MARY ELLEN CAVETT WALDROUPE

Monday, March 19, 2007

Mary Ellen Cavett Waldroupe, age 101, former resident of the Hiattville area, died early Sunday, March 18, 2007, at the home of a niece in Valley Center. She was born April 11, 1905, in Pawnee, Oklahoma the daughter of James Franklin Cavett and Goldie Ethel Haga Cavett. As a youth she traveled with her family across the country in a covered wagon. She slept under the wagon in a rolled up blanket. She and her siblings helped with the family farm living in a sod hut with dirt floors. During WWII she worked as a "Rosie the Riveter" in California.

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