The neighbor living across the street from Lola's parents--lived with his mother, according to the newspapers. His dad could have been alive during the 1940 Census (below), but died by the time Lola vanished.
Does anyone know how house numbers ran on West 3rd Avenue in the 1940s? Were odd-numbered houses (example: 1, 3, 5, 7) on one side of the street, and even-numbers (example: 2, 4, 6, 8) on the other side? Or did they run consecutively: 1, 2, 3, 4 on one side of the street, and 5, 6, 7, 8 on the other side?
Series: T627
Roll: 3068
Page: 18-B
On the April 25, 1940 Census:
Lola Celli (age 18), lived with: her parents, Michael (age 43) & Ida (age 39); her brother Felix (age 17); and her sister Elda (age 8); at
1783 West 3rd Avenue, Franklin Township, Grandview Heights City, Franklin County, Ohio. In 1935, the family resided in the same place (which means the same area but not the same house).
Michael's Occupation: Painter & Odd Jobs. Ida's Occupation is illegible. Michael and Ida both have 8 years of education. Lola and Felix both have 2 years of high school.
The Celli household was the first home listed for West 3rd Ave. It was about one-third of the way down sheet 18-B. The names above them were on West 1st Ave.
The 1940 Census had two people on each sheet answer extra questions. Lola was one of the two. Info given: Lola was a student. Both her parents were born in Italy. We already knew the latter from the regular section, which listed Elda's birthplace as Ohio and everyone else's as Italy.
Other Houses Listed below them on West 3rd Avenue – Sheet 18-B:
1796: La TEDESCHI, Antonio (49) head, Mary (46) wife, Rose (21) daughter, and
Vincent (age 20) son.
1802: Had 3 sections of the same family listed, without a line break between them, living in the same house:
LANE, Samuel (65) head, Consiglia (59) wife.
FRAZZINI, Margaret (36) Daughter, Mary or May (17) granddaughter, Elsio(sp?) (14) granddaughter, Nancy (12) granddaughter, Margaret (8) granddaughter, Edward (6) grandson.
LANE, Anna (34) daughter, Jannie (28) daughter, Joseph (26) son,
Harry (21) son.
1809: CLIFTON, John F. (57) head, Blanche L. (46) wife, Lucille B. (16) daughter.
1819: McCARTHY, Felix P. (48) head, Ann M. (42) wife.
(1823: the last two digits--23--had a line drawn through them, and 16 written above them = 1816)
1816: FINNALL, William C.? or G.? (38) head, Thelma (37) wife. (I don't know if they had any kids because Thelma was the last line on the sheet.)
The census taker's vowels were written so tiny (and his capital letters written with swirls) I found them hard to decipher sometimes. There's a William
H. FINN
ELL on Find-a-Grave. Born 1896, died 1972, buried in Franklin County. He would have been 44, not 38, in 1940.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSfn=William&GSmn=&GSln=Finnell&GSbyrel=in&GSby=&GSdyrel=in&GSdy=&GScntry=4&GSst=37&GScnty=2064&GSgrid=&df=all&GSob=n
So, Page 18-B gives us only 2 names of males reasonably close enough to Lola's age to be her childhood friend. And I don't know which side of the street they lived on. I can't access Page 19 without going to the library. I'm unable to do that anytime soon.
Hope this helps a bit.