Editing Chubby Checker (section)

==Personal life==
On December 12, 1963, Checker proposed to [[Catharina Lodders]], a 21-year-old [[Dutch people|Dutch]] model and [[Miss World 1962]] from [[Haarlem]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zBMrAAAAIBAJ&pg=5252,7340884&dq=catharina-lodders&hl=en|title=Chubby Checker To Wed Beauty|date=December 12, 1963|work=[[Reading Eagle]]|publisher=[[United Press International|UPI]]|page=46|access-date=August 12, 2010|archive-date=October 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025000616/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zBMrAAAAIBAJ&pg=5252,7340884&dq=catharina-lodders&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> Checker said he met Lodders in [[Manila]] the prior January.<ref>UPI Telephoto (NAP 1404993...New York Bureau).</ref> The song "[[Loddy Lo]]" is about her. They were married on April 12, 1964, at Temple Lutheran Church in [[Pennsauken Township, New Jersey|Pennsauken, New Jersey]].<ref>AP Wire Photo 1964.</ref> Their first child, Bianca Johanna Evans, was born in a Philadelphia hospital on December 8, 1966.<ref>AP wire photo (jfu 5-2200-jfu-stass) 1966.</ref> Their other two children are Ilka Evans and musician Shan Egan (Evans), lead singer of Funk Church, a band in the Philadelphia area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jumpphilly.com/2011/04/16/musictown-chubby-checkers-son-is-a-funk-master/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116070855/https://jumpphilly.com/2011/04/16/musictown-chubby-checkers-son-is-a-funk-master/|url-status=dead|title=MusicTown: Chubby Checker's Son is a Funk Master.|date=April 16, 2011|website=Jumpphilly.com|archive-date=16 November 2018|access-date=3 May 2023}}</ref> Checker is also the father of [[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]] player [[Mistie Bass]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/mistie_bass/bio.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109165230/http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/mistie_bass/bio.html|url-status=dead|title=Mistie Bass|archive-date=9 January 2015|access-date=19 August 2021}}</ref>