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Nellie A Riley Fenton

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Birth	:	1874
Death	:	1957
Burial	:	Calvary Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Lincoln, Lancaster County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.8119011, -96.6639023
Description	:	Memories of her mother, Nellie Fenton from her daughter, Florence: Mom had always had a full head of heavy dark brown hair which must have been a chore to shampoo and style. When bobbed hair came into style she welcomed it and perhaps at the urging of the older girls, she had her hair cut. When I saw it, I was furious as she did not seem to be the Mom I knew. She still had some of those dark hairs all her life. Mom was so proud of her family and took excellent care of all of us. White long... Read More	Memories of her mother, Nellie Fenton from her daughter, Florence: Mom had always had a full head of heavy dark brown hair which must have been a chore to shampoo and style. When bobbed hair came into style she welcomed it and perhaps at the urging of the older girls, she had her hair cut. When I saw it, I was furious as she did not seem to be the Mom I knew. She still had some of those dark hairs all her life. Mom was so proud of her family and took excellent care of all of us. White long stockings were worn by all the young school girls, so Mom washed them daily at night so we would never appear in soiled ones. Moms side of the family, Mary Riley, also lived in Connecticut. It was there she met and married Dan Riley and they moved to Dawson, Nebraska. They had twin girls, one died in infancy and the other was Anna Marie, who died right after Mom was born. Their father died when Mom was just a couple of years old, at which time he left Mom a couple of thousand dollars. Mom was happy living in Dawson with her mother, but when she was probably about 8-10 years old, her widowed mother married Goode. Mom went to live with her Dads brother (David) and Pops sister, Mary Ann Fenton Riley. She loved them and helped Aunt Mary Ann with housework and their babies (this was Father John Keans family). A bit later our Dad was in Omaha, where he apprenticed to learn pharmacy and he lived in the back room of the drug store. Later, when he learned as much about the pharmacy business he needed, he returned to Dawson. Mom and he had become fond of each other and planned to marry. Mom invested her money by building a drug store downstairs with an apartment upstairs. This completed and the first Fenton Drug Company opened. On a visit from her mother, Mom told her that she just had not been feeling well early in the day. Guess what!! She was pregnant. She must not have minded too much as she repeated that performance 11 more times (plus one pregnancy outside the womb for which she went to Omaha as there was no local doctor to take care of it). They lived above the Fenton Drug Store until 1906, during which time they had six children. The apartment was getting too small; the profits from a small town drug store were inadequate. Pop and his father, Jerry, drove a wagon to Haddam, Kansas. They took ownership of farmland there, slept in a tent, planted a crop (probably corn or wheat), and built a house. They returned to Dawson and brought the family back to the house in Haddam. They remained there until the spring of about 1917. Mary and Katherine were at boarding school with the Sisters (Order of Sr. Aquinas, our cousin) and older children were requiring higher education not available nearby. Mom and Pop decided to move to Lincoln (where Uncle Will was warden at the state penitentiary) where he bought the store at 19th and O streets. From the mother store, there were many others in Lincoln over the years. I once told Mom I didnt imagine she was too happy when #9 showed up. She assured me that #12 was as warmly welcomed as #1. Mom was a soft, gentle lady. I once asked her how come she never screamed and hollered at us as other mothers did. She said she decided she had to control herself first, or go crazy. Since higher education was not available to her at a young age, when the rest of us were in school, she read books she ordered with her money.

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Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Robert E Fenton

(1871 - 1953)

Siblings

Anna Marie Riley

(1872 - 1876)

Charles Francis Goode

(1883 - 1977)

Martha E. Goode Grafton

(1885 - 1970)

Bertha Doris “Claire” Goode Greiner

(1890 - 1954)

Children

Jerry H Fenton

(1896 - 1930)

Daniel Aleysius “Dan” Fenton

(1897 - 1952)

Sr Madeleva Fenton

(1899 - 1976)

Kathryn Fenton Collins

(1901 - 1992)

Helen Clare Fenton Calcaterra

(1902 - 1985)

Francis Clement Fenton

(1906 - 1940)

Loretta C. “Lettie” Fenton

(1912 - 1997)

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