First Husband Richard Tennant
Second Husband Bill Lasko

Children:
William Richard Tennant b. 1935
Daniel Arthur Tennant b. April 6, 1938
David Tennant
Mary Tennant Mayer

How did the sisters Effie and Lillie Larsen end up in Astoria, Oregon?
It had to do with their father Torger's (1869-1938) first wife Eveline Kolseth (1872-1910), and in particular her sister Sanna Kolseth (1876-1959). Eveline and her parents and sister immigrated from Kristiania, Norway (Oslo), to New York City in September 1886 on the ship Angelo of the Kloed line. Their destination was Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. The daughters were age ten and fourteen when they arrived in Chippewa Falls. Their mother died in 1891. And in 1894 they lost their father. The two daughters, age twenty-two and nineteen, moved across the street to live with a neighbor family. Eveline worked as a dressmaker and Sanna clerked in a store in Chippewa Falls. Eveline married Torger Larsen in the house in which the Kolseth girls were living. After her sister's wedding Sanna went to Minneapolis to work. In 1899 Sanna (now twenty years old) married Henry Bowe, who made his living as a barber. In 1900 Sanna and her husband were living with Torger Larsen and her sister in their Chippewa Falls home. By 1902 the Bowe family was living in the Dakotas. They had two children Elwin and Harold Richard. In 1904 Sanna acquired a new husband, Elmer Luther Tennant, also a barber (1875-1927). It is not known if Henry died or if there was a divorce. Sanna's two boys from here on would be named Tennant in the census records. A third child, Betsy Tennant, was born prior to 1910 but disappears from the record suggesting she died in childhood. Harold was always referred to as Richard or Dick. Somewhere along the line he started going by his middle name and became Richard Tennant. In 1907 Sanna and family were living just outside of Astoria in Hammond, Oregon. In 1920 Sanna and family were living in Astoria running a boarding house at 32 Exchange Street. In 1927 she became a widow. Elwin was working on the docks in Astoria. Richard was now twenty-seven-years-old and single.

Around the time of her sister's death in 1910 Sanna and children made a visit to Wisconsin. At this visit Richard Tennant was eight years old. His cousin and future wife Effie was three. Some twenty years later around 1930 unmarried Effie made a trip to visit her Astoria aunt. Winona Larsen said that Richard followed Effie back to Wisconsin where in 1932 they (Richard, age thirty and Effie, age twenty-five) had a child (Billie E. Tennant) who died in 1934 and is buried in Nora Cemetery, Rice Lake. I have been unable to find a marriage record. They likely were married in either Rice Lake or Astoria.

Lillie, age twenty-four, married Edward H. Warzala (14 Sep 1905—21 Dec 1926), age twenty-eight, around 1932 and had a daughter, Carole in 1934. In 1940 they were living at North Newhall Street in Milwaukee where Edward was a streetcar fireman. On April 1, 1942 Edward enlisted as a private in the army with a grammar school education. He identified himself as divorced. Lillie joined Effie and their aunt Sanna in Astoria sometime after the divorce. In Astoria Lillie, now age thirty-seven, married Ben Koski, age twenty-four, on June 20, 1946. They had a daughter, Jane Marleen. Sanford, who was the other sibling to come west, arrived in Washington in 1947, traveling with Winona and John, and never lived in Astoria.

Sanna, Richard, and Effie are all buried in Ocean View Cemetery in Warrenton, Oregon. Sanna's parents (Anders 1841-1894 and Evine Kolseth 1846-1891) are buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Edward Warzala (1905-1966) is buried in Highland Memorial Park, New Berlin, Wisconsin. He never remarried.

1. She appeared on the census in 1910 in Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI, , W4.
age 2, b. WI
film T624-1701, pg 202B
2. She appeared on the census in 1920 in , Barron Co., WI, , Stanfold
Twp.. age 12, b. WI
film T625-1976, pg 273A