Alma Lois Vanocker

• Born on 16 March 1901 to parents Lester and Zenanah Vanocker in Covert, Van Buren County, MI
• At age 19, she married James Schroeder on 10 December 1920 in Kalamazoo, MI
• In the 1920 Census, she is listed as a Stenographer for a Gas Company in Kalamazoo, MI
• Her daughter Bernice was born in 1924 when she was 22 years old.
• In the 1930 Census, she is also listed as working as a Stenographer but possibly for a different company.
• In 1940, at age 39, she gave birth to her daughter Carol.
• In the 1950 Census, she was a clerk at a Grocery Store that her husband, James owned in Comstock, MI.
• Died on 16 August 1980 in Kalamazoo County, MI at age 79
• Buried alongside husband, James in Maple Grove Cemetery in Comstock, Kalamazoo County, MI