Louise never liked her first name Edna, and always went by Louise. In Greenlake my mother lived on Ashworth, only about a mile away from the home my father grew up in on Corliss Avenue. I know she went to John Marshall, Jr. High and then Lincoln High School. She worked for a while for a pharmacist in Ballard and then for General Insurance which is now Safeco. She and my father were married on July 2, 1940 in Seattle at St. Benedict's by Father Stack. (She had converted to Catholicism a couple of years prior) and the reception was held at her parents home on Ashworth where a huge weeping willow grew in the front yard. They honeymooned at Harrison Hot Springs in Canada. She had five children. She raised them well.
Louise enjoyed people and participated in many mother's groups while raising her 5 children. As her husband Dick was absent frequently in his Alaska construction projects, Louise learned to be independent and accomplished, engaging the many things she had to handle. Louise and Dick moved 3 times in 10 years, all within Seattle, as Dick became very successful in construction. They went from Corliss Ave in Greenlake, to 52nd Avenue in Hawthorne Hills, to Magnolia Boulevard In Magnolia, to waterfront on East Laurelhurst Drive on Webster's Point. Between, she and Dick built a summer home on Bells Beach on Whidbey Island. With five different homes to make livable, there was lots that had to be done, rooms to decorate and furniture to find, with a free reign to do it right. All these moves brought new schools to participate in and arrange and new friends to make. There were 11 schools and 3 colleges to see her children through, and lots of activities. Louise also enjoyed reading, playing bridge socially and working crosswords. She and Dick traveled extensively, often to an AGC convention in various cities around the country. She and Dick also traveled to Havana, Europe, the Bahamas, Hawaii, Japan. Unfortunately, in all this, Louise lost her way to alcohol, an addiction she never conquered, and which slowly destroyed her life.
In the early 60s, following the divorce, Louise moved to Menlo Park, CA with her two youngest children, Mary and Steve. There were more homes, each in succession, and 2 more schools. In the early seventies she met a very fine gentlemen, Richard Congdon, of Connecticut on a cruise. They married and she moved to his home in Old Lyme until she had a stroke, suffering a short-term memory loss. We brought her to Seattle and eventually she came to live at the Foss House (a health care facility) with her mother Minnie until she died there, June 28, 1981*, of heart failure. We buried her near her father Harry, at Evergreen Cemetery, next to a small tree. Her mother Minnie died three years later and is buried with Harry, 3 Chenoweths together.
Louise was preceded in death by her father, Harry E. Chenoweth. Surviving Louise were her mother Minnie Chenoweth, her brother Harry Holt Chenoweth, her first husband Richard D. Egge and second husband Dick Congdon, her five children: Richard C. Egge (Jeanie) Bellevue, Jon D. Egge (Deanna) Kirkland, Janet Acarregui McCaffray (Ted) Seattle, Mary Parsons (Bob) Bells Beach, WA, and Dr. Stephen M. Egge (Donna) Puyallup. And though Louise saw all of her five children marry when Mom died, she only had 7 of her 13 grandchildren that would follow: Jordan Anderson, Amanda Lasser, Amity Egge, Ally Nelson, Brian, Mark and Rick Acarregui, Rob Parsons, Katie Adkisson, Kelsey Kagan, Ryan and Ross Egge, and Rebecca Read. Now there are 23 great grandchildren: Aaliyah, Kierra, Olivia, Greta, Molly, Chad, Grace, Megan, Matthew, Carter, Kennedy, Jackson, Harrison, Eleanor, Sawyer, Edison, Beatrice, Zelda, Sophie, Grayson, Lucinda Phobe and Opal. She would have loved them all. She missed so much.
* (Note her name on her death certificate is Louise E Congdon.)
Louise enjoyed people and participated in many mother's groups while raising her 5 children. As her husband Dick was absent frequently in his Alaska construction projects, Louise learned to be independent and accomplished, engaging the many things she had to handle. Louise and Dick moved 3 times in 10 years, all within Seattle, as Dick became very successful in construction. They went from Corliss Ave in Greenlake, to 52nd Avenue in Hawthorne Hills, to Magnolia Boulevard In Magnolia, to waterfront on East Laurelhurst Drive on Webster's Point. Between, she and Dick built a summer home on Bells Beach on Whidbey Island. With five different homes to make livable, there was lots that had to be done, rooms to decorate and furniture to find, with a free reign to do it right. All these moves brought new schools to participate in and arrange and new friends to make. There were 11 schools and 3 colleges to see her children through, and lots of activities. Louise also enjoyed reading, playing bridge socially and working crosswords. She and Dick traveled extensively, often to an AGC convention in various cities around the country. She and Dick also traveled to Havana, Europe, the Bahamas, Hawaii, Japan. Unfortunately, in all this, Louise lost her way to alcohol, an addiction she never conquered, and which slowly destroyed her life.
In the early 60s, following the divorce, Louise moved to Menlo Park, CA with her two youngest children, Mary and Steve. There were more homes, each in succession, and 2 more schools. In the early seventies she met a very fine gentlemen, Richard Congdon, of Connecticut on a cruise. They married and she moved to his home in Old Lyme until she had a stroke, suffering a short-term memory loss. We brought her to Seattle and eventually she came to live at the Foss House (a health care facility) with her mother Minnie until she died there, June 28, 1981*, of heart failure. We buried her near her father Harry, at Evergreen Cemetery, next to a small tree. Her mother Minnie died three years later and is buried with Harry, 3 Chenoweths together.
Louise was preceded in death by her father, Harry E. Chenoweth. Surviving Louise were her mother Minnie Chenoweth, her brother Harry Holt Chenoweth, her first husband Richard D. Egge and second husband Dick Congdon, her five children: Richard C. Egge (Jeanie) Bellevue, Jon D. Egge (Deanna) Kirkland, Janet Acarregui McCaffray (Ted) Seattle, Mary Parsons (Bob) Bells Beach, WA, and Dr. Stephen M. Egge (Donna) Puyallup. And though Louise saw all of her five children marry when Mom died, she only had 7 of her 13 grandchildren that would follow: Jordan Anderson, Amanda Lasser, Amity Egge, Ally Nelson, Brian, Mark and Rick Acarregui, Rob Parsons, Katie Adkisson, Kelsey Kagan, Ryan and Ross Egge, and Rebecca Read. Now there are 23 great grandchildren: Aaliyah, Kierra, Olivia, Greta, Molly, Chad, Grace, Megan, Matthew, Carter, Kennedy, Jackson, Harrison, Eleanor, Sawyer, Edison, Beatrice, Zelda, Sophie, Grayson, Lucinda Phobe and Opal. She would have loved them all. She missed so much.
* (Note her name on her death certificate is Louise E Congdon.)
Louise never liked her first name Edna, and always went by Louise. In Greenlake my mother lived on Ashworth, only about a mile away from the home my father grew up in on Corliss Avenue. I know she went to John Marshall, Jr. High and then Lincoln High School. She worked for a while for a pharmacist in Ballard and then for General Insurance which is now Safeco. She and my father were married on July 2, 1940 in Seattle at St. Benedict's by Father Stack. (She had converted to Catholicism a couple of years prior) and the reception was held at her parents home on Ashworth where a huge weeping willow grew in the front yard. They honeymooned at Harrison Hot Springs in Canada. She had five children. She raised them well.
Louise enjoyed people and participated in many mother's groups while raising her 5 children. As her husband Dick was absent frequently in his Alaska construction projects, Louise learned to be independent and accomplished, engaging the many things she had to handle. Louise and Dick moved 3 times in 10 years, all within Seattle, as Dick became very successful in construction. They went from Corliss Ave in Greenlake, to 52nd Avenue in Hawthorne Hills, to Magnolia Boulevard In Magnolia, to waterfront on East Laurelhurst Drive on Webster's Point. Between, she and Dick built a summer home on Bells Beach on Whidbey Island. With five different homes to make livable, there was lots that had to be done, rooms to decorate and furniture to find, with a free reign to do it right. All these moves brought new schools to participate in and arrange and new friends to make. There were 11 schools and 3 colleges to see her children through, and lots of activities. Louise also enjoyed reading, playing bridge socially and working crosswords. She and Dick traveled extensively, often to an AGC convention in various cities around the country. She and Dick also traveled to Havana, Europe, the Bahamas, Hawaii, Japan. Unfortunately, in all this, Louise lost her way to alcohol, an addiction she never conquered, and which slowly destroyed her life.
In the early 60s, following the divorce, Louise moved to Menlo Park, CA with her two youngest children, Mary and Steve. There were more homes, each in succession, and 2 more schools. In the early seventies she met a very fine gentlemen, Richard Congdon, of Connecticut on a cruise. They married and she moved to his home in Old Lyme until she had a stroke, suffering a short-term memory loss. We brought her to Seattle and eventually she came to live at the Foss House (a health care facility) with her mother Minnie until she died there, June 28, 1981*, of heart failure. We buried her near her father Harry, at Evergreen Cemetery, next to a small tree. Her mother Minnie died three years later and is buried with Harry, 3 Chenoweths together.
Louise was preceded in death by her father, Harry E. Chenoweth. Surviving Louise were her mother Minnie Chenoweth, her brother Harry Holt Chenoweth, her first husband Richard D. Egge and second husband Dick Congdon, her five children: Richard C. Egge (Jeanie) Bellevue, Jon D. Egge (Deanna) Kirkland, Janet Acarregui McCaffray (Ted) Seattle, Mary Parsons (Bob) Bells Beach, WA, and Dr. Stephen M. Egge (Donna) Puyallup. And though Louise saw all of her five children marry when Mom died, she only had 7 of her 13 grandchildren that would follow: Jordan Anderson, Amanda Lasser, Amity Egge, Ally Nelson, Brian, Mark and Rick Acarregui, Rob Parsons, Katie Adkisson, Kelsey Kagan, Ryan and Ross Egge, and Rebecca Read. Now there are 23 great grandchildren: Aaliyah, Kierra, Olivia, Greta, Molly, Chad, Grace, Megan, Matthew, Carter, Kennedy, Jackson, Harrison, Eleanor, Sawyer, Edison, Beatrice, Zelda, Sophie, Grayson, Lucinda Phobe and Opal. She would have loved them all. She missed so much.
* (Note her name on her death certificate is Louise E Congdon.)
Louise enjoyed people and participated in many mother's groups while raising her 5 children. As her husband Dick was absent frequently in his Alaska construction projects, Louise learned to be independent and accomplished, engaging the many things she had to handle. Louise and Dick moved 3 times in 10 years, all within Seattle, as Dick became very successful in construction. They went from Corliss Ave in Greenlake, to 52nd Avenue in Hawthorne Hills, to Magnolia Boulevard In Magnolia, to waterfront on East Laurelhurst Drive on Webster's Point. Between, she and Dick built a summer home on Bells Beach on Whidbey Island. With five different homes to make livable, there was lots that had to be done, rooms to decorate and furniture to find, with a free reign to do it right. All these moves brought new schools to participate in and arrange and new friends to make. There were 11 schools and 3 colleges to see her children through, and lots of activities. Louise also enjoyed reading, playing bridge socially and working crosswords. She and Dick traveled extensively, often to an AGC convention in various cities around the country. She and Dick also traveled to Havana, Europe, the Bahamas, Hawaii, Japan. Unfortunately, in all this, Louise lost her way to alcohol, an addiction she never conquered, and which slowly destroyed her life.
In the early 60s, following the divorce, Louise moved to Menlo Park, CA with her two youngest children, Mary and Steve. There were more homes, each in succession, and 2 more schools. In the early seventies she met a very fine gentlemen, Richard Congdon, of Connecticut on a cruise. They married and she moved to his home in Old Lyme until she had a stroke, suffering a short-term memory loss. We brought her to Seattle and eventually she came to live at the Foss House (a health care facility) with her mother Minnie until she died there, June 28, 1981*, of heart failure. We buried her near her father Harry, at Evergreen Cemetery, next to a small tree. Her mother Minnie died three years later and is buried with Harry, 3 Chenoweths together.
Louise was preceded in death by her father, Harry E. Chenoweth. Surviving Louise were her mother Minnie Chenoweth, her brother Harry Holt Chenoweth, her first husband Richard D. Egge and second husband Dick Congdon, her five children: Richard C. Egge (Jeanie) Bellevue, Jon D. Egge (Deanna) Kirkland, Janet Acarregui McCaffray (Ted) Seattle, Mary Parsons (Bob) Bells Beach, WA, and Dr. Stephen M. Egge (Donna) Puyallup. And though Louise saw all of her five children marry when Mom died, she only had 7 of her 13 grandchildren that would follow: Jordan Anderson, Amanda Lasser, Amity Egge, Ally Nelson, Brian, Mark and Rick Acarregui, Rob Parsons, Katie Adkisson, Kelsey Kagan, Ryan and Ross Egge, and Rebecca Read. Now there are 23 great grandchildren: Aaliyah, Kierra, Olivia, Greta, Molly, Chad, Grace, Megan, Matthew, Carter, Kennedy, Jackson, Harrison, Eleanor, Sawyer, Edison, Beatrice, Zelda, Sophie, Grayson, Lucinda Phobe and Opal. She would have loved them all. She missed so much.
* (Note her name on her death certificate is Louise E Congdon.)
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