Mrs. Shay always kept up with the times. When she was 17, for the adventure she sailed on her father's schooners to the Arctic and elsewhere as a cook. Her dislike of eating fish lasted the rest of her life. She married her husband, Donald Shay, after a two-week courtship. Donald was an airmail pilot flying between Detroit and Cleveland; he died in a plane crash in 1926. Mrs. Shay worked as a seamstress at the B. Siegel Department Store in Detroit, retiring around 1947.
Mrs. Shay always kept up with the times. When she was 17, for the adventure she sailed on her father's schooners to the Arctic and elsewhere as a cook. Her dislike of eating fish lasted the rest of her life. She married her husband, Donald Shay, after a two-week courtship. Donald was an airmail pilot flying between Detroit and Cleveland; he died in a plane crash in 1926. Mrs. Shay worked as a seamstress at the B. Siegel Department Store in Detroit, retiring around 1947.
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