Born: 4 April 1901 — Cavalier, Pembina County, North Dakota, USA Died: 12 June 1945 — Cavalier, Pembina County, North Dakota, USA Burial: Pembina County, North Dakota, USA Religion: Presbyterian Occupation: Nurse Marital Status: Single throughout life
Father: William James Crombie (1857–1942) Died 30 December 1942 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Mother: Mary Manson (1859–1944) Died 7 June 1944 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Venus was born into the long‑established Crombie–Manson household of Pembina County, a family with deep roots in both North Dakota and earlier Canadian Presbyterian communities.
Francis Cleveland Crombie (1893–1944) Died 29 September 1944 in San Francisco, California.
No spouse or children are recorded for Venus.
Born in Cavalier, Pembina County, North Dakota, into a farming and trades family with strong Presbyterian ties.
Cavalier, Pembina County, North Dakota
Listed as daughter in the household
Marital status: Single
Household reflects a stable family unit with both parents present.
A migration or border‑crossing event is recorded in 1925. This aligns with the Crombie family’s historical movement between North Dakota and Manitoba.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Religion: Presbyterian
Marital status: Single
Relation to head: Head of household
Occupation: Nurse This is the strongest evidence of her professional identity. Living independently as head of household suggests she was financially self‑sufficient and professionally established.
Venus experienced the deaths of her father (1942), mother (1944), and brother Francis (1944) within a short period. These clustered losses may have influenced her return to Cavalier before her own death in 1945.
Died 12 June 1945 in Cavalier, Pembina County, North Dakota. Burial recorded in Pembina County.
Venus represents a distinctive branch of the Crombie line:
A professional woman in the early 20th century, working as a nurse and living independently in Winnipeg.
A cross‑border life, typical of the Crombie family’s movement between Manitoba and North Dakota.
Her lifelong singleness and role as head of household in 1931 suggest a woman who carved out her own professional path during a period when this was uncommon.
Her timeline also intersects with major family transitions: the deaths of her parents and brother occurred shortly before her own, marking the end of this immediate Crombie household.