Editing Linda Ronstadt (section)

== Early life ==
Linda Maria Ronstadt was born in [[Tucson|Tucson, Arizona]] on July 15, 1946,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia of Country Music|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford, England|page=458|editor1=Kingsbury, Paul|year=2004|isbn=978-0-199-84044-1}}</ref> the third of four children of Gilbert Ronstadt (1911{{ndash}}1995), a prosperous machinery merchant who ran the F. Ronstadt Co.,<ref name="fredronstadt">{{Cite web |year=2003 |title=Borderman: Memoirs of Federico José María Ronstadt |url=http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid1482.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210024613/http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid1482.htm |archive-date=February 10, 2007 |access-date=May 7, 2007 |publisher=University of Arizona Press}}</ref> and Ruth Mary (née Copeman) Ronstadt (1914{{ndash}}1982), a homemaker.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bego |first=Mark |title=Linda Ronstadt: It's So Easy |publisher=Eakin Press |year=1990 |isbn=0-89015-775-8 |pages=9–11}}</ref>

Ronstadt had a [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] upbringing<ref>{{cite web|title=Linda Ronstadt: The 'Fresh Air' interview|last=Gross|first=Terry|author-link=Terry Gross|date=October 22, 2022|url=https://www.wwno.org/2022-10-14/linda-ronstadt-the-fresh-air-interview|work=[[WWNO]]|url-status=live|archive-date=March 24, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230324032732/https://www.wwno.org/2022-10-14/linda-ronstadt-the-fresh-air-interview}}</ref> and was raised on the family's {{convert|10|acre|ha|0|adj=on}} ranch with her siblings Peter (who served as Tucson's chief of police from 1981 to 1991), Michael, and Gretchen. The family was featured in ''[[Family Circle]]'' magazine in 1953.<ref name="family">{{Cite web |last=Ronstadt |first=Deborah J. |year=1953 |title=Gilbert Ronstadt Was Born in 1911 |url=http://www.ronstadt.com/GilbertRonstadt.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929101949/http://www.ronstadt.com/GilbertRonstadt.htm |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |access-date=May 17, 2007 |website=[[Family Circle]]}}</ref>

===Ronstadt family history===
Ronstadt's father came from a [[settler|pioneering]] Arizona ranching family<ref name="tiptheirhat" /> and was of Mexican descent with a German male ancestor.<ref name="tucsonsronstadtfamilyhistory">{{Cite web |title=Tucson's Ronstadt Family |url=http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/ronstadtfamily/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223110825/http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/ronstadtfamily/ |archive-date=February 23, 2007 |access-date=April 9, 2007 |website=Through Our Parents' Eyes: History and Culture of Southern Arizona |publisher=Arizona Library}}</ref> The family's influence on and contributions to Arizona's history, including wagon making, commerce, pharmacies, and music, are documented in the library of the [[University of Arizona]].<ref name="tucsonsronstadtfamily">{{cite web |title=The Ronstadt Family |url=http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/ronstadt/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904230839/http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/ronstadt/index.html |archive-date=September 4, 2006 |access-date=October 3, 2007 |publisher=The University of Arizona Archives}}</ref> Her great-grandfather, the engineer Friedrich August Ronstadt (who went by Federico Augusto Ronstadt), immigrated first to [[Sonora, Mexico]], and later to the [[Southwestern United States|Southwest]] (at that time a part of Mexico) in the 1840s from [[Hanover]], Germany. He married Margarita Redondo y Vásquez, a Mexican citizen and eventually settled in Tucson.<ref name="helmut">{{cite web |date=September 2011 |title=The People |url=http://www.emat-tucson.org/Germany/People.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618000242/http://www.emat-tucson.org/Germany/People.html |archive-date=June 18, 2006 |access-date=May 16, 2007 |website=Early Pioneers of Tucson}}</ref><ref name="lindar1">{{cite web |last=McLeese |first=Don |date=June 1992 |title=Songs from Her Heart |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/fordtimes.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205083748/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/fordtimes.htm |archive-date=December 5, 2007 |access-date=October 30, 2006 |website=Ford Times}}</ref> In 1991, the City of Tucson opened its central transit terminal on March 16 and dedicated it to Linda's grandfather, [[Federico José María Ronstadt]], a local pioneer businessman; he was a wagon maker whose early contribution to the city's mobility included six mule-drawn streetcars, delivered in 1903{{ndash}}04.<ref name="fredronstadt2">{{cite magazine |last=Bluestein, T |date=August 1991 |title=Tucson Opens Ronstadt Transit Center |magazine=Bus World |volume=13 |issue=4 |url=http://tris.trb.org/view.aspx?type=CO&id=358937 |access-date=June 5, 2010 |archive-date=April 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416073857/https://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?type=CO&id=358937 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Ronstadt's mother Ruth Mary, of German, English, and [[Dutch people|Dutch]] ancestry, was raised in [[Flint, Michigan]]. Ruth Mary's father, [[Lloyd Groff Copeman]], a prolific inventor and holder of nearly 700 patents, invented an early form of the electric toaster, many refrigerator devices, the grease gun, the first electric stove, and an early form of the microwave oven.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ronstadt |first=Linda |author-link=Linda Ronstadt |date=2013 |title=Simple Dreams: a Musical Memoir |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |page=2 |isbn=978-1-4516-6872-8}}</ref> His flexible rubber ice cube tray earned him millions of dollars in royalties.<ref name="LloydCopeman">{{cite web |title=LloydCopeman.com Prolific U.S. Inventor |url=http://www.lloydcopeman.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070413010355/http://www.lloydcopeman.com/ |archive-date=April 13, 2007 |access-date=April 9, 2007 |publisher=LloydCopeman.com}}</ref>