When Lorana Van Leuven was born on 18 June 1861, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, her father, Lewis Riley Van Leuven, was 35 and her mother, Mary Patience Van Leuvan, was 29. She married Alonzo Monroe Frink on 1 October 1881, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 16 June 1905, in her hometown, at the age of 43, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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