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She went to Moser Business School and was a secretary. Social Security death records give her last place of residency as Lake Forest, Illinois. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson Marcella, Peggy and Anna were members of the first wave of women who were fully accepted as office workers. Up until about the time of World War I, practically all secretaries were male. She loved her office positions. She liked wearing the perky blouses and skirts which had just come into vogue. She loved walking on Michigan Ave. and never lost her admiration for Chicago's lakefront. Visiting the music stores,where rinkiy-dink piano players demonstrated the latest in sheet music, was a thrill. She played the Irish songs on the piano which her father was very proud of.When she was going with Howard, they loved going to musicals. There were many theaters in Chicago playing what were then called "revues". The Ziegfeld Follis were definitely favorites. During the early thirties, they rented several summer cottages. A standing joke among the women of that time was that they never saw the lake. These places weren't conducive to their leisure but the kids wee in seventh heaven. One summer at Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, their parents came to visit. Dad liked to take a rowboat out on the lake to fish. He never seemed to catch anything but would say that he didn't get out early enough. It never seemed to bother him. In 1937 the family moved to Buffalo, N.Y. They returned to Chicago in the summer of 1942. After her mother passed away, they moved to East Ave. in Oak Park. She continued to live there after Howard's death. She sold her home on East Ave. and moved to Lake SHore Dr. where she started a part of her life that she truly appreciated. Later she lived in the homes of her loving randdaughter, Barbara and Gary Beebee, in Lake Forest .
She went to Moser Business School and was a secretary. Social Security death records give her last place of residency as Lake Forest, Illinois.
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Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson
Marcella, Peggy and Anna were members of the first wave of women who were fully accepted as office workers. Up until about the time of World War I, practically all secretaries were male. She loved her office positions. She liked wearing the perky blouses and skirts which had just come into vogue. She loved walking on Michigan Ave. and never lost her admiration for Chicago's lakefront. Visiting the music stores,where rinkiy-dink piano players demonstrated the latest in sheet music, was a thrill. She played the Irish songs on the piano which her father was very proud of.When she was going with Howard, they loved going to musicals. There were many theaters in Chicago playing what were then called "revues". The Ziegfeld Follis were definitely favorites. During the early thirties, they rented several summer cottages. A standing joke among the women of that time was that they never saw the lake. These places weren't conducive to their leisure but the kids wee in seventh heaven. One summer at Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, their parents came to visit. Dad liked to take a rowboat out on the lake to fish. He never seemed to catch anything but would say that he didn't get out early enough. It never seemed to bother him. In 1937 the family moved to Buffalo, N.Y. They returned to Chicago in the summer of 1942. After her mother passed away, they moved to East Ave. in Oak Park. She continued to live there after Howard's death. She sold her home on East Ave. and moved to Lake SHore Dr. where she started a part of her life that she truly appreciated. Later she lived in the homes of her loving randdaughter, Barbara and Gary Beebee, in Lake Forest .
She went to Moser Business School and was a secretary. Social Security death records give her last place of residency as Lake Forest, Illinois. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson Marcella, Peggy and Anna were members of the first wave of women who were fully accepted as office workers. Up until about the time of World War I, practically all secretaries were male. She loved her office positions. She liked wearing the perky blouses and skirts which had just come into vogue. She loved walking on Michigan Ave. and never lost her admiration for Chicago's lakefront. Visiting the music stores,where rinkiy-dink piano players demonstrated the latest in sheet music, was a thrill. She played the Irish songs on the piano which her father was very proud of.When she was going with Howard, they loved going to musicals. There were many theaters in Chicago playing what were then called "revues". The Ziegfeld Follis were definitely favorites. During the early thirties, they rented several summer cottages. A standing joke among the women of that time was that they never saw the lake. These places weren't conducive to their leisure but the kids wee in seventh heaven. One summer at Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, their parents came to visit. Dad liked to take a rowboat out on the lake to fish. He never seemed to catch anything but would say that he didn't get out early enough. It never seemed to bother him. In 1937 the family moved to Buffalo, N.Y. They returned to Chicago in the summer of 1942. After her mother passed away, they moved to East Ave. in Oak Park. She continued to live there after Howard's death. She sold her home on East Ave. and moved to Lake SHore Dr. where she started a part of her life that she truly appreciated. Later she lived in the homes of her loving randdaughter, Barbara and Gary Beebee, in Lake Forest .
She went to Moser Business School and was a secretary. Social Security death records give her last place of residency as Lake Forest, Illinois.
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Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson
Marcella, Peggy and Anna were members of the first wave of women who were fully accepted as office workers. Up until about the time of World War I, practically all secretaries were male. She loved her office positions. She liked wearing the perky blouses and skirts which had just come into vogue. She loved walking on Michigan Ave. and never lost her admiration for Chicago's lakefront. Visiting the music stores,where rinkiy-dink piano players demonstrated the latest in sheet music, was a thrill. She played the Irish songs on the piano which her father was very proud of.When she was going with Howard, they loved going to musicals. There were many theaters in Chicago playing what were then called "revues". The Ziegfeld Follis were definitely favorites. During the early thirties, they rented several summer cottages. A standing joke among the women of that time was that they never saw the lake. These places weren't conducive to their leisure but the kids wee in seventh heaven. One summer at Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, their parents came to visit. Dad liked to take a rowboat out on the lake to fish. He never seemed to catch anything but would say that he didn't get out early enough. It never seemed to bother him. In 1937 the family moved to Buffalo, N.Y. They returned to Chicago in the summer of 1942. After her mother passed away, they moved to East Ave. in Oak Park. She continued to live there after Howard's death. She sold her home on East Ave. and moved to Lake SHore Dr. where she started a part of her life that she truly appreciated. Later she lived in the homes of her loving randdaughter, Barbara and Gary Beebee, in Lake Forest .
She went to Moser Business School and was a secretary. Social Security death records give her last place of residency as Lake Forest, Illinois. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson Marcella, Peggy and Anna were members of the first wave of women who were fully accepted as office workers. Up until about the time of World War I, practically all secretaries were male. She loved her office positions. She liked wearing the perky blouses and skirts which had just come into vogue. She loved walking on Michigan Ave. and never lost her admiration for Chicago's lakefront. Visiting the music stores,where rinkiy-dink piano players demonstrated the latest in sheet music, was a thrill. She played the Irish songs on the piano which her father was very proud of.When she was going with Howard, they loved going to musicals. There were many theaters in Chicago playing what were then called "revues". The Ziegfeld Follis were definitely favorites. During the early thirties, they rented several summer cottages. A standing joke among the women of that time was that they never saw the lake. These places weren't conducive to their leisure but the kids wee in seventh heaven. One summer at Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, their parents came to visit. Dad liked to take a rowboat out on the lake to fish. He never seemed to catch anything but would say that he didn't get out early enough. It never seemed to bother him. In 1937 the family moved to Buffalo, N.Y. They returned to Chicago in the summer of 1942. After her mother passed away, they moved to East Ave. in Oak Park. She continued to live there after Howard's death. She sold her home on East Ave. and moved to Lake SHore Dr. where she started a part of her life that she truly appreciated. Later she lived in the homes of her loving randdaughter, Barbara and Gary Beebee, in Lake Forest .
She went to Moser Business School and was a secretary. Social Security death records give her last place of residency as Lake Forest, Illinois.
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Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson
Marcella, Peggy and Anna were members of the first wave of women who were fully accepted as office workers. Up until about the time of World War I, practically all secretaries were male. She loved her office positions. She liked wearing the perky blouses and skirts which had just come into vogue. She loved walking on Michigan Ave. and never lost her admiration for Chicago's lakefront. Visiting the music stores,where rinkiy-dink piano players demonstrated the latest in sheet music, was a thrill. She played the Irish songs on the piano which her father was very proud of.When she was going with Howard, they loved going to musicals. There were many theaters in Chicago playing what were then called "revues". The Ziegfeld Follis were definitely favorites. During the early thirties, they rented several summer cottages. A standing joke among the women of that time was that they never saw the lake. These places weren't conducive to their leisure but the kids wee in seventh heaven. One summer at Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, their parents came to visit. Dad liked to take a rowboat out on the lake to fish. He never seemed to catch anything but would say that he didn't get out early enough. It never seemed to bother him. In 1937 the family moved to Buffalo, N.Y. They returned to Chicago in the summer of 1942. After her mother passed away, they moved to East Ave. in Oak Park. She continued to live there after Howard's death. She sold her home on East Ave. and moved to Lake SHore Dr. where she started a part of her life that she truly appreciated. Later she lived in the homes of her loving randdaughter, Barbara and Gary Beebee, in Lake Forest .
She went to Moser Business School and was a secretary. Social Security death records give her last place of residency as Lake Forest, Illinois. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson Marcella, Peggy and Anna were members of the first wave of women who were fully accepted as office workers. Up until about the time of World War I, practically all secretaries were male. She loved her office positions. She liked wearing the perky blouses and skirts which had just come into vogue. She loved walking on Michigan Ave. and never lost her admiration for Chicago's lakefront. Visiting the music stores,where rinkiy-dink piano players demonstrated the latest in sheet music, was a thrill. She played the Irish songs on the piano which her father was very proud of.When she was going with Howard, they loved going to musicals. There were many theaters in Chicago playing what were then called "revues". The Ziegfeld Follis were definitely favorites. During the early thirties, they rented several summer cottages. A standing joke among the women of that time was that they never saw the lake. These places weren't conducive to their leisure but the kids wee in seventh heaven. One summer at Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, their parents came to visit. Dad liked to take a rowboat out on the lake to fish. He never seemed to catch anything but would say that he didn't get out early enough. It never seemed to bother him. In 1937 the family moved to Buffalo, N.Y. They returned to Chicago in the summer of 1942. After her mother passed away, they moved to East Ave. in Oak Park. She continued to live there after Howard's death. She sold her home on East Ave. and moved to Lake SHore Dr. where she started a part of her life that she truly appreciated. Later she lived in the homes of her loving randdaughter, Barbara and Gary Beebee, in Lake Forest .
She went to Moser Business School and was a secretary. Social Security death records give her last place of residency as Lake Forest, Illinois.
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Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson
Marcella, Peggy and Anna were members of the first wave of women who were fully accepted as office workers. Up until about the time of World War I, practically all secretaries were male. She loved her office positions. She liked wearing the perky blouses and skirts which had just come into vogue. She loved walking on Michigan Ave. and never lost her admiration for Chicago's lakefront. Visiting the music stores,where rinkiy-dink piano players demonstrated the latest in sheet music, was a thrill. She played the Irish songs on the piano which her father was very proud of.When she was going with Howard, they loved going to musicals. There were many theaters in Chicago playing what were then called "revues". The Ziegfeld Follis were definitely favorites. During the early thirties, they rented several summer cottages. A standing joke among the women of that time was that they never saw the lake. These places weren't conducive to their leisure but the kids wee in seventh heaven. One summer at Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, their parents came to visit. Dad liked to take a rowboat out on the lake to fish. He never seemed to catch anything but would say that he didn't get out early enough. It never seemed to bother him. In 1937 the family moved to Buffalo, N.Y. They returned to Chicago in the summer of 1942. After her mother passed away, they moved to East Ave. in Oak Park. She continued to live there after Howard's death. She sold her home on East Ave. and moved to Lake SHore Dr. where she started a part of her life that she truly appreciated. Later she lived in the homes of her loving randdaughter, Barbara and Gary Beebee, in Lake Forest .
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1899 - 1992 (93 years)