Eleanor Castle

 

Eleanor Castle Downing was my fathers mom. She was born in Late February the 23rd or 24th 1905. The Ogdensburg State St Lawrence Democrat ran a small line” A baby girl was born to Mr & Mrs Lute Castle Saturday night”. Her mother Sarah Had been born in Ireland. When Eleanor was a young girl she played piano. She left home at 17 to continue Nursing Training, traveling from Norfolk to Brooklyn with her older sister Fannie. Two years later they both “received black arm bands making them charges of their wards”. On Feb 14, 1926 a week shy of her 21st birthday she married my grandfather Lawrence. She had two children the year she turned 22. My Dad and his Sister Gloria. Richard followed three years later. On this day in 1934 she passed away, most likely pneumonia. She was 29.