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

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

Ken was Myrtle’s third husband. He lived at and ran the mink ranch across the road from the Bakke home, on the Turner Road, in rural Bayfield, Wisconsin. At times he would have as many as 12,000 mink. 1919