Gazlay Family History
Ethel Luella Olson
Parents
| Father | Joseph Olson ( - ) |
| Mother | Ida Sangren ( - ) |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 9 April 2023; Last Edited: 10 April 2023 |
| Person ID | 13714 |
| Name | Ethel Luella Olson |
| Gender | Female |
| Born | 30 November 1910 in Dassel, Meeker County, Minnesota1, 2 |
| Married | to Bernard Joseph ‘Red’ Donovan |
| Died | 22 December 1944 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan1 |
| Buried | in Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Van Buren County, Michigan1 |
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  Bernard Joseph ‘Red’ Donovan (son of William Patrick Donovan and Rachael Margaret Payne) |
| Born | 26 December 1912 in Lawrence, Van Buren County, Michigan |
| Married | to Ethel Luella Olson |
| Married | to Kathryn Jean ‘Katie’ Koeningshof |
| Died | 2 April 1992 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan |
| Children | of Ethel Luella Olson and Bernard Joseph ‘Red’ Donovan: |
| 1. | Rodean Ann ‘Deanie’ Donovan |
| Born | 7 March 1936 in Michigan |
| Married | 2 June 1956 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan to Gordon Moerdyk |
| Married | 1983 in Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana to Kenneth Wayne Strate |
| 2. | John Thomas Donovan |
| Born | 30 January 1939 in Michigan |
| Died | 31 December 1969 |
| 3. | Ethel Lowella Donovan |
| Born | 18 December 1944 |
| Died | 14 December 1985 |
Sources
- Find a Grave (website). Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Van Buren County, Michigan, Ethel Luella Olson Donovan, born: 30 November 1910 in Dassel, Meeker County, Minnesota; died: 22 December 1944 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan (from record, which includes information from two census records and death record; and provides the name and link for her husband).
- U.S. Federal Census, 1940, Michigan, Kalamazoo County, Kalamazoo, E.D. 39-16, Sheet No. 13B, Bernard Donovan, 27, Michigan, street work, city; wife Ethel Donovan, 29, Minnesota; daughter Rodean Donovan, 4, Michigan; son Thomas Donovan, 1, Michigan.