Gazlay Family History
Robert David Ryan
DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN GAZLAY (from England c.1715)
Robert David Ryan8 (Warren Ryan,7 George Ryan,6 Abigail Gazlay,5 Joshua Gazlay,4 Jonathan Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)
Robert David Ryan8 (Warren Ryan,7 George Ryan,6 Abigail Gazlay,5 Joshua Gazlay,4 Jonathan Gazlay,3 John Gazlay,2 John Gazlay1)
Parents
| Father | Warren Wood Ryan (20 December 1886 - 4 March 1949) |
| Mother | Muriel Coryell (February 1893 - 1967) |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 26 January 2012; Last Edited: 17 November 2024 |
| Person ID | 3485 |
| Name | Robert David Ryan |
| Gender | Male |
| Born | July 1927 in Washington1, 2 |
| Married | 14 August 1948 in Parker Heights, Yakima County, Washington to Doris May Armstrong3, 4, 5 |
| Divorced | July 1984 in Clark County, Washington from Doris May Armstrong4 |
| Died | 21 August 20174 |
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  Doris May Armstrong (daughter of Oliver Waldo Armstrong and Bernice Leona Jones) |
| Born | 3 December 1929 in Cody, Park County, Wyoming |
| Married | 14 August 1948 in Parker Heights, Yakima County, Washington to Robert David Ryan |
| Married | 23 December 1993 in Alberta, Canada to Arthur Bruce Wigglesworth |
| Died | 19 June 2009 in Puyallup, Pierce County, Washington |
| Children | of Robert David Ryan and Doris May Armstrong: |
| 1. | Constance Jean Ryan |
| Born | 1949 |
| Died | 1949 |
| +2. | Dale Eugene Ryan |
| Born | 17 May 1951 in Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington |
| Married | 17 August 1974 in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington to Ruth I. Van Newkirk |
| +3. | Peggy Arlene Ryan |
| Born | 22 December 1952 |
| Married | to Thomas Frank |
| Married | to Richard E. Niebuhr |
Sources
- Find a Grave (website). Sumner Cemetery, Sumner, Pierce County, Washington, Ryan / father / Warren Wood / 1886-1949 / mother / Muriel C. / 1893-1967 (from gravestone); record gives death date as 25 February 1949 but Washington Death index gives the date as 4 March 1949; record provides full names of wife and three children, and a copy of his obituary (newspaper unidentified) that gives names of all children, a brother and a sister.
- U.S. Federal Census, 1930, Washington, Pierce County, Sumner Town, Enumeration District 27-91, Sheet No. 5B, family of Warren W. Ryan (43, Washington, farmer, first married age 25); wife Murial C. Ryan (37, Nebraska, first married age 19); daughter Edith M. Ryan (15, Washington); son Warren W. Ryan, Jr. (13, Washington); daughter Gladys L. Ryan (12, Washington); son Lewis H. Ryan (10, Washington); daughter Lucy B. Ryan (5, Washington); son Robert D. Ryan (2 9/12, Washington).
- Email from Dan Gassoway to Lee Gazlay, April 2013, providing details of his Gassoway, Ryan, and Coryell relatives.
- Minerd.com, Biography of Philemon and Lucinda Jane (Gollada) Armstrong. Among their descendants described in the text with vital and biographical details is their granddaughter Doris May Armstrong, her two husbands, Robert David Ryan and Arthur Bruce Wigglesworth, and her children from her first marriage, Constance, Dale and Peggy Ryan.
- Armstrong family, Yakima Roots; available at Rootsweb Archives; Post by Robert E. Armstrong, 23 June 1999; provides details of his Armstrong family that includes Doris May Armstrong, her spouses, parents, children and their spouses.