Born: ***?*** 1935, Idaho
Died: ***
Buried: ***

Father: ***
Mother: ***

Brautigan's first wife, mother of his daughter, Ianthe Elizabeth Brautigan.

Marriage(1): 8 June 1957, Reno, Nevada

Separated(1): 24 December 1962, San Francisco, California

Divorced(1): 27 July 1970, San Francisco, California
Original petition filed: 13 January 1970

Children:

1. Ianthe Elizabeth Brautigan
   Born: 25 March 1960, San Francisco, California
   Married: 5 September 1981, Santa Rosa, California
   Paul Swenson

1958: Polk City Directory San Francisco notes Richard G. and Virginia D. "Brautigam" [sic] living at 1470 Washington. Virginia is noted as working as a secretary at the San Francisco Museum of Art.

1959: Polk City Directory San Francisco notes Richard and Virginia living at 461 Mississippi. Brautigan is noted as a "student."

1960: Polk City Directory San Francisco notes Richard G. and Virginia D. living at 575 Pennsylvania. Brautigan is noted as a "lab tech."

1961-1965: Polk City Directory San Francisco provides no listings for Virgina Alder, or Brautigan.

1966: Polk City Directory San Francisco notes Richard "Brantigan" [sic] living at 2830 California.

Marriage(2): ***
Anthony (Tony) Frederic Aste
Born: 5 August 1943, Salt Lake City(?), Utah
Died: 17 January 1996, San Francisco, California
Buried: ***

Father: Fred Herman Aste
Born: ***
Mother: Phyllis Elaine Evens
Born: ***, South Dakota

Children:

1. Ellen
   Born 19 February 1965, San Francisco, California
2. Mara S.
   Born 22 May 1968, San Francisco, California
3. Jesse
   Born 24 November 1969, Sonoma, California

Unknown: Alder and Aste moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, Aste's home. An undated notation among Brautigan's papers reads: 1961-1965: Polk City Directory San Francisco provides no listings for Virgina Alder (Brautigan), Anthony Aste. The first of three children to Alder and Aste, Ellen, is born 19 February 1965, in San Francisco, California.

1966: Polk City Directory San Francisco Anthony Aste and Virginia living at 426 Francisco Street. Virginia is noted as a "student."

1967: Polk City Directory San Francisco notes Anthony Aste and Virginia living at 426 Francisco Street. Virginia is noted as a "student."

1968: Second child, Mara S., born 22 May 1968, San Francisco, California.

1969: Third child, Jesse, born 24 November 1969, Sonoma, California.

1970: Virginia Alder (Brautigan) and Aste living at 17140 Arnold Drive, Sonoma, California, in Sonoma County's Valley of the Moon.

1988: Aste living in Bodega Bay, California (Post Office Box 144)

1996: Aste living at 4770 Mission Street #412, San Francisco, California.

Aste died of a heart attack, in his car, at 400 China Basin Street, in San Francisco.
Aste's Death Certificate notes his address as 4770 Mission Street #412, San Francisco, California
Death Certificate also notes that Aste "never married"

1975: Alder moved to Hawaii and pursued a career as a teacher and political activist on The Big Island. She lives currently in Pahoa, Hawaii.