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