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Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Her parents were Frederick C. Peters ( 1875 – 1935 ) and Elizabeth Knight ( 1877 – 1942 ).

Her paternal grandfather, John Claus Peters, was the son of German immigrants, Claus Peters and Caroline Catherine Eberlin.

On her mother's side, she was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634.

Lombard was the youngest of three children, having two older brothers, Fred C. Peters Jr. and Stuart Peters.

She spent her early childhood in Fort Wayne, near the St. Mary's River.

Her father had been injured during a work-related accident and was left with constant headaches which caused him to burst out in paroxysms of anger which disturbed the family.

Lombard's parents divorced and her mother took the three children to Los Angeles in 1914, where Lombard attended Virgil Jr. High School and then Fairfax High School.

She was elected May Queen in 1924.

She quit school to pursue acting full-time but eventually graduated from Fairfax in 1927.

Lombard was a second generation Bahá ' í who formally enrolled in 1938.