cause: ALS - she died in her home, after seeing each of her kids
Zij is getrouwd met Francis Charles McDonald.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 14 juni 1941 te St. Cecilia Church, Detroit, MI, zij was toen 19 jaar oud.Bron 2
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Gebeurtenis (Marriage Fact) in 51 wonderful, unforgettable years! .
Gebeurtenis (Marriage Fact): 51 wonderful, unforgettable years!.
Gramma's mother died when she was very young, and after that she moved to Detroit with her father & 2 sisters. It was during the Depression, and eventually her Father could no longer afford to keep his children, so she and her sister Marilyn grew up in the St. Vincent’s orphanage. (It was common at that time for the children living there to have at least one living parent - as a matter of fact, Marge doesn't remember anyone there being a orphan, everyone was just poor.)
While not the best of places to grow up, there was always plenty of love received from the nuns and priests who worked there. She remembers father Solanus coming out just to spend the day with the children. He would join them in throwing rocks at the walnuts in the trees, trying to knock them off.
It was here that she began memorizing poetry, learned to say her ABC's backwards, and she and her friend came up with the infamous phrase "You are an insignificant, supercilious piece of inconvenience, and if this language is too copious for your comprehension I shall endeavor to insinuate with more simplicity that you are an ignoramance." She remembers sneaking downstairs into the kitchen at night for some of the moldy cakes that were periodically donated. And once she even got to help sister make the communion wafers!
Although miracles don't happen everyday, one did happen to Marjorie while she was at St. Vincent’s'. She has always been terrified of storms, and one day a Priest was telling everyone the story of Our Lady of Olives, and how even through a terrible hurricane, her statue remained intact, and now any building that houses her statue has never been harmed by a storm. Marge thought to herself "I just know that if I had her medal that I would never be scared of storms again". As she was walking along thinking about it, she happened to see something shinny in the dirt. She bent down to pick it up, and it was a shinny, new "Our Lady of the Olives" medal! Only a true miracle could explain that! And to this day, 60 odd some years later, whenever there's a storm and she has her medal, she's not afraid. Too bad she left it in Michigan during that tail-end of the hurricane in Florida ... Now she has 2, 1 for Michigan, and one for Florida!
At 75 Gramma still goes camping at Otsego Lake State Park every year, where we still enjoy jacks competitions (I'll beat her one of these days!) and nightly campfires.
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Record for Gorge Bowen/ Ancestry.com