PUFFER, Marjorie^[1]

1912 - 1999  (87 years)

• Name	PUFFER, Marjorie
  Birth	30 Aug 1912	Needham, MA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  FindaGrave	FindAGrave Memorial 71386699
  _COLOR	11
  Death	28 Oct 1999	McMinnville, OR   [2]
  Burial	Berlin, MA
  	Address: South Berlin Cemetery
  Person ID	I33014	Puffers
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	PUFFER, Rev. Joseph Adams,   b. CA 1872, ME d. 29 Jul 1958, Berlin, MA (Age 86 years)
  Mother	RICE, Emily Hope,   b. 5 Jan 1874, Berlin, MA d. 17 Nov 1962, Washington, DC (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	1 Oct 1903	Boston, MA   [1, 3]
  Residence	1950	Berlin, MA   [4]
  Family ID	F10808	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	FIELD, Harris Goodwin,   b. 27 Sep 1897, Northfield, VT d. 25 Sep 1982, Corvallis, OR (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	19 Sep 1931	Berlin, MA   [5]
  Residence	1940	Berlin, MA   [6]
  Residence	1950	Berlin, MA   [4]
  Children	1. FIELD, Robert Goodwin,   b. 1932, Clinton, MA d. 30 Dec 1972, Boston, MA (Age 40 years)   2. FIELD, Richard Willis,   b. 21 Apr 1934, Berlin, MA d. 9 Dec 2010, Astoria, OR (Age 76 years)   3. FIELD, Jonathan Seth,   b. 13 Jul 1938, Clinton, MA d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F11103	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  From the autobiography of Marjorie Puffer Field: "On the way home from my high school senior reception, Harris asked me if I would accept a diamond on my 18th birthday.  What a thrill!  Oh, how could I wait until August 30th and keep it a secret.  It was just as well that I was leaving the next morning for Eagle Camp.  Those ten weeks would seem endless to me now.  For high school graduation he had given me a beautiful, silver necklace with some family, Egyptian scarabs for a present.  My one request, and a hard one for him, was to tell my parents before he gave me the diamond.  I knew they were not going to approve of our engagement.   Harris gave me my diamond ring as we sat on the rocks beside Lake Champlain on August 30, 1930. What a tempest was stirred up when I came home wearing that ring.  My two maiden aunts, Fran and Lucy, were my main stays in those hard days.  They highly approved of Harris and finally convinced Mother to accept the fact that I was grown up and not the student that my sisters were. Even Aunt Lucy told me she wished she were younger so she could try for Harris, as she liked him so much.  Grandpa Rice knew Harris before his death in 1927 and thought he was a fine young man.  To me, Harris was as near as fine a man as my grandfather, who always was my idol." She was town clerk for Berlin and later worked as assistant town clerk for 23 years, in an office in her home. She moved to West Newbury, Mass., in 1968. In 1982, she moved first to Corvallis and then to McMinnville.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 325. [S807] US Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. [S638] Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine, page 478. [S1403] _1950 United States Federal Census. [S541] Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915. [S437] _1940 United States Federal Census.