Birth Name: Lisa Lenore Hanawalt
Place of Birth: Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 19, 1983
Ethnicity:
*German, English, Irish (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Lisa Hanawalt is an American illustrator, writer, and cartoonist.
Her parents are biologists Graciela Spivak and Philip Hanawalt. Lisa’s mother was born in Argentina, into an Ukrainian Jewish family from Odessa.
Lisa’s paternal grandfather is Joseph Donald Hanawalt (the son of Daniel Replogle Hanawalt and Augusta Preston). Joseph was born in Pennsylvania. Daniel was born in Pennsylvania, the son of George Swigart Hanawalt and Barbara Brumbaugh Replogle. Augusta was born in New Jersey.
Lisa’s paternal grandmother is Lenore Smith (the daughter of Charles Courtland Smith and Lavena “Vena” Lautzenhiser). Lenore was born in Illinois. Charles was born in Tennessee, the son of Charles Coffin Smith and Frances Adelaide Anderson. Lavena was born in Indiana, the daughter of Dennis Lautzenhiser and Mary Ellen Ulsh.
Source: Genealogy of Lisa’s paternal grandparents, Joseph Donald Hanawalt and Lenore Smith – http://www.familysearch.org