When Mary Frances Wallen was born on February 26, 1940, in Cleveland, Ohio, her father, Edward, was 36, and her mother, Kathryn, was 39. She married Richard Lyle Green and they had three children together. She then married Edward J Protiva on January 8, 1973. She died on July 22, 2011, in Aurora, Ohio, at the age of 71.
Disco, polyester, Nixon and Watergate, equal rights, the "new right", the rise of terrorism . . . oh what a decade. Not much was resolved but a lot happened!