mother Ruth Marie Wisner
DOOR COUNTY ADVOCATE, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Friday, December 10, 1937: Delia M. Dunham, Proprietor of Hat and Dress Shop, Dies
Mrs. Delia M. Dunham, 57, who took over the business of the Mrs. D. J. Machia hat and dress shop last July 1, died unexpectedly last Friday at Muskegon, Mich., where she had gone the Tuesday before Thanksgiving to spend a week or more visiting with friends. She attended a party the Saturday evening after Thanksgiving and went home apparently as well as she always appeared, but the next morning, she was found unconscious on the floor of her room at her friends home. She was taken to a hospital and never regained consciousness. The funeral was held at Muskegon Monday.
Mrs. Dunham became well known here as editor of the Door County Resorter, a tourist magazine published by her from 1924 to 1926 inclusive, and for nearly a year, July, 1936, to the end of June, as "Dee Dum," a special writer of women's and marine features for The Advocate by which she also was employed as a linotype operator, having spent many years of her life in that trade in Chicago on the Daily News and in Muskegon.
Although a linotype worker, her familiarity with women's needs finally won out last spring when she decided to go into the ladies' apparel business and she was meeting with great success in that line up to the time of her untimely death. As there are no immediate survivors, it has not yet been decided what will be done about disposing with the business here. The deceased was a member of the Sturgeon Bay Business Women's club and served that group as press chairman.
A daughter of a lake captain, Louis McCracken, Mrs. Dunham got her marine background in early girlhood. She frequently sailed with her father on his schooner and became familiar with many old lake craft about which she frequently wrote interesting narratives.
From Muskegon, her native city, Mrs. Dunham went to Chicago where she was married, and after her marriage, lived for a time in the Black Hills region. Before the World war, she and her husband bought property on the North Bay Shore drive, but after Mr. Dunham's death, the widow returned to her linotype work in Chicago.
Following discontinuance of The Resorter, she went back to Muskegon where she was employed as a relief department case worker and later by a newspaper before she came here over a year ago when her brother, Guy McCracken, widely known ship carver, died, and she remained to accept work with The Advocate.
DOOR COUNTY ADVOCATE, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Friday, December 10, 1937: Delia M. Dunham, Proprietor of Hat and Dress Shop, Dies
Mrs. Delia M. Dunham, 57, who took over the business of the Mrs. D. J. Machia hat and dress shop last July 1, died unexpectedly last Friday at Muskegon, Mich., where she had gone the Tuesday before Thanksgiving to spend a week or more visiting with friends. She attended a party the Saturday evening after Thanksgiving and went home apparently as well as she always appeared, but the next morning, she was found unconscious on the floor of her room at her friends home. She was taken to a hospital and never regained consciousness. The funeral was held at Muskegon Monday.
Mrs. Dunham became well known here as editor of the Door County Resorter, a tourist magazine published by her from 1924 to 1926 inclusive, and for nearly a year, July, 1936, to the end of June, as "Dee Dum," a special writer of women's and marine features for The Advocate by which she also was employed as a linotype operator, having spent many years of her life in that trade in Chicago on the Daily News and in Muskegon.
Although a linotype worker, her familiarity with women's needs finally won out last spring when she decided to go into the ladies' apparel business and she was meeting with great success in that line up to the time of her untimely death. As there are no immediate survivors, it has not yet been decided what will be done about disposing with the business here. The deceased was a member of the Sturgeon Bay Business Women's club and served that group as press chairman.
A daughter of a lake captain, Louis McCracken, Mrs. Dunham got her marine background in early girlhood. She frequently sailed with her father on his schooner and became familiar with many old lake craft about which she frequently wrote interesting narratives.
From Muskegon, her native city, Mrs. Dunham went to Chicago where she was married, and after her marriage, lived for a time in the Black Hills region. Before the World war, she and her husband bought property on the North Bay Shore drive, but after Mr. Dunham's death, the widow returned to her linotype work in Chicago.
Following discontinuance of The Resorter, she went back to Muskegon where she was employed as a relief department case worker and later by a newspaper before she came here over a year ago when her brother, Guy McCracken, widely known ship carver, died, and she remained to accept work with The Advocate.
mother Ruth Marie Wisner
DOOR COUNTY ADVOCATE, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Friday, December 10, 1937: Delia M. Dunham, Proprietor of Hat and Dress Shop, Dies
Mrs. Delia M. Dunham, 57, who took over the business of the Mrs. D. J. Machia hat and dress shop last July 1, died unexpectedly last Friday at Muskegon, Mich., where she had gone the Tuesday before Thanksgiving to spend a week or more visiting with friends. She attended a party the Saturday evening after Thanksgiving and went home apparently as well as she always appeared, but the next morning, she was found unconscious on the floor of her room at her friends home. She was taken to a hospital and never regained consciousness. The funeral was held at Muskegon Monday.
Mrs. Dunham became well known here as editor of the Door County Resorter, a tourist magazine published by her from 1924 to 1926 inclusive, and for nearly a year, July, 1936, to the end of June, as "Dee Dum," a special writer of women's and marine features for The Advocate by which she also was employed as a linotype operator, having spent many years of her life in that trade in Chicago on the Daily News and in Muskegon.
Although a linotype worker, her familiarity with women's needs finally won out last spring when she decided to go into the ladies' apparel business and she was meeting with great success in that line up to the time of her untimely death. As there are no immediate survivors, it has not yet been decided what will be done about disposing with the business here. The deceased was a member of the Sturgeon Bay Business Women's club and served that group as press chairman.
A daughter of a lake captain, Louis McCracken, Mrs. Dunham got her marine background in early girlhood. She frequently sailed with her father on his schooner and became familiar with many old lake craft about which she frequently wrote interesting narratives.
From Muskegon, her native city, Mrs. Dunham went to Chicago where she was married, and after her marriage, lived for a time in the Black Hills region. Before the World war, she and her husband bought property on the North Bay Shore drive, but after Mr. Dunham's death, the widow returned to her linotype work in Chicago.
Following discontinuance of The Resorter, she went back to Muskegon where she was employed as a relief department case worker and later by a newspaper before she came here over a year ago when her brother, Guy McCracken, widely known ship carver, died, and she remained to accept work with The Advocate.
DOOR COUNTY ADVOCATE, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Friday, December 10, 1937: Delia M. Dunham, Proprietor of Hat and Dress Shop, Dies
Mrs. Delia M. Dunham, 57, who took over the business of the Mrs. D. J. Machia hat and dress shop last July 1, died unexpectedly last Friday at Muskegon, Mich., where she had gone the Tuesday before Thanksgiving to spend a week or more visiting with friends. She attended a party the Saturday evening after Thanksgiving and went home apparently as well as she always appeared, but the next morning, she was found unconscious on the floor of her room at her friends home. She was taken to a hospital and never regained consciousness. The funeral was held at Muskegon Monday.
Mrs. Dunham became well known here as editor of the Door County Resorter, a tourist magazine published by her from 1924 to 1926 inclusive, and for nearly a year, July, 1936, to the end of June, as "Dee Dum," a special writer of women's and marine features for The Advocate by which she also was employed as a linotype operator, having spent many years of her life in that trade in Chicago on the Daily News and in Muskegon.
Although a linotype worker, her familiarity with women's needs finally won out last spring when she decided to go into the ladies' apparel business and she was meeting with great success in that line up to the time of her untimely death. As there are no immediate survivors, it has not yet been decided what will be done about disposing with the business here. The deceased was a member of the Sturgeon Bay Business Women's club and served that group as press chairman.
A daughter of a lake captain, Louis McCracken, Mrs. Dunham got her marine background in early girlhood. She frequently sailed with her father on his schooner and became familiar with many old lake craft about which she frequently wrote interesting narratives.
From Muskegon, her native city, Mrs. Dunham went to Chicago where she was married, and after her marriage, lived for a time in the Black Hills region. Before the World war, she and her husband bought property on the North Bay Shore drive, but after Mr. Dunham's death, the widow returned to her linotype work in Chicago.
Following discontinuance of The Resorter, she went back to Muskegon where she was employed as a relief department case worker and later by a newspaper before she came here over a year ago when her brother, Guy McCracken, widely known ship carver, died, and she remained to accept work with The Advocate.
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