5 generations

5 generations
I'm working on getting a complete 5 generations pedigree worked up.

Bertha Maude Millett

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  1. Seth, Kate, Nate, Lexi, and AnyaMarch 31, 2010 at 3:04 PM

    My Mom - Susan Hook Johnson

    I have thought long and hard about what one story to I could tell about my mom, and couldn't pinpoint just one. So here is a menagerie and I will let you do the sorting. First of all, I will try to define some of my mom's talents.

    She was both musically and artistically talented. I am not sure how many instruments she could play, but I do know that she played steel guitar and was very good at it. Unfortunately, I never had the privilege of hearing her play. She gave lessons while she was in Australia. Her instructor needed someone else to give lessons and asked her to help out. She sang, as well. She sang well enough that she and 2 of her friends sang on radio while she was living in Australia.

    She also could sketch just about anything and everything. She used to sketch clothing that I would like at a store, then come home and make me that item of clothing from a pattern that she would create from scratch. That artistic ability carried over into other aspects of her life.

    She loved cooking and gardening and the "presentation" that could be made with both. Even with the simplest meal, she would find a way to make it look beautiful. She loved her vegetable and flower gardens and was always experimenting with new plants.

    She also loved books and poetry. She was very clever in creating limericks and said that she and her sisters used to enter and win competitions for writing limericks. I remember on the last visit I made to see her at the nursing home that she had come up with a new limerick for one of the other residents there. I guess if there was one word that would define her, it might be "creative".

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  2. Seth, Kate, Nate, Lexi, and AnyaApril 5, 2010 at 8:32 AM

    OBITUARY(found via ancestry.com):

    Bertha M. Hook
    2/21/2008


    ABINGDON-Bertha M. Hook, 90, Abingdon, died at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008, at the Care Center of Abingdon.

    She was born March 3, 1917, in Sydney, Australia, the daughter of William Leonard and Amy Bertha (Bronsden) Millett. She married Howard T. Hook Aug. 14, 1943, in Brisbane, Australia.

    She is survived by her children, Pauline (Loren) Tessier, London Mills, Diane (and companion Roger Bice) Shugart, rural Abingdon, Rodney (Rita) Hook, rural Abingdon, and Susan (Nathan) Johnson, Winslow; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

    She was preceded in death by her parents, one grandson, Damon Shugart, and two sisters.

    She graduated from high school in Australia. After her marriage, she came to the United States in 1947 and lived in the Hermon and Abingdon areas. She worked at the Blue Bell Manufacturing Company in Abingdon and later worked at Formfit in Monmouth, which later became Smoler Brothers.

    She was of the Methodist Faith.

    She was a member of the Abingdon Garden Club.

    She enjoyed gardening, sewing, knitting and crafting. She also enjoyed going to yard sales.

    Cremation was accorded. Services will be announced at a later date.

    Memorials may be made to the Care Center of Abingdon Activity Department, 801 W. Martin St., Abingdon, IL 61410 or to the Abingdon Garden Club, % Helen Melton, 919 N. Fearing Ave., Abingdon, IL 61410.

    Hinchliff-Pearson-West Abingdon Chapel was in charge of arrangements for the family.

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