2320. Ruth Diament Hollingsworth
Ruth was a graduate nurse and from the time I can remember she was a wonderful housewife, caring for her husband and children.
Aunt Ruth was a very soft spoken, very tall and thin, always lady like proper woman.
Kent County News, Feb. 28? 1968
Thomas Bryan Wood, 71, died Thursday at his home in Galena after a short illness. Death was attributed to a heart attack, the family said.
Mr. Wood, a native of Galena, was a retired superintendant for the Western Electric Co., in Baltimore. He was a member of the Galena Volunteer Fire Company and the Galena Lions Club, and a life member of the Waverly Masonic Lodge, No. 152, AF & AM of Baltimore.
His wife, Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth Wood, died in 1967.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Nancy J. Shipley of Baltimore, a brother, William W. of Galena; two sisters, Mrs. Frances Simmons of Largo FL, and Mrs. Abbie Pierce of Ridgely, and two grandchildren.
Graveside services were held Saturday morning at 11 in Galena Cemetary. The Rev. Charles Huffman and the Rev. Henry Caldwell officiated at the service.1930 Baltimore 16-WD (all b.MD)
WOOD, Thomas B. 32 m@28yrs. foreman/electrical
Ruth 30 m@26yrs.
Corner, Laura 50 boarder b.Canada seamstress
2660. Barbara Jean Wood
Barbara only lived to be a 23 year old woman. She was a very sweet girl, I never really did understand her illness. I spent many enjoyable visit with Barbara and her sister Nancy at their parent's summer home on the Magothy River, Severna Park, Maryland.
Their home was next door to Aunt Ella's (Ella Hollingsworth Crafton) summer home and would visit back and forth all the time during the day and spend time on their beach and dock.
Barbara died in Sept 1954 and the funeral was conducted at the Harry Witzke Funeral Home on Route 40 , which at that time was Edmonton Avenue. She is buried in Galena with her mother and father, I use to visit their graves once in awhile when I was traveling there as a salesman.
Baltimore Sun, Thusday July 29, 1954 pg.24
Wood.__On July 28, 1954, Barbara E. Wood, of 420 Denison St., beloved daughter of Thomas B. and Ruth Wood (nee Hollingsworth).
Funeral services will be held at the Home of Harry H. Witzke, 4101 Edmondson Ave, of which due notice will be given.Barbara died from surgery complications for bilateral ovarian cysts, St. Agnes Hospital. Morphine Idiosyncrasy - 4hrs. 15 min.
Address: 420 Denison Street
2321. Ella Shimp Diament Hollingsworth
Ella was a wonderful lady, and a graduate nurse, I have very fond memories of my visits with her. Before I was old enough to drive and have my own car, I would ride my bike to see her. She was always so nice to me and her brother, my father James.
Her husband James B. Crafton Jr. (I never knew his father Sr.), his mother and their son Richard were always the opposite. Being nice to us was not in their vocabulary, and they never failed to express their dislike for the Hollingsworth side of the family. Uncle Dick would even go as far as to rush into his bedroom and stay there until our visit had ended.
I always thought even as a child what strange people my "Uncle Dick" and his mother were. After Aunt Ella died I tried to keep in contact with my Uncle Dick, but I found out after his death from his daughter in law, he miss took that as a ploy to get some of the Crafton or maybe Hollingsworth valuables.
My grandfather Thomas Nicholas Hollingsworth Jr. was a glass blower and I remember a china closet filled with glass items he had made. Many I was told were made during his breaks and lunch time. Funny how you remember things told you as a child. He put in his will that I was not to recieve anything from the house etc. He was distant until his death and little did he know I wasn't looking for a damn thing.
What is really sad, there was an entire room filled with my grandparents things that were taken from the house in Westport after their death. My Aunt Ella would take me in there as a child and show me things that belong to her mother and father and tell me about them. There was hardly room to move around in the space, I remember many, many boxes , one thing that stands out in my memory is my grandfather's black high hat. My would I love to root through that room now just for fun, imagine the family memorabilia to be found.
During the Second World War when we were "down the shore", every time an airplane flew over I wondered if it was Aunt Ella's son Richard. I think he was in the Air Force, at least that is what I always thought.
I will never forget observing how Richard treated his mother without respect. One time I was in the kitchen with her, this must of been the later 1940s. Richard came in demanding she do things such as make their lunch for him and his friends who were going out on his boat for the day. After he rushed out she had tears in her eyes and she said that is how he always treats her. I really felt sorry for her and I lost any respect for Richard I might have had. I always thought after that, he is a chip off the old block.
I wish I had something nice to say about my "Uncle Dick", but I don't. (TJH)
Totally lost contact with the Crafton family after my Aunt Ella's death, I always thought Mary Ellen was a very nice lady. My opinion of her husband, my cousin Richard, was very different.
2324. James Thomas Hollingsworth
Jim graduated from Westport #225 and attended Baltimore Poly but had to quit school because of the terrible depression years, he went on to work in the same glass factory as his father. Jim spent a few years there as a grinder fitting glass tops on bottles and doing some engraving on the bottles, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
After automation kicked in the industry Jim found himself out of a job and with very little training in any other field. During the Second World War Jim worked at Revere Copper and Brass Company. In the early fifties Jim and his son Tom moved to 2013 Bolton Street, at North Avenue, Jim was working at various jobs at this point in his life struggling to make ends meet. He eventually went to work in the protection department of the Federal Reserve Bank, spending many years until his retirement.
After retirement Jim left Baltimore and settled on the Eastern Shore near Snow Hill, Maryland. He spent a few happy years there and when his health started to fail, he moved back across the Chesapeake Bay bridge to Laurel, Maryland.
James only had one functional lung and after many years of illness because of that died of lung complications.
James's funeral was held at the Fleck Funeral Home in Laurel and his body was cremated at the Baltimore/Washington Crematory.
Robin Kearney says, "Although I do not remember Emma as she died when I was two, everyone who talked about her just loved her. Even my father loved his mother-in-law.
She would "come down from the city", and spend time with my mom and dad when Mom was pregnant with my older sister. Mom said they would sit around and play cards for hours. In those days my dad was a volunteer fireman in Rivieria Beach and when the siren rang Emma insisted on going with him.
Even Mom's cousins who are only 5-10 years older than me would remark how much fun she was. Her famous line was when they were kidding her she would lament "Im packing my drawers and going home." End of quote.
Shortly after her son Thomas was born she went in the hospital with TB. Annette stayed for almost 12 years at Mount Wilson Hospital in Baltimore County where she met and married Hugh Freeman. Hugh owned the Pikesville Cab Company for many years before selling the business and settling down to their country home near Boring, Maryland.
Neither Annette or Tom's grandmother Myrtle would ever tell why Annette had the attitude she did or whatever happen between her and Tom's father. What ever it was they both took it to the grave with them.
Annette and son Tom's relationship was a strange one their entire lives, she never bonding with her son and Tom not knowing how to react to her indifference to him and his family. The strangest thing was the fact she hid her entire life the fact she had a son from friends and co-workers. Annette took her granddaughter Andrea to a dinner in Little Italy when Andrea was a small child and introduced her as a "friend". This hurt Andrea even at her young age, and she never could understand it, neither could I. (TJH)
Annette had a wonderful sense of humor and was very deicated to her Catholic religion, always making sure a certain percentage of her income was donated to the church.
Shortly after marrying James, he and Marion sent Tom to live with her parents in Dayton, Ohio. After living in Ohio for a short time the family moved to Byesville, Ohio. Marion's parents were always very nice to Tom, and Tom lived with the Martin family until Marion and James divorced, then Tom's father came and got him and took him back to Baltimore. The Martins lived on a farm and that was fun for a young boy. Tom remembers Marion and her younger sister as very beautiful women.
Agnes Hollingsworth, 84, of Columbia, Md., was at "death's door" with cardiomyopathy and end-stage heart failure when she came to Hopkins in October 1999. "She was terribly short of breath, and large volumes of fluid had accumulated in her lungs. Her heart simply wasn’t working," says her cardiologist, Ronald Berger, M.D., Ph.D.
But when Berger implanted a pacemaker in Hollingsworth's heart, she began a dramatic turnaround. "My lips and face got color, my eyes unglazed, I was able to eat and walk up and down steps," Hollingsworth says. "Within a week, I stopped using my walker."
Originally used to fix electrical abnormalities in people with slow heart rhythms, Berger and cardiologist David Kass, M.D., are finding that the pacemaker can successfully resynchronize weak and struggling hearts in heart failure patients whose only treatment options typically have been drugs or surgery. In a recent study by the two specialists of 22 heart failure patients, Berger and Kass found that attaching a pacing wire to the left ventricle improved the heart’s ability to contract and pump out blood by an average of 35 percent. (In the conventional pacemaker, the wire is attached to the right ventricle.) Patients whose hearts had the largest amount of timing discord, whose hearts were often the weakest, benefited the most from a pacemaker.
"The problem we set out to solve was determining which heart failure patients would respond best to pacemakers," Kass says, since 400,000 new cases of the problem are diagnosed each year in this country. "The devices are expensive and permanent, and the patients are so sick we can’t afford to waste time."
Because Hollingsworth responded well to an electrode placed on her left ventricle, Berger implanted a pacemaker under her collarbone and threaded a wire from the battery through veins to the surface of the ventricle. This electrode anticipates within 120 milliseconds when a heartbeat is about to start, and stimulates the region. Rather than wobbling and struggling to send blood out of the body because of a delay in contraction, Hollingsworth's heart, according to her pulse pressure, began to pump efficiently. And it’s been doing so for the past year.
"Today, I'm doing everything a person can possibly do -- travel, go out to lunch, go to the movies," Hollingsworth says. "My life has really started over again."
2331. Thomas Hollingsworth
Thomas served in WW2 in the South Pacific like his brother James.
2335. Lorenzo J. Montreuil
Born 1876.03.31 and baptized the same day. Christened : Joseph Jacques Charles Lorenzo MONTREUIL Died: 1941.01.01 - Massive Heart Attack Signed hs name "Lorenzo J. Montreuil" Married: [Anna BRODEUR] - 1905 - Webster, MASS, USA Medical Doctor In Quebec City
Otolarygnologist [Eyes/Ears/Nose/Throat]
Treated Fransiscan Order Monks In Quebec City
And was paid in wine as the monks had taken an oath of poverty and had no money
During the 1929..1940 Depression
Was often paid in chickens, flour, or other goods
Born 1886.06.29 - U.S.A. Died: 1959.08.03 - Cancer - Quebec City, QC. CA. Married: [Lorenzo MONTREUIL] - 1905 - Webster, MASS, USA Concert Pianist
Loved CHOPIN Piano Pieces
Studied Numerology and Palmistry and was condemned by the Catholic Church for this interest Authored Books:
Dumbell
Three Came With Gifts
2336. George Washington Montreuil Montroy
Jean, Jean Baptiste, Michel, Jean Baptiste, Jean Baptiste and the last Jean Baptiste the father of your WILLIAM. Some of the bits!!!!! you may find interesting. I am tickled pink to find our ancestors were the first in Randolph Territory where Illinois began.
Harry said one time that my gggrandfather was a teacher and that he had a picture of him (George Washington Montroy) I sure would love to have a copy,,have not talked to him before I left Farmington, do not have his email address to ask for a copy...later Cousin Corinne (Chapman April 2007)