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- Mary Frances ‘May or Mayme’ Coy was the 5th child born to Leverett David and Frances Jane (Ennis) Coy. Auntie May or Mamye was the youngest child of the family. She grew up in the family home in the Latona district at 4218 Latona Ave. North (near the inter-section of NE 8th Ave. and 45th Ave. NE, which is still there, but is in sad need of repair, A picture of the house is in Mayme's scrap book. After her father, Leverett, who died in 1913, she helped her mother with cooking and housekeeping for roomers and boarders they took in during World War I. Mayme met Howard Anderson Barber in an 'over the back fence' romance, as he lived at a boarding house just behind their home. Her sister, Clara, met her husband, Thomas Myer Reeder over the same fence. Auntie May helped her mother, Frances Jane (Frank) Ennis also at her job as a cook at the Latona Elementary School, built in 1917, at 40th NE, 42nd Ave., Seattle, Washington, which is still in use after many years, but is possibly doomed to be torn down eventually. (1997) This account was contributed by Mary Phyliss 'Phyliss' (Reeder) Fletcher -- March 1978. See ‘Ennis History’, privately pbulished by Jean Agnes (Ferguson) Smith, 1979, pages 97, 106-107 for biography, and page 107 for picture of both Auntie May and Uncle Howard. Also those same pictures of Mayme and Howard are in their scrap books. OBITUARY OF MARY F. (COY) BARBER 83, February 26, 1985. Beloved aunt of Jean Rabak, Phyllis Fletcher, Ruth Mehner, Grace Bastine, all of Seattle; Helen Tettemore, California; David Coy, Mountlake Terrace and Don Coy, of Seattle. Services Saturday, 1 p. m., at the downtown Trinity Episcopal Church, 8th and James. EVERGREEN-WASHELLI FUNERAL HOME
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