Daughter of Willard O. Rupert Gardner (1 May 1888 CA - 21 Aug 1945 San Diego, CA) and Helen Heckler (Sep 1892, IA). Listed with her parents, grandfather Fred Heckler (1854, IL) and uncle George Heckler (1899, CA) in Brawley, CA in 1920.
Married at age 17 to Andy Pollock with whom she had son Willard Lynn on 6 Jun 1928 in Los Angeles, although in 1930 she is listed with her grandmother Nellie (Ward) Heckler (1868, IA) as Jessie Pollock (19, CA) with son Williard Pollock (1 5/12, CA).
She was remarried to Jose Latorre (1901, AZ) a seaman on an Oil Tanker in 1937, and living with him and her son Willard in Long Beach, CA at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Convent in 1940.
Married to (3rd) Ray Wells in 1945, after WWII. They were divorced in 1948/49. She later married (4th) William H. “Bill” Staley on 6 Dec 1949 in San Francisco, and they lived in Calistoga for quite some time. After their divorce in Dec 1969 in Alameda, she lived in San Jose and Oakland.