Daughter of Grover E. Yeakley and Lora Edith Knight. Raised in an orphanage. Worked for Fred Harvey (Harvey Girl) from age 15 in Albuquerque New Mexico; Winslow, Arizona; Needles Calif., and Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. She and Clarence belonged to the Winslow First Christian Church in Winslow, Arizona. Left daughters Diana and Linda. The day after her fathers death, her mother left her in an orphanage in St. Joseph, Missouri. She was always smiling and laughing. In 1953 her husband had heart attacks and was off work for almost two years. They had started building a house and after working in a resturant all day, she came home and roofed a house by herself. Her two little girls, Diana, 13 & Linda, 9, carried each shingle one at a time up the latter and she would do the rest. She was a shy person and everyone liked her. Spent their married life in Winslow, Arizona and retired to Peoria, Arizona. I most honor our good friends, Russell & Velia DeAngeles. Russell put the floor on out basement so that we could move in way before the house was complete. Without him, I really do not believe we would have been able to pay the rent and move into what became a really nice home.
My Mother was found on the 1930 census as a 12 year old servant in the Lawless home,. It had never occurred to me that the State of Missouri would "rent" children out to work. I was outraged. When she turned 15, she was turned out without a coat. A girl she knew told her to go down to the Santa Fe Railroad complex and apply at the famous Fred Harvey office and they would send her to California and she would not need a coat ever again. So, my Mother became a Harvey Girl. From 1933 to 1957 she worked for them and in 1940 she found a handsome widower named Clarence Doile who worked for the railroad. He was 14yrs older than she and he made her the perfect husband. At the time oh his death, they were still holding hands and sneaking kisses.
She could do absolutely everything including making all of our clothes including our coats & doll clothes made to match our dresses. Never would say ' I can't'. The Fred Harvey in Winslow closed in 1957 and she went to work at a family owned resturant "The Falcon" and by following summer, I joined her there cleaning tables. You could not call it child labor because I was treated by the owners like their very own child. I was 12, in fact they put up with me more than they would have done from their own! They were so good to me and my mother. The name of this family was Demas, a short version that hardly anyone could pronounce. My father had had a heart attack and was not working at the time. I worked there until I was 19 and got to know my mother very well. Every night these wonderful people sent my mother home with soup, rolls and potatoes that they would normally not be able to use the following day.
I have out lived my parents, my only sister and her son. Now I know why my Grandmother Doile who died at 92, said she was lonely. It is not that we are actually alone but only alone with our memories. I do have a cousin named George Hobbs that will be 95 on 1 April 2023.
My sweet little Mother killed herself after my fathers death. She always had sad looking eyes in spite of the laughter and never wanted her girls to know she was put in an orphanage. She even looked her mother up later in her life but I doubt it help her. Smiles on the outside, sad inside. She could not stand the thought of being alone again. Her mother would not let either of her Grandparents have her, and they did. However, she herself did not visit Betty. Her father was a baseball player and did get called up for the Yankee's but.....he and three guys went out that night and he was killed that night. He had played for the same farm team that Dizzy Dean had played for. Of course he was never in the record book because he never played a game for them.
REV WAR Grandfathers
1-George Yeakley
2- Christian Bolhan Deppen
3-Michael Berger Sr.
4-William Isaiah McNeece
5-Jacob Coile + Indian Wars of 1754
6-Solomon Speers
7-James Cotter Sr.
Her 3rd Great Grandmothers family came with the Virginia Settlement 1607.
Her mothers Knight family came with William Penn in 1682
Her grandmother, Susannah McNees ran the undergroud RR in Greene Co., Tennessee
And one of her grandmothers, Mary Berger came down the line from Mary Tudor, sister of Henry 8th. I am so proud of my ancestors. What a lineage!!!!
What a legacy.
I could have not wished for better parents than I had. They were the best.
Linda
My Mother was found on the 1930 census as a 12 year old servant in the Lawless home,. It had never occurred to me that the State of Missouri would "rent" children out to work. I was outraged. When she turned 15, she was turned out without a coat. A girl she knew told her to go down to the Santa Fe Railroad complex and apply at the famous Fred Harvey office and they would send her to California and she would not need a coat ever again. So, my Mother became a Harvey Girl. From 1933 to 1957 she worked for them and in 1940 she found a handsome widower named Clarence Doile who worked for the railroad. He was 14yrs older than she and he made her the perfect husband. At the time oh his death, they were still holding hands and sneaking kisses.
She could do absolutely everything including making all of our clothes including our coats & doll clothes made to match our dresses. Never would say ' I can't'. The Fred Harvey in Winslow closed in 1957 and she went to work at a family owned resturant "The Falcon" and by following summer, I joined her there cleaning tables. You could not call it child labor because I was treated by the owners like their very own child. I was 12, in fact they put up with me more than they would have done from their own! They were so good to me and my mother. The name of this family was Demas, a short version that hardly anyone could pronounce. My father had had a heart attack and was not working at the time. I worked there until I was 19 and got to know my mother very well. Every night these wonderful people sent my mother home with soup, rolls and potatoes that they would normally not be able to use the following day.
I have out lived my parents, my only sister and her son. Now I know why my Grandmother Doile who died at 92, said she was lonely. It is not that we are actually alone but only alone with our memories. I do have a cousin named George Hobbs that will be 95 on 1 April 2023.
My sweet little Mother killed herself after my fathers death. She always had sad looking eyes in spite of the laughter and never wanted her girls to know she was put in an orphanage. She even looked her mother up later in her life but I doubt it help her. Smiles on the outside, sad inside. She could not stand the thought of being alone again. Her mother would not let either of her Grandparents have her, and they did. However, she herself did not visit Betty. Her father was a baseball player and did get called up for the Yankee's but.....he and three guys went out that night and he was killed that night. He had played for the same farm team that Dizzy Dean had played for. Of course he was never in the record book because he never played a game for them.
REV WAR Grandfathers
1-George Yeakley
2- Christian Bolhan Deppen
3-Michael Berger Sr.
4-William Isaiah McNeece
5-Jacob Coile + Indian Wars of 1754
6-Solomon Speers
7-James Cotter Sr.
Her 3rd Great Grandmothers family came with the Virginia Settlement 1607.
Her mothers Knight family came with William Penn in 1682
Her grandmother, Susannah McNees ran the undergroud RR in Greene Co., Tennessee
And one of her grandmothers, Mary Berger came down the line from Mary Tudor, sister of Henry 8th. I am so proud of my ancestors. What a lineage!!!!
What a legacy.
I could have not wished for better parents than I had. They were the best.
Linda
Daughter of Grover E. Yeakley and Lora Edith Knight. Raised in an orphanage. Worked for Fred Harvey (Harvey Girl) from age 15 in Albuquerque New Mexico; Winslow, Arizona; Needles Calif., and Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. She and Clarence belonged to the Winslow First Christian Church in Winslow, Arizona. Left daughters Diana and Linda. The day after her fathers death, her mother left her in an orphanage in St. Joseph, Missouri. She was always smiling and laughing. In 1953 her husband had heart attacks and was off work for almost two years. They had started building a house and after working in a resturant all day, she came home and roofed a house by herself. Her two little girls, Diana, 13 & Linda, 9, carried each shingle one at a time up the latter and she would do the rest. She was a shy person and everyone liked her. Spent their married life in Winslow, Arizona and retired to Peoria, Arizona. I most honor our good friends, Russell & Velia DeAngeles. Russell put the floor on out basement so that we could move in way before the house was complete. Without him, I really do not believe we would have been able to pay the rent and move into what became a really nice home.
My Mother was found on the 1930 census as a 12 year old servant in the Lawless home,. It had never occurred to me that the State of Missouri would "rent" children out to work. I was outraged. When she turned 15, she was turned out without a coat. A girl she knew told her to go down to the Santa Fe Railroad complex and apply at the famous Fred Harvey office and they would send her to California and she would not need a coat ever again. So, my Mother became a Harvey Girl. From 1933 to 1957 she worked for them and in 1940 she found a handsome widower named Clarence Doile who worked for the railroad. He was 14yrs older than she and he made her the perfect husband. At the time oh his death, they were still holding hands and sneaking kisses.
She could do absolutely everything including making all of our clothes including our coats & doll clothes made to match our dresses. Never would say ' I can't'. The Fred Harvey in Winslow closed in 1957 and she went to work at a family owned resturant "The Falcon" and by following summer, I joined her there cleaning tables. You could not call it child labor because I was treated by the owners like their very own child. I was 12, in fact they put up with me more than they would have done from their own! They were so good to me and my mother. The name of this family was Demas, a short version that hardly anyone could pronounce. My father had had a heart attack and was not working at the time. I worked there until I was 19 and got to know my mother very well. Every night these wonderful people sent my mother home with soup, rolls and potatoes that they would normally not be able to use the following day.
I have out lived my parents, my only sister and her son. Now I know why my Grandmother Doile who died at 92, said she was lonely. It is not that we are actually alone but only alone with our memories. I do have a cousin named George Hobbs that will be 95 on 1 April 2023.
My sweet little Mother killed herself after my fathers death. She always had sad looking eyes in spite of the laughter and never wanted her girls to know she was put in an orphanage. She even looked her mother up later in her life but I doubt it help her. Smiles on the outside, sad inside. She could not stand the thought of being alone again. Her mother would not let either of her Grandparents have her, and they did. However, she herself did not visit Betty. Her father was a baseball player and did get called up for the Yankee's but.....he and three guys went out that night and he was killed that night. He had played for the same farm team that Dizzy Dean had played for. Of course he was never in the record book because he never played a game for them.
REV WAR Grandfathers
1-George Yeakley
2- Christian Bolhan Deppen
3-Michael Berger Sr.
4-William Isaiah McNeece
5-Jacob Coile + Indian Wars of 1754
6-Solomon Speers
7-James Cotter Sr.
Her 3rd Great Grandmothers family came with the Virginia Settlement 1607.
Her mothers Knight family came with William Penn in 1682
Her grandmother, Susannah McNees ran the undergroud RR in Greene Co., Tennessee
And one of her grandmothers, Mary Berger came down the line from Mary Tudor, sister of Henry 8th. I am so proud of my ancestors. What a lineage!!!!
What a legacy.
I could have not wished for better parents than I had. They were the best.
Linda
My Mother was found on the 1930 census as a 12 year old servant in the Lawless home,. It had never occurred to me that the State of Missouri would "rent" children out to work. I was outraged. When she turned 15, she was turned out without a coat. A girl she knew told her to go down to the Santa Fe Railroad complex and apply at the famous Fred Harvey office and they would send her to California and she would not need a coat ever again. So, my Mother became a Harvey Girl. From 1933 to 1957 she worked for them and in 1940 she found a handsome widower named Clarence Doile who worked for the railroad. He was 14yrs older than she and he made her the perfect husband. At the time oh his death, they were still holding hands and sneaking kisses.
She could do absolutely everything including making all of our clothes including our coats & doll clothes made to match our dresses. Never would say ' I can't'. The Fred Harvey in Winslow closed in 1957 and she went to work at a family owned resturant "The Falcon" and by following summer, I joined her there cleaning tables. You could not call it child labor because I was treated by the owners like their very own child. I was 12, in fact they put up with me more than they would have done from their own! They were so good to me and my mother. The name of this family was Demas, a short version that hardly anyone could pronounce. My father had had a heart attack and was not working at the time. I worked there until I was 19 and got to know my mother very well. Every night these wonderful people sent my mother home with soup, rolls and potatoes that they would normally not be able to use the following day.
I have out lived my parents, my only sister and her son. Now I know why my Grandmother Doile who died at 92, said she was lonely. It is not that we are actually alone but only alone with our memories. I do have a cousin named George Hobbs that will be 95 on 1 April 2023.
My sweet little Mother killed herself after my fathers death. She always had sad looking eyes in spite of the laughter and never wanted her girls to know she was put in an orphanage. She even looked her mother up later in her life but I doubt it help her. Smiles on the outside, sad inside. She could not stand the thought of being alone again. Her mother would not let either of her Grandparents have her, and they did. However, she herself did not visit Betty. Her father was a baseball player and did get called up for the Yankee's but.....he and three guys went out that night and he was killed that night. He had played for the same farm team that Dizzy Dean had played for. Of course he was never in the record book because he never played a game for them.
REV WAR Grandfathers
1-George Yeakley
2- Christian Bolhan Deppen
3-Michael Berger Sr.
4-William Isaiah McNeece
5-Jacob Coile + Indian Wars of 1754
6-Solomon Speers
7-James Cotter Sr.
Her 3rd Great Grandmothers family came with the Virginia Settlement 1607.
Her mothers Knight family came with William Penn in 1682
Her grandmother, Susannah McNees ran the undergroud RR in Greene Co., Tennessee
And one of her grandmothers, Mary Berger came down the line from Mary Tudor, sister of Henry 8th. I am so proud of my ancestors. What a lineage!!!!
What a legacy.
I could have not wished for better parents than I had. They were the best.
Linda
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