Bertha Elsie Stanford McNabb
#M5 STANFORD, Bertha Elsie
Born: 22 Jun 1873 LaSalle, LaSalle, Illinois
Died: 22 Feb 1905 Garner, Hancock, Iowa
Father: Russell Elliott STANFORD #M10 (11 Oct
1842-?)
Mother: Mary HUTCHINSON #M11 (abt 1845-abt 1918)
Married: 1 Feb 1900 Forrest, Livingston, Illinois to George Daniel MCNABB #M4. They had four children.
Children:
1. (M) John Willard MCNABB (22 Sep 1900-29 May 1939.)
2. (F) Lila Marie MCNABB (30 Jan 1902-18 Jan 1913.)
3. (M) *Donald Oliver MCNABB #M2 (17 Sep 1903-1 Nov
1939), m 29 Nov 1928 to Elsie Gladys LUNDQUIST #M3 in Salt
Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
4. (M) George Stanford MCNABB (11 Feb 1905-5 Sep 1926.)
*Direct line to Frances M. Gray
Biography. The following information is taken from Life and Letters of Donald Oliver McNabb (1997) by Wallace F. Gray. Page numbers refer to that book.
Little is known about Bertha. She died when her son Donald was only a year and five months old. Her death was due to complications following giving birth to her son George. Her step-daughter Reva McNabb said death was diagnosed as blood poisoning (Pages 303-304.). A trust set up in her name by her father was planned to go to her four children when they reached age 21. Since the daughter, Lila, passed away at age 11, the money went to the three boys, John, Donald and George. Some of the trust was used earlier to assist Hattie Jolliffe McNabb, George Daniel McNabb's second wife. George Daniel was away from home frequently and the money was used to help support Donald and George who were living at home with Hattie. (Page 14.)
In an unedited letter to his future wife Elsie Gladys Lundquist, Don wrote the following about his mother on Mother's Day, May 13, 1928, from Jewell, Iowa: "I wore a white carnation today and on the other lapel, a little red rose. I wore the white for the little mother I never remember seeing and the red rose for the sweetheart,sister, pal, friend in need and mother that you are to me. This day is a very tender one to me, one that stirs up memories that sad and joyous combined. They are the foundation for the slender string of ideals that I have held on through thick and thin. I some times believe that mother--although she is gone has always influenced me to remain the gentleman in everything I do. I know she was a lady and to be a gentleman is the least I can do for her memory. Now the day is something new for I have you to ally yourself with mothers influence to make a real honest to goodness man out of me." (Page 263.)
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