Tombstone Tuesday: Marguerite (Dorr) Ramage

by Laurel | March 19th, 2014

27 January 1935

Marguerite Dorr Ramage

Marguerite Dorr Ramage
Wife of
James M. Ramage
1874 – 1935

 Mrs. Marguerite (Dorr) Ramage, widow of James M. Ramage, former treasurer of the Franklin paper Company, died this morning at the home, 1158 Northampton Street. Mrs. Ramage was well known in Holyoke Social circles. She attended the Second Congregational Church, was a member of the Holyoke Woman’s Club, Eunice Day Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Twentieth Century Club, and the Holyoke League of Women Voters. Mrs. Ramage as born in Woburn, December 2o, 1874, the daughter of Charles and Octavia E. Dorr. She married Mr. Ramage in 1895 and they lived in Monroe Bridge before coming to Holyoke in 1908 to make their home. Mr. Ramage died in 1928. She leaves her mother, two daughters, Miss Doris M. Ramage and Mrs. Robert Swaney, and one granddaughter, Anne Ramage Sween, and two brothers Loon and Dr. Russell E. Door.

The funeral will be held at the home 1158 Northampton Street, Monday afternoon at 2. Rev. Moses R. Lovell will officiate and burial will be in Forestdale Cemetery.

From The Springfield Republican

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