Bessie Maude EYMAN

Mädchenname der Mutter:"Krehbiel".Verheiratet mit"Stutsmann"

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<p>Bessie Eyman was born at home in Mahaska Co. near the town of Oskaloosa, Iowa on May 1, 1895. She was the youngest child in a family of 5 children - she had two older brothers, Harry and Joe, and two olders sister, Annie and Mary.</p>

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<p>When Bessie was a teenager, she and her sisters picked middle names for themselves. She chose the name Maude. (She later laughed at herself that she had picked Maude for her middle name.)</p>

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<p>Bessie's mother died in 1912, when Bessie was 17.</p>

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<p>Bessie married Ward Stutsman in 1914. They raised their three children - Ward Jr. (b. 1919), Katherine (b. 1922), and Phyllis (b. 1924) - in Moberly, Missouri. After Ward Jr. died in March of 1937from a blood disease, the family moved to Fullerton, CA.

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<p>Bessie worked for many years as the head cook for the sisters of St Joseph at Fullerton General Hospital on Amerige Ave. She retired in the early 1960's.</p>

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<p>Having grown up on a farm, she never learned to drive. She did, however, occasionally sit down at the piano and play "The Bee Waltz" for us, a song she learned as a child.</p>

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<p>Her daughters Katherine and Phyllis - also Fullerton residents - were very devoted to her and enabled her to live independently in her own apartment on West Whiting Ave. until her death in 1993 atthe age of 98.</p>

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