HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY TO MY MOM ~ she was born 100 years ago

 
Today would have been my Mom’s 100^th birthday
 

I’ve written several posts about my Mom and Dad.  Her mother, Florence Bowden Milne was the genealogist in the family before me.  She, my grandma, left me many wonderful pieces of family information and photographs.

 

Here is a very brief bio of my Mom:

 

Patricia Anne Milne, born 3 Oct 1924, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Her parents were Joseph Albert Milne and Florence Lenora Bowden.  Pat was the fourth and last child born to her parents.  Her siblings were Dorothy Irene Milne (1907-1920), Robert Andrew Milne (1909-1969) and Joan Esther Milne (1915-1985).  All born in Detroit.

 

Being much younger than her siblings and having never met her sister, Dorothy, who died before my Mom was born, Pat grew up spending quite a bit of time to herself.  She inherited a love of books from her mother and spent a lot of time reading.  I’m thankful that gene was passed down to me as well. She and I would pass books back & forth after reading them.  We both love mysteries and history.

 

Pat always loved animals and passed that love to us as well.  

 

My Mom was married twice.  First to Harry Norman Gould 9 Apr 1949 and second to Joseph Edward Cornelius 12 Feb 1971.

She had 3 children – her oldest, John Whitney Zimmerman, then me, then my brother Harry Norman Gould, II.

 
We lost Mom on 12 Mar 2016, at age 91.
 
HAPPY HEAVENLY
BIRTHDAY MOM!
 
 
Her are some pictures of our Mom through the years.

Patricia as a baby, as a 2 yr old in 1926 with her sister, Joan and their mother and on the bench as a 2 yr old 

Left is Pat with her Mom - the other picture has Pat being shy with the camera, standing are Florence Hunter Bowden (her maternal grandmother), Joan, her sister, Susan Gillespie Milne, (her paternal grandmother), and her brother Robert

With her paternal grandmother Susan Gillespie Milne and the smaller girl is her first cousin Betty - the pic on the right standing, her mother, Florence, her maternal grandmother also Florence, here sister Joan and Pat in the front

Pat as a teenager - 14-15 yrs old

School pic on the left about age 14, photo booth photo in the middle and on the right is a picture of Pat when she was about 20 yrs old

1956 celebration of the 50th anniversary of Pat's parents
Left to right - Joseph Milne, Robert Milne, Florence Milne and Pat

3 generation photo - my Mom on the left, me and my grandmother Florence - about 1976

Pat - circa late 1970s

Christmas 2005 in Ramona, CA
L-R - Pat, Myriah, Norm & Joshua Gould, me and Melinda Davies Gould

Here we are, her 3 children, John, me and Norm - this is in 2006 when our half brother John W. Zimmerman came to meet us for the first time.  He had searched for his biological parents for 40 yrs. and finally located me via an old genealogy website.  We had always known he was out there somewhere and were thrilled to meet him.  He had a 10 yr relationship with our Mom before she passed away.

Here's Pat on her 90th birthday - 2014

Happy hunting,

Michigan Girl

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