Lenore <I>LaFount</I> Romney

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Lenore LaFount Romney

Birth
Logan, Cache County, Utah, USA
Death
7 Jul 1998 (aged 89)
Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Brighton, Livingston County, Michigan, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.5396722, Longitude: -83.7764117
Memorial ID
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Lenore-10 Emily was the daughter of Alma-9 Luella Robison (1880-1952) and her husband Harold Arundel LaFount (1882-1838).

2 LaFOUNT siblings:

1. Harold LaFount (4/14/1905-4/14/1905) born and died in Logan, Cache, Utah.

2. Elsie Evelyn LaFount (1906 - 1980). Married 2X.

Lenore married George Wilcken Romney (1907-1995) on July 2, 1935 in the Salt Lake Temple. Salt Lake, Utah.

4 ROMNEY children:

1. Margo Lynn "Lynn" Romney B-1935.

2. Jane LaFount Romney B-1938.

3. George Scott "Scott" Romney B-1941.

4. Willard Mitt "Mitt" Romney B-1947.
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Lenore was the wife of American businessman and politician George W. Romney and was First Lady of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. She was the Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1970 from Michigan. Her youngest son, Mitt Romney, is the former Governor of Massachusetts and was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.

Lenore was born in Logan, Utah, and raised in Salt Lake City. She went to Latter-day Saints High School, where she developed an interest in drama and first met George Romney. She attended the University of Utah and George Washington University, graduating from the latter in 1929. She studied acting at the American Laboratory Theatre in New York, then went to Hollywood where she became a bit player who appeared in a number of films with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Turning down a contract offer with them, she married George Romney in 1931. The couple had four children; she was a stay-at-home mother, eventually living in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, while he became a success in business and politics.
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WARNER Lineage: Lenore-10 Emily (LaFount) Romney, Alma-9 Luella (Robison) LaFount, Rosetta-8 (Berry) Robison, Elnora-7 (Warner) Berry, Luther-6 Warner, David-5 Calvin Warner, Sr., Jesse-4 Warner, Sr., Samuel-3 Warner Sr., Daniel-2 Warner Sr., Andrew-1 WARNER, an Englishman who with his wife and several children sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1632-33 from Broad Oak, Essex, England.
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Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011, 2014.
Lenore-10 Emily was the daughter of Alma-9 Luella Robison (1880-1952) and her husband Harold Arundel LaFount (1882-1838).

2 LaFOUNT siblings:

1. Harold LaFount (4/14/1905-4/14/1905) born and died in Logan, Cache, Utah.

2. Elsie Evelyn LaFount (1906 - 1980). Married 2X.

Lenore married George Wilcken Romney (1907-1995) on July 2, 1935 in the Salt Lake Temple. Salt Lake, Utah.

4 ROMNEY children:

1. Margo Lynn "Lynn" Romney B-1935.

2. Jane LaFount Romney B-1938.

3. George Scott "Scott" Romney B-1941.

4. Willard Mitt "Mitt" Romney B-1947.
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Lenore was the wife of American businessman and politician George W. Romney and was First Lady of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. She was the Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1970 from Michigan. Her youngest son, Mitt Romney, is the former Governor of Massachusetts and was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.

Lenore was born in Logan, Utah, and raised in Salt Lake City. She went to Latter-day Saints High School, where she developed an interest in drama and first met George Romney. She attended the University of Utah and George Washington University, graduating from the latter in 1929. She studied acting at the American Laboratory Theatre in New York, then went to Hollywood where she became a bit player who appeared in a number of films with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Turning down a contract offer with them, she married George Romney in 1931. The couple had four children; she was a stay-at-home mother, eventually living in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, while he became a success in business and politics.
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WARNER Lineage: Lenore-10 Emily (LaFount) Romney, Alma-9 Luella (Robison) LaFount, Rosetta-8 (Berry) Robison, Elnora-7 (Warner) Berry, Luther-6 Warner, David-5 Calvin Warner, Sr., Jesse-4 Warner, Sr., Samuel-3 Warner Sr., Daniel-2 Warner Sr., Andrew-1 WARNER, an Englishman who with his wife and several children sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1632-33 from Broad Oak, Essex, England.
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Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011, 2014.


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