Mae had scarlet fever when she was young and it damaged her hearing. She wore hearing aids the rest of her life.
Her father Luke developed severe athritis in the early 1900s & his drs told him to go to California for his health. He went to Southern California first, but they were anti-union, so he went up to San Francisco, settling in Berkeley. He sent for Augusta, Mae, and Harry and they arrived in Berkeley in 1906.
Mae found a job quickly working at Ed Brennan's store. After the earthquake, everyone would walk down to the bay shore after work; you could see San Francisco burning across the bay.
One day her boss told her he wanted her to meet someone and introduced her to his son, Ed Brennan Jr, my great-grandfather.
Ed and Mae eloped because the families didn't approve of the match. They married 07 Jan 1908 in San Rafael. The marriage was quickly revealed and on 11 Jun 1908 they remarried with the families in attendance at St Joseph's RC in Berkeley.
Mae lived to be 103 years old, about 6 weeks before she would have turned 104, and she was sharp as a tack until the last very few months.
Mae always loved watching the news. She talked about growing up before automobiles and living to watch men land on the moon.
In the late 1980s she was tickled by condoms being advertised on television.
She told me that when she was a young matron, she and Ed had agreed to just have one child, so he used condoms. But you could NOT speak of them among her (Catholic) friends. So while her friends complained they were always pregnant, and "what is your secret?", all she could do was blush and say "Oh, Ed takes care of that." (story told to me, her oldest great-grandchild, c. 1990)
Her father Luke developed severe athritis in the early 1900s & his drs told him to go to California for his health. He went to Southern California first, but they were anti-union, so he went up to San Francisco, settling in Berkeley. He sent for Augusta, Mae, and Harry and they arrived in Berkeley in 1906.
Mae found a job quickly working at Ed Brennan's store. After the earthquake, everyone would walk down to the bay shore after work; you could see San Francisco burning across the bay.
One day her boss told her he wanted her to meet someone and introduced her to his son, Ed Brennan Jr, my great-grandfather.
Ed and Mae eloped because the families didn't approve of the match. They married 07 Jan 1908 in San Rafael. The marriage was quickly revealed and on 11 Jun 1908 they remarried with the families in attendance at St Joseph's RC in Berkeley.
Mae lived to be 103 years old, about 6 weeks before she would have turned 104, and she was sharp as a tack until the last very few months.
Mae always loved watching the news. She talked about growing up before automobiles and living to watch men land on the moon.
In the late 1980s she was tickled by condoms being advertised on television.
She told me that when she was a young matron, she and Ed had agreed to just have one child, so he used condoms. But you could NOT speak of them among her (Catholic) friends. So while her friends complained they were always pregnant, and "what is your secret?", all she could do was blush and say "Oh, Ed takes care of that." (story told to me, her oldest great-grandchild, c. 1990)
Mae had scarlet fever when she was young and it damaged her hearing. She wore hearing aids the rest of her life.
Her father Luke developed severe athritis in the early 1900s & his drs told him to go to California for his health. He went to Southern California first, but they were anti-union, so he went up to San Francisco, settling in Berkeley. He sent for Augusta, Mae, and Harry and they arrived in Berkeley in 1906.
Mae found a job quickly working at Ed Brennan's store. After the earthquake, everyone would walk down to the bay shore after work; you could see San Francisco burning across the bay.
One day her boss told her he wanted her to meet someone and introduced her to his son, Ed Brennan Jr, my great-grandfather.
Ed and Mae eloped because the families didn't approve of the match. They married 07 Jan 1908 in San Rafael. The marriage was quickly revealed and on 11 Jun 1908 they remarried with the families in attendance at St Joseph's RC in Berkeley.
Mae lived to be 103 years old, about 6 weeks before she would have turned 104, and she was sharp as a tack until the last very few months.
Mae always loved watching the news. She talked about growing up before automobiles and living to watch men land on the moon.
In the late 1980s she was tickled by condoms being advertised on television.
She told me that when she was a young matron, she and Ed had agreed to just have one child, so he used condoms. But you could NOT speak of them among her (Catholic) friends. So while her friends complained they were always pregnant, and "what is your secret?", all she could do was blush and say "Oh, Ed takes care of that." (story told to me, her oldest great-grandchild, c. 1990)
Her father Luke developed severe athritis in the early 1900s & his drs told him to go to California for his health. He went to Southern California first, but they were anti-union, so he went up to San Francisco, settling in Berkeley. He sent for Augusta, Mae, and Harry and they arrived in Berkeley in 1906.
Mae found a job quickly working at Ed Brennan's store. After the earthquake, everyone would walk down to the bay shore after work; you could see San Francisco burning across the bay.
One day her boss told her he wanted her to meet someone and introduced her to his son, Ed Brennan Jr, my great-grandfather.
Ed and Mae eloped because the families didn't approve of the match. They married 07 Jan 1908 in San Rafael. The marriage was quickly revealed and on 11 Jun 1908 they remarried with the families in attendance at St Joseph's RC in Berkeley.
Mae lived to be 103 years old, about 6 weeks before she would have turned 104, and she was sharp as a tack until the last very few months.
Mae always loved watching the news. She talked about growing up before automobiles and living to watch men land on the moon.
In the late 1980s she was tickled by condoms being advertised on television.
She told me that when she was a young matron, she and Ed had agreed to just have one child, so he used condoms. But you could NOT speak of them among her (Catholic) friends. So while her friends complained they were always pregnant, and "what is your secret?", all she could do was blush and say "Oh, Ed takes care of that." (story told to me, her oldest great-grandchild, c. 1990)
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