Mom Said…, Pt. 2

So I had to call her back.

ME doesn’t know where in the order Grandma Nellie falls. She thinks there might have been brothers, too; she’s going to check with Joan.

Lizzie's daughters (the ones ME is sure of) were Alice and Hazel; they never married. Alice came to San Francisco to live, in her old age. She lived in a hotel. ME recalls that she died four or five years after Dorothy (Dor died in 1980).

Grandpa Bill remarried into money. His second wife died before he did. He gave rings (of hers?) to Grandma Julia: Pat and Joan each got a diamond solitaire and ME got the turquoise surrounded by 12 diamonds (were there other rings, or other jewelry?). (His second wife had to have died before 1942.)

He lived?/visited? Florida for his health, and may have died there.

Molly had another daughter, Midge, who Joan characterized (the earlier generation characterized?) as “glamorous and shady”: she had beached blonde hair, was divorced… The girl ME hung out with in their infrequent visits with that side of the family may have been Midge’s daughter, rather than Ethel’s.

Kathleen Brennan’s sisters are Mary Ellen and Judy.

Jack died of peritonitis, from a ruptured appendix, at French Hospital, right by Chinatown.