Daughter of Roly Hendricks Dampier & Florence June Shatto
Married: February 10, 1929 to William Roy Michie in Santa Rosa, California
Children:
Florence Corrine Michie - 24 December 1930
Living Daughter
Living Son
She began life in San Jose with the extended Dampier clan. She had three siblings: Gerald Homer "Jerry", Burton Roly "Burt" and little sister Edith Lurline "Lurline" Dampier, all of whom in adult life lived in the Los Altos area. The family moved around quite a bit as her father, a skilled door and sash man and planing machine blade setter, found employment at various places. Some marvelous stories of living on a house boat in Stockton, Ca.
She lost her mother in 1918 when she was about 11. Her father moved the family to Occidental where she spent about a year remembering the drippy cold of living in the redwoods. She then went to live with her mother's relations in Sebastopol, primarily Uncle Al and Aunt Mary Lunceford, with whom she lived through graduation from Analy High School. She moved to Santa Rosa, met and married Roy Michie in 1929.
Lucille loved a good story and laugh. Among the many stories of living in San Jose was her mother taking her and siblings to the 1915 San Francisco Pan-American Exhibition. They were made to sit and told not to move outside the Palace of Fine Arts as there might be art work too shocking for young innocent eyes. She thought this very odd at the time...that things must be pretty risque inside because they had been seated down on the rim of a fountain whose center piece was the statue of a little nude boy peeing.
One of her stories was as a young bride and new farm wife living next to her in-laws's farm. One day she helped her mother-in-law collect the eggs. Her mother-in-law remarked, "Well we'd better go in and clean up these sh..ty eggs". She was shocked to hear this sweet genteel Scottish lady using such language... learning the lesson that barnyard language is precisely that, with its appropriate use in context.
Lucille and Roy's home on what came to be called "Michie Mountain" became the anchor for five generations of family: many reunions, gatherings and the place called home.
Seeing three children grown and on their own, she and Roy spent years traveling the US, Canada and Mexico by trailer. Loving her favorite stores, there was never a Safeway she could pass without stopping. Roy refused to fly. She made an around the world trip with dear friend, Irene Maxwell, partially to check out the prospective daughter-in-law her son met during Peace Corps in India. She readily approved.
In addition to her obituary below, Lucille was a family historian extraordinaire, with a keen interest to discover "who my people are". Her meticulous research, mostly by snail mail, was amazing and put her in touch with distant cousins throughout the US. Her original goal was to trace her lines to immigrants coming to the New World. This was fairly easily accomplished with her mother's family. But the further back she worked on her father's side the more and more elusive this became.
She would have been delighted to learn that her earliest immigrant ancestress came to Jamestown in 1610, a woman who found herself the defendant against a preacher in the earliest known breach of promise suit in the colonies. She won her case. A down to earth feminist, Lucille would have heartily approved.
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© 1999- The Press Democrat
Published February 3, 1999 PAGE: B2
LUCILLE MICHIE
Lucille Michie, a Sonoma County resident for more than three-quarters of the 20th century, died Sunday at a Santa Rosa convalescent hospital after a short illness. She was 91.
Born in San Jose, she moved to Occidental with her family when she was a young teen-ager and graduated from Analy High School in 1925. After high school she worked as a telephone operator in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.
''She was a long-distance operator at a time when people would pick up the phone and say, 'Lucille, could you get me New York?''' said her daughter, Yvonne Michie Horn of Santa Rosa.
She married Roy Michie in 1929 and for the next 67 years lived with him on their small ranch off of Kawana Springs Road, on the flanks of Taylor Mountain.
She was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Rosa for 70 years, serving on several church boards and committees and singing in the choir. She was a longtime member of the Sonoma County Genealogical Society and was a member and past president of Chapter LZ of the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
She loved to work in her garden and used the wool from her sheep to become a gifted hand-weaver, becoming the oldest member of the Redwood Empire Handweavers and Spinners.
''The clack of the loom was constant in our house,'' ... ''She had a large box full of ribbons won in competitions for her hand-woven artistry.''
Her husband died in 1996, and since then Michie had lived at the Oakmont Gardens apartments.
In addition to Horn, she is survived by a daughter, Corrine Kingsbury of Sonoma; a son, Barry Michie of Manhattan, Kan., seven grandchildren; and 15 great grandchildren.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church. Contributions may be made to the church's general fund, 1550 Pacific Ave., Santa Rosa 95404.
By Barry Michie, Son
Married: February 10, 1929 to William Roy Michie in Santa Rosa, California
Children:
Florence Corrine Michie - 24 December 1930
Living Daughter
Living Son
She began life in San Jose with the extended Dampier clan. She had three siblings: Gerald Homer "Jerry", Burton Roly "Burt" and little sister Edith Lurline "Lurline" Dampier, all of whom in adult life lived in the Los Altos area. The family moved around quite a bit as her father, a skilled door and sash man and planing machine blade setter, found employment at various places. Some marvelous stories of living on a house boat in Stockton, Ca.
She lost her mother in 1918 when she was about 11. Her father moved the family to Occidental where she spent about a year remembering the drippy cold of living in the redwoods. She then went to live with her mother's relations in Sebastopol, primarily Uncle Al and Aunt Mary Lunceford, with whom she lived through graduation from Analy High School. She moved to Santa Rosa, met and married Roy Michie in 1929.
Lucille loved a good story and laugh. Among the many stories of living in San Jose was her mother taking her and siblings to the 1915 San Francisco Pan-American Exhibition. They were made to sit and told not to move outside the Palace of Fine Arts as there might be art work too shocking for young innocent eyes. She thought this very odd at the time...that things must be pretty risque inside because they had been seated down on the rim of a fountain whose center piece was the statue of a little nude boy peeing.
One of her stories was as a young bride and new farm wife living next to her in-laws's farm. One day she helped her mother-in-law collect the eggs. Her mother-in-law remarked, "Well we'd better go in and clean up these sh..ty eggs". She was shocked to hear this sweet genteel Scottish lady using such language... learning the lesson that barnyard language is precisely that, with its appropriate use in context.
Lucille and Roy's home on what came to be called "Michie Mountain" became the anchor for five generations of family: many reunions, gatherings and the place called home.
Seeing three children grown and on their own, she and Roy spent years traveling the US, Canada and Mexico by trailer. Loving her favorite stores, there was never a Safeway she could pass without stopping. Roy refused to fly. She made an around the world trip with dear friend, Irene Maxwell, partially to check out the prospective daughter-in-law her son met during Peace Corps in India. She readily approved.
In addition to her obituary below, Lucille was a family historian extraordinaire, with a keen interest to discover "who my people are". Her meticulous research, mostly by snail mail, was amazing and put her in touch with distant cousins throughout the US. Her original goal was to trace her lines to immigrants coming to the New World. This was fairly easily accomplished with her mother's family. But the further back she worked on her father's side the more and more elusive this became.
She would have been delighted to learn that her earliest immigrant ancestress came to Jamestown in 1610, a woman who found herself the defendant against a preacher in the earliest known breach of promise suit in the colonies. She won her case. A down to earth feminist, Lucille would have heartily approved.
~~~~~~~~~~~
© 1999- The Press Democrat
Published February 3, 1999 PAGE: B2
LUCILLE MICHIE
Lucille Michie, a Sonoma County resident for more than three-quarters of the 20th century, died Sunday at a Santa Rosa convalescent hospital after a short illness. She was 91.
Born in San Jose, she moved to Occidental with her family when she was a young teen-ager and graduated from Analy High School in 1925. After high school she worked as a telephone operator in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.
''She was a long-distance operator at a time when people would pick up the phone and say, 'Lucille, could you get me New York?''' said her daughter, Yvonne Michie Horn of Santa Rosa.
She married Roy Michie in 1929 and for the next 67 years lived with him on their small ranch off of Kawana Springs Road, on the flanks of Taylor Mountain.
She was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Rosa for 70 years, serving on several church boards and committees and singing in the choir. She was a longtime member of the Sonoma County Genealogical Society and was a member and past president of Chapter LZ of the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
She loved to work in her garden and used the wool from her sheep to become a gifted hand-weaver, becoming the oldest member of the Redwood Empire Handweavers and Spinners.
''The clack of the loom was constant in our house,'' ... ''She had a large box full of ribbons won in competitions for her hand-woven artistry.''
Her husband died in 1996, and since then Michie had lived at the Oakmont Gardens apartments.
In addition to Horn, she is survived by a daughter, Corrine Kingsbury of Sonoma; a son, Barry Michie of Manhattan, Kan., seven grandchildren; and 15 great grandchildren.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church. Contributions may be made to the church's general fund, 1550 Pacific Ave., Santa Rosa 95404.
By Barry Michie, Son
Daughter of Roly Hendricks Dampier & Florence June Shatto
Married: February 10, 1929 to William Roy Michie in Santa Rosa, California
Children:
Florence Corrine Michie - 24 December 1930
Living Daughter
Living Son
She began life in San Jose with the extended Dampier clan. She had three siblings: Gerald Homer "Jerry", Burton Roly "Burt" and little sister Edith Lurline "Lurline" Dampier, all of whom in adult life lived in the Los Altos area. The family moved around quite a bit as her father, a skilled door and sash man and planing machine blade setter, found employment at various places. Some marvelous stories of living on a house boat in Stockton, Ca.
She lost her mother in 1918 when she was about 11. Her father moved the family to Occidental where she spent about a year remembering the drippy cold of living in the redwoods. She then went to live with her mother's relations in Sebastopol, primarily Uncle Al and Aunt Mary Lunceford, with whom she lived through graduation from Analy High School. She moved to Santa Rosa, met and married Roy Michie in 1929.
Lucille loved a good story and laugh. Among the many stories of living in San Jose was her mother taking her and siblings to the 1915 San Francisco Pan-American Exhibition. They were made to sit and told not to move outside the Palace of Fine Arts as there might be art work too shocking for young innocent eyes. She thought this very odd at the time...that things must be pretty risque inside because they had been seated down on the rim of a fountain whose center piece was the statue of a little nude boy peeing.
One of her stories was as a young bride and new farm wife living next to her in-laws's farm. One day she helped her mother-in-law collect the eggs. Her mother-in-law remarked, "Well we'd better go in and clean up these sh..ty eggs". She was shocked to hear this sweet genteel Scottish lady using such language... learning the lesson that barnyard language is precisely that, with its appropriate use in context.
Lucille and Roy's home on what came to be called "Michie Mountain" became the anchor for five generations of family: many reunions, gatherings and the place called home.
Seeing three children grown and on their own, she and Roy spent years traveling the US, Canada and Mexico by trailer. Loving her favorite stores, there was never a Safeway she could pass without stopping. Roy refused to fly. She made an around the world trip with dear friend, Irene Maxwell, partially to check out the prospective daughter-in-law her son met during Peace Corps in India. She readily approved.
In addition to her obituary below, Lucille was a family historian extraordinaire, with a keen interest to discover "who my people are". Her meticulous research, mostly by snail mail, was amazing and put her in touch with distant cousins throughout the US. Her original goal was to trace her lines to immigrants coming to the New World. This was fairly easily accomplished with her mother's family. But the further back she worked on her father's side the more and more elusive this became.
She would have been delighted to learn that her earliest immigrant ancestress came to Jamestown in 1610, a woman who found herself the defendant against a preacher in the earliest known breach of promise suit in the colonies. She won her case. A down to earth feminist, Lucille would have heartily approved.
~~~~~~~~~~~
© 1999- The Press Democrat
Published February 3, 1999 PAGE: B2
LUCILLE MICHIE
Lucille Michie, a Sonoma County resident for more than three-quarters of the 20th century, died Sunday at a Santa Rosa convalescent hospital after a short illness. She was 91.
Born in San Jose, she moved to Occidental with her family when she was a young teen-ager and graduated from Analy High School in 1925. After high school she worked as a telephone operator in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.
''She was a long-distance operator at a time when people would pick up the phone and say, 'Lucille, could you get me New York?''' said her daughter, Yvonne Michie Horn of Santa Rosa.
She married Roy Michie in 1929 and for the next 67 years lived with him on their small ranch off of Kawana Springs Road, on the flanks of Taylor Mountain.
She was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Rosa for 70 years, serving on several church boards and committees and singing in the choir. She was a longtime member of the Sonoma County Genealogical Society and was a member and past president of Chapter LZ of the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
She loved to work in her garden and used the wool from her sheep to become a gifted hand-weaver, becoming the oldest member of the Redwood Empire Handweavers and Spinners.
''The clack of the loom was constant in our house,'' ... ''She had a large box full of ribbons won in competitions for her hand-woven artistry.''
Her husband died in 1996, and since then Michie had lived at the Oakmont Gardens apartments.
In addition to Horn, she is survived by a daughter, Corrine Kingsbury of Sonoma; a son, Barry Michie of Manhattan, Kan., seven grandchildren; and 15 great grandchildren.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church. Contributions may be made to the church's general fund, 1550 Pacific Ave., Santa Rosa 95404.
By Barry Michie, Son
Married: February 10, 1929 to William Roy Michie in Santa Rosa, California
Children:
Florence Corrine Michie - 24 December 1930
Living Daughter
Living Son
She began life in San Jose with the extended Dampier clan. She had three siblings: Gerald Homer "Jerry", Burton Roly "Burt" and little sister Edith Lurline "Lurline" Dampier, all of whom in adult life lived in the Los Altos area. The family moved around quite a bit as her father, a skilled door and sash man and planing machine blade setter, found employment at various places. Some marvelous stories of living on a house boat in Stockton, Ca.
She lost her mother in 1918 when she was about 11. Her father moved the family to Occidental where she spent about a year remembering the drippy cold of living in the redwoods. She then went to live with her mother's relations in Sebastopol, primarily Uncle Al and Aunt Mary Lunceford, with whom she lived through graduation from Analy High School. She moved to Santa Rosa, met and married Roy Michie in 1929.
Lucille loved a good story and laugh. Among the many stories of living in San Jose was her mother taking her and siblings to the 1915 San Francisco Pan-American Exhibition. They were made to sit and told not to move outside the Palace of Fine Arts as there might be art work too shocking for young innocent eyes. She thought this very odd at the time...that things must be pretty risque inside because they had been seated down on the rim of a fountain whose center piece was the statue of a little nude boy peeing.
One of her stories was as a young bride and new farm wife living next to her in-laws's farm. One day she helped her mother-in-law collect the eggs. Her mother-in-law remarked, "Well we'd better go in and clean up these sh..ty eggs". She was shocked to hear this sweet genteel Scottish lady using such language... learning the lesson that barnyard language is precisely that, with its appropriate use in context.
Lucille and Roy's home on what came to be called "Michie Mountain" became the anchor for five generations of family: many reunions, gatherings and the place called home.
Seeing three children grown and on their own, she and Roy spent years traveling the US, Canada and Mexico by trailer. Loving her favorite stores, there was never a Safeway she could pass without stopping. Roy refused to fly. She made an around the world trip with dear friend, Irene Maxwell, partially to check out the prospective daughter-in-law her son met during Peace Corps in India. She readily approved.
In addition to her obituary below, Lucille was a family historian extraordinaire, with a keen interest to discover "who my people are". Her meticulous research, mostly by snail mail, was amazing and put her in touch with distant cousins throughout the US. Her original goal was to trace her lines to immigrants coming to the New World. This was fairly easily accomplished with her mother's family. But the further back she worked on her father's side the more and more elusive this became.
She would have been delighted to learn that her earliest immigrant ancestress came to Jamestown in 1610, a woman who found herself the defendant against a preacher in the earliest known breach of promise suit in the colonies. She won her case. A down to earth feminist, Lucille would have heartily approved.
~~~~~~~~~~~
© 1999- The Press Democrat
Published February 3, 1999 PAGE: B2
LUCILLE MICHIE
Lucille Michie, a Sonoma County resident for more than three-quarters of the 20th century, died Sunday at a Santa Rosa convalescent hospital after a short illness. She was 91.
Born in San Jose, she moved to Occidental with her family when she was a young teen-ager and graduated from Analy High School in 1925. After high school she worked as a telephone operator in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.
''She was a long-distance operator at a time when people would pick up the phone and say, 'Lucille, could you get me New York?''' said her daughter, Yvonne Michie Horn of Santa Rosa.
She married Roy Michie in 1929 and for the next 67 years lived with him on their small ranch off of Kawana Springs Road, on the flanks of Taylor Mountain.
She was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Rosa for 70 years, serving on several church boards and committees and singing in the choir. She was a longtime member of the Sonoma County Genealogical Society and was a member and past president of Chapter LZ of the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
She loved to work in her garden and used the wool from her sheep to become a gifted hand-weaver, becoming the oldest member of the Redwood Empire Handweavers and Spinners.
''The clack of the loom was constant in our house,'' ... ''She had a large box full of ribbons won in competitions for her hand-woven artistry.''
Her husband died in 1996, and since then Michie had lived at the Oakmont Gardens apartments.
In addition to Horn, she is survived by a daughter, Corrine Kingsbury of Sonoma; a son, Barry Michie of Manhattan, Kan., seven grandchildren; and 15 great grandchildren.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church. Contributions may be made to the church's general fund, 1550 Pacific Ave., Santa Rosa 95404.
By Barry Michie, Son
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