Dora Winifred Howe (1875 - 1967)

Born 18 Mar 1875 in Kentish Town, London, England

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Died 27 Apr 1967 at age 92 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England

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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

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Note: Dora's childhood was remembered for the fact that she nearly died,

from the effects of small-pox vaccination. After that her father

would not allow any of his other children to risk vaccination and

had to go to court for each one to be exempted. In those days

vaccination was not only rather crude medicine but was enforced by

law.

Dora survived to go to Blackheath High School and gain the education

that her mother had so wished for herself as a girl. Dora was an

energetic young person who went in for dancing classes and exercises

with dumbells. She worked hard for the Burnt Ash Band of Hope, and

was always hopeful that her brothers would sign the pledge. There

was a trend towards tee-totalism among them but she never entirely

convinced them.

She was a pillar of strength in the home, and took on the rôle of

second mother, just as Arthur had become surrogate father. Like

him, she didn't marry until she was in her thirties. She married a

Welshman, Howard Jenkins and had one son, Ivor in 1910. Most of her

married life was spent in Snaresbrook, and it was there that she

used to look after her younger brother, Foster Garfield after he had

become senile, relieving her niece Mira for weeks at a time. She

was over eighty herself by then, but as cheerful and vigourous as

ever.

Rheumatism and old age finally caught up with her, and she lost her

sight but also the rheumatism. Being of a philosophical nature, she

took all this in good part, as her particular dispensation from the

Deity. As one of the family remarked, "Hers was no narrow piety".

She spent some happy years in Boscombe, near her son and daughter-

in-law, Ivor and Gwen. {Source 18}.

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