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Mildred <I>McCollough</I> Solloway-DeRouck

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Mildred McCollough Solloway-DeRouck

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25 Sep 1974 (aged 80)
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South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Mildred had a tough beginning. Her mother died when she was barely weaned, and she was given to an unrelated family to raise her. Her father, Lafayette McCoullough, stopped by to visit and found her abandoned, alone in the house, and locked in a cellar, and the family gone for the day. She was three years old. She was removed from that family, and sent to live with her older sister Clara, who raised her. I assume that her childhood improved thereafter.

Her first marriage was very happy. When they were young, they loved to dance. She loved to cook and bake, and her food was amazing. She could do a lot with just a little bit. My mother said she was an excellent housekeeper - what little she had, she made it beautiful.

She was a loving and doting mother. Her children loved her, and my grandmother, the youngest, still gets tears in her eyes when she talks about her dear mother. She survived two husbands and raised four children through the first World War, the roaring twenties, the stock market crash, the Great Depression, and World War II, where she sent two sons to fight. Even though I have never met her, I like to believe that I know her through my mother and my grandmother - that love, along with tradition, is passed down through the generations.
Mildred had a tough beginning. Her mother died when she was barely weaned, and she was given to an unrelated family to raise her. Her father, Lafayette McCoullough, stopped by to visit and found her abandoned, alone in the house, and locked in a cellar, and the family gone for the day. She was three years old. She was removed from that family, and sent to live with her older sister Clara, who raised her. I assume that her childhood improved thereafter.

Her first marriage was very happy. When they were young, they loved to dance. She loved to cook and bake, and her food was amazing. She could do a lot with just a little bit. My mother said she was an excellent housekeeper - what little she had, she made it beautiful.

She was a loving and doting mother. Her children loved her, and my grandmother, the youngest, still gets tears in her eyes when she talks about her dear mother. She survived two husbands and raised four children through the first World War, the roaring twenties, the stock market crash, the Great Depression, and World War II, where she sent two sons to fight. Even though I have never met her, I like to believe that I know her through my mother and my grandmother - that love, along with tradition, is passed down through the generations.

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First married to Christian Solloway and had Charles, Eleanor Louisa "Peggy", Robert,and Claraellen "Carrie". Second husband Tony DeRouck.

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