Lois was born in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan on 28 Apr 1934. She was the daughter of Lee Denton and Opal Pettit.
In 1937 after the death of her Mother Opal Pettit. The story is Lois and her brother Jack went to live in an Orphanage and after a struggle their Aunt Glorvina Denton.
After her father married in 1939, Lois was back with her father and siblings.
In 1940 Lois is found on the Census in Ada, Township, Kent, Michigan, United States. With her father, stepmother. brothers, sisters, and stepbrother.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9M1-VN34?cc=2000219&wc=QZX1-K9Y%3A790103601%2C790103302%2C795913602%2C795913603 : accessed 15 March 2020), Michigan > Kent > Ada Township, Ada > 41-1 Ada Township, Ada > image 25 of 42; citing Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012.
↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKLJ-V7DZ : accessed 29 May 2021), Lois Denton in entry for Eugene Dallas Copeland, Michigan, United States, 28 Mar 2014; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Flint Journal, The, born-digital text.
↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 March 2020), memorial page for Lois Jean Denton Copeland (28 Apr 1934–11 Dec 2014), Find A Grave Memorial no. 182710838, citing Evergreen Cemetery, Grand Blanc, Genesee County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by miran (contributor 47044685) .
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lois by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
Tracy Lewis :
Mitochondrial DNA Test Other, haplogroup H11-H11a8
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