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Note N5917 Index

Barbara Libby's memoir about her family concludes with these memories of Bernice and Bud:

Aunt Bernie is the matriarch of the family now.
(She) was a nurse's aide at the Maine General Hospital for many years.
When she and Bud moved to Westbrook we didn't see them very often.
Aunt Bernie and Aunt Pearl were always very close. you would rarely see one without the other until Aunt Pearl moved to Springfield. Aunt Bernie visits her every week.
Bud worked at the shipyard during the war. He also served in the Maine National Guard. After the war he went to work for S.D. Warren Co. for thirty six years. Bud was a member of the Mason's.
Aunt Bernie and Bud use to come in to Preble Chapel with Aunt Pearl to be in our shows. They looked forward to the shows.
Aunt Bernie . . . keeps busy knitting little hats for babies at Maine Medical Center and she crochets. She use to paint. She gave me a lovely painting. I have it hanging on my living room wall. I enjoy it very much. She is a remarkable woman.. . .
Aunt Bernie and Bud were always looking out for someone. They loved their family very much.

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Note N5918 Index

Russell was a cabinetmaker, working for the T.P. Beals Furniture Company in Portland.
Barbara Libby tells about Russell and Cecelia in her memoir, as follows:

They were a great couple full of fun. We loved when they came to visit. There was always lots of laughing and joking. They were always together. . . .
He died a tragic death. He had hurt himself at work and was at home. He and Celia lived on the third floor of an apartment house on Congress St., across from the North School. He was washing windows. He was sitting on the sill washing the outside when the casing gave way and he fell three stories, landing on the cement walk between the apartment house and the building next door. It was such a sad thing to happen and to make it even more so, Celia was pregnant and he never knew he was going to be a father. When Anne Marie was born she looked just like her father. She still does. She has the Scribner eyes.
Aunt Celia and Anne Marie have been a part of our family right along and we are so thankful. Celia worked for Excel Cleaners on Congress St. . . .
Celia met and married Albert Dupuis. He is a wonderful man he just automatically became part of the family. We are very fond of him. . . .
Celia is always on the go. She walks downtown to catch a bus to the Maine Mall, where she quite often meets my brothers Philip and Donald and his wife Adelaide on their daily walk around the Mall. She's really something else, quite a lady.

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Note N5919 Index

Writing about Ralph and Clara, Barbara Libby has these memories to relate:

We lived in Clara's father's house, [Henry Hoar] on Island Ave. Ralph spent a lot of time with us while courting Clara. They and their family lived on the Island for a while too.
Ralph served in the National Guard for fifteen years. He worked at S.D. Warren Co. for thirty two years. He retired in 1976.
He and Clara were members of the Westbrook Senior Citizens and the Salvation Army Golden Age Club. Clara was a seamstress for more than twenty years at Porteous Mitchell and Braun. . . .
Clara and Ralph worked very hard all of their lives. They always had a smile and a kind word for everyone. They were caring, loving people. It shows in the great family they raised.

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Note N5920 Index

Harry was a cook. He and Lena never married.

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Note N5921 Index

James was a storeclerk and grain salesman. Janice was a teacher.

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Note N5924 Index

Stanley worked for a time as a clerk in a store in Portland. In 1920, he was working for the Boston and Maine Railroad Co. as a brakeman. In 1923, he was working as a chauffeur. Beatrice was a stenographer. Their marriage ended in divorce 30 October 1956 (DIVORCE INDEX, Maine State Archives Microfilm).

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Note N5925 Index

Claude worked as a storeclerk in Portland, at Samuel Wolf's Grocery Store located at 1203 Forest Avenue. He also worked as a chauffeur.

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Note N5926 Index

Sherman and Helen divorced 16 April 1937 (DIVORCE RECORDS, Maine State Archives Microfilm Roll 7, Vol. 23, Page 197).
Sherman was a driver for the Deering Parcel Service in Portland. Gertrude was a waitress at the Lafayette Hotel on Congress Street in Portland.