Places
A place she lived with beach access
What is Pratt Street?
Job she did that involved administrative work
300 pt Bonus: Company on Higgins, east of Harlem where she worked?
What is a secretary?
What is U.S. Cap & Closure
(favorite product: Magic Shell Icecream topping)
Two activities that can be done simultaneously. One activity involves markers & colored pencils.
What is watching tv and coloring?
Favorite kind of music.
Bonus: name a band or singer from this genre
What is Irish music?
Mom's middle name; and the person whose first name is the same as her middle name.
What is Catherine? And, who is her mother?
A place she lived in her 20s as an independent young woman.
100 pt Bonus: Person she lived with
What is San Francisco?
Who is Fran Tucker?
High School she attended.
What is St. Mary's?
A game that involves tiles.
100 pt Bonus: what coin is most commonly used as a marker
What are Dominos?
What is a penny?
A store at Six Corners with a candy counter.
100 pt Bonus: candy most frequently purchased at the candy counter
100 pt Bonus: family member who worked at this store & department
What is Sears?
What is Bridge Mix?
Who is Carol Heneghan?
A flower that grows well in full sun, produces many seeds and is a member of the sunflower family.
What are marigolds?
A campground in Beloit, Illinois where the family frequently camped.
What is Turtle Creek Campground?
A method for writing notes to herself that no one else in the family could read.
What is shorthand?
A favorite lifelong hobby that can be undertaken at church, at home or in a pub.
100 pt Bonus: What is a favorite song about the moon?
What is singing?
What is "I see the moon and the moon sees me"?
A trusted medical professional whose word was highly respected.
Who is Dr. Gregory White?
Bridesmaids at her wedding
Who are Fran, Mary Ellen & Kathy?
Street she grew up on as a young child
What is Keeler Avenue?
A skill taught by teachers in the 1940s and 50s forced upon all children despite their dominant hand.
200 pt Bonus: method of this discipline
What is cursive handwriting?
What is Palmer Method?
An old-fashioned candy that has a medicinal background.
What is black licorice?
A shoestore on Irving Park Road where she took the kids for shoes.
What is Adams Shoe Factory?
A special under-the-bed item that was left to Bob and Kathleen when they bought the house on Rutherford
What is an emergency espace ladder?
Place of her father's birth and year he came to United States. Bonus - his occupation.
What is County Limrick, Ireland? What is 1927?
What is elevator operator?
Fun fact: arrived in NYC on vessel Ascanis from Queenstown, Ireland. Lived in Dublin before passage.
Two nursing homes where she worked as a Nursing Aide
What is the Resurrection Retirement Center and the Baptist Home?
An unusual scent for perfume, but she would love it if someone would bottle the scent.
What is gasoline?
A food that can be used as pie filling, but often unpopular.
What is rhubard?
Names of mom's parent & spelling of their names.
300 pt Bonus - year they were married.
Maurice O'Regan & Catherine Ryan O'Regan
What is 1933?