Editing June Havoc (section)

==Early life==
Ellen Evangeline Hovick was born in [[Vancouver]], British Columbia, Canada.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> For many years 1916 was cited as her year of birth. Havoc acknowledged in her later years that 1912 was likely the correct year. She was reportedly uncertain of the year. Her mother forged various birth certificates for both her daughters to evade [[child labor laws]].<ref name=NYTobit/> Her life-long career in show business began when she was a child, billed as "Baby June."<ref>{{cite news|first=Alvin|last=Klein|url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&res=990CE3DA1739F936A35750C0A963958260&oref=slogin|title=June Havoc, Off Stage|work=The New York Times|date=March 5, 1995|access-date=May 9, 2006|archive-date=February 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226214323/https://www.nytimes.com/section/theater?_r=1&oref=slogin&res=990CE3DA1739F936A35750C0A963958260|url-status=live}}</ref>

Her sister, entertainer [[Gypsy Rose Lee]] (born as Rose Louise Hovick), was called "Louise" by her family members. Their parents were [[Rose Thompson Hovick]], of German descent, and John ("Jack") Olaf Hovick, the son of Norwegian immigrants, who worked as an advertising agent and reporter for the ''Seattle Times'' newspaper.<ref name="strippinggypsy"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Preminger|first=Erik Lee|title=My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee|year=2004|orig-year=1984|publisher=Frog|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=978-1-58394-096-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZwKTFdIE5sC&q=My%20G-string%20mother&pg=PA186|author-link=Erik Lee Preminger|page=186|access-date=November 13, 2020|archive-date=February 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226214329/https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZwKTFdIE5sC&q=My+G-string+mother&pg=PA186|url-status=live}}</ref>