and moved her daughter in with her. īaker placed Norma Jeane with evangelical Christian foster parents Albert and Ida Bolender in the rural town of Hawthorne. Gladys' brother Otis disappeared in October 1929 and was pronounced dead in 1955. Della Monroe died shortly thereafter of a heart attack. Norma Jeane was baptised with the name Baker, in an act of her grandmother Della to hide the illegitimacy.
Baker registered the surname Mortenson on Norma Jean's birth certificate, using the name of her ex-husband and specifying his address as unknown.
Gifford is often assumed to be her father, though the identity remains uncertain. While working for him as a film negative cutter, she became pregnant and gave birth to her third and final child, Norma Jeane Baker on June 1, 1926, in the Los Angeles County Hospital. They divorced a few years later, after Baker met her superior at RKO Pictures, Charles Stanley Gifford (1898–1965). In 1924, Baker remarried with Norwegian immigrant Martin Edward Mortensen (1897–1981). After abusive incidents, Baker filed for divorce from Jasper in 1921, leading him to kidnap the children and raise them in his native Kentucky. In 1917, Baker married Jasper Newton "Jap" Baker (1886–1951) and gave birth to a son Robert Kermit "Jackie" (1918–1933), followed by a daughter, Berniece Inez Gladys. The family soon migrated to Los Angeles County, and Otis started working for the Pacific Electric Railway Co. Her mother, Della Mae Monroe ( née Hogan), was from Arkansas, and her father, Otis Elmer Monroe, was an aspiring painter from Minneapolis, who worked for the National Railway. Gladys Pearl Monroe was born on in Piedras Negras, Coahuila in Mexico.
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