My beautiful grandmother, Will Fred (she was named after her father William and her uncle Alfred but she was Bee to her grandchildren) was born in her parents' house at 124 MacGraw Ave. in Grafton, WV. She was the daughter of a homemaker and a merchant. There were 13 years between her and her older sister and some lost babies in between and she was idolized by her mother and father but particularly by her father.
Her family were staunch Methodists (her grandfather was a Methodist minister) and she was forbidden to dance or play cards; nevertheless she sneaked out to dances and playing Bridge was a life-long love. When sororities were banned on her college campus she and some friends started a secret sorority and it continues to this day, though no longer in secret. She collected miniature pitchers, baked the BEST banana bread and could talk on the phone with the best of them!
She met my grandfather when they were in the 1st grade and he used to carry her books from school. My grandmother graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1923 and was married later that year to her childhood sweetheart, Richard Peyton Bartlett. She had 3 children: my mother, JoAnn; Dick; and Sue.
She and my grandfather retired to Florida in 1964 and their home was always open to family and friends. There was a constant stream of people in and out and even though my cousins and I didn't live far from each other in MD and WV, we often met up at Bee's house. You could always find people sleeping on the pull-out bed in the living room and the couch on the lanai.
My mother always loved what it said in Bee's college yearbook:
"Pretty to walk with and witty to talk with and pleasant to think on." That was certainly true all of her life.
She was the life of every party and I miss her today as much as ever. As a teenager in the late '60's/early '70's and with the world changing so much she was the coolest grandmother you could imagine!
Her family were staunch Methodists (her grandfather was a Methodist minister) and she was forbidden to dance or play cards; nevertheless she sneaked out to dances and playing Bridge was a life-long love. When sororities were banned on her college campus she and some friends started a secret sorority and it continues to this day, though no longer in secret. She collected miniature pitchers, baked the BEST banana bread and could talk on the phone with the best of them!
She met my grandfather when they were in the 1st grade and he used to carry her books from school. My grandmother graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1923 and was married later that year to her childhood sweetheart, Richard Peyton Bartlett. She had 3 children: my mother, JoAnn; Dick; and Sue.
She and my grandfather retired to Florida in 1964 and their home was always open to family and friends. There was a constant stream of people in and out and even though my cousins and I didn't live far from each other in MD and WV, we often met up at Bee's house. You could always find people sleeping on the pull-out bed in the living room and the couch on the lanai.
My mother always loved what it said in Bee's college yearbook:
"Pretty to walk with and witty to talk with and pleasant to think on." That was certainly true all of her life.
She was the life of every party and I miss her today as much as ever. As a teenager in the late '60's/early '70's and with the world changing so much she was the coolest grandmother you could imagine!
My beautiful grandmother, Will Fred (she was named after her father William and her uncle Alfred but she was Bee to her grandchildren) was born in her parents' house at 124 MacGraw Ave. in Grafton, WV. She was the daughter of a homemaker and a merchant. There were 13 years between her and her older sister and some lost babies in between and she was idolized by her mother and father but particularly by her father.
Her family were staunch Methodists (her grandfather was a Methodist minister) and she was forbidden to dance or play cards; nevertheless she sneaked out to dances and playing Bridge was a life-long love. When sororities were banned on her college campus she and some friends started a secret sorority and it continues to this day, though no longer in secret. She collected miniature pitchers, baked the BEST banana bread and could talk on the phone with the best of them!
She met my grandfather when they were in the 1st grade and he used to carry her books from school. My grandmother graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1923 and was married later that year to her childhood sweetheart, Richard Peyton Bartlett. She had 3 children: my mother, JoAnn; Dick; and Sue.
She and my grandfather retired to Florida in 1964 and their home was always open to family and friends. There was a constant stream of people in and out and even though my cousins and I didn't live far from each other in MD and WV, we often met up at Bee's house. You could always find people sleeping on the pull-out bed in the living room and the couch on the lanai.
My mother always loved what it said in Bee's college yearbook:
"Pretty to walk with and witty to talk with and pleasant to think on." That was certainly true all of her life.
She was the life of every party and I miss her today as much as ever. As a teenager in the late '60's/early '70's and with the world changing so much she was the coolest grandmother you could imagine!
Her family were staunch Methodists (her grandfather was a Methodist minister) and she was forbidden to dance or play cards; nevertheless she sneaked out to dances and playing Bridge was a life-long love. When sororities were banned on her college campus she and some friends started a secret sorority and it continues to this day, though no longer in secret. She collected miniature pitchers, baked the BEST banana bread and could talk on the phone with the best of them!
She met my grandfather when they were in the 1st grade and he used to carry her books from school. My grandmother graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1923 and was married later that year to her childhood sweetheart, Richard Peyton Bartlett. She had 3 children: my mother, JoAnn; Dick; and Sue.
She and my grandfather retired to Florida in 1964 and their home was always open to family and friends. There was a constant stream of people in and out and even though my cousins and I didn't live far from each other in MD and WV, we often met up at Bee's house. You could always find people sleeping on the pull-out bed in the living room and the couch on the lanai.
My mother always loved what it said in Bee's college yearbook:
"Pretty to walk with and witty to talk with and pleasant to think on." That was certainly true all of her life.
She was the life of every party and I miss her today as much as ever. As a teenager in the late '60's/early '70's and with the world changing so much she was the coolest grandmother you could imagine!
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