Background
Douglas, Marjorie Myers was born on November 3, 1911 in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Walter Raleigh and Olinia May (Mattison) Myers.
(The world turned upside down for city-bred Marjorie Dougl...)
The world turned upside down for city-bred Marjorie Douglas when, in 1943, her young husband moved her and their baby, Anne, from suburban St. Paul to a western Minnesota stock ranch to help his parents stave off financial disaster. With wit and wisdom Douglas's memoir describes a midwestern way of life of fifty years ago.
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(Writer Marjorie Douglas recalls her idyllic, fun-filled s...)
Writer Marjorie Douglas recalls her idyllic, fun-filled summer days on Crane Island in Lake Minnetonka in the 1920s when she and her two brothers spent long hours swimming, diving off the dock and from the ten-foot-high tower, slipping out of the house after dark for excursions with their friends, and exploring the island from end to end. The Myers family-practical, idealistic father, dainty, dignified mother, serious older brother Bob, rascally younger brother Everett, and Marjorie, the middle child and only girl-moved to the island cottage every summer once school let out and stayed until classes began again. Her story of those peaceful seasons is a fond reminiscence of a loving and supportive family and a powerful reminder of the timeless beauty of Minnesota summers at the lake.
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(Tears of frustration and loneliness more than once filled...)
Tears of frustration and loneliness more than once filled the eyes of Marjorie Myers Douglas as she valiantly coped with her new status as a farmwife. Life on a western Minnesota stock ranch in the years during and after World War II was, after all, a far cry from growing up in her parents' Minneapolis home community of academics and her years as a medical social worker in New York City and St. Pa...
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Douglas, Marjorie Myers was born on November 3, 1911 in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Walter Raleigh and Olinia May (Mattison) Myers.
Bachelor, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1933.
Medical social worker Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City, 1934-1936. Founder medical social work department Gillette Hospital for Crippled Children, 1936-1938. Social worker Minneapolis Public Schools, 1960-1977.
(Writer Marjorie Douglas recalls her idyllic, fun-filled s...)
(Tears of frustration and loneliness more than once filled...)
(The world turned upside down for city-bred Marjorie Dougl...)
Married Donald Moats Douglas, June 19, 1937. Children: Anne Marjorie Brothers, William Walter, Bruce David.