Margaret Carolyn (Tyler) Putnam (1929 - 2018)

Born 24 Jun 1929 in Hornell, NY

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Descendants

Died 1 Oct 2018 at age 89 in Hamburg, New York, United States

Biography

Margaret Tyler ... ^[1]

From Helen Brundage Fisher's 1978 Family Tree: First daughter of Elizabeth and George Tyler. Lived with her Aunt Helen while her mother secured her Master's degree. She graduated from E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Buffalo, NY (1951); was employed by 4 OBGYN doctors. She and her husband have lived in the Buffalo area since marriage. Bruce is a mechanical engineer, graduating from the University of Maine and is employed at Bethlehem Steel. He is a board member of the Camp Fire Girls of Buffalo and Erie County, and chairs the camp site committee. He organized, plans and leads the girls on spring canoeing trips. Peg is active in the Sweet Adelines.

(The above probably needs updating.)

Peggy lives in Hamburg, NY with her daughter Pam.

On June 9, 2013, Peg wrote the following, "Jean and Sandy were more social than I. Friends in school were more important than the academics. Jean and Sandy joined sororities...not for me. I had one friend and that was ok. I was more into sports, basketball, volleyball, baseball, roller skating, reading, playing the piano. Jean and I would play duets, Jean on the violin and I on the piano. We would drive Brownie nuts when we could not decide to play the same piece! Brownie was a good pianist! Brownie would bring the dissonance to Mother's attention. She was deep into the latest book and did not hear us. I liked school and did well. I loved answering questions. Jean and I sandy in the Methodist choir together when we lived in Kenmore, NY. I worked as a typist for 6 months after school and was bored stiff. I went into nurses training and married Bruce 2 years later. I graduated in 1951 and worked in a Premie Nursery until we moved to Snyder, NY."

In November 2013, Peggy said that she plays the piano, but not often. She worked for Sylvania Electric during the summer in Jamestown while living with her Aunt Helen. She opened the teletype, and took over for the telephone operators at lunch. She also was the mail girl. Then she got a real boring job at an insurance company.

Peggy moved from Hornel, NY and remembers the flood of 1934 with the water coming up to the legs of the furniture, to Alfred, to Belmont, to York, PA, to Hambourg, south of Buffalo, and she went to Senior High at Kenmore Senior High School, which is north of Buffalo.

Peggy was a nurse and is very descriptive about her health. She said on February 16, 2011 about her health, "Peggy said that she has hypertension and is pre-diabetic as her A1C is 6.0. She survived breast cancer and had a modified radical mastectomy, but no chemo and no radiation afterward."

In December 2014, Peggy said that she still plays bridge 11x's a month and 3x's a week. She goes to curves at 7 AM and meets 10 gals to workout.

The following email was forwarded to me from Dave Holbrook, and the body of this email are memories of Peggy Tyler Putnam:

Subject: Re: recently found information about George Albert Tyler Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:55:38 -0400 From: Peggy Putnam

To: Dave Holbrook

How thoughtful of you , Dave ,to send the letter from Michael & Marianna Blawat. Yes I remember them....very gentle people. Played outside their house in a playpen on one of the visits...summer time. Also remember when they talked to us at my father’s funeral. I don’t remember much. Lots of conversation and thought how kind they were to spend time telling us about him.

Putting 2&2 together from the letter....Mother bought us a piano knowing we had probably some musical ability. Your Mother liked the violin while I liked the piano. We used to play ...Sometimes when we could not decide on the same piece of music but played our own choice Brownie would cringe & say to Mother who was reading... “Betty, don’t you hear your girls?” Mother did not have the ability to sing so was deaf to what was going on! Jean & I sang in the Methodist& Presbyterian choirs while in Belmont. (Mother & Brownie would go to the church that had the most interesting minister.....interesting education for us) Jean & I would sing duets together while doing the dinner dishes...especially at Christmas time.

Mother paid us an allowance of $2.00 a week....more than our friends made.....for chores. Jean would make dinners for a week and I would clean the house...then we would switch. Can’t remember what Sandy ( 6 yrs younger) did. Mother’s bridge people complained that they did not pay their children so much ....but then their kids did not do what we did! Good training for Jean & I.

Sandy broke her leg climbing over a fence in Belmont when she was 10. The cast held her down for a while ...think it was summer time. Can remember when the 3 of us were together. Jean & I had an argument over who was taking care of Sandy!......not just a vocal one but hair pulling & hitting. Boy were we mad! Each one of us wanted the dubious honor...

Jean & I entertained a group of boys after school Friday nights (we were 4 houses down from the school....I was in 8th & Jean in 7th grade in Belmont. We would make brownies or fudge or cookies...remember we had learned how to cook. We enjoyed that time there.

Went to York, PA the next yr. Brownie & Mother had new Social work positions there.

I have run on too much, Dave....but it was fun to reminisce.

Love & Hugs

Aunt Peg

Ps..maybe you could tell George & Lars this ...if they would be interested. George asked me to Remember some stories.

The following questions are only suggestions for creating a bio. You would obviously use the proper tense depending on whether the person being described is alive and dead. Many of these questions would not useful for created a bio about a younger person.)

Where were you reared? Where did you graduate from High School and when? What college degrees did you obtain? Where did you graduate from College and when? What jobs did you hold? Did you retire, when, and from where? What organizations do you belong to? Got any good stories? What do you like? What are your personality characteristics? Describe your physical appearance?

Sources

Descendants of James Wesley Brundage of Pleasant Valley, NY, Compiled by Helen Brundage Fisher (1978).

Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by George Brundage, Mar 22, 2013

Acknowledgments

Thanks to George Brundage for starting this profile.

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