Born in ambulance on way to hospital.
Died at home in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California.
What can I say about my Mom...... So - so many memories!
Mom and I lived together the last 5 years of her life. At first she didn't mind when I spent the night elsewhere, Then the last few years she didn't want me going anywhere except to work and home. When Dave and I went on vacation, Marlene, her granddaughter, stayed with her.
Each day when I went to work Mom would get up before me and fix my ice tea to take to work and get me up! Then she would stand at the window and wave good-bye to me with sad little puppy dog eyes. She'd then get dressed and run the wheels off her car. She hardly stayed home, even if she wasn't feeling well. During the day she would pick up Diane and they'd run everywhere, at night she would go visit her kids or grandkids, I used to chew her out all the time for going out running around at night. She was such a target for car jacker's, purse snatchers.... but she survived her senior years without those type of things happening to her.
We all paint a picture of our parents and they should all be goodie-goodies, well.....
Mom never dated much after the divorce, if she did it was before my memory. So it was hard of me to think of Mom being anything but a Mom and taking care of all of us. But, she did love a good joke, and it didn't matter to her if it was 'dirty'. One funny thing I remember is for Bub and Pats first anniversary, they went to a "strip club" in Hollywood and Mom went with them. I never did ask her about it..... now I wonder.
My first husband and I took Mom to Bush Gardens one year in Southern California when we visited her down there. They had a display of penguins and from that day forward Mom loved penguins. From then on, we all bought her penguins, decorated cakes with them. Her first penguin was a candle that I had hand made for her when I lived in Idaho, it was for Christmas in 1973 or 1974. The last few years of her life I was begging everyone to quit buying her penguins because I had to clean them! Prior to that, she often paid her granddaughters to come over and 'dust' the babies.
On one trip from Idaho to Modesto we decided to take Mom back to Idaho with us. We had to go through Reno and stopped. Mom had a blast with the slot machines. It is still strange for me to think of Mom doing that. On that trip to Idaho we took Mom camping, another strange thing for me to see my Mom doing. It must have been around 1975 or so. Mom loved it, she walked around all day picking wild flowers and making a bouquet, and hiking with us through some old abandoned houses..... She loved it.
Mom loved playing cards or games, I grew up playing whatever she could talk me into playing with her. Her most favorite game we called 'Dummy Rummy' and we all learned around the time Bub and Pat got married in 1965. Of course we had to play for money, every game had to be played for money at our house! As soon as the great grandchildren could walk they learned to play cards with Mom. She carried her coin purse and cards with her everywhere, along with a baggie of treats, right up until the time she died. Same with crossword puzzles, I must have 5 or 6 different crossword puzzle dictionaries of hers. She had to do the one in the newspaper, then she would buy the Globe or one of those magazines and work on it for a week. Often she would finish it. We used to have contests on the one in the TV Guide to see who could finish it first. Often conversations were around answers in the TV guide crossword! If you didn't play cards with her then you had to rub her back or scratch her head!
Mom often worked two jobs at once just to keep a roof over our heads. She made 99.9% of my clothes until I was in high school. She never did knit or crochet like her mother. I did do a bit of knitting and crocheting, but never could sew a straight line. She often sewed for herself too. She would take an old dress and turn it into something for someone. Often making her own patterns out of newspapers or paper bags. Mom was never into crafts either, not sure where I got that gene from! She could however draw, but she never did anything with it except doodle. I am very jealous that I can't draw a stick man and would love to draw and paint!
Holidays were the favorite time of the year for Mom and she celebrated them all. Easter meant a new dress, new shoes and a hat for me. She couldn't afford stuffed animals for me, but I did get some candy in my basket. One year there was a dozen eggs that didn't get boiled.... I think we had more fun cracking eggs over everyone's head hoping to get an un boiled one! After everyone was grown and married with kids of their own, Mom would fill up one big basket with candy, everyone got a Carmello egg and whatever chocolate she had gathered up for that year. She would go to your house and say "Happy Easter Egg" and you'd get to pick from the basket.
Mom's birthday was the 3rd of July, so our 4ths were always fun. As a child she always made sure she took me to the big firework shows and if it was a good year, I'd get a small box of fireworks. It was hard for Mom to celebrate her birthday as her sister died on that day. But, Mom always made sure that I celebrated it. In her later years she would go to whoever had the most fireworks! One year she took off after we had a show at Bub's house to his daughter Marlene's to be with her and all her partying friends. They put a love seat out on the curb for her so she was comfy.
Halloween always meant a home made costume for me, which for some reason I can't remember one. In Mom's later years she would come to one or all of our houses to pass out candy. Of course she always had goodies for us!
Thanksgiving meant Mom in the kitchen all night the night before and the next day. Mom loved cooking. We always had a feast! After I was married Mom would go to one of the kids houses and could always be found in the kitchen, after she got older she was still in there supervising or doing dishes.
Christmas meant a small tree usually set up on a card table. Lots of cookie and candy making, and everyone got at least one good gift. Often she would save all year to get us something special. I always had a stocking (a real sock) full of fruit and nuts, sometimes a little goodie or toy of some kind. I remember one year, we each got to open a package the night before, Cyndi got a Chatty Cathy doll! I wanted one so bad that Mom and Marlene went out that night to find me one.
After all the kids were grown and families started having their own celebrations at their houses, Mom would come to each and everyone of our homes to see us.
Holidays meant being with family and those you love to Mom and she didn't care if she had to drive all over to be with hers. They also meant that we went to the cemetery to visit Aunt Addie.
No matter where or when, Mom was the first one up to do the dishes, she hated dirty dishes. As she got older that was a sign to me that Mom was really sick and most of the time she would still do them.
She bought cards for all of her loved ones for birthdays, anniversary, easter, christmas, mother and fathers day. Hallmark stock dropped when she passed away!
I have a big problem celebrating holidays since her death. However, my brother, Bub helped me get over that.
All of Mom's grandchildren's friends loved Mom and all called her "Granny".
Mom died at home with all of her children and several of her grandchildren with her.
Children; Marlene; Diane; Guy (Bub); and myself, Wendy; Daughter-in-law, Patricia (Guy's wife), grandchildren; Cynthia, Dawn, Marlene.
While Mom was at the funeral home we stayed with her from opening to closing hours. Somehow we all felt closer to her as long as we were there. Plus we knew she would get lonely without us. The first night as we were leaving, I had a very hard time leaving her and my brother sensed my reluctance. Once in the car he told me that he knew I wouldn't want to leave Mom alone.
When Mom died we buried several things with her - a few cigarettes, matches, her coin purse that she took everywhere with her, it included change and a note from Trista that she wrote her grandma and said "never remove this" (transcribe note) so I didn't.... a deck of cards in case she found some sucker up there to play with her. Dawn made a pillow with all of the great grand kids names on it. I also put in some candy for Mom, she would get on kicks of different candy bars, when she passed away she was into Hershey Hugs & Kisses, so I put a baggie of those along with some M&M's. Mom loved her penguins, so I put a stuffed one that she got the previous Christmas.
She wore one of her colorful blouses, black pants, and a black sweater (with pockets!) that Ted & Cyndi got her the previous Christmas.
Mom never went without kleenex, a cigarette in every pocket, and her bandanna. Normally she wore cotton in her ears. So when it was time to close the casket after the services, I removed the "Mom" necklace that I gave her for mothers day one year, put cotton in her ears and her bandanna on. Others put in photos and mementos.
She wore Red perfume, so I sprayed her with that.... but it wasn't the same smell. I hated the smell of that perfume when she wore it, but how I miss it now.
Mom loved bird of paradise flowers, so we had them incorporated into her casket flowers. Mom had given me a bird of paradise plant the year before for fathers day (she would use any holiday to buy someone a gift) but we never planted it. When I moved across the street after her death we planted it. It doesn't bloom a lot, but 6 years later "Mom" still blooms, usually in Sept..... She has 5 or 6 buds on her now as I write this Sept 1, 2000. Only one year did I have a bloom for her death anniversary and I took it to the cemetery.
We all wrote in the cement (just like kids) that her headstone sits on.....
Modesto Bee Newspaper February 10, 1994.
Madelene A. Nason
July 3, 1915-Feb. 8, 1994
Madelene Adelaide Nason, 78 of Modesto died Tuesday at her home.
Mrs. Nason was a native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Modesto 24 years. She was a homemaker.
She is survived by children, Marlene A. Madderra, Diane E. Snyder, Guy T. Nason III and Wendy L. Olson, all of Modesto; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at Oakdale Memorial Chapel, Oakdale. Burial will follow at Knights Ferry Cemetery, Knights Ferry. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the chapel.
Wendy's correction notes to her Mom's obit... Mom left Canada when she was 8 years old with her Mother, two sisters and one brother. She then lived in San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California.
She worked several different jobs in her lifetime. She was a high school graduate, even had a bit of college. She and Dad were married 18 years and she didn't start working until the divorce.
Daughter of William James Holloway,
and Mary Adelaide Moss Holloway.
Sister to Harold Arnold Holloway
Adelaide Holloway VanWinkle,
and Olive Posivak.
Married to Guy Theodore Nason, Jr
and later divorced.
Mother to Marlene; Diane Snyder; Guy Theodore Nason, III;
and Wendy.
Died at home in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California.
What can I say about my Mom...... So - so many memories!
Mom and I lived together the last 5 years of her life. At first she didn't mind when I spent the night elsewhere, Then the last few years she didn't want me going anywhere except to work and home. When Dave and I went on vacation, Marlene, her granddaughter, stayed with her.
Each day when I went to work Mom would get up before me and fix my ice tea to take to work and get me up! Then she would stand at the window and wave good-bye to me with sad little puppy dog eyes. She'd then get dressed and run the wheels off her car. She hardly stayed home, even if she wasn't feeling well. During the day she would pick up Diane and they'd run everywhere, at night she would go visit her kids or grandkids, I used to chew her out all the time for going out running around at night. She was such a target for car jacker's, purse snatchers.... but she survived her senior years without those type of things happening to her.
We all paint a picture of our parents and they should all be goodie-goodies, well.....
Mom never dated much after the divorce, if she did it was before my memory. So it was hard of me to think of Mom being anything but a Mom and taking care of all of us. But, she did love a good joke, and it didn't matter to her if it was 'dirty'. One funny thing I remember is for Bub and Pats first anniversary, they went to a "strip club" in Hollywood and Mom went with them. I never did ask her about it..... now I wonder.
My first husband and I took Mom to Bush Gardens one year in Southern California when we visited her down there. They had a display of penguins and from that day forward Mom loved penguins. From then on, we all bought her penguins, decorated cakes with them. Her first penguin was a candle that I had hand made for her when I lived in Idaho, it was for Christmas in 1973 or 1974. The last few years of her life I was begging everyone to quit buying her penguins because I had to clean them! Prior to that, she often paid her granddaughters to come over and 'dust' the babies.
On one trip from Idaho to Modesto we decided to take Mom back to Idaho with us. We had to go through Reno and stopped. Mom had a blast with the slot machines. It is still strange for me to think of Mom doing that. On that trip to Idaho we took Mom camping, another strange thing for me to see my Mom doing. It must have been around 1975 or so. Mom loved it, she walked around all day picking wild flowers and making a bouquet, and hiking with us through some old abandoned houses..... She loved it.
Mom loved playing cards or games, I grew up playing whatever she could talk me into playing with her. Her most favorite game we called 'Dummy Rummy' and we all learned around the time Bub and Pat got married in 1965. Of course we had to play for money, every game had to be played for money at our house! As soon as the great grandchildren could walk they learned to play cards with Mom. She carried her coin purse and cards with her everywhere, along with a baggie of treats, right up until the time she died. Same with crossword puzzles, I must have 5 or 6 different crossword puzzle dictionaries of hers. She had to do the one in the newspaper, then she would buy the Globe or one of those magazines and work on it for a week. Often she would finish it. We used to have contests on the one in the TV Guide to see who could finish it first. Often conversations were around answers in the TV guide crossword! If you didn't play cards with her then you had to rub her back or scratch her head!
Mom often worked two jobs at once just to keep a roof over our heads. She made 99.9% of my clothes until I was in high school. She never did knit or crochet like her mother. I did do a bit of knitting and crocheting, but never could sew a straight line. She often sewed for herself too. She would take an old dress and turn it into something for someone. Often making her own patterns out of newspapers or paper bags. Mom was never into crafts either, not sure where I got that gene from! She could however draw, but she never did anything with it except doodle. I am very jealous that I can't draw a stick man and would love to draw and paint!
Holidays were the favorite time of the year for Mom and she celebrated them all. Easter meant a new dress, new shoes and a hat for me. She couldn't afford stuffed animals for me, but I did get some candy in my basket. One year there was a dozen eggs that didn't get boiled.... I think we had more fun cracking eggs over everyone's head hoping to get an un boiled one! After everyone was grown and married with kids of their own, Mom would fill up one big basket with candy, everyone got a Carmello egg and whatever chocolate she had gathered up for that year. She would go to your house and say "Happy Easter Egg" and you'd get to pick from the basket.
Mom's birthday was the 3rd of July, so our 4ths were always fun. As a child she always made sure she took me to the big firework shows and if it was a good year, I'd get a small box of fireworks. It was hard for Mom to celebrate her birthday as her sister died on that day. But, Mom always made sure that I celebrated it. In her later years she would go to whoever had the most fireworks! One year she took off after we had a show at Bub's house to his daughter Marlene's to be with her and all her partying friends. They put a love seat out on the curb for her so she was comfy.
Halloween always meant a home made costume for me, which for some reason I can't remember one. In Mom's later years she would come to one or all of our houses to pass out candy. Of course she always had goodies for us!
Thanksgiving meant Mom in the kitchen all night the night before and the next day. Mom loved cooking. We always had a feast! After I was married Mom would go to one of the kids houses and could always be found in the kitchen, after she got older she was still in there supervising or doing dishes.
Christmas meant a small tree usually set up on a card table. Lots of cookie and candy making, and everyone got at least one good gift. Often she would save all year to get us something special. I always had a stocking (a real sock) full of fruit and nuts, sometimes a little goodie or toy of some kind. I remember one year, we each got to open a package the night before, Cyndi got a Chatty Cathy doll! I wanted one so bad that Mom and Marlene went out that night to find me one.
After all the kids were grown and families started having their own celebrations at their houses, Mom would come to each and everyone of our homes to see us.
Holidays meant being with family and those you love to Mom and she didn't care if she had to drive all over to be with hers. They also meant that we went to the cemetery to visit Aunt Addie.
No matter where or when, Mom was the first one up to do the dishes, she hated dirty dishes. As she got older that was a sign to me that Mom was really sick and most of the time she would still do them.
She bought cards for all of her loved ones for birthdays, anniversary, easter, christmas, mother and fathers day. Hallmark stock dropped when she passed away!
I have a big problem celebrating holidays since her death. However, my brother, Bub helped me get over that.
All of Mom's grandchildren's friends loved Mom and all called her "Granny".
Mom died at home with all of her children and several of her grandchildren with her.
Children; Marlene; Diane; Guy (Bub); and myself, Wendy; Daughter-in-law, Patricia (Guy's wife), grandchildren; Cynthia, Dawn, Marlene.
While Mom was at the funeral home we stayed with her from opening to closing hours. Somehow we all felt closer to her as long as we were there. Plus we knew she would get lonely without us. The first night as we were leaving, I had a very hard time leaving her and my brother sensed my reluctance. Once in the car he told me that he knew I wouldn't want to leave Mom alone.
When Mom died we buried several things with her - a few cigarettes, matches, her coin purse that she took everywhere with her, it included change and a note from Trista that she wrote her grandma and said "never remove this" (transcribe note) so I didn't.... a deck of cards in case she found some sucker up there to play with her. Dawn made a pillow with all of the great grand kids names on it. I also put in some candy for Mom, she would get on kicks of different candy bars, when she passed away she was into Hershey Hugs & Kisses, so I put a baggie of those along with some M&M's. Mom loved her penguins, so I put a stuffed one that she got the previous Christmas.
She wore one of her colorful blouses, black pants, and a black sweater (with pockets!) that Ted & Cyndi got her the previous Christmas.
Mom never went without kleenex, a cigarette in every pocket, and her bandanna. Normally she wore cotton in her ears. So when it was time to close the casket after the services, I removed the "Mom" necklace that I gave her for mothers day one year, put cotton in her ears and her bandanna on. Others put in photos and mementos.
She wore Red perfume, so I sprayed her with that.... but it wasn't the same smell. I hated the smell of that perfume when she wore it, but how I miss it now.
Mom loved bird of paradise flowers, so we had them incorporated into her casket flowers. Mom had given me a bird of paradise plant the year before for fathers day (she would use any holiday to buy someone a gift) but we never planted it. When I moved across the street after her death we planted it. It doesn't bloom a lot, but 6 years later "Mom" still blooms, usually in Sept..... She has 5 or 6 buds on her now as I write this Sept 1, 2000. Only one year did I have a bloom for her death anniversary and I took it to the cemetery.
We all wrote in the cement (just like kids) that her headstone sits on.....
Modesto Bee Newspaper February 10, 1994.
Madelene A. Nason
July 3, 1915-Feb. 8, 1994
Madelene Adelaide Nason, 78 of Modesto died Tuesday at her home.
Mrs. Nason was a native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Modesto 24 years. She was a homemaker.
She is survived by children, Marlene A. Madderra, Diane E. Snyder, Guy T. Nason III and Wendy L. Olson, all of Modesto; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at Oakdale Memorial Chapel, Oakdale. Burial will follow at Knights Ferry Cemetery, Knights Ferry. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the chapel.
Wendy's correction notes to her Mom's obit... Mom left Canada when she was 8 years old with her Mother, two sisters and one brother. She then lived in San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California.
She worked several different jobs in her lifetime. She was a high school graduate, even had a bit of college. She and Dad were married 18 years and she didn't start working until the divorce.
Daughter of William James Holloway,
and Mary Adelaide Moss Holloway.
Sister to Harold Arnold Holloway
Adelaide Holloway VanWinkle,
and Olive Posivak.
Married to Guy Theodore Nason, Jr
and later divorced.
Mother to Marlene; Diane Snyder; Guy Theodore Nason, III;
and Wendy.
Born in ambulance on way to hospital.
Died at home in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California.
What can I say about my Mom...... So - so many memories!
Mom and I lived together the last 5 years of her life. At first she didn't mind when I spent the night elsewhere, Then the last few years she didn't want me going anywhere except to work and home. When Dave and I went on vacation, Marlene, her granddaughter, stayed with her.
Each day when I went to work Mom would get up before me and fix my ice tea to take to work and get me up! Then she would stand at the window and wave good-bye to me with sad little puppy dog eyes. She'd then get dressed and run the wheels off her car. She hardly stayed home, even if she wasn't feeling well. During the day she would pick up Diane and they'd run everywhere, at night she would go visit her kids or grandkids, I used to chew her out all the time for going out running around at night. She was such a target for car jacker's, purse snatchers.... but she survived her senior years without those type of things happening to her.
We all paint a picture of our parents and they should all be goodie-goodies, well.....
Mom never dated much after the divorce, if she did it was before my memory. So it was hard of me to think of Mom being anything but a Mom and taking care of all of us. But, she did love a good joke, and it didn't matter to her if it was 'dirty'. One funny thing I remember is for Bub and Pats first anniversary, they went to a "strip club" in Hollywood and Mom went with them. I never did ask her about it..... now I wonder.
My first husband and I took Mom to Bush Gardens one year in Southern California when we visited her down there. They had a display of penguins and from that day forward Mom loved penguins. From then on, we all bought her penguins, decorated cakes with them. Her first penguin was a candle that I had hand made for her when I lived in Idaho, it was for Christmas in 1973 or 1974. The last few years of her life I was begging everyone to quit buying her penguins because I had to clean them! Prior to that, she often paid her granddaughters to come over and 'dust' the babies.
On one trip from Idaho to Modesto we decided to take Mom back to Idaho with us. We had to go through Reno and stopped. Mom had a blast with the slot machines. It is still strange for me to think of Mom doing that. On that trip to Idaho we took Mom camping, another strange thing for me to see my Mom doing. It must have been around 1975 or so. Mom loved it, she walked around all day picking wild flowers and making a bouquet, and hiking with us through some old abandoned houses..... She loved it.
Mom loved playing cards or games, I grew up playing whatever she could talk me into playing with her. Her most favorite game we called 'Dummy Rummy' and we all learned around the time Bub and Pat got married in 1965. Of course we had to play for money, every game had to be played for money at our house! As soon as the great grandchildren could walk they learned to play cards with Mom. She carried her coin purse and cards with her everywhere, along with a baggie of treats, right up until the time she died. Same with crossword puzzles, I must have 5 or 6 different crossword puzzle dictionaries of hers. She had to do the one in the newspaper, then she would buy the Globe or one of those magazines and work on it for a week. Often she would finish it. We used to have contests on the one in the TV Guide to see who could finish it first. Often conversations were around answers in the TV guide crossword! If you didn't play cards with her then you had to rub her back or scratch her head!
Mom often worked two jobs at once just to keep a roof over our heads. She made 99.9% of my clothes until I was in high school. She never did knit or crochet like her mother. I did do a bit of knitting and crocheting, but never could sew a straight line. She often sewed for herself too. She would take an old dress and turn it into something for someone. Often making her own patterns out of newspapers or paper bags. Mom was never into crafts either, not sure where I got that gene from! She could however draw, but she never did anything with it except doodle. I am very jealous that I can't draw a stick man and would love to draw and paint!
Holidays were the favorite time of the year for Mom and she celebrated them all. Easter meant a new dress, new shoes and a hat for me. She couldn't afford stuffed animals for me, but I did get some candy in my basket. One year there was a dozen eggs that didn't get boiled.... I think we had more fun cracking eggs over everyone's head hoping to get an un boiled one! After everyone was grown and married with kids of their own, Mom would fill up one big basket with candy, everyone got a Carmello egg and whatever chocolate she had gathered up for that year. She would go to your house and say "Happy Easter Egg" and you'd get to pick from the basket.
Mom's birthday was the 3rd of July, so our 4ths were always fun. As a child she always made sure she took me to the big firework shows and if it was a good year, I'd get a small box of fireworks. It was hard for Mom to celebrate her birthday as her sister died on that day. But, Mom always made sure that I celebrated it. In her later years she would go to whoever had the most fireworks! One year she took off after we had a show at Bub's house to his daughter Marlene's to be with her and all her partying friends. They put a love seat out on the curb for her so she was comfy.
Halloween always meant a home made costume for me, which for some reason I can't remember one. In Mom's later years she would come to one or all of our houses to pass out candy. Of course she always had goodies for us!
Thanksgiving meant Mom in the kitchen all night the night before and the next day. Mom loved cooking. We always had a feast! After I was married Mom would go to one of the kids houses and could always be found in the kitchen, after she got older she was still in there supervising or doing dishes.
Christmas meant a small tree usually set up on a card table. Lots of cookie and candy making, and everyone got at least one good gift. Often she would save all year to get us something special. I always had a stocking (a real sock) full of fruit and nuts, sometimes a little goodie or toy of some kind. I remember one year, we each got to open a package the night before, Cyndi got a Chatty Cathy doll! I wanted one so bad that Mom and Marlene went out that night to find me one.
After all the kids were grown and families started having their own celebrations at their houses, Mom would come to each and everyone of our homes to see us.
Holidays meant being with family and those you love to Mom and she didn't care if she had to drive all over to be with hers. They also meant that we went to the cemetery to visit Aunt Addie.
No matter where or when, Mom was the first one up to do the dishes, she hated dirty dishes. As she got older that was a sign to me that Mom was really sick and most of the time she would still do them.
She bought cards for all of her loved ones for birthdays, anniversary, easter, christmas, mother and fathers day. Hallmark stock dropped when she passed away!
I have a big problem celebrating holidays since her death. However, my brother, Bub helped me get over that.
All of Mom's grandchildren's friends loved Mom and all called her "Granny".
Mom died at home with all of her children and several of her grandchildren with her.
Children; Marlene; Diane; Guy (Bub); and myself, Wendy; Daughter-in-law, Patricia (Guy's wife), grandchildren; Cynthia, Dawn, Marlene.
While Mom was at the funeral home we stayed with her from opening to closing hours. Somehow we all felt closer to her as long as we were there. Plus we knew she would get lonely without us. The first night as we were leaving, I had a very hard time leaving her and my brother sensed my reluctance. Once in the car he told me that he knew I wouldn't want to leave Mom alone.
When Mom died we buried several things with her - a few cigarettes, matches, her coin purse that she took everywhere with her, it included change and a note from Trista that she wrote her grandma and said "never remove this" (transcribe note) so I didn't.... a deck of cards in case she found some sucker up there to play with her. Dawn made a pillow with all of the great grand kids names on it. I also put in some candy for Mom, she would get on kicks of different candy bars, when she passed away she was into Hershey Hugs & Kisses, so I put a baggie of those along with some M&M's. Mom loved her penguins, so I put a stuffed one that she got the previous Christmas.
She wore one of her colorful blouses, black pants, and a black sweater (with pockets!) that Ted & Cyndi got her the previous Christmas.
Mom never went without kleenex, a cigarette in every pocket, and her bandanna. Normally she wore cotton in her ears. So when it was time to close the casket after the services, I removed the "Mom" necklace that I gave her for mothers day one year, put cotton in her ears and her bandanna on. Others put in photos and mementos.
She wore Red perfume, so I sprayed her with that.... but it wasn't the same smell. I hated the smell of that perfume when she wore it, but how I miss it now.
Mom loved bird of paradise flowers, so we had them incorporated into her casket flowers. Mom had given me a bird of paradise plant the year before for fathers day (she would use any holiday to buy someone a gift) but we never planted it. When I moved across the street after her death we planted it. It doesn't bloom a lot, but 6 years later "Mom" still blooms, usually in Sept..... She has 5 or 6 buds on her now as I write this Sept 1, 2000. Only one year did I have a bloom for her death anniversary and I took it to the cemetery.
We all wrote in the cement (just like kids) that her headstone sits on.....
Modesto Bee Newspaper February 10, 1994.
Madelene A. Nason
July 3, 1915-Feb. 8, 1994
Madelene Adelaide Nason, 78 of Modesto died Tuesday at her home.
Mrs. Nason was a native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Modesto 24 years. She was a homemaker.
She is survived by children, Marlene A. Madderra, Diane E. Snyder, Guy T. Nason III and Wendy L. Olson, all of Modesto; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at Oakdale Memorial Chapel, Oakdale. Burial will follow at Knights Ferry Cemetery, Knights Ferry. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the chapel.
Wendy's correction notes to her Mom's obit... Mom left Canada when she was 8 years old with her Mother, two sisters and one brother. She then lived in San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California.
She worked several different jobs in her lifetime. She was a high school graduate, even had a bit of college. She and Dad were married 18 years and she didn't start working until the divorce.
Daughter of William James Holloway,
and Mary Adelaide Moss Holloway.
Sister to Harold Arnold Holloway
Adelaide Holloway VanWinkle,
and Olive Posivak.
Married to Guy Theodore Nason, Jr
and later divorced.
Mother to Marlene; Diane Snyder; Guy Theodore Nason, III;
and Wendy.
Died at home in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California.
What can I say about my Mom...... So - so many memories!
Mom and I lived together the last 5 years of her life. At first she didn't mind when I spent the night elsewhere, Then the last few years she didn't want me going anywhere except to work and home. When Dave and I went on vacation, Marlene, her granddaughter, stayed with her.
Each day when I went to work Mom would get up before me and fix my ice tea to take to work and get me up! Then she would stand at the window and wave good-bye to me with sad little puppy dog eyes. She'd then get dressed and run the wheels off her car. She hardly stayed home, even if she wasn't feeling well. During the day she would pick up Diane and they'd run everywhere, at night she would go visit her kids or grandkids, I used to chew her out all the time for going out running around at night. She was such a target for car jacker's, purse snatchers.... but she survived her senior years without those type of things happening to her.
We all paint a picture of our parents and they should all be goodie-goodies, well.....
Mom never dated much after the divorce, if she did it was before my memory. So it was hard of me to think of Mom being anything but a Mom and taking care of all of us. But, she did love a good joke, and it didn't matter to her if it was 'dirty'. One funny thing I remember is for Bub and Pats first anniversary, they went to a "strip club" in Hollywood and Mom went with them. I never did ask her about it..... now I wonder.
My first husband and I took Mom to Bush Gardens one year in Southern California when we visited her down there. They had a display of penguins and from that day forward Mom loved penguins. From then on, we all bought her penguins, decorated cakes with them. Her first penguin was a candle that I had hand made for her when I lived in Idaho, it was for Christmas in 1973 or 1974. The last few years of her life I was begging everyone to quit buying her penguins because I had to clean them! Prior to that, she often paid her granddaughters to come over and 'dust' the babies.
On one trip from Idaho to Modesto we decided to take Mom back to Idaho with us. We had to go through Reno and stopped. Mom had a blast with the slot machines. It is still strange for me to think of Mom doing that. On that trip to Idaho we took Mom camping, another strange thing for me to see my Mom doing. It must have been around 1975 or so. Mom loved it, she walked around all day picking wild flowers and making a bouquet, and hiking with us through some old abandoned houses..... She loved it.
Mom loved playing cards or games, I grew up playing whatever she could talk me into playing with her. Her most favorite game we called 'Dummy Rummy' and we all learned around the time Bub and Pat got married in 1965. Of course we had to play for money, every game had to be played for money at our house! As soon as the great grandchildren could walk they learned to play cards with Mom. She carried her coin purse and cards with her everywhere, along with a baggie of treats, right up until the time she died. Same with crossword puzzles, I must have 5 or 6 different crossword puzzle dictionaries of hers. She had to do the one in the newspaper, then she would buy the Globe or one of those magazines and work on it for a week. Often she would finish it. We used to have contests on the one in the TV Guide to see who could finish it first. Often conversations were around answers in the TV guide crossword! If you didn't play cards with her then you had to rub her back or scratch her head!
Mom often worked two jobs at once just to keep a roof over our heads. She made 99.9% of my clothes until I was in high school. She never did knit or crochet like her mother. I did do a bit of knitting and crocheting, but never could sew a straight line. She often sewed for herself too. She would take an old dress and turn it into something for someone. Often making her own patterns out of newspapers or paper bags. Mom was never into crafts either, not sure where I got that gene from! She could however draw, but she never did anything with it except doodle. I am very jealous that I can't draw a stick man and would love to draw and paint!
Holidays were the favorite time of the year for Mom and she celebrated them all. Easter meant a new dress, new shoes and a hat for me. She couldn't afford stuffed animals for me, but I did get some candy in my basket. One year there was a dozen eggs that didn't get boiled.... I think we had more fun cracking eggs over everyone's head hoping to get an un boiled one! After everyone was grown and married with kids of their own, Mom would fill up one big basket with candy, everyone got a Carmello egg and whatever chocolate she had gathered up for that year. She would go to your house and say "Happy Easter Egg" and you'd get to pick from the basket.
Mom's birthday was the 3rd of July, so our 4ths were always fun. As a child she always made sure she took me to the big firework shows and if it was a good year, I'd get a small box of fireworks. It was hard for Mom to celebrate her birthday as her sister died on that day. But, Mom always made sure that I celebrated it. In her later years she would go to whoever had the most fireworks! One year she took off after we had a show at Bub's house to his daughter Marlene's to be with her and all her partying friends. They put a love seat out on the curb for her so she was comfy.
Halloween always meant a home made costume for me, which for some reason I can't remember one. In Mom's later years she would come to one or all of our houses to pass out candy. Of course she always had goodies for us!
Thanksgiving meant Mom in the kitchen all night the night before and the next day. Mom loved cooking. We always had a feast! After I was married Mom would go to one of the kids houses and could always be found in the kitchen, after she got older she was still in there supervising or doing dishes.
Christmas meant a small tree usually set up on a card table. Lots of cookie and candy making, and everyone got at least one good gift. Often she would save all year to get us something special. I always had a stocking (a real sock) full of fruit and nuts, sometimes a little goodie or toy of some kind. I remember one year, we each got to open a package the night before, Cyndi got a Chatty Cathy doll! I wanted one so bad that Mom and Marlene went out that night to find me one.
After all the kids were grown and families started having their own celebrations at their houses, Mom would come to each and everyone of our homes to see us.
Holidays meant being with family and those you love to Mom and she didn't care if she had to drive all over to be with hers. They also meant that we went to the cemetery to visit Aunt Addie.
No matter where or when, Mom was the first one up to do the dishes, she hated dirty dishes. As she got older that was a sign to me that Mom was really sick and most of the time she would still do them.
She bought cards for all of her loved ones for birthdays, anniversary, easter, christmas, mother and fathers day. Hallmark stock dropped when she passed away!
I have a big problem celebrating holidays since her death. However, my brother, Bub helped me get over that.
All of Mom's grandchildren's friends loved Mom and all called her "Granny".
Mom died at home with all of her children and several of her grandchildren with her.
Children; Marlene; Diane; Guy (Bub); and myself, Wendy; Daughter-in-law, Patricia (Guy's wife), grandchildren; Cynthia, Dawn, Marlene.
While Mom was at the funeral home we stayed with her from opening to closing hours. Somehow we all felt closer to her as long as we were there. Plus we knew she would get lonely without us. The first night as we were leaving, I had a very hard time leaving her and my brother sensed my reluctance. Once in the car he told me that he knew I wouldn't want to leave Mom alone.
When Mom died we buried several things with her - a few cigarettes, matches, her coin purse that she took everywhere with her, it included change and a note from Trista that she wrote her grandma and said "never remove this" (transcribe note) so I didn't.... a deck of cards in case she found some sucker up there to play with her. Dawn made a pillow with all of the great grand kids names on it. I also put in some candy for Mom, she would get on kicks of different candy bars, when she passed away she was into Hershey Hugs & Kisses, so I put a baggie of those along with some M&M's. Mom loved her penguins, so I put a stuffed one that she got the previous Christmas.
She wore one of her colorful blouses, black pants, and a black sweater (with pockets!) that Ted & Cyndi got her the previous Christmas.
Mom never went without kleenex, a cigarette in every pocket, and her bandanna. Normally she wore cotton in her ears. So when it was time to close the casket after the services, I removed the "Mom" necklace that I gave her for mothers day one year, put cotton in her ears and her bandanna on. Others put in photos and mementos.
She wore Red perfume, so I sprayed her with that.... but it wasn't the same smell. I hated the smell of that perfume when she wore it, but how I miss it now.
Mom loved bird of paradise flowers, so we had them incorporated into her casket flowers. Mom had given me a bird of paradise plant the year before for fathers day (she would use any holiday to buy someone a gift) but we never planted it. When I moved across the street after her death we planted it. It doesn't bloom a lot, but 6 years later "Mom" still blooms, usually in Sept..... She has 5 or 6 buds on her now as I write this Sept 1, 2000. Only one year did I have a bloom for her death anniversary and I took it to the cemetery.
We all wrote in the cement (just like kids) that her headstone sits on.....
Modesto Bee Newspaper February 10, 1994.
Madelene A. Nason
July 3, 1915-Feb. 8, 1994
Madelene Adelaide Nason, 78 of Modesto died Tuesday at her home.
Mrs. Nason was a native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Modesto 24 years. She was a homemaker.
She is survived by children, Marlene A. Madderra, Diane E. Snyder, Guy T. Nason III and Wendy L. Olson, all of Modesto; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at Oakdale Memorial Chapel, Oakdale. Burial will follow at Knights Ferry Cemetery, Knights Ferry. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the chapel.
Wendy's correction notes to her Mom's obit... Mom left Canada when she was 8 years old with her Mother, two sisters and one brother. She then lived in San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California.
She worked several different jobs in her lifetime. She was a high school graduate, even had a bit of college. She and Dad were married 18 years and she didn't start working until the divorce.
Daughter of William James Holloway,
and Mary Adelaide Moss Holloway.
Sister to Harold Arnold Holloway
Adelaide Holloway VanWinkle,
and Olive Posivak.
Married to Guy Theodore Nason, Jr
and later divorced.
Mother to Marlene; Diane Snyder; Guy Theodore Nason, III;
and Wendy.
