Wife of (1) Norman Edward Brownlee and (2) Haskell Spencer Bloodworth. Daughter of Henry David French and Matilda Louise Sutherland.
Graduated from Louisiana Normal School and taught until she became pregnant for first child and, by rule, had to resign. After husband left the family, she had to provide for her three sons, so she opened a kindergarten - what would now be called a day-care center. She also provided a venue in her home in Algiers for a New Orleans voice teacher, Prof. Jacobs, and played the piano for him. She later worked for the WPA (or PWA) at the New Orleans Day Nursery, which was adjacent to the Kingsley House in New Orleans. She then went back into the public school system as the secretary to the principal, O. Perry Walker, at the Jackson School on Camp Street in New Orleans and later at the Adolph Meyer Elementary School in Algiers, from which she retired.
She married a second time during World War II to Haskell S. Bloodworth, a former lawyer from Poplar Bluff, MO, who was working at the Andrew Higgins Shipyard. However, that did not work out and they divorced.
She loved to crochet and knit and did so extensively. She made afghans, booties, caps, etc. for any number of babies, including grandchildren and even some great grandchildren.
She inherited the summer cottage "Heart's Ease" in Biloxi from her mother, and she moved there upon retirement. The house survived Hurricane Camille with minimal damge. She lived there until she was no longer able to properly care for herself, then she moved to Houma, LA to stay with her brother Behrman and his wife Evelyn. She had a fall and broke her hip. After the operation for the hip, she died at the hospital due to complications.
She successfully raised three sons: Norman Edward Brownlee, Jr., Robert Henry Brownlee, and Henry French Brownlee, who, although they may not have had all the luxuries in life while growing up, never remembered missing a meal.
Graduated from Louisiana Normal School and taught until she became pregnant for first child and, by rule, had to resign. After husband left the family, she had to provide for her three sons, so she opened a kindergarten - what would now be called a day-care center. She also provided a venue in her home in Algiers for a New Orleans voice teacher, Prof. Jacobs, and played the piano for him. She later worked for the WPA (or PWA) at the New Orleans Day Nursery, which was adjacent to the Kingsley House in New Orleans. She then went back into the public school system as the secretary to the principal, O. Perry Walker, at the Jackson School on Camp Street in New Orleans and later at the Adolph Meyer Elementary School in Algiers, from which she retired.
She married a second time during World War II to Haskell S. Bloodworth, a former lawyer from Poplar Bluff, MO, who was working at the Andrew Higgins Shipyard. However, that did not work out and they divorced.
She loved to crochet and knit and did so extensively. She made afghans, booties, caps, etc. for any number of babies, including grandchildren and even some great grandchildren.
She inherited the summer cottage "Heart's Ease" in Biloxi from her mother, and she moved there upon retirement. The house survived Hurricane Camille with minimal damge. She lived there until she was no longer able to properly care for herself, then she moved to Houma, LA to stay with her brother Behrman and his wife Evelyn. She had a fall and broke her hip. After the operation for the hip, she died at the hospital due to complications.
She successfully raised three sons: Norman Edward Brownlee, Jr., Robert Henry Brownlee, and Henry French Brownlee, who, although they may not have had all the luxuries in life while growing up, never remembered missing a meal.
Wife of (1) Norman Edward Brownlee and (2) Haskell Spencer Bloodworth. Daughter of Henry David French and Matilda Louise Sutherland.
Graduated from Louisiana Normal School and taught until she became pregnant for first child and, by rule, had to resign. After husband left the family, she had to provide for her three sons, so she opened a kindergarten - what would now be called a day-care center. She also provided a venue in her home in Algiers for a New Orleans voice teacher, Prof. Jacobs, and played the piano for him. She later worked for the WPA (or PWA) at the New Orleans Day Nursery, which was adjacent to the Kingsley House in New Orleans. She then went back into the public school system as the secretary to the principal, O. Perry Walker, at the Jackson School on Camp Street in New Orleans and later at the Adolph Meyer Elementary School in Algiers, from which she retired.
She married a second time during World War II to Haskell S. Bloodworth, a former lawyer from Poplar Bluff, MO, who was working at the Andrew Higgins Shipyard. However, that did not work out and they divorced.
She loved to crochet and knit and did so extensively. She made afghans, booties, caps, etc. for any number of babies, including grandchildren and even some great grandchildren.
She inherited the summer cottage "Heart's Ease" in Biloxi from her mother, and she moved there upon retirement. The house survived Hurricane Camille with minimal damge. She lived there until she was no longer able to properly care for herself, then she moved to Houma, LA to stay with her brother Behrman and his wife Evelyn. She had a fall and broke her hip. After the operation for the hip, she died at the hospital due to complications.
She successfully raised three sons: Norman Edward Brownlee, Jr., Robert Henry Brownlee, and Henry French Brownlee, who, although they may not have had all the luxuries in life while growing up, never remembered missing a meal.
Graduated from Louisiana Normal School and taught until she became pregnant for first child and, by rule, had to resign. After husband left the family, she had to provide for her three sons, so she opened a kindergarten - what would now be called a day-care center. She also provided a venue in her home in Algiers for a New Orleans voice teacher, Prof. Jacobs, and played the piano for him. She later worked for the WPA (or PWA) at the New Orleans Day Nursery, which was adjacent to the Kingsley House in New Orleans. She then went back into the public school system as the secretary to the principal, O. Perry Walker, at the Jackson School on Camp Street in New Orleans and later at the Adolph Meyer Elementary School in Algiers, from which she retired.
She married a second time during World War II to Haskell S. Bloodworth, a former lawyer from Poplar Bluff, MO, who was working at the Andrew Higgins Shipyard. However, that did not work out and they divorced.
She loved to crochet and knit and did so extensively. She made afghans, booties, caps, etc. for any number of babies, including grandchildren and even some great grandchildren.
She inherited the summer cottage "Heart's Ease" in Biloxi from her mother, and she moved there upon retirement. The house survived Hurricane Camille with minimal damge. She lived there until she was no longer able to properly care for herself, then she moved to Houma, LA to stay with her brother Behrman and his wife Evelyn. She had a fall and broke her hip. After the operation for the hip, she died at the hospital due to complications.
She successfully raised three sons: Norman Edward Brownlee, Jr., Robert Henry Brownlee, and Henry French Brownlee, who, although they may not have had all the luxuries in life while growing up, never remembered missing a meal.
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