Misc. Notes
According to
[4]:
- attended the famous Moody Church of Chicago, being an active part of that body by playing the piano and doing vocal solos
- her father died during her early years which put away any such thought as going to college
- after high school she worked asa secretary in order to help her family financially
- in 1921 the family left by train from Chicago to California, traveling in companionship with a minister friend who was responding to a call to be the pastor of a San Jose church
- a group of congregation members from the church met the travelers at the depot to greet their new pastor
- one of these church members was her future husband, James Harney Mongomery
- after her husband’s death in 1937 started attending First Baptist Church
- she worked as a secretary a the San Jose State College
- she and the family would spend vacations camping out in the Sea Cliff area of Monterey Bay
- she retired in 1961
- she loved to travel: Taiwan (to visit her son Jim and daugher-in-law Lyn), Canada, Illinois, Missouri, etc.
- she was diagnosed with cancer in June 1976
- it was partially inoperable
- she was living at Hilltop Manor, San Jose but moved to a rest home in August 1977