After Nanna's first husband passed away from TB, she married Bill Mooney. Bill was extremely abusive due to drinking excessive amounts of liquor. He would go to slap Evelyn in the mouth and as a normal reflex she would turn her face and he would end of slapping the side of her head. After several years of this physical abuse, Evelyn lost her hearing completely. After being diagnosed with TB she moved back to Indiana where she was born and she lived with her brother and his wife until her death. Nanna was unaware of how abusive her second husband was because her daughter did not want to add any stress on her already sick mother. Nanna was a well-educated woman who owed and operated a store in Colorado Springs. She met her first husband, Henry back in Indiana but both were very focused on their careers at the time and put marriage and children on the back burner. Henry got a really good job in Riverside, California while Nanna worked at the store in Colorado Springs. They wrote lover letters back and forth. In June 1907, they finally got married. They had a double wedding with Nanna's sister, Margaret and the ceremony was held at Nanna's stepmother's home in Colorado Springs. Seems Nanna had a very good relationship with her stepmother which was rare for the time. After their nuptials, the happy couple moved to Riverside, California where both of their daughters would be born with Evelyn arriving in 1908 and Fern in 1914. They resided on Vine Street in a beautiful, two-story, white frame house. When Henry was diagnosed with TB, his physician recommended he move to a better climate. After discussing it with his wife, they decided on moving their family to Colorado Springs. They eventually bought three homes on Sierra Madre Street and they were all corner homes. One out of three homes, one was a two-story. When Nanna's health declined and she knew she had little time left she had her oldest daughter pick one of the three homes and she signed it over to her; the other two homes were for her youngest daughter, Fern but at that time Fern was still a minor. Evelyn picked the home at 723 South Sierra Madre; it was on the corner of Las Animas and that would be the home Evelyn raised her five children in between 1930 and 1959. In 2005, it was the parking lot of an automobile detail company.
After Nanna's first husband passed away from TB, she married Bill Mooney. Bill was extremely abusive due to drinking excessive amounts of liquor. He would go to slap Evelyn in the mouth and as a normal reflex she would turn her face and he would end of slapping the side of her head. After several years of this physical abuse, Evelyn lost her hearing completely. After being diagnosed with TB she moved back to Indiana where she was born and she lived with her brother and his wife until her death. Nanna was unaware of how abusive her second husband was because her daughter did not want to add any stress on her already sick mother. Nanna was a well-educated woman who owed and operated a store in Colorado Springs. She met her first husband, Henry back in Indiana but both were very focused on their careers at the time and put marriage and children on the back burner. Henry got a really good job in Riverside, California while Nanna worked at the store in Colorado Springs. They wrote lover letters back and forth. In June 1907, they finally got married. They had a double wedding with Nanna's sister, Margaret and the ceremony was held at Nanna's stepmother's home in Colorado Springs. Seems Nanna had a very good relationship with her stepmother which was rare for the time. After their nuptials, the happy couple moved to Riverside, California where both of their daughters would be born with Evelyn arriving in 1908 and Fern in 1914. They resided on Vine Street in a beautiful, two-story, white frame house. When Henry was diagnosed with TB, his physician recommended he move to a better climate. After discussing it with his wife, they decided on moving their family to Colorado Springs. They eventually bought three homes on Sierra Madre Street and they were all corner homes. One out of three homes, one was a two-story. When Nanna's health declined and she knew she had little time left she had her oldest daughter pick one of the three homes and she signed it over to her; the other two homes were for her youngest daughter, Fern but at that time Fern was still a minor. Evelyn picked the home at 723 South Sierra Madre; it was on the corner of Las Animas and that would be the home Evelyn raised her five children in between 1930 and 1959. In 2005, it was the parking lot of an automobile detail company.
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Cause of death: TB
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