Edna Iona (Owen) Burnett (1888 - abt. 1972)

Born 27 Aug 1888 in Carrizo Springs, Dimmit, Texas, USA

Ancestors

Wife of William Ward Burnett — married 14 May 1905 in Carrizo Springs

Descendants

Died about 17 Sep 1972 at about age 84 in Bakersfield, Kern, California

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Biography

Edna Owen was one of "The Three Sisters" in Carrizo Springs, Texas, three well thought of Owen women, "town girls" since their male Owen and Dixon family members/ancestors had been successful businessmen.

Edna's second husband (if not her 3rd) was Albin J Fisher. She'd first married a Burnett in SW Texas as a teenager, but filed for divorce legally. In CA she married a Fisher with whom she enjoyed a better, more comfortable materialistic life in California.

A brave woman for her day, she left her first husband, taking her two daughters with her to Los Angeles for a new life. Her younger daughter and the older were very different people. These were beautiful women though. None of her kids were educated past their first year of high school, but the youngest, Bernice, was an autodidact (self taught and a good teacher for her dau). She was also an adult with a mathematical mind. She loved science and all sorts of arcane knowledge (palmistry; astrology, for example). Her interests amused her daughter's high school friends.

Edna loved finery, the horse races, money. Born in SW Texas, she did not belong in SW Texas or being married to a wrangler (who hired out from job to job).She survived that and took her daughters to Los Angeles, CA. There, her lifestyle was the only one I, her grandchild, knew as a child. which was solidly middle class and upper middle class even. Eventually Al Fisher (maybe in partnership with her) owned a multifamily housing set of apartments and later a trailer park next to Santa Anita Racetrack so he could get to know the jockeys and thereby make more educated bets.

Edna married Alvin Fisher (no issue), and she finally got him to move to Bakersfield where they both died. He hated that town for its boredom. She'd moved there to be near two of her three children, Azubah and David. By then Bernice had moved her family to SoCal.

There's a rumor that she'd married another Burnett, perhaps in California & after she left her first husband Wm Ward Burnett, a cowboy/wrangler, She and Wm Ward did divorce.

Sources

• mostly family knowledge