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Identifier	clloy_230
Title	Memories - word pictures
Creator	Dockweiler Sooy, Mary
Date Created	1972
Description	A typescript copy of Mary Dockweiler Sooy's notes for her talk at the 1972 First Century Families luncheon. It is a string of reminiscences about her family and childhood, including how her parents first met, her earliest reminiscences of home life, working on needlework and doll clothes, her grandmother's baking, learning musical instruments and making music as a family.
Historical Background	The Dockweiler family has been closely intertwined with the course of Los Angeles religious, political, and civic life. Mary Dockweiler Sooy was the daughter of Isidore Dockweiler and Gertrude Reeve Dockweiler. She was a prominent Los Angeles socialite, also very active in such charitable causes as the Los Angeles Orphanage Guild. She married twice, first to lawyer William Kenyon Young, son of the prominent California Democrat Milton K. Young, and after the former's death, she married Dr. Daniel Sooy. First Century Families, founded by Mary Emily Foy (1862-1962), is an organization dedicated to preserving the history of Los Angeles' earliest settlers.
Type	text
Physical Description	[7] p. ; 29 cm
Institution	Department of Archives & Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University
Collection Identifier	http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6v19r77t
Project note	Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	Public Domain
Copyright Statement	Materials in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Language	eng
Subject (Name)	Dockweiler Sooy, Mary; Dockweiler, Isidore B. (Isidore Bernard), 1867-1947; Dockweiler Family;
Subject (Place)	Los Angeles (Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Families--California--Los Angeles; Households--California--Los Angeles; Families--Religious life--California--Los Angeles; Family recreation--California--Los Angeles; Families--Religious aspects--Catholic Church;
Form/Genre	Manuscripts;
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number	CSLA-12: Dockweiler Family Collection, Series 1: Family Members, Box 8, folder 18

Identifier	CLLOY_230_PAGE001
Title	CLLOY_230_PAGE001
Project note	Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php
Transcription	1 MEMORIES - WORD PICTURES TENDER ONES AND PRECIOUS ONES - SOME BROUGHT TO US BY OUR GRAND- PARENTS, UNCLES, AUNTS AND COUSINS - THEIR HOMES WERE FILLED WITH OLD COUNTRY FURNISHINGS, SOME CAME AROUND THE HORN - THIS ENVIRONMENT BROUGHT QUESTIONS, HENCE ANSWERS. IT WAS EXCITING, AS WELL AS INFORMATIVE - THE WORLD GLOBE IN FATHER'S LIBRARY WAS CONSTANTLY REFERRED TO - OUR FIRST LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. GRANDMOTHER DOCKWEILER MANY TIMES RELATED HOW SHE WOULD LEAVE THREE-YEAR LD "ISIDORE" AT THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY HOME ON MACY STREET WHILE SHE DID HER SHOPPING - PERHAPS THIS IS THE FIRST OFFICIAL RECORD OF "BABY SITTING" IN LOS ANGELES. THESE DEDICATED DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY ARRIVED HERE IN 1856. IN LATER YEARS OUR FATHER WAS TO MEET OUR MOTHER AT AN ANNUAL FAIR GIVEN BY THESE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY IN BOYLE HEIGHTS. MARY FOY, OUR BELOVED FOUNDER OF THE FIRST CENTURY FAMILIES, WAS TOLD TO INTRODUCE A YOUNG ENGLISH GIRL, GERTRUDE REEVE, TO HER FRIENDS - OUR FATHER WAS ONE OF THEM - THEIR ROMANCE BLOSSOMED THERE. LITTLE DID THEY KNOW, [written in pencil above line: their] THIS OFFSPRING WOULD NUMBER ELEVEN. TODAY A TABLE IS OCCUPIED BY SOME DAUGHTERS OF CHAIRYT - IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR BELOVED PARENTS - AND THE CON- TINUED DEVOTION OF OUR FAMILY TO THE VINCENTIAN ORDER. VERY EARLY MOTHER TAUGHT ROSARIO AND ME TO SEW - DOLLS WERE DRESSED FOR THE ORPHANAGE - WHAT A JOY IT WAS TO GIVE THESE -1-

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