Estrild Raymona Myers (March 11, 1909 – December 14, 1972), known professionally as Ramona, was an American cabaret and jazz singer and pianist.
Ramona was born March 11, 1909, in the Cincinnati suburb of Lockland, Ohio, to teenage parents – Raymond Pendery Myers (1891–1962), who was 17, and Rachel Margaret DeCamp (maiden; 1893–1963), who was 15.
[1] Her parents' marriage was annulled before her birth by her paternal grandparents, Herman Jackson Myers (1859–1945) and Jessie Henrietta Pendery (1960–n.a.
[2] Around 1929, she became singer and pianist with Don Bestor and His Orchestra – at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh and on tour, coast-to-coast.
[2] Ramona became a vocalist and pianist for Paul Whiteman's Orchestra from 1932–37, succeeding Mildred Bailey.