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

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