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In search for my gandmothers mother, her name is Martha Bentz. She lived in Cedar Rapids Iowa in (1936) the year she gave birth to my grand mother Joan Elaine (born Bentz) Brown. Adoption records show she lived with a man E. M. Pinney. She gave birth to Joan on September 2nd 1936 in Iowa City Iowa but am unsure if she ever took her home from the hospital. There is paperwork showing she put her in a home called Home for the Friendless and paid for her to live there for a short time until Marshall and Edna Brown fostered her until they were able to adopt her In January of 1937,