John Wesley Cullimore & Courtenay Marie Hill Cullimore

My Great Great Grandparents

This picture is in the Cullimore Family Bible

Date is unkown at this time.

Benjamin Nelson Graham & Hannah Grace Dickisson Graham

Thanksgiving week I was contacted by a cousin through Ancestry.com. Her mother had done a lot of genealogy research on her family in the 1970s. Today she shared this wonderful photo from the book written by her mother.  She is related to Benjamin's sister Mary. I was thrilled beyond words to learn she had a picture of my Great Great Grandparents. And, she has information confirming some of my speculations such as Hannah's lineage to the Butterfields and the Smeads; and, the relationship between her and Mary's husband Charles Butterfield.  I look forward to learning much more from my new found cousin. She is not sure of the date of the picture or the children in the picture. Maybe we can discover that together.

Ben Nelson Graham - Handmade Crafts

Albert Weigandt - "In Memory of My Cruise to the Orient on the USS Chaumont in 1937"



This is a hand embroidered silk cloth my grandfather had made in Asia reflecting all the places he had been while serving on the USS Chaumont in 1937. I did not place photos in the two frames as he had left them empty and I had it framed with archival glass and mat.

Frank C. Shipman - Yearbook University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1941

 

 

Frank C. Shipman & Delbert E. Shipman

The saddest part of doing family research is looking for those members who have died for our country. My great aunt lost her first husband, Capt Frank C. Shipman, during WWII.  He was killed in action during the Salerno Landing and the battle for Monte Cassino, ranked as one of the finest feats of arms carried out by any soldiers during the war. In return they sustained losses of about 80%. Frank was among the losses and is buried there in Italy. I hope to someday learn which cemetery he is buried in. Shortly after they were married he shipped out.  Her first husband's bother, PFC Delbert Eugene Shipman, also died during WWII. The Shipman family lost two sons. I have just begun to search for information on Frank and I am coming accross information on Delbert at the same time.  My heart breaks for my great aunt. While they are not directly related to me I feel a strong urge to tell their story as I uncover it. I don't wish for them to be forgotten in time. I want to be the storyteller for them too. The first step was to build a memorial for the both of them on Find A Grave and add them to my tree on Ancestry.com. They will continue to grow as I find more information along my journey to tell the story of those that have preceeded us. Love and Hugs to my great aunt who is still with us.

Frank: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77115437

Delbert:  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSvcid=223392&GRid=77116277&


These are still a work in progress.

Margarite Rose (Blish) Mallette Rash

My Great Grandmother Margarite Rose (Blish) Mallette Rash.

A month before my mother died, she finally got to see what her grandmother on her father's side looked liked.

Katherine Elizabeth (Vogel) Blum & Jacob Weigandt

My Great Grandfather and his second wife (sister to his first wife)

1946, Lincoln Nebr

Jacob Vogel (1894 - 1977)

Katherine Elizabeth (Vogel) Blum Weigandt (1896-1967)

[Katherine married Jacob after the death of Mary, her sister, and after she had divorced her first husband, Johann "George" Blum, for adultry]

Katherine Ruth (Graham) & Albert Weigandt 1947

My Grandparents

1947, Lincoln Nebr

Katherine Ruth Graham (1921-1990)

Albert Weigandt (1916 - 1957)

Cullimore

Our Cullimore line stems from the Cullimores of Portsmouth/Portsea, Hampshire, England. The family tree starts with three brothers that came to America. It is believed that two traveled on the same ship and a younger brother came at a later date based on his marriage information in Portsea. I found a clue earlier today that may help me further research this limb of our tree in England. Not an easy task since Cullimore is as common as Smith is here in the United States, but not all that common in 1700s Portsea. I have found a George Cullimore, also working in the dockyards as my relative William and his brother John did. Can this be their father? To further investigate this I will need to pay for a researcher at the National Archives in Portsmouth. Keep your fingers crossed and say a few prayers!

 

With the help of his dad, Jacob, my grandfather built this house in Lincoln, Nebraska. The family lived in the basement while the upper half was being finished.

Elvira "Grace" Graham Roberts - Mother at 71?

It seems that a person, or several persons, have posted on various websites and Ancestry.com that Elvira and Felix had a daughter, Rosanne Roberts, born Sept 1934, died Sept 1934 and is buried in Ridge Mill, Custer, Oklahoma, Sept 1934. I find this hard to believe as that would put Felix at about 77 years of age and Elvira at about 71. She was 41 when she gave birth to Norva B. Roberts. He lived 1904-1958.

The Vogels

The Vogels approximately 1911.

Front, L-R: Mary Vogel, Maria Buxman Vogel (wife to Henry Vogel), Henry Vogel, Jr on lap, Amelia Vogel (daughter to Maria and Henry Vogel), Jacob Vogel, Charlotte Vogel, Pauline Vogel on lap.

Back, L-R: Anna Katherine Vogel, Henry Vogel, Katerina "Katie" Vogel, Amalia "Molie" Vogel, Katherine Vogel. [There is one Vogel child missing from the picture, Charlotte Vogel and it is not known why at this time why she was not in the picture as she was alive when it was taken.]

My Great Great Grandmother Charlotte Sommer Vogel, approximately 1911. On Charlotte's lap is Pauline Vogel (b. 1908), youngest child of Jacob and Charlotte Vogel.

Jacob Vogel (1858 - 1918)

My Great Great Grandfather Jacob Vogel, approximately 1911. 

Katherine Vogel Blum Weigandt (1896-1967)

Katherine Vogel Blum Weigandt, approximately 1911. After visiting her family in Lincoln, Nebr, Katherine returned home to her first husband to find another woman's earring in her bed. She divorced Johann "George" Blum in Aug 1922. When her sister, Mary Vogel Weigandt, died, Katherine married Jacob Weigandt and lovingly raised my grandfather and great aunt. They never had children of their own, but there was a great love between Jacob and Katherine and they lived a happy life together.

Mary Vogel Weigandt (1898-1922)

This is a picture of my Great Grandmother Mary Vogel Weigandt. This is from a photo shortly after the family arrived in the US from Russia. It is estimated to be 1910.

"We Are The Chosen" by Della M. Cumming -

“My feelings are in each family we are called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. We have been called as it were by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family, you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the things I do? It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up. Their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation, to answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones.”

Lloyd George Mallette (1914-1961)

After many years of looking for my grandfather, a cousin that I found through Ancestry.com sent me the above picture of him the end of last month. Her grandmother, Lenora, was Lloyd's sister. The date is not know, but it is assumed that it is between 1935 and 1940.  I also received his baby foot print from when he was born. I felt a rush of excitement to see him for the first time, some would call it being giddy.  But then I felt, and still do, an extreme amount of sadness because my mother never knew what he looked like. My grandmother, Viola Louise Mays Mallette Timm (1924-2007), never talked about him and never had any photos of him. To my mom he was just a name on her birth certificate.  I've spent six years researching and looking for him. Before my mom died, I was able to tell her he was in the Army Air Force.  He met and married my grandmother when he was station in Biloxi, Ms. They had two children, my mother and her brother George Mallette (1944-2002).  And, that he died the month after my parents were married in Hawaii. I was able to tell her where he was buried (link included with this post), that he died with only three years of high school education and he was working as a gas and oil man that never remarried. When I looked at him for the first time the first person I saw was my mother and I'm amazed at how much my brothers look like him. I think my brother Steve more so.  I take more after my dad's mother's side of the family..short round Russian/German heritage...but now I know where we kids got the pointy chin from.  I can only pray that she has met up with him in heaven at that they are making up for lost time.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3603995

What are the Odds?

What are the odds of there being “two” sets of twins out there named Mearl and Pearl? The set I’m interested in were born in 1895. I keep coming across a pair born in 1924.  Pearl Fay only lived 10 days before she passed. She is buried in an unmarked grave with my great great grandparents and her uncle Charlie.  I found Pearl’s burial location through court records, but have not yet found Mearl May…or is it Merl May?  I’ve seen both spellings.  Their father, Arthur is buried in California.   I’ve not yet looked for their mother.

 

Chicago City Cemetery and William Cullimore

It appears that one of the possible burial places of my great (x4) grandfather, William Cullimore, will prove to be the ultimate challenge. More so than I originally thought. One of the possible locations of burial was Chicago City Cemetery. As a widower, he moved west via the newly opened turnpike from Maryland to Chicago where his younger brother, Thomas, and his wife were living at the time. William’s obit does not list where he was buried but the cemetery that his brother is buried at does not reflect his being buried there. The puzzle has just begun and I look forward to challenge.

 

“Chicago City Cemetery was located in at the south end of what is now Lincoln Park. The first burials were in 1843, and at its peak, had 20,000 burials. City residents did not like the cemetery location, which was on low land, close to the lake, thinking it contaminated water supply and aided the spread of diseases such as cholera.

In 1859, the city stopped selling lots at the cemetery and reinterments began in the newly-opened Rosehill Cemetery. The last burials at City were in 1866. Other cemeteries that have reinterred remains are Graceland, Wunders, and Calvary. Jewish Cemetery landowners handled reinterments, for which there are no public records. The remains of about 6,000 confederate prisoners from the federal prison, Camp Douglas, were moved from a potters field to Oak Woods Cemetery. The conditions at Camp Douglas were notoriously awful, and most of the rebels died of hunger and disease, between 1862 and 1865.

Disinterments were completed by 1870, and the City Cemetery was officially empty of all graves except the Ira Couch tomb, which still stands in the park (it was deemed too expensive to move--and may be empty--records indicate he is in Rosehill's Couch family tomb) and 116-year-old Boston Tea Party's David Kennison. However, various digs in the park over the years, one as recently as 1998, have yielded human remains.”

 

Also Ref: http://hiddentruths.northwestern.edu/home.html

Lloyd George Mallette (1914-1961)

I received a pleasant surprise from my cousin a couple days ago – a black and white photo of my Grandfather Lloyd George Mallette, my mother’s father. And, his baby foot print.  When I first looked at the photo I saw my younger brother looks a lot like him and my mom too. I can’t wait to scan and post a copy of the picture. I wish my mom could have seen the photo too, she would have been so excited to see it since she never knew him.

 

Mary Helen Weigandt Shipman Solomon

Here is a newspaper article about my Great Aunt Mary “Helen” Weigandt Shipman Solomon.  An amazing person! I’m so happy my husband was station here and we moved to Warner Robins in 1996.  My husband also worked in the 5^th MOB.  It gave me the opportunity to meet up with her. We even did some oil painting together, a memory I will cherish forever. She is extremely gifted with the paint brush! Now, we are back for good and I get to see her again. She has told me so many wonderful stories about my dad’s side of the family. I will have to make her some of my cowboy cookies and see if the measure up to her standards…haha.

 

Here’s Why She’s Called ‘Sweetie’

Macon Telegraph (GA), February 15, 2011

 

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. – Her name is Helen Solomon but most everybody knows her as “Sweetie.”

 

Her late husband, Col. Joseph Solomon, first started calling her that. Then her three children picked up on it. They would introduce their mom as Sweetie, and the name stuck like a confectioner’s spoon in a bowl of thick icing.

 

Her coronation had nothing to do with her famous “cowboy cookies,” although there is a sweet tooth behind those apron strings. Sweetie has a secret recipe of oatmeal, chocolate chips and pecans. Her daughters swear it is probably locked in a vault somewhere.

 

It’s somewhat appropriate I introduce you to this sweet spirit in the days before Valentine’s Day. After all, there’s an ongoing love story here between a 93 year-year-old woman and the world.

 

She grew up in a German family in Lincoln, Neb., and married Frank Shipman five days after Pearl Harbor on Dec. 12, 1941.  A month later he was on his way to fort Dix, N.J.  He died in combat 67 years ago this week near the Abby of Monte Cassino in Italy.

 

Her friends and family in Nebraska encouraged the young widow to volunteer with the local USO.  She was working in the cloak room when a handsome soldier from Cleveland, Miss., waltzed across the dance floor. His name was Capt. Joseph Solomon. He would later ask for her hand in marriage.

 

In 1948, while stationed in Germany, he was responsible for setting up the radar operation for the famous Berlin Airlift. She helped organize clothes and food drives in German neighborhoods.

 

Their son, Joe, was born in 1949. The stork dropped identical twin daughters Sandy…and…Linda into the nest two years later. In 1953, while the family was living in Montgomery, Ala., there was a massive polio outbreak. Sweetie tried to flee with her three children and head back to Nebraska to stay with her family. But 4-year-old Joe became ill on the plane. When they landed, he was taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with polio.  It was July 4, 1053, a day Joe would later refer to as his “dependence day.”

 

Sandy, who was 22 months old, was diagnosed with polio the next day followed by Linda the day after. Sweetie was diagnosed on the fourth day. Joe and Sandy were the most afflicted and spent four months in the hospital. Joe’s right leg was paralyzed, and he wears a brace to this day. Sandy still wears a knee brace and has had numerous operations.  Linda and Sweetie had non-paralytic polio, although they both have scoliosis.

 

Their housekeeper in Montgomery, a black woman named Sadie Bell Parker, was so concerned she bought a bus ticket to Nebraska and bravely stayed in the quarantined hospital room with Joe and Sandy.

 

She later cared for them when they returned home to Alabama. Parker often went on trips with the family, which wasn’t easy in the days of segregation in the Deep South. It was a special relationship, and the Solomon’s still stay in touch with Parker, who is in her 90s.

 

In 1956, the Solomon family moved to Warner Robins, where Joseph was appointed commander of the 5^th Mob at Robins Air Force Base.  Two years later, the Solomon’s were named the National Poster Family by the March of Dimes. Sweetie traveled with her children for speaking engagements all over the country and tutored her children in their schoolwork.  They appeared on national radio and television commercials and “The Ed Sullivan Show.”  They participated in a fashion show with Marilyn Monroe at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.  Little Joe served as grand marshal of the Daytona 500.  They brushed elbows with Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), Eartha Kitt, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Hugh O’Brian (Wyatt Earp), Liberace, Howdy Doody and Marcel Marceau.  They met Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine.

 

The next year, Sweetie was state representative for the March of Dimes and helped establish the office in Macon.  She often went door to door to raise funds.

 

In her heart, she had always wanted to become a nurse.  Although she never received a nursing degree, she became a medical caregiver by administering daily physical therapy to Joe and Sandy until they were teenagers.

 

The family left Warner Robins for a few years and lived in Puerto Rico during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.  Joseph even had a “red phone” at the house to notify him in the event of an emergency.  While in Puerto Rico, he helped build the foundation for the world’s largest and most sensitive radiotelescope at Arecibo.

 

After the Solomons returned to Warner Robins, Sweetie worked for several years in the office of U.S. Rep Jack Brinkley.

 

Linda has complied a book of letters her mother wrote over a 27-year period from 1947-74.  She plans to have it published and will call it “Dearest Folks.”  That’s the greeting with which Sweetie opened every letter. 

 

I asked Sandy about her mother’s nickname.  “It’s a perfect match, “she said.  “That’s her personality.”

Blish/Blush

I received some genealogy information from Wisconsin in the mail last Friday. I now know when Alfred Day Blish and “Catherine” Amanda Vandozer/Vandoozer (several Racine registers has Vandozer for Catherine and other family members) were married.  There are varying dates on Ancestry.com and a different date in a book on the Blish genealogy.  I’m not sure why the date in the book would be different. I would have assumed he had looked at/acquired a copy of the register of marriages as a source reference.  Maybe he couldn’t accept her marriage at such an early age, 13/14, which really wasn’t that uncommon in those days.  I have another distant grandmother who married when she was 14. Her parents had to sign for her to be able to marry at that young of an age.  I also learned the names of Catherine’s parents. 

 

I also received the obituary for Henry Blish, but I’ve not had a chance to completely review it yet. I think this is actually Harvey, brother to my Alfred.  The obit for Henry is lengthy but I will add it to my blog at a later date for others who are researching his side of the Blish/Blush family.

Blish - Blush

So, I’m taking a break from the Mallette side of my mother’s family to research the “Blish” side. I have learned that Blish and Blush were interchangeable many generations back contributing to mass confusion and adding to the need for a wall of post-it notes. I first run into the undecided spelling of the last name with Joseph Blish/Blush, Jr. (1762-1848). This interchanging of last names was detrimental in Joseph’s application for pension for his service during the Revolutionary War, his claim was rejected due to no service records being found - under the spelling of Blush. But, they are there under the spelling of Blish, a discovery made in 1902 by a family researcher writing a book on the “Blish” family. When reading his pension records, under the name Blush, I see that a contributing factor could quite possibly be due to penmanship, and probably just the family not being consistent.  I believe as the researcher in 1902 that this Joseph Blush is the same Joseph Blish that is great great grandfather to my  great grandmother Margarite Rose Blish Mallette Rash, my mother’s grandmother.  In the records at the National Archives that hold the original documents is the annotation of the researcher in 1902 and the records are now cross filed under Blish too.  Also within the pension records are two documents attesting to the service of Joseph, one from his daughter Almira and one from his son Oliver, another validation that these two Josephs are one in the same.  I have discovered two books on the family. Interestingly, one for each spelling of the name and both documented with various resources that are similar. So, when researching this line my suggestion is to try both spellings….Blish….Blush…happy hunting.

Middletown, Delaware County, New York

It looks quite possible that two family lines (one on my mom’s side and one on my dad’s side) lived in the same community in New York. The Blish and the Graham families, ghee what a small world it was a couple hundred years ago.

The Civil War, it can be such a small world.

Imagine my surprise when researching the Blish side (on my mother’s side) of my family when I see that the brother in-law (Capt Theodore Lane) of my relative, Alfred Day Blish, served under my great x3 grandmother’s Roxcenia (Butterfield) Dickisson (on my father’s side) brother’s (Charles Butterfield) regiment. Wow, that was a mouth full.  There was no easy way to type that all out without a chalk board, I’m limited to electronic pen and paper here.  And, he was mustered out in Missouri when my  great great grandfather John W. Cullimore (on my father’s side) was at Jefferson Barracks too. I was  researching Alfred and stumbled upon a lengthy section on his brother in-law and sister (Caroline Melissa Blish) in “Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Racine and Kenosha counties, Wisconsin: containing biographical sketches of business and professional men and of many of the early settled families”, J.H. Beers & Co, 1906.    

Mallette

What an elusive family you are!  In hopes to learn more about my direct family line I try researching  my great grandfather’s brothers, no luck with his sisters yet. I find information on some them, but John Paul, or Paul John, why can’t I find out more about you? I know where you are buried and that according to a 1930 census you remarried.  Whatever happened to her?  Your father Peter is just as mystifying. I lost track of him in Bangor, New York.

 

I’m amazed at the number of divorces in this family. It could very well be that not only did my grandfather divorce my grandmother and his father did divorced my Great Grandmother Margarite but it seems that my Great Great Grandfather could have possibility too? I hope that is not the case. Alphronia Dwyer where are you? Did you die at an early age, move to Canada, left the family?

 

I’ve not given up yet…the hunt for puzzle pieces continues!

Margarite Rose and George Orville Blish

I discovered today that brother and sister Blish married brother and sister Mallette. My Great grandmother Margarite married Paul John (or John Paul, birth certificate and death certificates contradict each other) Mallette and her brother, Orville, married his sister Elizabeth J. Mallette.

James Cullimore (1898-1868) and Benjamin Nelson Graham (1828-1885)

Oh how frustrating it is to see so many people on Ancestry.com that have my greatx3 grandfather James listed as the James Cullimore of Utah. Don't remember seeing anywhere that he was a Mormon, nor that he lived in Utah and had a wife named Clara Fowlke.  And, to see people listing my greatx2 grandfather Benjamin as living, dying and being buried in California.  I try to email them and tell them of their errors, with little success.  Check your resources people before you add to your Ancestry.com tree.

John and Suzanna Kate (Cullimore) Flanagin

Don't really know why I've become obsessed with finding the parents of John W. Cullimore's sister's husband. Because it is a mystery? Because a great grandson has emailed me asking for any information I have on Suzanna?  What I do find interesting is that there are two sets of John and Suzanna Flanagins in the Ancestry.com databases and member created trees. And, within Ancestry.com people have these two intertwined within their trees. Suzanna Kate Cullimore's husband John Flanagin didn't not live, die, nor was he buried in Pawnee,Nebraska in 1905. Her husband live to around 1930. There seems to be two James Flanagin's that people are claiming to be the father of her husband. Both have different birth and death dates. I'm inclined to believe if one of these is his father that it would be the one born in 1811.  But as of this date I have no proof of who his father was.  Then there is the spelling of the last name. I'm sure that contributes to all the confusion...Flanagin (Suzanna's husband's spelling), Flanagan and Flanigan. Of course one could say that his family may have changed the spelling along the course of time.

Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names.  At some point the search becomes futile... there is nothing left to find, no meaning to be dredged out of old receipts, newspaper articles, letters, accounts of events that seemed so important fifty or seventy years ago.  All that remains is the insane urge to keep looking, insane because the searcher has no idea what he seeks.  What will it be?  A photograph?  A will?  A fragment of a letter?  The only way to find out is to look at everything, because it is often when the searcher has gone far beyond the border of futility that he find the object he never knew he was looking for.  ~Henry Wiencek

 

Weigandt Pleve Chart

     My dad's Aunt Helen, and his cousins Sandy and Linda, gave me a copy of a Weigandt Pleve chart yesterday they received from another person researching his mother's Weigandt family line to/in Russia.  I believe the chart goes back to when our family emigrated from Germany to the Volga region of Russia.
     Families emigrated from various parts of Germany in response to the manifesto of Katherine the Great, a German Princes, in 1763. This same stream of emigration also brought the Pennsylvania "Dutch" to the American colonies.  They were allowed to retain their own language, customs and religion.  After the freeing of the serfs in Russia in 1861, the reforms that followed greatly changed the status of the German colonists. Their local self-government was gradually being interfered with and military serviced forced upon them.  With this came a great emigration in the 1870s in large numbers to South America, Canada and the United States. In the States they mainly settled in Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas since this region most resembled where they came from. Nebraska being the central hub.  These groups of individuals were often referred to as Russian Germans, or White Russians.
     My Great Grand father Jacob Weigandt arrived in America 9 Nov 1911, emigrating from Hook, Russia to settle in Lincoln, Nebraska. My Aunt Helen is first Generation American along with her brother, my grandfather, Albert Weigandt. Jacob's brother, Oswald, traveled with him but was denied entry due to possibly having pink eye. He then traveled to and settled in Argentina where we now have distant cousins
     More about Jacob, his first wife Mary and his second wife Katherine (sister to Mary) during another post. I can't wait to study the chart further and to figure out our Weigandt line.

Margarite Rose Blish Mallette Rash (1895 -1973)

The obituary for my great grandmother. Throughout her life there were routine miss spellings of her name, making looking for her all the more difficult.  Margarite is in fact her first name. To make it even more difficult was my mom's mom refusing to talk about her first husband, Lloyd.  The break through came by a chance finding of my cousin Terry. She is related through a sister of Lloyd.  I know this to be her obit because of the names listed. Lloyd Mallette was my grandfather. I made a request for a photo of her niche at Acacia Cermetery. I hope someone will fulfill my request thrugh Find A Grave.

Lloyd George Mallette (1914 - 1961)

My mom’s father. He is buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery. He died the month after my mom and dad were married. My mom only knew his name since my grandmother refused to talk about him.

Barbara Jean Mallette Weigandt (13 Mar 1943 - 10 Dec 2010)

My mom passed away last month. She is now without pain and is with our Lord. We miss and love you, tell everyone we said hello and we will be together again. 

Just Sleeping

Now the laborer's task is over;

Now the battle day is past;

Now upon the farther shore

Lands the voyager, at last.

There the tears of earth are dried;

There its hidden things are clear;

There the work of life is tried

By a greater judge than here.

"Earth to earth and dust to dust",

Calmly, now, the words we say;

Left behind, we wait in trust

For the resurrection day.

Father, in Thy gracious keeping

Leave we, now, Thy servant sleeping.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was;

and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.