3rd cousins Rosemary Dobbs Perticari and William Theodore Dobbs and Patricia Dobbs Berkley gathered at the home of Rosemary for a week long celebration of our family. We plowed through bins of old pictures and letters and swapped stories that we had heard about our ancient relatives. We visited our GGG Grandparents' graves in the Old Baltimore Cemetery. We found some additional Dobbs family members in the cemetery that we hadn't known about before. Today, June 4, 2010, we are taking old photographs and letters to Kinkos to make copies.
Bill provided a cassette tape of Willoughby Barrett Dobbs (1861-1931) and Hugh Barrett Dobbs (1885-1944) talking and singing during Hugh's radio show, The Ship of Joy. They sang Auld Lang Zyne in perfect harmony. What a treat to hear their long gone voices! Willoughby died a few months later after a mastoid operation. Hugh died in 1944 from a heart attack while eating dinner at the Yacht Club in Seattle.
Bill has provided many colorful stories of his grandfather, Theodore Roosevelt Dobbs, and his father Theodore Maxwell Dobbs. TRD took Bill to many baseball games at Yankee Stadium in New York. TMD was a larger than life flamboyant character with a big imagination. Bill will write more about them as we get to their generation in this blog.
Bill and I discovered that we are both INFP Myers-Briggs types and we have enjoyed talking about our life experiences and perspectives through the INFP veil.
Genealogy cousins are great! It makes this work all worthwhile. I love it.
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