On December 12 , 1963 , by then a millionaire at 22 years old , Checker proposed marriage to Catharina Lodders , a 21-year-old Dutch model and Miss World 1962 from Haarlem , the Netherlands . Checker said he met Lodders in Manila the prior January . The song " Loddy Lo " is about her . They were married on April 12 , 1964 , at Temple Lutheran Church in Pennsauken , New Jersey . Their first child , Bianca Johanna Evans , was born in a Philadelphia hospital on December 8 , 1966
Miss World 1962
Miss World 1962
Chubby Checker