Genealogie van der Wal » Florence Vera Riley (1912-2007)

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   Florence Vera Riley<br>Ook bekend als: Vera CraigieVera Corpe<br>Geslacht: Vrouw<br>Geboorte: 1912 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England<br>Geboorte: 14 jun 1912 - Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom<br>Huwelijk: 24 jun 1938 - Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States<br>Huwelijk: 17 dec 1977 - Dearborn, Wayne, Michigan, United States<br>Woonplaats: 1935 - Clawson, Oakland, Michigan, United States<br>Woonplaats: 1940 - Southfield Township, Oakland, Michigan<br>Overlijden: 24 jul 2007 - Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States<br>Begrafenis: 30 jul 2007 - Southfield, Oakland, Michigan, United States<br>Beroep: Children9;s Librarians): George Milton Craigie, Franklin Joseph Corpe<br>Broers/zusters: Ernest Lionel Riley, Doris Lillian Tucker (geboren Riley), Arthur Edward Riley<br>  Aanvullende informatie:
   
   LifeSketch: Florence Vera Riley was born in England at Aunt Lettie's house. Her father, Frank Riley was in Australia for work but sent a cablegram to her mother, Priscilla, to meet him in Boston. So it was that in 1913 after the Titanic had gone down, that Priscilla took her 3 living children across the stormy Atlantic to a new life in America. Frank did meet her in Boston and, of course, Vera, as she was called, would not go to him as she had never seen him before. They settled in Clawson, Michigan where Vera grew up and went to school. Her mother had fallen down a staircase when she was on her first job at 16 and it broke her nose and may have caused her to lose her hearing in her 30's which probably is why her husband took to drink (I think because he could not communicate with her anymore) and Vera being the youngest child was soon left alone when big sister went off to nursing school and her brother Art got married. She really missed Doris who was 12 years older and had shared a room with her. Vera went to church with a neighbor girl and to school at Clawson High School eventually. She was valedictorian of her graduating class and went on a field trip to Washington D.C. She worked summers for a Dr. Howes helping his wife with housework and he encouraged her to go to college. She attended Michigan State College and graduated in 1935 in Home Economics. She did not like her first job as dietitian and took a job at Providence Hospital which is how she met Mabel Craigie who invited her home to have tea (and to meet her boys) when she learned that Vera was born in England. So that is how she met her future husband. They were married 14 June 1938 at Calvary Presbyterian Church and went on a honeymoon to NYC. They moved to Birmingham, Michigan where they lived in a section of the castle home that her husband, father-in-law and brothers-in-law were building. It was on 10 acres at 29368 Northwestern Hwy. It was here she brought her first 3 children after they were born in a Detroit hospital. Milt, her husband, had a nervous breakdown in 1944 and was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was sent to Pontiac State Hospital for 5 years. She took her children, Glen, Gail, and Sharon to live close to some college friends near Lansing, Michigan until he was released. Her mother, Gma Riley came to live with her and help with the children. After he got out in January of 1950 they all moved back to the castle home and their last child Alan was born in October. They lived there with the rest of the Craigie's who had moved from Detroit as soon as the home was completed. In 1940, when her father died, her mother went to live with Doris in CA and then in 1945 moved to Lansing area to help and moved to castle home with us. In 1957 my parents were finally able to buy their own house at 6554 West Point. While living there on March 4, 1966, Vera joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This opened up a whole new way of life for her. She started doing family history research. They remodeled the kitchen and sold the West Point house and bought a house at 9314 Williams, Taylor, Michigan close to where Gail and her husband Manton Gibbs had moved. Milton died of a massive heart attack in April 1974 at age 61 and suddenly Vera was a widow. She sold the Williams Street house and moved to Washington D.C. to serve a mission as a temple worker there at the D.C. Temple but not before first going back to England to do some genealogical research. She met her second husband, Frank Corpe there at the temple. His first wife had recently died. They were married in December 1977 and she cared for him for 17 years until he died at age 93. She served 5 missions at the D.C. Temple. She then moved to a basement apartment with Gail and Manton Gibbs in Indiana, PA where she lived for eleven years until she was 95. She died on Pioneer Day, 24 July 2007 and was buried in the Southfield Cemetery in Southfield, Michigan, near her first husband, George Milton Craigie to whom she has been sealed.

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Historische gebeurtenissen

• Geboortedag 14 juni 1912
• Doopdag 4 maart 1966
• Dag van overlijden 24 juli 2007
• Dag van begraven 30 juli 2007

Dezelfde geboorte/sterftedag

• Ook geboren op 14 juni
• Ook overleden op 24 juli

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