Mary Elizabeth ANDREWS
1870 - 1959 (88 years)
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Name Mary Elizabeth ANDREWS Born 13 Nov 1870 Lymansville, North Providence, RI 
Gender Female Died 20 Mar 1959 Sunland, CA Buried 23 Mar 1959 Mt. Hope Cemetery, 3751 Market St., San Diego, CA Person ID I00006 Sorensen-Remington Family Tree Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Father William ANDREWS, b. 22 Feb 1833, England , d. 14 Aug 1900, Bristol, RI (Age 67 years) Mother Eliza Jane EDWARDS, b. 4 Mar 1836, Clones, Monaghan, Ireland , d. 2 Dec 1894, RI (Age 58 years) Married 2 Sep 1856 RI [1] Family ID F00046 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Frank Paine CHAFEE, b. 4 Jan 1874, Bristol, Bristol Co., RI , d. 12 Jul 1955, Jacumba, San Diego Co., CA (Age 81 years) Married 17 Jul 1896 Bristol, Bristol Co., RI [2] Children 1. John Chafee, b. 1897, d. Bef 1 Jun 1900 (Age < 3 years) 2. Frank Andrews Chafee, b. 18 Feb 1898, Bristol, Bristol Co., RI , d. Oct 1974, San Diego Co., CA (Age 76 years)3. Laura Russel CHAFEE, b. 28 Apr 1899, Bristol, Bristol Co., RI , d. 14 Mar 1975, Natick, Middlesex Co., MA (Age 75 years)4. Ruth Austin Chafee, b. 30 Nov 1900, Bristol, Bristol Co., RI , d. 29 Apr 1998, IL (Age 97 years)5. Harriet "Hattie" Raymond Chafee, b. 8 Aug 1903, Bristol, Bristol Co., RI , d. 3 Mar 1908, Warwick, RI (Age 4 years)6. Charles Austin Chafee, b. 3 Mar 1910, RI , d. 27 Apr 1986, Los Angeles, CA (Age 76 years)Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 Family ID F00035 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Photos 
My great-grandma Mary Elizabeth seated, with her sister Estella.Great Grandma Chafee 
My grandma Laura is seated on the left with the striped tie, next to sister Ruth, with their mom "Mamie" in the back. The boy is their bro Charlie, and the tall woman apparently is a friend. Maybe Rocky Point, c1915?
Ruth Ella with Great-Grandma Chafee, March 1945
50th anniversary of my great-grandparents Frank & Mamie Chafee, 17 July 1946. Son Frank is on the right. I am not sure who the lady on the left is, although I probably should know. Could it be sister Estella?
"Mamie" and Laura with Becky Hubbard, Ruth's youngest, c1949? Everyone looks so happy!
My two great-grandmas, Mary Elizabeth "Mamie" (Andrews) Chafee, and Angeretta Williams (Whitford) Remington
Mamie and Frank, my great-grandparents
My Grandma Laura Remington with her mom Mamie, having a good time.
Four generations, 1954
My great-grandma c1954.
This is how I remember my Great-grandparents.
Her children and grandchildren were always loved and in her prayers.
About 1955: Uncle Frank with his parents in California just before my Great-Grandpa Chafee died; maybe with one of Uncle Charlie's sons -- not sure.
Uncle Frank and his mom, my Great-Grandma Chafee, c1956
My Great-Grandma Chafee in California, 1956
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Notes - She was "Mamie" to Great-grandpa Chafee.
Mary was born in Lymansville, North Providence, which is now part of Pawtucket. Her original birth record is at the Pawtucket City Hall.
Her address at the time of her death was 9645 Green Verdugo Rd., Sunland, CA. According to a notation on the funeral memorial, Mary's grave is in Section 1, Div. 8, Lot 116.
My dad, Norman, saved many of the letters she wrote to my family when she lived in California in the mid-1950s. In one of them she writes: "Everything seems queer to me here in the West. It's lovely up here in these mountains though -- I only wish Grandpa could have lived long enough for the Lord to heal him -- and he take a little comfort in his old age. I am quite alone here in this house -- Frankie's trailer is quite near (and they look after me and do all my errands) so I don't have to leave the place. I am lonely at times -- and wish things could have been different. But God's spirit is here and in me. Bless his name. I am trying to be contented. It's the best all around -- for not any of my children could take the burden of me like Frankie."
She tells how Frank took her with him to Arizona for a fishing trip on the Colorado River. She writes: "It was some trip (but part of it was rough) and some of it was lovely -- would like to have had all my people here to enjoy it with me. Love to you all and God's blessings on you, Grandma Chafee" [this was a couple of months after her husband died]
In another letter, she says: "Laura writes -- she must have looked like Lois when she was a little girl. (Not quite) She was very light -- with hair very sunny and fine." In another letter she says something similar: "Laura thinks she must have looked like Lois (when she was little) (not quite) she had a look like her dad (even then) where the blue eyes come from (is away back -- so Grandma Chafee says -- in the Chafee family) as Grandma Chafee was a Monrow, with brown eyes -- and Grandpa Chafee's eyes were a dark grey, like Aunt Lena's. Well that's all I can remember about it. The blue eyes didn't come from the Andrews either (my father's were a light grey -- not blue -- so it will remain a mystery I guess). Love to all of you -- God's blessings on you all. Grandma Chafee"
- She was "Mamie" to Great-grandpa Chafee.
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