Her Mother Left the Family With No Forwarding Address
Berniece was born in 1919, seven years before her mother Gladys would give birth to Norma Jeane. And in that time, Gladys Baker had cut all contact with her ex-husband Jasper, and their two children, Jackie and Berniece. Baker wrote on Monroe’s birth certificate that she had no other living children, further cutting ties with the family she had fled from. But this wouldn’t be the end of her relationship with her estranged daughter.