Mary Cornelia Letts

1920 - 1957  (36 years)

• Name	Mary Cornelia Letts
  Birth	2 Dec 1920	Pleasant Township, Steuben County, Indiana   [1, 2]
  	Daughter of George Leman Letts and Anna Henrietta Steva
  Gender	Female
  Census	6 Apr 1950	224 N Wheaton Avenue, Wheaton, DuPage County, Illinois   [3]
  	Daniel C Mabee, Head, White, Male, 32, Married, born in Illinois, Furniture Buyer, Retail Store, parents born in US, completed 4 years college, worked 52 weeks in 1949 earning $6500, WWII veteran, married 6 years Mary L Mabee, Wife, White, Female, 29, Married, born in Indiana Mark B Mabee, Son, White, Male, 4, never married, born in Illinois Marda L Mabee, Daughter, White, Female, 1, never married, born in Illinois
  Anecdote	In high school, she [Mary Cornelia Letts] became the steady "girl friend" of one Daniel C. Mabee, whose father was a lawyer in Chicago and a member of the York Community High School board. It is probable that the temporary estrangement between Dan and Mary occurred when Dan's father was still on the school board in 1942 and George left that school under not altogether pleasant circumstances. At the time, Mary was a student at the University of Ohio (Miami), where she had met one Howard Baker. Mary and Howard were married in June 1942 at Elmhurst, Illinois. The marriage was not successful and Mary divorced Howard in 1943. She then married Daniel Mabee, who seems to have been almost saintlike in his patience and understanding. The story of their marriage and their offspring, Mark and Marda, should be told by the last named and by my brother Louis. Mary died in February 1957 in Lima, Peru, to which exotic city Dan had been sent by his employer, Sears, Roebuck & Company. Mary died of bulbar polio after an illness of only two or three days. It was a tragic irony that she should have contracted the disease: some months earlier the entire family had visited the United States, and while here Mary had insisted that Dan and the two children receive immunization shots for polio; unfortunately her own appointment to receive such a shot conflicted with a scheduled reunion party of Mary's high school friends. Mary thereby missed the immunization which might have saved her life.
  Reference Number	20360
  Death	27 Mar 1957	Clinica Anglo Americana, San Isidro, Lima Province, Peru   [1, 5]
  Person ID	I20251	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Captain Daniel Claxton Mabee,   b. 24 Jun 1917, Noble, Richland County, Illinois d. 2 Dec 2008, Hot Springs Village, Garland County, Arkansas (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	1944  [6, 7]
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F5825	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974. [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, Indiana, Birth Certificates, 1907-1940. [S526] 1950 United States Census; Url: https://1950census.archives.gov/, Wheaton, DuPage, Illinois, ED 22-146, Dwelling 108. [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, Public Member Trees, Ira Pearson's Family Tree. Excerpted from "Family Research, Stories, Lore and Reminiscences", written by Mary's half-brother, Dale Allen Letts, and provided to me by Dale's daughter, Sarah Atherton Letts. [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, Lima, Peru, Civil Registration, 1874-1996. [S10] Royal A. Mabee, Royal A Mabee's notebook. [S526] 1950 United States Census; Url: https://1950census.archives.gov/, Wheaton, DuPage, Illinois, USA, ED 22-146, Dwelling 108.