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: Lola Edna Jennings; She was born to unknown parents and grew up in Lewis, Colorado, near Dove Creek. US Census records from 1940 and 1950 indicate that she was born in Colorado. She had a sister that was about 4 ½ years older and a younger sister. She also had at least one brother. She grew up on a ranch and performed work tasks that her father believed were suitable for a child, such as slicing potatoes. She liked to pick mayflowers as a child. When she was eleven, she suffered a severe ice skating accident that saw her spend time in the Oshmer Hospital in Durango, recovering from a broken back, a nearly severed spine, tuberculosis, and other ailments (In her interview she recounts that she spent four years in the hospital). She married Frank Jennings sometime before the 1940 US Census, when they are shown living together in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was a machinist. She later lived in Grand Junction, Colorado. According to the 1964 Grand Junction city directory, she worked as a sorter at Goodwill. She died at the age of 78 and is buried in Grand Junction’s Memorial Gardens.

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