Sunday 24 January 2021

Happy Birthday, Dayna (Egan) Cowan!

 Happy 51st birthday to Dayna Lyn (Egan) Cowan of Jackson, Michigan! She's the 3xgreat-granddaughter of John Culbert and Mary Ward.

Dayna celebrating her 50th birthday last year in Jamaica.

Dayna Lyn Egan was born 24 January 1970 in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Her parents, Marilyn Lillian (Culbert) Egan and Francis Edmond “Frank” Egan (1942-2017) both grew up in Lucan, Ontario. Dayna was Marilyn and Frank’s youngest child and their only daughter. She was named after Marilyn’s first cousin, Dana Elizabeth (Culbert) Garrett.

Dayna has two older brothers, Frank Egan, Jr., and Sean Egan.

Dayna (Egan) Cowan (left) with her mother, Marilyn (Culbert) Egan Harrison celebrating Marilyn’s 75th birthday in 2019.

 

Dayna grew up in Leamington, Ontario; graduating from Leamington High School in 1987. A year later, she graduated from the Marvel School of Beauty in Windsor, Ontario. Today, Dayna works as a barber and also as an office manager at a chiropractic clinic.

She moved to the United States and married Michael Cowan on 2 August 2002. Michael had two sons from a previous marriage: Christopher and Joseph.

Mike and Dayna in Jamaica celebrating Dayna’s 50th birthday in 2020.


On 19 October 2004, Dayna and Michael’s son, Kiegan McLachlan Cowan was born. Now, at age 16, Kiegan is a second-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do. He was picked for the World Demo Team, and depending on the pandemic situation, he might go to Greece to compete in October, 2021.



The Cowan family dog. Duke the Great Dane will be eight years old in July.


Dayna and Mike at their 12-acre retirement property in Rives Junction, Michigan, purchased in November, 2019. They’re hoping to build a ranch here in a couple of years.


Dayna says she is “living & loving life & abundantly blessed by the Lord to have this wonderful life!” 

DAYNA LYN (EGAN) COWAN’S FAMILY TREE:

Ancestors:

John Culbert & Mary Ward (3xgreat-grandparents)

Richard Culbert & Jane Eleanor Fairhall (2xgreat-grandparents)

Myron Manford Culbert & Effie Pearl Taylor (great-grandparents)

Clifford Burton Culbert & Gladys Lillian Beattie (grandparents)

Marilyn Lillian Culbert & Francis Edmond “Frank” Egan (parents)

Descendants (Children):

Kiegan Cowan

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