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                   Note by Karon Howatt Mazie, June 16, 1997:      A report I have, compiled by Penny Cramer, my first cousin states that Aunt May and Uncle Bus remember Aunt Dorothy saying she understood Grandma Cramer's family were Quakers, in the book compiled by Hazel King Titus, she states there was some Quaker involvement by this Maxedon Family in North Carolina and Indiana.
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Her son Bill states his mother died at home.  She had breast cancer and it later got into her lymph nodes and went through her body.  She lived about 9 months or so after having a radical mastectomy.
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Bill states she was a very good mother, and she was very active right up to her death.  A week before her death she had a girls guild group that she sponsored or taught, and took them to Spokane.  This group were teenagers.  She worked in the church right up until the time she passed away.
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She was a waitress in West Seattle.  She was close to Bill's grandparents on the Thompson side.  They lived near his grandparents, in a Court that his grandparents owned.
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Billy and Aunt Edna have both said something about Aunt Dorothy saying we had Quaker religion in our back ground.  Today, on the Washington County, Indiana web site, I found a list of Quaker names, which included surnames Noblett, Noblitt, Ratcliff, Ratliff and Thomas.     *****
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Aunt Edna told Carol and Susie on 7-26-1997 that Aunt Dorothy actually died on Feb. 29, I don't know if is a typo, but will check it out.  Edna and May said Dorothy couldn't have been "very active right up to her
death" and she couldn't have taken some girls to Spokane a week before she died.  They say she was not physically able to do such a thing.  She may have been somewhat active (although active doesn't seem like the right word) at home -- she was helping with the planning for the girls guild group.  Betty saw Dorothy the day before she died.  They said Billy was away at college.    *****