Born with last name Sowers. Listed as Mabel Carlson in 1920 census living with grandparens Charles and Ida and Uncle (though only one year older than her) Wesley. Living with grandparents in 1910 census, no sign of her beyond that in Ancestry, Family Search, or Newspapers.com

Mabel M. Carlson is licensed to wed Eugene W. Wilkinson in the Rock Island Argus on 5/27/1920. Both are listed as from Moline but our Mabel is from Elgin in 1920 which is 158 miles away so this is likely not our Mabel

Arrival Record in New York on a Pan Am flight on 12/21/1958. Going by the name Marcelyn M. Zink. Address is 634 Raymond St, Westfield, NJ

Name is Marcelyn Bell at marriage to Frederick Zink.

8/17/1931 Chicago Tribune: Mr. and Mrs. Horace H. Perraton of 6934 Glenwood Ave announce the marriage last Saturday of their ward, Miss Marcelyn Bell to Fred C. Zink of New York

In 1930 is a teacher in Roycemore Hight School in Evanston, Illinois

1930 census indicates she is Marcelyn Bell and is divorced