Perhaps there's no connection but...
Monya Barr / Monya Newland
Born: 18 December 1918, Other Country
Died: 8 April 1941, Santa Cruz (California)
Father: Barr
Mother: McLachlan
1940 Santa Clara Census
Moya Newland, age 21, born Scotland, Naturalized, lived with her husband George and one son (most likely not her son, given the age of the child).
Update: If you try an internet search for
"newland" 1941 "santa clara"
you can "read" (it's garbled) a small newspaper report in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about an automobile accident that killed Moya Newland.

(It's a pay site, but you can read the garbled text without viewing the actual newspaper.)
Moya's gravestone:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63424168&ref=acom