104th Anniversary of the Birth of Aunt Marge

This is my aunt, Marguerite Frances Shank Brammell Truitt.  Today is the 104th anniversary of her birth in Phillipsburg, Missouri.  She was five years older than my mother, and she was always my favorite aunt.  She came with her brother and sister to California in the 1930’s, and there she met Charles Brammell, whom she married and they had a daughter, Judith Carol Brammell.  Cousin Judy, who was more like an older sister to me than a cousin.  After Charlie died, Aunt Marge lived on her own for awhile and then married Bert Truitt.  After he passed away, she remained in her home in Albany, California, near Berkeley, until she fell and broke her hip at age 85 and quietly passed away a few weeks later.  This is an amazing photo of her taken before she was married.  Somewhere in the recesses of my memory, I remember a story about Marge writing to get a copy of her birth certificate after she left Missouri, and it was at that time that she found out that Marguerite Frances was not her full given name…I think it was something like Marguerite Lydia Frances, or Lydia Marguerite Frances.  She was named after her two grandmothers, Rebecca Frances Smith McMenus, and Lydia Margaret Massie Shank.  Anyway, if I have this wrong, perhaps one of Marge’s grand daughters will post and correct me.