5G GRANDDAUGHTER OF JOSHUA (KING PHILIP'S WAR) AND SARA (NATIVE AMERICAN) TEFFT
GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF IMMIGRANT/ REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN DOMINI DOUGLASS
DESCENDED FROM 6 MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS: Gov. William Bradford, Richard Warren, Francis Cooke, Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton and their daughter Mary
MEMBER OF ALPHA OMICRON PI SORORITY
INSTRUCTOR AT NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE, MINNEAPOLIS, 1921
MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE WOMEN'S CLUB, LIMA, OH, 1931
MEMBER OF CHRISTIAN MOTHERS' GUILD, LIMA, OH, 1931-1936
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A BIOGRAPHY OF LYDIA LILLIAN TIFFT OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire (grandson), genealogist and family historian, Aug. 2008:
Lydia Lillian Tifft, was born on February 3, 1897, in Glencoe, McLeod County, Minnesota, the eldest of three children of Judge Cyril M. and Lillian Mae (Richardson) Tifft. Lillian, as she was known, grew up in Glencoe and graduated from the Stevens Seminary there in 1915. She went on to the University of Minnesota and was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority where she met the man she would marry, Raymond Edwin Overmire, the son of Minneapolis architect Edwin Parker Overmire and Esther Adelaide Williams.
Ray recalled in his memoirs, "The Making of a Square," how he met and fell in love with Lillian:
"One Sunday evening when our gang was lunching in the kitchen of our chapter house...we looked next door into the windows of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority kitchen where the girls were plundering their ice-box in similar fashion. I noticed with interest one girl whose cheeks were so pink that the color registered even from our next-door vantage point. The following Tuesday being a holiday - election day, when I would learn later that the father of my rosy-cheeked idol was elected to District Judge up in Glencoe - several of our men were invited over to the AOPi house for an hour of visiting and dancing. I asked one of our hostesses who the young sister with such pink cheeks, whom I had seen from our kitchen, might be. From that same kitchen where the girls were now making fudge, they summoned Miss Lillian Tifft of Glencoe, and introduced me to her. She entered my life at that moment, and has never left it since."
"One night I asked [Lillian] if I might kiss her, and she said she wasn't certain whether her mother would approve. So I suggested she ask her mother about it. On her next trip home to Glencoe, SHE DID! On her return, we walked out that evening behind Sanford Hall to watch the factory chimney across the Mississippi blaze up, and I finally had our first kiss WITH FULL PERMISSION! I might still be a Square, but I was making progress."
Lillian graduated with a degree in Home Economics in 1920. Soon after, she worked as an instructor in home making and served as staff dietician and meal planner at the Neighborhood House, working with the immigrant community in Northeast Minneapolis.
On Sept. 13, 1921, she married Ray Overmire in a ceremony at her parents' home with Ray's uncle Rev. Arthur Vey Ingham as the presiding minister. In the ensuing years, Ray and Lillian would have three children: Raymond Edwin Jr., Marjorie Lucille, and Alice Lorraine.
Ray Sr. worked for the Y.M.C.A., first in Minneapolis from 1920 until 1929, then at Lima, Ohio, then Huntington and Richmond, Indiana. In 1945, they moved to Northeast Minneapolis and remained there until 1955. In 1958, Ray was ordained an Elder in the Methodist Church. He served as a minister in several communities in Minnesota, including Coon Rapids, Glenwood, Villard, Staples, Moran, Buffalo, Greenwood, Champlain and St. Paul.
Lillian was very involved in Ray's life and work. He would take her to conferences and meetings whenever possible. She even "audited" his classes at Garrett Seminary while he was completing his ministerial studies. In his memoirs, he described how Lillian was an essential part of the success of his ministry:
"With her Glencoe background of countless relatives and friends, she [Lillian] has always been interested primarily in people, and has put up with her husband who was raised on the downtown streets of Minneapolis, with relatives who did not pursue connections beyond the first-cousin stage. He grew up fending for himself, and was helped tremendously in the years of his ministry by a wife who was naturally interested in the lives of every family in their several churches."
Lillian enjoyed cooking and classical music and was a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother. Family was extremely important to her. She was very interested in genealogy and family history and went to great lengths to maintain contact with the extended family group of cousins, aunts, and uncles.
In 1981, Lillian and Ray celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. In 1982, they moved to St. James, Minnesota. Ray passed away on Nov. 16 of that year. Lillian lived on her own in an apartment for almost another five years, passing on Nov. 10, 1987, at the age of 90.
In her last Christmas letter, she wrote, "This next year will bring my 90th birthday in February. I feel fortunate for the opportunities I've had in my growing up years, and for the fulfilling life with Ray and our three children. Faith and friends are important in my life." Indeed, she was loved by everyone who knew her. A young pastor's wife once described her as "a bundle of love walking down the street." She truly was.
GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF IMMIGRANT/ REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN DOMINI DOUGLASS
DESCENDED FROM 6 MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS: Gov. William Bradford, Richard Warren, Francis Cooke, Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton and their daughter Mary
MEMBER OF ALPHA OMICRON PI SORORITY
INSTRUCTOR AT NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE, MINNEAPOLIS, 1921
MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE WOMEN'S CLUB, LIMA, OH, 1931
MEMBER OF CHRISTIAN MOTHERS' GUILD, LIMA, OH, 1931-1936
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A BIOGRAPHY OF LYDIA LILLIAN TIFFT OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire (grandson), genealogist and family historian, Aug. 2008:
Lydia Lillian Tifft, was born on February 3, 1897, in Glencoe, McLeod County, Minnesota, the eldest of three children of Judge Cyril M. and Lillian Mae (Richardson) Tifft. Lillian, as she was known, grew up in Glencoe and graduated from the Stevens Seminary there in 1915. She went on to the University of Minnesota and was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority where she met the man she would marry, Raymond Edwin Overmire, the son of Minneapolis architect Edwin Parker Overmire and Esther Adelaide Williams.
Ray recalled in his memoirs, "The Making of a Square," how he met and fell in love with Lillian:
"One Sunday evening when our gang was lunching in the kitchen of our chapter house...we looked next door into the windows of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority kitchen where the girls were plundering their ice-box in similar fashion. I noticed with interest one girl whose cheeks were so pink that the color registered even from our next-door vantage point. The following Tuesday being a holiday - election day, when I would learn later that the father of my rosy-cheeked idol was elected to District Judge up in Glencoe - several of our men were invited over to the AOPi house for an hour of visiting and dancing. I asked one of our hostesses who the young sister with such pink cheeks, whom I had seen from our kitchen, might be. From that same kitchen where the girls were now making fudge, they summoned Miss Lillian Tifft of Glencoe, and introduced me to her. She entered my life at that moment, and has never left it since."
"One night I asked [Lillian] if I might kiss her, and she said she wasn't certain whether her mother would approve. So I suggested she ask her mother about it. On her next trip home to Glencoe, SHE DID! On her return, we walked out that evening behind Sanford Hall to watch the factory chimney across the Mississippi blaze up, and I finally had our first kiss WITH FULL PERMISSION! I might still be a Square, but I was making progress."
Lillian graduated with a degree in Home Economics in 1920. Soon after, she worked as an instructor in home making and served as staff dietician and meal planner at the Neighborhood House, working with the immigrant community in Northeast Minneapolis.
On Sept. 13, 1921, she married Ray Overmire in a ceremony at her parents' home with Ray's uncle Rev. Arthur Vey Ingham as the presiding minister. In the ensuing years, Ray and Lillian would have three children: Raymond Edwin Jr., Marjorie Lucille, and Alice Lorraine.
Ray Sr. worked for the Y.M.C.A., first in Minneapolis from 1920 until 1929, then at Lima, Ohio, then Huntington and Richmond, Indiana. In 1945, they moved to Northeast Minneapolis and remained there until 1955. In 1958, Ray was ordained an Elder in the Methodist Church. He served as a minister in several communities in Minnesota, including Coon Rapids, Glenwood, Villard, Staples, Moran, Buffalo, Greenwood, Champlain and St. Paul.
Lillian was very involved in Ray's life and work. He would take her to conferences and meetings whenever possible. She even "audited" his classes at Garrett Seminary while he was completing his ministerial studies. In his memoirs, he described how Lillian was an essential part of the success of his ministry:
"With her Glencoe background of countless relatives and friends, she [Lillian] has always been interested primarily in people, and has put up with her husband who was raised on the downtown streets of Minneapolis, with relatives who did not pursue connections beyond the first-cousin stage. He grew up fending for himself, and was helped tremendously in the years of his ministry by a wife who was naturally interested in the lives of every family in their several churches."
Lillian enjoyed cooking and classical music and was a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother. Family was extremely important to her. She was very interested in genealogy and family history and went to great lengths to maintain contact with the extended family group of cousins, aunts, and uncles.
In 1981, Lillian and Ray celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. In 1982, they moved to St. James, Minnesota. Ray passed away on Nov. 16 of that year. Lillian lived on her own in an apartment for almost another five years, passing on Nov. 10, 1987, at the age of 90.
In her last Christmas letter, she wrote, "This next year will bring my 90th birthday in February. I feel fortunate for the opportunities I've had in my growing up years, and for the fulfilling life with Ray and our three children. Faith and friends are important in my life." Indeed, she was loved by everyone who knew her. A young pastor's wife once described her as "a bundle of love walking down the street." She truly was.
5G GRANDDAUGHTER OF JOSHUA (KING PHILIP'S WAR) AND SARA (NATIVE AMERICAN) TEFFT
GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF IMMIGRANT/ REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN DOMINI DOUGLASS
DESCENDED FROM 6 MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS: Gov. William Bradford, Richard Warren, Francis Cooke, Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton and their daughter Mary
MEMBER OF ALPHA OMICRON PI SORORITY
INSTRUCTOR AT NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE, MINNEAPOLIS, 1921
MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE WOMEN'S CLUB, LIMA, OH, 1931
MEMBER OF CHRISTIAN MOTHERS' GUILD, LIMA, OH, 1931-1936
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A BIOGRAPHY OF LYDIA LILLIAN TIFFT OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire (grandson), genealogist and family historian, Aug. 2008:
Lydia Lillian Tifft, was born on February 3, 1897, in Glencoe, McLeod County, Minnesota, the eldest of three children of Judge Cyril M. and Lillian Mae (Richardson) Tifft. Lillian, as she was known, grew up in Glencoe and graduated from the Stevens Seminary there in 1915. She went on to the University of Minnesota and was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority where she met the man she would marry, Raymond Edwin Overmire, the son of Minneapolis architect Edwin Parker Overmire and Esther Adelaide Williams.
Ray recalled in his memoirs, "The Making of a Square," how he met and fell in love with Lillian:
"One Sunday evening when our gang was lunching in the kitchen of our chapter house...we looked next door into the windows of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority kitchen where the girls were plundering their ice-box in similar fashion. I noticed with interest one girl whose cheeks were so pink that the color registered even from our next-door vantage point. The following Tuesday being a holiday - election day, when I would learn later that the father of my rosy-cheeked idol was elected to District Judge up in Glencoe - several of our men were invited over to the AOPi house for an hour of visiting and dancing. I asked one of our hostesses who the young sister with such pink cheeks, whom I had seen from our kitchen, might be. From that same kitchen where the girls were now making fudge, they summoned Miss Lillian Tifft of Glencoe, and introduced me to her. She entered my life at that moment, and has never left it since."
"One night I asked [Lillian] if I might kiss her, and she said she wasn't certain whether her mother would approve. So I suggested she ask her mother about it. On her next trip home to Glencoe, SHE DID! On her return, we walked out that evening behind Sanford Hall to watch the factory chimney across the Mississippi blaze up, and I finally had our first kiss WITH FULL PERMISSION! I might still be a Square, but I was making progress."
Lillian graduated with a degree in Home Economics in 1920. Soon after, she worked as an instructor in home making and served as staff dietician and meal planner at the Neighborhood House, working with the immigrant community in Northeast Minneapolis.
On Sept. 13, 1921, she married Ray Overmire in a ceremony at her parents' home with Ray's uncle Rev. Arthur Vey Ingham as the presiding minister. In the ensuing years, Ray and Lillian would have three children: Raymond Edwin Jr., Marjorie Lucille, and Alice Lorraine.
Ray Sr. worked for the Y.M.C.A., first in Minneapolis from 1920 until 1929, then at Lima, Ohio, then Huntington and Richmond, Indiana. In 1945, they moved to Northeast Minneapolis and remained there until 1955. In 1958, Ray was ordained an Elder in the Methodist Church. He served as a minister in several communities in Minnesota, including Coon Rapids, Glenwood, Villard, Staples, Moran, Buffalo, Greenwood, Champlain and St. Paul.
Lillian was very involved in Ray's life and work. He would take her to conferences and meetings whenever possible. She even "audited" his classes at Garrett Seminary while he was completing his ministerial studies. In his memoirs, he described how Lillian was an essential part of the success of his ministry:
"With her Glencoe background of countless relatives and friends, she [Lillian] has always been interested primarily in people, and has put up with her husband who was raised on the downtown streets of Minneapolis, with relatives who did not pursue connections beyond the first-cousin stage. He grew up fending for himself, and was helped tremendously in the years of his ministry by a wife who was naturally interested in the lives of every family in their several churches."
Lillian enjoyed cooking and classical music and was a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother. Family was extremely important to her. She was very interested in genealogy and family history and went to great lengths to maintain contact with the extended family group of cousins, aunts, and uncles.
In 1981, Lillian and Ray celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. In 1982, they moved to St. James, Minnesota. Ray passed away on Nov. 16 of that year. Lillian lived on her own in an apartment for almost another five years, passing on Nov. 10, 1987, at the age of 90.
In her last Christmas letter, she wrote, "This next year will bring my 90th birthday in February. I feel fortunate for the opportunities I've had in my growing up years, and for the fulfilling life with Ray and our three children. Faith and friends are important in my life." Indeed, she was loved by everyone who knew her. A young pastor's wife once described her as "a bundle of love walking down the street." She truly was.
GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF IMMIGRANT/ REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN DOMINI DOUGLASS
DESCENDED FROM 6 MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS: Gov. William Bradford, Richard Warren, Francis Cooke, Isaac and Mary (Norris) Allerton and their daughter Mary
MEMBER OF ALPHA OMICRON PI SORORITY
INSTRUCTOR AT NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE, MINNEAPOLIS, 1921
MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE WOMEN'S CLUB, LIMA, OH, 1931
MEMBER OF CHRISTIAN MOTHERS' GUILD, LIMA, OH, 1931-1936
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A BIOGRAPHY OF LYDIA LILLIAN TIFFT OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire (grandson), genealogist and family historian, Aug. 2008:
Lydia Lillian Tifft, was born on February 3, 1897, in Glencoe, McLeod County, Minnesota, the eldest of three children of Judge Cyril M. and Lillian Mae (Richardson) Tifft. Lillian, as she was known, grew up in Glencoe and graduated from the Stevens Seminary there in 1915. She went on to the University of Minnesota and was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority where she met the man she would marry, Raymond Edwin Overmire, the son of Minneapolis architect Edwin Parker Overmire and Esther Adelaide Williams.
Ray recalled in his memoirs, "The Making of a Square," how he met and fell in love with Lillian:
"One Sunday evening when our gang was lunching in the kitchen of our chapter house...we looked next door into the windows of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority kitchen where the girls were plundering their ice-box in similar fashion. I noticed with interest one girl whose cheeks were so pink that the color registered even from our next-door vantage point. The following Tuesday being a holiday - election day, when I would learn later that the father of my rosy-cheeked idol was elected to District Judge up in Glencoe - several of our men were invited over to the AOPi house for an hour of visiting and dancing. I asked one of our hostesses who the young sister with such pink cheeks, whom I had seen from our kitchen, might be. From that same kitchen where the girls were now making fudge, they summoned Miss Lillian Tifft of Glencoe, and introduced me to her. She entered my life at that moment, and has never left it since."
"One night I asked [Lillian] if I might kiss her, and she said she wasn't certain whether her mother would approve. So I suggested she ask her mother about it. On her next trip home to Glencoe, SHE DID! On her return, we walked out that evening behind Sanford Hall to watch the factory chimney across the Mississippi blaze up, and I finally had our first kiss WITH FULL PERMISSION! I might still be a Square, but I was making progress."
Lillian graduated with a degree in Home Economics in 1920. Soon after, she worked as an instructor in home making and served as staff dietician and meal planner at the Neighborhood House, working with the immigrant community in Northeast Minneapolis.
On Sept. 13, 1921, she married Ray Overmire in a ceremony at her parents' home with Ray's uncle Rev. Arthur Vey Ingham as the presiding minister. In the ensuing years, Ray and Lillian would have three children: Raymond Edwin Jr., Marjorie Lucille, and Alice Lorraine.
Ray Sr. worked for the Y.M.C.A., first in Minneapolis from 1920 until 1929, then at Lima, Ohio, then Huntington and Richmond, Indiana. In 1945, they moved to Northeast Minneapolis and remained there until 1955. In 1958, Ray was ordained an Elder in the Methodist Church. He served as a minister in several communities in Minnesota, including Coon Rapids, Glenwood, Villard, Staples, Moran, Buffalo, Greenwood, Champlain and St. Paul.
Lillian was very involved in Ray's life and work. He would take her to conferences and meetings whenever possible. She even "audited" his classes at Garrett Seminary while he was completing his ministerial studies. In his memoirs, he described how Lillian was an essential part of the success of his ministry:
"With her Glencoe background of countless relatives and friends, she [Lillian] has always been interested primarily in people, and has put up with her husband who was raised on the downtown streets of Minneapolis, with relatives who did not pursue connections beyond the first-cousin stage. He grew up fending for himself, and was helped tremendously in the years of his ministry by a wife who was naturally interested in the lives of every family in their several churches."
Lillian enjoyed cooking and classical music and was a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother. Family was extremely important to her. She was very interested in genealogy and family history and went to great lengths to maintain contact with the extended family group of cousins, aunts, and uncles.
In 1981, Lillian and Ray celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. In 1982, they moved to St. James, Minnesota. Ray passed away on Nov. 16 of that year. Lillian lived on her own in an apartment for almost another five years, passing on Nov. 10, 1987, at the age of 90.
In her last Christmas letter, she wrote, "This next year will bring my 90th birthday in February. I feel fortunate for the opportunities I've had in my growing up years, and for the fulfilling life with Ray and our three children. Faith and friends are important in my life." Indeed, she was loved by everyone who knew her. A young pastor's wife once described her as "a bundle of love walking down the street." She truly was.
