Robert Earl "Earl" Proeger

Robert Earl "Earl" Proeger

OklahomaLiving

Subject of this record

Born

in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Married

Kristin M. Caffey

Sources

3

Images

4

Life in the order the records give it

Birth—

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma

the family obituary records the young couple living there when their first son was born S1, and the Texas Marriage Index corroborates the year S2. Year withheld here.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1994

Married Kristin M. Caffey in a ceremony on Guam, 1994; the marriage was registered in Travis County, Texas (Texas Marriage Index, 25 Jun 1994) S2, their longtime home, because Texas allowed them to marry by affirmation rather than oath

a Quaker scruple Guam made no accommodation for (Earl Proeger’s account, 22 Sep 2026 S24). The Travis County record is the one that establishes Kristin's maiden name.

Children—

Three children with Kristin

Maia, and the twins Evelyn and Axel. Their names are all this page publishes about them: no dates, no birth years, no ages, no schools, no places.

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In the record The couple at the centre

1. S1Family-written obituary of Nancy Martin Coffman Proeger, read at her memorial at Hope Chapel, Austin, 15 March 2025, and published by the family. Family-authored; the single richest document found.
2. S2Texas Marriage Index and Washington State Archives, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com — sortedbyname.com/letter_p/proeger/index_2.html and /index_1.html. Also the source for the Social Security NUMIDENT extracts and the immigration arrival index.
3. S24Family testimony — Earl Proeger, September 2026. Stated directly by the family and recorded on their word. Covers: the Silva maiden name and William Harry Proeger as his father's father (both of which record research had already reached independently); and, on Kristin's side, her father Thomas Caffey — raised in Austin, University of Texas, died at Austin — and her mother Lavonne Walker, Walker being her maiden name, born at Fort Worth, Tarrant County. Not a document. No record has been retrieved for any of the Caffey or Walker statements, no dates were supplied for either person, and none has been estimated. Carried throughout as Family testimony, never as Confirmed. Superseded in part on 13 September 2026: the Thomas Caffey statements are now carried on records instead — see S31–S35. The Lavonne Walker statements still rest on this source alone. Extended 17 September 2026: the family further states that she was born Walker, married a Caffey and divorced, then married a Danielson who has since died — which is why her photographs are captioned Danielson. It matches the Caffey obituary's "former wife, LaVonne Danielson" [S31] independently. Her present surname and her widowhood rest on this testimony alone; the second husband's given name, and every date and place attached to that marriage, were not supplied and are not published. Extended 22 September 2026 (eyewitness): Earl was present at the birth of his half-brother John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, born 25 May 1994 on the island of Guam to William Leonard Proeger and Briana Castro Proeger; Earl states the birth was one month before his own wedding ceremony with Kristin, which was also held on Guam (the marriage itself was registered in Travis County; see the next entry). No birth record has been retrieved. Extended 22 September 2026 (Earl’s own account of his marriage): “Kristin and I married on Guam in a ceremony but registered our marriage in Travis County when we visited Austin, as that had been our home for many years, and we could marry without swearing, a scruple we held as Quakers and which Guam had no accommodation for.” The only date held is the Travis County registration, 25 June 1994, from the Texas Marriage Index [S2]; the date of the Guam ceremony was not supplied and is not published.