Elizabeth Agnes Lawlor was born on April 15, 1917 in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Her parents were William A. Lawlor and Margaret E. Kemp/Camp.

At the time of the 1930 Federal Census of Eldersville Village, Jefferson Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, William A. Lawlor, a Coal Mine Foreman, and his wife, Margaret E., had the following children: Elizabeth, 12, Margaret, 11, Kathleen, 10, Helen, 9, Josephine, 5, and Dorothy, 3.

In 1940, Elizabeth Lawlor, 23, was a Registered Nurse and lived at the Nurses' Home at St. Francis Hospital. During World War II, Elizabeth Lawlor served in the U. S. Army Nurse Corps. She is named in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, dated March 18, 1943, as a nurse from St. Francis Hospital. She entered Active Service on July 20, 1942, and she separated from Active Service on May 30, 1946.

FATHER'S OBITUARY: Pittsburgh Press, January 8, 1952: LAWLOR - At McDonald, Pa., on Sunday, Jan. 6, William A. Lawlor, husband of Margaret Camp; father of Mrs. Elizabeth Abell, of McDona;d, Pa.; Mrs. Margaret Laurent, of Avella, Pa.; Mrs. Kathleen Morrow, Steubenville, Ohio; Mrs. Helen Emmerich, of Titusville, Pa.; Mrs. Josephine Zufelt, of Oil City, Pa., and Mrs. Dorothy Jenkins, of Pgh., Pa.; brother of Joseph Lawlor, Bridgeville, Pa.; Mrs. Mary Marsh, of Greensburg, Pa.; Mrs. Gertrude McShane, of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., and Mrs. Bertha Walker, Detroit, Mich.... Burial in St. Agatha's Cemetery, Bridgeville, Pa.

Elizabeth Avell worked as a School Nurse in Washington County, at least in the 1950s.

The death of Elizabeth occurred on August 6, 2005; last residence, Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz, California.