Peggy was born a week after New Year’s Day, so she was much on our parents’ minds when we gathered for our annual New Years’ night wishing tradition. Below is my dad’s wish for both his unborn second child and for me, the first kid.
Peggy was born with dark hair and skin, but she became a blond for a short while, as you can see from the pictures on this page.
This notice was printed by the newspaper in Pomona, where Annie and Grandpa (Herb & Mary Martin) were still living at that time. They got the name of the hospital wrong, but everything else is correct.
The Working Years, by Dick Votaw (part 3) (part 2) (part 1)
We had five very happy years in this house on Hornby including the birth of our second child and first girl, Margaret Ann, better known as Peggy. She came to live with us on January 8, 1955 having been born at Murphy Memorial Hospital in Whittier, which later was sold to Whittier College as a boy’s dorm. She was kidded frequently about this.
Murphy Memorial was an old hospital, the only one available in Whittier at that time. It was located just north of Whittier College, east of Painter Ave. – not far from the house we moved to eleven years later. By that time, of course, it had been torn down for the building of additional housing.
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