Marie Clara Madeleine Savignac was born September 26, 1920, in Morinville, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of Joseph Savignac. They were identified as "French-Canadian." As a young adult she lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she worked as a stenographer. At 5'10" tall, she was tall for a woman, she was also single, with a fair complexion, brown hair, and grey eyes.
Madeleine entered the United States on November 21, 1952, crossing the border at Blaine, Washington. Her destination was Sacramento, California, where she found work as a teller for the Bank of America on Capital Avenue. She lived at 622 N Street in Sacramento in 1953.
In the 1970's she lived in New York City, at 1154 2nd Avenue (now the site of the Valley Design Center) in the Upper East Side of Manhattan; and later at Apartment #7, 234 East 58th Street, a narrow, buff-colored brick apartment building in the East Village neighborhood.
Madeleine Savignac died aged 72, on October 26, 1992, and was buried on Hart Island.
Sources: U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995; U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Vol. 1; U.S. Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1956.