DAUGHTER OF CHARLES AND MARY CARUSO..1/2 SISTER OF ANTHONY CARUSO 1886-1946
LAURAS MOTHER IS LISTED AS BEING OF FRENCH DECENT, HER GRANDPARENTS ON HER MOTHERS SIDE IMMIGRATED FROM FRANCE.
LAURA'S FIRST HUSBAND WAS FABIOLA DELPAPA. THEY HAD A DAUGHTER THEY NAMED HELEN WHO WAS BORN IN 1905.
WHEN HELEN RICHNOW REFUSED TO RAISE CHARLES JOSEPH, ANTHONY'S SON FROM A PREVIOUS MARRIAGE, LAURA AND HER HUSBAND TOOK HIM IN. HE WOULD ALWAYS REFER TO HER AS HIS MOTHER.
THE CENSUS RECORDS OF 1910 SHOW HER REMARRIED TO A MAN NAMED GROVER HEUMAN WITH WHOM SHE HAD A SON FRANK IN 1908 ANOTHER SON, GROVER JR. WOULD BE BORN IN 1913. IT ALSO STATES AT THE TIME THAT CHARLES (SR) AND HIS WIFE MARY WERE ALSO LIVING WITH THEM.
CHARLYNE CARUSO HARRISON THE DAUGHTER OF CHARLES CARUSO 2 SAID THAT SHE SAW LAURA WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG AND THAT SHE WAS VERY ILL AT THE TIME WITH BREAST CANCER WHICH EVENTUALLY TOOK HER LIFE. LAURA PASSED AWAY IN THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER HELEN DEL PAPPA WHITE. SHE WAS BURIED IN THE OLD CATHOLIC CEMETERY IN GALVESTON
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