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Laura Francis (McCawley) McGuire
November 16, 1924 ~ August 21, 2016 (age 91) 91 Years Old Light a Candle
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Message from Lynn Selden
August 31, 2016 2:32 PM
I am grateful for the many memories of my beloved Aunt Laura. One of our great experiences together was a trip to the Grand Canyon and exploring the outskirts of the area i.e. Jerome and Sedona. Uncle Don drove, Aunt Laura was in the front seat and I in the back with my son and their youngest grandnephew, Matt. They were so patient as we slowly ascended to The Watchtower as Matt crawled upward.
They would later come to our home in California and later a tour of the Queen Mary. Uncle Don would regale us of his trip on the Queen Mary across "the pond" and the rumor amongst the sailors on their tour of duty was that Winston Churchill was aboard. She would tease him: they were so happy together and so kind to one another. Their love and care for each other was tremendous.
She loved to converse on the phone and before my uncle Don and her beloved and devoted husband went home to be with the Lord Jesus, we kept in regular contact by mail and with the advent of computers by an email as she would tack on additional updates of their lives. After he passed, her access to the computer no longer existed and thus we kept in phone contact often.
She thoroughly loved family updates, family history, and I would relate the antics and whereabouts of her nieces and nephews and the new arrival of grand-nieces and nephews. She would often wonder and inquire about her family history and knowing I had computer access, she would ask me to search out her family information.
Much to her inquisitiveness (and some frustration), we spent hours playing phone tag as we tried to piecemeal the family line with fragments of information, eventually developing and printing her family tree, which I believe she shared with her cousins Alice and Lillian. I would also discover some wonderful surprises!
Aunt Laura had an even greater delight and joy when I discovered she and her twin brother, Herbert, were immortalized in Peewee Valley's Annie Fellows Johnston and The Little Colonel website! 1 Aunt Laura's mom - Laura Malone - was a sister to Kate Malone, known in the Little Colonel series as Kate Mallard. Aunt Laura is mentioned living at The Gables when she is 5 years old with her brother, mom, and grandparents in the 1930 census. Another website revealed that by that time, her mom was widowed and they lived in a cottage at The Gables for a number of years.2
When I called her about this new found information, her joy and excitement were palpable. She reveled and reminisced in the photos and articles I was able to copy and send her way! Her memory of events and situations were so clear, I would often call her to clarify and my knowledge of our family history was broadened.
Aunt Laura will be missed here on earth but there is joy in Heaven at her arrival with her faith and trust in Jesus as her Lord and Savior. I look forward to seeing Him with her and reunited with my Uncle Don, her husband. More stories will be told together, eternally.
Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.
John 14:1- 3“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.
1 http://www.littlecolonel.com/People/KatieMallard.htm In April 1910, the Malone family was listed in the U.S. Census in Gallatin, Tennessee with Eugene’s mother. It’s possible the family was just visiting their Tennessee relations, since both Eugene and Mary Ella were Tennessee natives. By the 1920 U.S. Census, the Malones had returned to Pewee Valley and were renting a place on Central Avenue, near Edgewood, the home of the Craigs. Of their four children – Hale, Kate, Alice and Laura ( Aunt Laura's Mom )– only Laura, at age 22, was still living with them and her occupation was listed as L&N railroad clerk. By the 1930 census, Laura was living at The Gables with her parents, but had obviously married and had two children: fraternal twins Laura and Herbert McCauley/McCawley (shown in the census as McConley), who were five years old. Pewee Valley Town Historian Virginia Herdt Chaudoin and long-time Pewee resident Iva Barbee Morse both remember those twins, but neither is sure of the spelling of their last name.)
2 http://www.littlecolonel.com/theGables.htm: In 1911, Annie Fellows Johnston purchased The Beeches from her long-time friend and two years later, purchased The Gables for use as a guest cottage and as rental property. Some of the people who lived in the cottage over the many years that Annie and her stepdaughter Mary owned it, included: Eugene and Mary Ella ("Minnie Mo") Malone, their widowed daughter Laura, and Laura's fraternal twins, Laura and Herbert.)
They would later come to our home in California and later a tour of the Queen Mary. Uncle Don would regale us of his trip on the Queen Mary across "the pond" and the rumor amongst the sailors on their tour of duty was that Winston Churchill was aboard. She would tease him: they were so happy together and so kind to one another. Their love and care for each other was tremendous.
She loved to converse on the phone and before my uncle Don and her beloved and devoted husband went home to be with the Lord Jesus, we kept in regular contact by mail and with the advent of computers by an email as she would tack on additional updates of their lives. After he passed, her access to the computer no longer existed and thus we kept in phone contact often.
She thoroughly loved family updates, family history, and I would relate the antics and whereabouts of her nieces and nephews and the new arrival of grand-nieces and nephews. She would often wonder and inquire about her family history and knowing I had computer access, she would ask me to search out her family information.
Much to her inquisitiveness (and some frustration), we spent hours playing phone tag as we tried to piecemeal the family line with fragments of information, eventually developing and printing her family tree, which I believe she shared with her cousins Alice and Lillian. I would also discover some wonderful surprises!
Aunt Laura had an even greater delight and joy when I discovered she and her twin brother, Herbert, were immortalized in Peewee Valley's Annie Fellows Johnston and The Little Colonel website! 1 Aunt Laura's mom - Laura Malone - was a sister to Kate Malone, known in the Little Colonel series as Kate Mallard. Aunt Laura is mentioned living at The Gables when she is 5 years old with her brother, mom, and grandparents in the 1930 census. Another website revealed that by that time, her mom was widowed and they lived in a cottage at The Gables for a number of years.2
When I called her about this new found information, her joy and excitement were palpable. She reveled and reminisced in the photos and articles I was able to copy and send her way! Her memory of events and situations were so clear, I would often call her to clarify and my knowledge of our family history was broadened.
Aunt Laura will be missed here on earth but there is joy in Heaven at her arrival with her faith and trust in Jesus as her Lord and Savior. I look forward to seeing Him with her and reunited with my Uncle Don, her husband. More stories will be told together, eternally.
Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.
John 14:1- 3“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.
1 http://www.littlecolonel.com/People/KatieMallard.htm In April 1910, the Malone family was listed in the U.S. Census in Gallatin, Tennessee with Eugene’s mother. It’s possible the family was just visiting their Tennessee relations, since both Eugene and Mary Ella were Tennessee natives. By the 1920 U.S. Census, the Malones had returned to Pewee Valley and were renting a place on Central Avenue, near Edgewood, the home of the Craigs. Of their four children – Hale, Kate, Alice and Laura ( Aunt Laura's Mom )– only Laura, at age 22, was still living with them and her occupation was listed as L&N railroad clerk. By the 1930 census, Laura was living at The Gables with her parents, but had obviously married and had two children: fraternal twins Laura and Herbert McCauley/McCawley (shown in the census as McConley), who were five years old. Pewee Valley Town Historian Virginia Herdt Chaudoin and long-time Pewee resident Iva Barbee Morse both remember those twins, but neither is sure of the spelling of their last name.)
2 http://www.littlecolonel.com/theGables.htm: In 1911, Annie Fellows Johnston purchased The Beeches from her long-time friend and two years later, purchased The Gables for use as a guest cottage and as rental property. Some of the people who lived in the cottage over the many years that Annie and her stepdaughter Mary owned it, included: Eugene and Mary Ella ("Minnie Mo") Malone, their widowed daughter Laura, and Laura's fraternal twins, Laura and Herbert.)
Message from Laura MC Quire
August 25, 2016 8:48 AM
LOVE for a Special Lady such a Friendly Smile, Warm Spirit, a Pleasure to be around,,, She will be Missed .
A candle was lit by Carolyn Baker
on August 25, 2016 8:45 AM
Message from Kathy Spray
August 24, 2016 9:48 PM
R I P MIss Laura. I always enjoyed my time with you. You were such a sweet & funny lady. I hope you are with your loved ones now and your sweet hubby. It was a treat to be with you the few times we were together. My condolences to the family .
A candle was lit by The Rudolph Family
on August 24, 2016 7:56 AM
A candle was lit by Cathy Mudd
on August 24, 2016 6:40 AM
A candle was lit by Linds Clifford
on August 23, 2016 10:04 PM
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