Noeline Gless (1896-1928) was the daughter of Simon Gless (1862-1903) and Juanita Amestoy (1865-1929) of the pioneering Encino clan (see Amestoy Avenue). After growing up in Boyle Heights and attending girls’ school in Washington, D.C., she married auto salesman Frank E. Gandolfo in 1917 and soon moved with him to Tucson and then to Yuma, Frank’s hometown, where he would take over his dad’s movie theater and get into politics. Alas, the union was doomed: Noeline divorced Frank in Los Angeles in 1925. Her final years are shrouded in mystery: her death certificate – she died from appendicitis – listed her husband as one “Gerald Randolph”, yet there’s no record of their marriage; there is, however, evidence that she had a baby in San Francisco in 1927, father unknown. The boy was raised by Juanita’s youngest sister Elizabeth Wells. As for Noeline Avenue, it was named in 1916. TV trivia: Noeline’s grandniece is actress Sharon Gless (Cagney & Lacey, et al).
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