Ethel Marion Milne

Ethel Marion Milne, (born; 17 November 1893 - 5 January 1953), or Ethel Gumm was an American vaudevillian. She is the mother of Judy Garland and is the grandmother of Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft. She earned a reputation as an aggressive stage mother forcing Judy to get on stage, when she was extremely ill.

Trivia

 * Her name Ethel, is from a 19th-century revival of an Old English name, a short form of various female personal names containing ethel ‘noble’ as a first element, for example Etheldreda . The name enjoyed great popularity for a period at the beginning of the 20th century but is at present out of fashion.
 * Her first part of her surname Marion, was originally a medieval French diminutive form of Marie, introduced to Britain in the Middle Ages. In some places it was taken as a pet form of Margaret or Margery . As a male name, it is an altered form of the Continental male name Marian, a derivative of Latin Marianus (from Marius ), but is now rarely, if ever, used. It was the birth name of the American film star John Wayne.
 * Her last part of her surname Milne, is Scottish (common in Aberdeenshire): occupational name for a miller or someone who lived at a mill, Old English mylen ‘mill’ (see Mill, Milner). The Scottish name found its way to Ireland; MacLysaght records that it has been in Dublin since the early 18th century. In some cases it has absorbed Irish Moyle.

Death
She was found dead in the parking lot at the Douglas Aircraft Company, where she was employed as a clerk. She had been dead for some time. She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California.