Are we still interested in finding her family or friends? I found one EW, no age displayed but for Pacifia CA. If it sounds like it is worth looking into I will.
Bringing back from the beginning of the EW Thread which Interested posted:
A little more genealogical information on Evelyn Wanek
Maybe Joe Ford or Annasmom will reconize a name.
According US census records Evelyn's family lived in North Dakota from at least 1910 to 1930. Death records show her mother, father, and at least one sister also died in CA
Father: Joseph M. Wanek b. 1-27-1873 d. 4-15-1972 (SF CA)
Mother: Barbara (Matuska) b. 6-27-1883 d. 11-30-1981 (SF CA)
Sister: Florence M. b.1905
Self: Evelyn R. b. 2-11-1906 d.12-31-1992 (San Mateo CA)
Sister: Loretta F. (Guidici) b. 10-25-1911 d. 10-19-1995 (Santa Cruz CA)
I haven't been able to trace info on older sister Florence yet
Loretta Frances Wanek married Peter Guidici (both deceased)
children:
David Charles Guidici b.5-16-42 d.10-27-81 (San Mateo CA)
Maureen C. Guidici b.12-7-37 IIRC, we were trying to track down Maureen Guidici, she is Evelyn's neice. See above.
Maureen is still living, married twice, and appears to have a couple step-children, none of her own. If Anna was given to a Wanek family member, Maureen would be a possible choice. IMHO. There was a (now 40 year old) woman living in their household at one time. I believe she was the wife of a step son.
Evelyn's uncle Nick Matuska (b.10-11-1883 d.3-28-1965 Wilkin, MN) lived with the Wanek family for several years. Uncle Nick married in 1911 to Wilma and had 3 daughters (one named Evelyn) and 2 sons in ND by 1930. Not sure when he moved to MN, but his children would all be about the right age to receive a child Anna's age. Nick's WWI draft info lists him as medium height, blue eyes and brown hair
A man by the name of Frank Zitka (b.1868) lived with the Wanek family as a lodger or a servant in the 1930's
This post should be cleaned as it is using full names, but that's not why I quoted it.....
Since Nick M is EW's uncle,
perhaps Frank Z is also related.
Has anyone done some digging into who this person is?
He would have been in his seventies when he lodged with the W family.
Perhaps a great uncle or a maternal grandfather of Barbara W, who is EW's mother?
What was the reason the W Family moved to Calif?
Did they move there before, after, or at the same time as EW, who iirc was first noted as being in Calif in 1958, and does it even matter? If EW was a next of kin to GB, then perhaps it is.
tia
