[7] [8] When Engstrom was 16, the family moved to Southern California[9] and lived for a while with her maternal grandmother,[7] and there she completed high school.

[8] On February 14, 1940, Flora Jean Bovie married Richard Harold Moon in Baldwin Park, California.

[11] Flora Jean and Richard Moon divorced, and in about 1947 she married her second husband,[9] Elliott E. Engstrom,[2] who later adopted her daughter.

[citation needed] Engstrom originally wanted to become a singer, but a crushed breast plate suffered in an automobile accident affected her vocal cords and she turned to modeling.

[9] She used the name Jean Engstrom professionally and during her career she appeared in over 50 plays, in at least eight movies, and in about 40 television programs before leaving acting.

In 1956, she used the name Flora Jean Engstrom for the only time when she appeared in a small role in The Search for Bridey Murphy,[17] starring Teresa Wright.

She appeared in westerns, crime dramas, comedies, and contemporary dramas in which she often played mothers (including an unwed mother who gives birth during an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel), but she also played wives and widows, a school psychologist, a social secretary, and even a deputy sheriff and a psychotic killer.

The first of the two shows listed is the April 1961 episode of the CBS program Rawhide titled "Incident of the Lost Idol" in which they appeared as mother and daughter.

[25] The mixed credits appear in some Internet databases, but the situation is improving as site managers are posting corrections as the errors are discovered.