Marian Elizabeth (Lonsway) Werling

Marian Elizabeth Lonsway was the youngest of two daughters born to Louis Earl Lonsway and Sarah Lowessa Myler. When Marian was 5 years old, her mother, Lowessa, died at the young age of 26 due to neuralgia of the heart. Shortly after her mother’s death, her father, Louis, died from tuberculosis at 32 years old. Orphaned at nine years old, Marian and her older sister, Ruth Lillian, were raised in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, by their maternal grandparents. In 1920, Ruth moved to Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, and stayed with her paternal Grand Aunt Ida Haefling, where she finished her senior year at Columbian High School. Her sister, Marian, soon followed her sister.
 
Leo and Emma [Stine] Werling lived next to Aunt Ida. Their oldest son, Vincent Ignatious Werling, soon began dating the girl next door. Vincent and Marian were married on January 21, 1924 by the circuit court in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan. The couple made their first home in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana. Their son, Richard Victor, was born on August 10, 1924, and  their son, Vincent Leo, was born on December 5, 1925.  The family stayed in Kokomo until 1934, when the family moved back to Tiffin to raise their sons near their family.