43 years, 5 months, 2 days old
Born to Weldon Augustus (Rizzie) Powers
(22 Feb 1895-5 Feb 1967) of South Carolina
and
Mary Ellen Gallagher Powers
(13 Oct 1898-24 Apr 1972) of South Carolina
The marriage would dissolve within 2 years of Mary's birth and her mother would marry Walter Hauk and have a daughter Florence in 1918. The family moved to San Diego California where another daughter was born, Gladys in 1922.
Mary Lydia graduated from Herbert Hoover High School, Class of 1933*. She met and married Spencer Bud Walker and had son Donald Eugene Walker on 3 July 1935. Donald was never well, born with a condition known as "blue baby". Bud and Mary would divorce and Mary Lydia would marry Warren Frank Ouellette whom she had gone to high school with, they lived at 4032 Orange Avenue San Diego and had a daughter Mary Louise Ouellette, 1940. By 1942 that marriage was over and in September of 1942, Donald died.
Mary worked during the war years at North Island Naval Air Station as a riveter.
Her mother had met and married Frank Albert English and had a son Michael born 1938, so when Michael was born he was already an uncle to Donald.
Mary Lydia would have 2 more children one a daughter Gladys Irene Bishop 1943 by Joseph Thomas Bishop, not sure if they ever married and John Eugene McDonald 1950 by her husband George C McDonald, they had married in 1948.
So there were 4 children with 4 different last names, Walker, Ouellette, Bishop, and McDonald.
Mary and George bought a house in 1951 at 6412 Celia Vista Drive, San Diego, CA. Unfortunately, Mary who died of cancer, it had invaded her whole body, in 1959 was only able to enjoy her home for 8 years. She was so happy though when she moved into the house and was able to buy her first automatic washing machine, a Maytag! No more wringer washers, she still however for the rest of her life hangs the wash on the clothesline, never having a dryer.
Altho she never lived with her father after the age of two she would talk about him and she knew that he had remarried and had a son Jimmie. Her maternal grandmother lived in Charleston South Carolina all her life and I am sure that is how Mary kept tabs on her dad. In fact, she had 2 brothers and a sister from her dad's second marriage, Jimmie, Andrea, and Paul.
Oh, how she loved country music always had the radio on when we lived on Orange Avenue, with Bob Wills, Sons of the Pioneers, Hank Williams, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, Lefty Frizzell and Eddy Arnold among her favorites.
She had hazel eyes, was 5' 3", and left-handed and she LOVED Pepsi and her son John.
*That is what I always thought until the 1940 Federal Census came out, not so she just went until her junior year.
ღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾
Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other
That we are still
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was
There is absolute unbroken continuity
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
DEATH IS NOTHING AT ALL
- by Canon Henry Scott -Holland -Canon of St Paul's Cathedral
ღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾
Born to Weldon Augustus (Rizzie) Powers
(22 Feb 1895-5 Feb 1967) of South Carolina
and
Mary Ellen Gallagher Powers
(13 Oct 1898-24 Apr 1972) of South Carolina
The marriage would dissolve within 2 years of Mary's birth and her mother would marry Walter Hauk and have a daughter Florence in 1918. The family moved to San Diego California where another daughter was born, Gladys in 1922.
Mary Lydia graduated from Herbert Hoover High School, Class of 1933*. She met and married Spencer Bud Walker and had son Donald Eugene Walker on 3 July 1935. Donald was never well, born with a condition known as "blue baby". Bud and Mary would divorce and Mary Lydia would marry Warren Frank Ouellette whom she had gone to high school with, they lived at 4032 Orange Avenue San Diego and had a daughter Mary Louise Ouellette, 1940. By 1942 that marriage was over and in September of 1942, Donald died.
Mary worked during the war years at North Island Naval Air Station as a riveter.
Her mother had met and married Frank Albert English and had a son Michael born 1938, so when Michael was born he was already an uncle to Donald.
Mary Lydia would have 2 more children one a daughter Gladys Irene Bishop 1943 by Joseph Thomas Bishop, not sure if they ever married and John Eugene McDonald 1950 by her husband George C McDonald, they had married in 1948.
So there were 4 children with 4 different last names, Walker, Ouellette, Bishop, and McDonald.
Mary and George bought a house in 1951 at 6412 Celia Vista Drive, San Diego, CA. Unfortunately, Mary who died of cancer, it had invaded her whole body, in 1959 was only able to enjoy her home for 8 years. She was so happy though when she moved into the house and was able to buy her first automatic washing machine, a Maytag! No more wringer washers, she still however for the rest of her life hangs the wash on the clothesline, never having a dryer.
Altho she never lived with her father after the age of two she would talk about him and she knew that he had remarried and had a son Jimmie. Her maternal grandmother lived in Charleston South Carolina all her life and I am sure that is how Mary kept tabs on her dad. In fact, she had 2 brothers and a sister from her dad's second marriage, Jimmie, Andrea, and Paul.
Oh, how she loved country music always had the radio on when we lived on Orange Avenue, with Bob Wills, Sons of the Pioneers, Hank Williams, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, Lefty Frizzell and Eddy Arnold among her favorites.
She had hazel eyes, was 5' 3", and left-handed and she LOVED Pepsi and her son John.
*That is what I always thought until the 1940 Federal Census came out, not so she just went until her junior year.
ღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾
Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other
That we are still
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was
There is absolute unbroken continuity
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
DEATH IS NOTHING AT ALL
- by Canon Henry Scott -Holland -Canon of St Paul's Cathedral
ღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾
43 years, 5 months, 2 days old
Born to Weldon Augustus (Rizzie) Powers
(22 Feb 1895-5 Feb 1967) of South Carolina
and
Mary Ellen Gallagher Powers
(13 Oct 1898-24 Apr 1972) of South Carolina
The marriage would dissolve within 2 years of Mary's birth and her mother would marry Walter Hauk and have a daughter Florence in 1918. The family moved to San Diego California where another daughter was born, Gladys in 1922.
Mary Lydia graduated from Herbert Hoover High School, Class of 1933*. She met and married Spencer Bud Walker and had son Donald Eugene Walker on 3 July 1935. Donald was never well, born with a condition known as "blue baby". Bud and Mary would divorce and Mary Lydia would marry Warren Frank Ouellette whom she had gone to high school with, they lived at 4032 Orange Avenue San Diego and had a daughter Mary Louise Ouellette, 1940. By 1942 that marriage was over and in September of 1942, Donald died.
Mary worked during the war years at North Island Naval Air Station as a riveter.
Her mother had met and married Frank Albert English and had a son Michael born 1938, so when Michael was born he was already an uncle to Donald.
Mary Lydia would have 2 more children one a daughter Gladys Irene Bishop 1943 by Joseph Thomas Bishop, not sure if they ever married and John Eugene McDonald 1950 by her husband George C McDonald, they had married in 1948.
So there were 4 children with 4 different last names, Walker, Ouellette, Bishop, and McDonald.
Mary and George bought a house in 1951 at 6412 Celia Vista Drive, San Diego, CA. Unfortunately, Mary who died of cancer, it had invaded her whole body, in 1959 was only able to enjoy her home for 8 years. She was so happy though when she moved into the house and was able to buy her first automatic washing machine, a Maytag! No more wringer washers, she still however for the rest of her life hangs the wash on the clothesline, never having a dryer.
Altho she never lived with her father after the age of two she would talk about him and she knew that he had remarried and had a son Jimmie. Her maternal grandmother lived in Charleston South Carolina all her life and I am sure that is how Mary kept tabs on her dad. In fact, she had 2 brothers and a sister from her dad's second marriage, Jimmie, Andrea, and Paul.
Oh, how she loved country music always had the radio on when we lived on Orange Avenue, with Bob Wills, Sons of the Pioneers, Hank Williams, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, Lefty Frizzell and Eddy Arnold among her favorites.
She had hazel eyes, was 5' 3", and left-handed and she LOVED Pepsi and her son John.
*That is what I always thought until the 1940 Federal Census came out, not so she just went until her junior year.
ღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾
Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other
That we are still
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was
There is absolute unbroken continuity
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
DEATH IS NOTHING AT ALL
- by Canon Henry Scott -Holland -Canon of St Paul's Cathedral
ღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾
Born to Weldon Augustus (Rizzie) Powers
(22 Feb 1895-5 Feb 1967) of South Carolina
and
Mary Ellen Gallagher Powers
(13 Oct 1898-24 Apr 1972) of South Carolina
The marriage would dissolve within 2 years of Mary's birth and her mother would marry Walter Hauk and have a daughter Florence in 1918. The family moved to San Diego California where another daughter was born, Gladys in 1922.
Mary Lydia graduated from Herbert Hoover High School, Class of 1933*. She met and married Spencer Bud Walker and had son Donald Eugene Walker on 3 July 1935. Donald was never well, born with a condition known as "blue baby". Bud and Mary would divorce and Mary Lydia would marry Warren Frank Ouellette whom she had gone to high school with, they lived at 4032 Orange Avenue San Diego and had a daughter Mary Louise Ouellette, 1940. By 1942 that marriage was over and in September of 1942, Donald died.
Mary worked during the war years at North Island Naval Air Station as a riveter.
Her mother had met and married Frank Albert English and had a son Michael born 1938, so when Michael was born he was already an uncle to Donald.
Mary Lydia would have 2 more children one a daughter Gladys Irene Bishop 1943 by Joseph Thomas Bishop, not sure if they ever married and John Eugene McDonald 1950 by her husband George C McDonald, they had married in 1948.
So there were 4 children with 4 different last names, Walker, Ouellette, Bishop, and McDonald.
Mary and George bought a house in 1951 at 6412 Celia Vista Drive, San Diego, CA. Unfortunately, Mary who died of cancer, it had invaded her whole body, in 1959 was only able to enjoy her home for 8 years. She was so happy though when she moved into the house and was able to buy her first automatic washing machine, a Maytag! No more wringer washers, she still however for the rest of her life hangs the wash on the clothesline, never having a dryer.
Altho she never lived with her father after the age of two she would talk about him and she knew that he had remarried and had a son Jimmie. Her maternal grandmother lived in Charleston South Carolina all her life and I am sure that is how Mary kept tabs on her dad. In fact, she had 2 brothers and a sister from her dad's second marriage, Jimmie, Andrea, and Paul.
Oh, how she loved country music always had the radio on when we lived on Orange Avenue, with Bob Wills, Sons of the Pioneers, Hank Williams, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, Lefty Frizzell and Eddy Arnold among her favorites.
She had hazel eyes, was 5' 3", and left-handed and she LOVED Pepsi and her son John.
*That is what I always thought until the 1940 Federal Census came out, not so she just went until her junior year.
ღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾
Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other
That we are still
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was
There is absolute unbroken continuity
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
DEATH IS NOTHING AT ALL
- by Canon Henry Scott -Holland -Canon of St Paul's Cathedral
ღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾ღೋღ¢¾
