"Gertie" married Harry 6/19/1901 in St. Paul. They were living at 137 College Ave. when their first daughter, Dorothy, was born. "Mucca", as her grandchildren called her, was a very loving maternal person for all of her descendants. She kept a warm hearth at all times and excelled in sewing both children's & doll's clothes. Baking was also a specialty of hers and gingerbread men were in constant demand during the family holidays. Although the Lyons never owned a home in Seaside, Oregon, they returned every summer to enjoy the salty air and to feed the seagulls scraps from Mucca's baking ventures. She grew up in St. Paul, Minn. daughter of a lumberman/druggist, Erastus, and mother, Ida May Ricketson, and was the granddaughter of the renown judge, Albert Edgerton. In her final years at the Capital Manor retirement home in Salem, OR, Mucca's sweet countenance continued even when her memory faded. As her mind slipped, she held a doll in her arms and murmured to it in the belief that it was one of her beloved children. (Bio. by Jim Hutcheson)
"Gertie" married Harry 6/19/1901 in St. Paul. They were living at 137 College Ave. when their first daughter, Dorothy, was born. "Mucca", as her grandchildren called her, was a very loving maternal person for all of her descendants. She kept a warm hearth at all times and excelled in sewing both children's & doll's clothes. Baking was also a specialty of hers and gingerbread men were in constant demand during the family holidays. Although the Lyons never owned a home in Seaside, Oregon, they returned every summer to enjoy the salty air and to feed the seagulls scraps from Mucca's baking ventures. She grew up in St. Paul, Minn. daughter of a lumberman/druggist, Erastus, and mother, Ida May Ricketson, and was the granddaughter of the renown judge, Albert Edgerton. In her final years at the Capital Manor retirement home in Salem, OR, Mucca's sweet countenance continued even when her memory faded. As her mind slipped, she held a doll in her arms and murmured to it in the belief that it was one of her beloved children. (Bio. by Jim Hutcheson)
Gravesite Details
with Henry W. Lyon
