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Martha Peters

Martha Peters
Born 1910s.
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Mother of , [private son (1940s - unknown)] and [private son (1950s - unknown)]
Died 2000s.
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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.

User ID

User ID: 481C277956204C16AF323EB9150343293884

Burial

Burial:
Date: APR 2007
Place: Tahoma National Cemetary

Occupation

Occupation: Salesperson, Claims Adjuster, Clerk, Retired

Religion

Religion: Lutheran

Note

Note: #N6

Data Changed

Data Changed:
Date: 11 NOV 2015

Prior to import, this record was last changed 11 NOV 2015.

Notes

Note N6
In 1918, when she was born, her family was living on 14th Street in Brooklyn.
In 1920, the appeared in the census.
In 1921 her mother left and all three children we sent out of the family. Martha and Florence were taken in by the Brooklyn Children’s Aide Society, S. Kinshorn St. Her brother Frank went to the Muncie Home for Boys in Muncie, N.Y.
During the next four years she boarded with about four different families, but only once along with Florence. The last family she lived with was Mrs. Edna Houghton of 25 Pettit Blvd, Freeport, N.Y.
She went to P.S. 169 and then Dewey Junior High at 4th Avenue and 40th Street in Brooklyn. She went to high school ath Textile High on 28th Street in N.Y.C. for three years.
1935 she and her father were living at 543 39th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY. (From 1940 Census)
In 1936 she went to night school at Bayridge High for typing and office skills and worked at H.L. Green’s “five & dime” store.
ca. 1937 - she kept home for her father, but he was difficult to live with and Martha got a job as a housekeeper and moved out for about two years.
1939 - she moved back in with her father and got a job at the Ford Mica Company doing office work.
1940 She and her father were listed in the 1940 census as living at 543 39th Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY. They paid a month in rent. She was 22 and her father was 66. She was seeking work (occupation was salesgirl in a department chain store). Her father’s income was listed as ,500 a year and Martha’s was 0
1940 She met Edwin and in 1941, they got married.
1942, Edwin joined the army and they moved to Maryland. She stayed in Maryland about a year and a half an then moved back to live with Edwin’s mother in Brooklyn. She stayed there about a year.
1946 she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank in N.Y. in the section that dealt with counterfeit money and after about a year and a half she left to have Barry in 1948.
1952, Ken was born.
1962 she worked for Doubleday Publishers in Garden City, N.Y.
1965 to 1966 she worked for Montgomery Ward in Hempstead, N.Y.
1969 to 1977 she worked for Blue Cross in Garden City, N.Y.
In March of 1977 she and Edwin retired to Florida
1980 they moved to Seattle briefly, but didn’t like it and returned to Florida
Over the next 15 years or so they moved around in FL every few years.
In 1997 they thought they would try Seattle again, but decided to return to FL in less than a month. They settled in Orlando, near Edwin’s brother Alvin and his wife.
In 1998, Edwin died and Martha moved to Seattle to be near her sons, Barry and Ken. At first she stayed with Ken and Tisha and then she got her own apartment in West Seattle. She lived there about two years and then moved into a retirement home called Council House on Capitol Hill in about 2002.
In March, 2005 she had abdominal surgery for intestinal adhesions, probably as a result of the hysterectomy she had in her 40s (or so). When she came of of the hospital she went into a nursing home for a few months before returning to the Council House.
When the Council House no longer served meals, she moved to Fred Lind Manor (1802 17th Ave) and lived there until she became seriously ill in March, 2007. She was in Swedish Hospital and was treated for heart and lung congestion, a badly-eroded esophagus and eventually pneumonia, until her death.[2][3]

Sources

  1. Peters-5201 was created by Barry Abrahamsen through the import of Abrahamsen 11.ged on Nov 12, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
  2. Source: #S32
  3. Source: #S9
  • Source: S17 Type: Census Title: 1930 Federal Census - Peters Place: Brooklyn, New York Date: 1930 Media: Microfilm Source Locality: Ancestry.com DATV 3/8/2010 Place: 204 39th Street Text: Frank Peters Senior CONT Frank Peters Junior CONT Martha Peters CONT Florence Forbes CONT Robert Forbes Data Changed: Date: 4 AUG 2015

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