Audrey Joan TONSAGER

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1933-06825

Notes:

Her middle name was also spelled Joanne.

Mother’s maiden name Christianson on her birth certificate.

Shown as child #2.

In the 1940 census, she was living with her mother’s parents in Eureka Twp, Dakota County.



Her Social Security number had been issued in Minnesota in 1952.

Her obit in the Washington Post:

ZAIA, AUDREY JO-ANN
On Wednesday, January 11, 2006, AUDREY J. ZAIA, of Gaithersburg, MD. Beloved wife of the late John R. Zaia; mother of Phyllis Zaia and Richard Zaia; grandmother of John and Brian Zaia, C.J. and Hannah Barr; great-grandmother of Jake, Zachary and Jordan Zaia. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Maryland.

Birth:
Community Hospital

Died:
last residence

Audrey married Larry Duane BURROWS on 10 Jan 1953 in Dakota County, Minnesota, and was divorced. Larry was born on 18 Jul 1929 in Cashmere, Chelan County, Washington; died on 31 Jul 2006 in Spokane County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Rosario ZAIA. John was born on 11 Feb 1911 in New York; died on 14 Sep 1998 in Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, Maryland; was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Larry Duane Sandmann, b. ca 1954, lived in Duluth in 2013. That Larry apparently was a guitar player for several bands and was nicknamed Lefty. He suffered a debilitating stroke in 2012.

Of South Range, Wisconsin, at the time of Florence’s death in April of 2017. His kidney cancer prevented him from attending her funeral.

Adopted by Florence and Ira when he was four years old.

Attended New Prague High School.

Larry had had surgery for kidney cancer and apparently was recovering, but something went wrong. Larry had a wife. They had been married for about 5 years.