Lauman was Myrtle’s second husband. In the early 1940’s Lauman moved his family from Bayfield to Washburn, Wisconsin to be closer to his work at the DuPont explosives plant. In 1944 he divorced Myrtle and moved to Flint, Michigan to work in the auto industry. He stayed with his aunt Agnes, and her husband John P. Beck. After Lauman and Evelyn married, they initially lived in Flint, Michigan and later moved about 40 miles to Ovid, Michigan.1919 Lauman lived in Ovid, Michigan on 6 April 1973.1931

She was born in a “soddy”, a sod house in North Dakota. She was a Licensed Practical Nurse. She married first Byno Thibert before 1930 in North Dakota. Their son Doyle was born in 1935 and when Doyle was 5, in 1940, she divorced Byno and moved to Bayfield, Wisconsin, where her parents Annie May and Carl Olson had moved along with their other children. She then married Lauman Bakke and they had a son, Robert in 1937. She, Lauman, Doyle and Bobby moved to Lapeer, Michigan in about 1941 to work in a sanitarium for the mentally ill. They returned to Bayfield in 1942. She then married Kenneth Dooley.1919

She was Lauman’s second wife and were married for 50 years before he died at 89. She died two years later, also at 89. She worked on a newspaper in St. James, Minnesota, then moved to Chicago to train in air communications. She was then assigned to Flint, Michigan as an air traffic controller, where she met and married Lauman. Later she received an inheritance and she and Lauman purchased a Gambles store in Ovid, Michigan, where they also purchased a two story house.1919