Great-Grandpa & Grandma Bauer
 



 
 


 

Great-Grandpa & Grandma Bauer
Louis Bauer and Mary McCoy Davison Hurd Bauer

A very faint memory of Grandpa Bauer.  He once told me if I would hold up
the magnifying glass I would be able to read.  Trusting child that I was,
I held it up to the newspaper and I still couldn't read.
Grandpa Bauer thought that was real funny!
A look at his face you can tell he was a fun Great-Grandpa!
I was born the day after Great-Grandma her birthday was November 5.
Janice Crumley


From Ardis Smith - 2002

As to Hurd, Grandmas was married to him for only months and he died from a heart attack. He taught school there in Portland and was the supt. when he retired or died.
I'm not sure which. I never met him and my only relation is grandma living there in that little house just off the highway close to Glisan. I don't think the house is there any more but stood for years, am old brown house.

Why in the world would you get information in Tacoma for Bauer? Did you know he was her first boy friend back in St Paul and said he always loved her. My she was alone for so many years and then the story of him coming there to Portland and finding where she was. It was sure a fairy tail story.

He lived in Havre, Montana and worked for the rail road. After his wife died and he had retired he began looking for Marge as he called her. He learned that she had a son who was a police man in Portland so he came there and by that time Frank had retired too and had a little restaurant on Sandy Blvd. So he found that and was sitting there and ordered a cup of coffee and asked it there was a Frank Davison there and the man next to him said I'm Frank. Well he then told him where grandma had moved the year before up to be next to the folks. Dad had built a small 1 bed room house for her. He shows up at my mothers door and asks if she would go talk to Marge about if she remembered him and if she did, could he come and see her.

Well as I remember, she did and it wasn't but a few weeks later that they got married with all our blessings. They were a cute pair. Everyone talked about them where ever they went. He acted like a kid again and she often shooed him away.

It was so sad when she died, he took such good care of her and thought she would recover and it was a blow to him. Was so sad to see him alone then and he just didn't have anything to live for he said.
 



 

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