Grace Haddon was born during a snow storm on the Haddon family homestead in Kootenai County, Idaho. They had a log cabin on their 160 acres. When a stranger knocked at the door during the storm they welcomed him in with his travelling friend. He looked at the newborn baby and said he was an Indian chief, and they should call the baby Polly because his wife's name was Polly. So Polly was how everyone knew her, but her legal name was Grace Webster Haddon. Someone said they had a connection to Daniel Webster, the senator and dictionary writer, and that's how she got her middle name. Others said it was a family name.

Grace was child number eight born to Elmer Haddon and O'Zelia Davis Porter Haddon. Five more children followed, but in 1906 they left Idaho for Anacortes, Washington where the final three children were born.
Elmer farmed cattle. He never drove and neither did Polly. She met Harold on a blind date and thought he was pretty cute. They eloped at 19 years old and their first child was born in a house that still stands in Anacortes. They moved to Kitsap County where Harold worked for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Two daughters, and a son followed as they moved around every five or ten years or so. One house on 7th street in Bremerton still has the added room that Polly's father Elmer built onto their home. And many of the family photos show the house on Lafayette where the little goldfish pond still sits - Polly used to see herons fishing in her pond some mornings.

Polly and Harold loved to bowl and were in many bowling leagues. They did some travelling after Harold retired for the second or third time and enjoyed seeing family back in Anacortes.

Polly died in her sleep on their small horse ranch in Roy where they moved the year before after having tried out a retirement community and found it to be full of "too many old people."

Polly loved to play practical jokes and entertained adults and kids alike with her stories, her jokes, and her recitations. She was known to take out her false teeth to show grandkids. And she could beat all the kids at Scrabble. She and Harold both played Crossword puzzles and had to buy two newspapers daily so they could each do their own puzzle.

Polly was predeceased by her daughter Betty Jane Stencil, her great grandson Dougie Stencil and her great grandson baby Riley. She was survived by her three grown children, many grandchildren, great grandchildren, siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.