Charles was born between two sets of fraternal twins, and is one of five children born within 33 months of each other out of a family of 11.
According to Charles' grandson, Charles had a 12 car garage on Livernois in Detroit, Michigan, and he worked with the Dodge Brothers and Henry Ford during the initial stages of the auto industry.
Isabel Beatrice Milne comes from a very interesting family. Her father helped Henry Ford in the formative years, and owned a 12-car garage in Detroit. Her uncle, grandfather, 3 great uncles, and great grandfather were all sea captains or marine engineers on the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, and the Atlantic Ocean going back to Scotland, where her family originated.
Isabel attended the Edna Chaffee-Noble School for Expression, and during her life was a model, teacher, social worker, dancer, and marionette artist.
Isabel was married late in life at the age of 32 to Joe (Zawada) Wades, and had her first child at age 40. She had her 2nd and last child at age 42, and after her husband and passed away in 1967, she moved to Tuscon, Arizona. In 1981 she moved back to Michigan, and she passed away in 1985 at the age of 82.
Joe Zawada worked in the Calumet & Hecla Copper Mines in Calumet, MI with his father, Frank, and his uncle, Jacob.
Joe came downstate Michigan after the Copper Mining strike in 1913, and changed his last name to Wades. Joe found work on a railroad. He then worked to bring his entire immediate family downstate. His father worked for the city of Detroit, and Joe ended up working for the Department of Defense, as a procurement agent for Sherman tanks.
Joe was married late in life to Isabel Beatrice Milne at the age of 38, and he became a father by age 45. He found 1 1/2 acres of property in Livonia, MI with a home and an orchard, and that is where his family settled. Joe loved tending to his orchard, and catching the occasional pheasant in a hunt.
Wild horses and deer often ran through the property and the adjoining wetlands forest.
Two years into his retirement, Joe suffered a fatal heart attack. One September afternoon at home, Joe was in the kitchen when the heart attack began. Joe grabbed a piece of paper and scribbled instructions to his wife Isabel on where to find the storm windows, and then he fell under the kitchen table and died.
Joe was a harsh man in life, and often spoke or acted out violently against his wife and children. His son Jerry recalls his father as having "hands the size of Sherman tanks", which he would use "to put you through a wall" if he and his brother caused their father any trouble. It is rumoured that Joe hung with members of the Purple Gang, but I have not been able to verify this yet.