Margaret Roberta PRICE

1916 - 1997  (80 years)

• Name	Margaret Roberta PRICE
  Born	23 Jun 1916	Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Gender	Female
  Died	9 Feb 1997	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
  Person ID	I16190	Patterson & Markham Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Harold Woodford PRICE,   b. 1 Feb 1885, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States ,   d. Sep 1977, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States  (Age 92 years)
  Mother	Jessie Philomena JACQUES,   b. 22 Jul 1888, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 17 Mar 1970, Greenport, Suffolk, New York, United States  (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F6006	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. James Frederick DROSTE   2. Robert Harold DROSTE   3. Anne Louise DROSTE   4. Richard Conrad DROSTE,   b. 23 Oct 1951, Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey, United States ,   d. 16 Jul 1953, Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey, United States  (Age 1 years)
  Family ID	F6015	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  My mother's name was given, in different documents, as Alberta, Roberta, Ruberta, and Rubertha. Roberta was the name intended by her parents, and the name she always claimed as her own. Mom was not buried, but creamated. Do not have a date. Her remains were entered in the family niche after we held the memorial service on 19 July 1997. Ashes put in Rosehill Crematory and Cemetery, Route 25, Linden, NJ, with the ashes of her son, Richard, her husband, and he parents-in-law. Baptismal proxy was Alexa Marie Droste, granddaughter. Baptism performed by James Frederick Droste, son. This happened during Alexa's second branch youth temple trip. Proxy for initiatory and endowment was Mary Dellie Williamson Droste, daughter-in-law. When Mary went into the initiatory area, her eyes were immediately filled with tears, and the initiatory workers' eyes were similarly filled. At the end, one of the sisters noted "that was a special experience." Mary was convinced that Margaret accepted at least some of the work done for her in the temple that day. When I was going thru for Frederick Robert -- Margaret's husband, it occured to me that she, Margaret, wanted very much to be sealed to Richard, her son who died in childhood. She was separated from him for forty four years, and fiercely wanted to avoid any further separation. I had explained, years ago, that someone would need to be his mother in the resurrection, because he never developed beyond 22 months of age, and the day she died I knew she was spending the whole day without letting him go. I don't know how much reservation there might be in her mind about accepting the work done for her in the temple, but she has accepted some. For sure she accepted being with her lost baby.