LANCASTER WOMAN MARKS 104 BIRTHDAYS A YEAR.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Greeting card companies should send a thank-you note to Helen "To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. It was first published in 1831 collection Poems of Edgar A. Doyle. Every year, the 87-year-old Lancaster matriarch sends birthday greetings to everyone in her family - her five children, 33 grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. , 65 great-grandchildren and, of course, her sole great-great-grandchild. ``It's quite a family,'' says Doyle, a spry An application framework from Adobe for building rich Internet applications using HTML. Spry takes the tedium out of writing AJAX code and also includes routines for creating animation effects and building widgets. For more information, visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry. woman with twinkling twinkling, in astronomy: see seeing. eyes who tracks the birthdays in a neatly organized, turquoise turquoise, hydrous phosphate of aluminum and copper, Al2(OH)3PO4·H2O+Cu, used as a gem. It occurs rarely in crystal form, but is usually cryptocrystalline. three-ring binder binder: see combine. An earlier Microsoft Office workbook file that let users combine related documents from different Office applications. The documents could be viewed, saved, opened, e-mailed and printed as a group. . ``You always can depend on Grandma to get a birthday card,'' said Carolyn Altieri, Doyle's 64-year-old daughter, who lives in Lancaster and has five children of her own. Altieri has cherished memories of growing up in a family of six children. Her youngest brother, Clifford, died in 1982 of a heart attack at age 46. ``She always rocked us to sleep, one after another. She would start with the oldest and get down to the youngest,'' Altieri said. ``That was her time of rest, getting us to go to sleep.'' In the days leading up to Mother's Day, Altieri and her sister, Connie Barnes, visited Doyle at her apartment in a senior complex, which is filled with pictures of relatives, and talked lovingly of their mother. ``She's the best in the world. You couldn't ask for better in all ways,'' said Barnes, 68, of Lancaster, who has 11 children. ``She's caring and always helpful and there when you need her.'' Doyle interjected, ``I'm just an ordinary mom, a plain, ordinary mom.'' ``Yeah, but one of a kind,'' Barnes quickly replied. Helen and her husband, Paul, moved their family to California from a small Indiana town in 1948, after a family trip to Washington state. ``My daughter said, `Wow, if you want to come back to California, we'd like to come back,' '' Doyle recalled. ``It was beautiful weather - nice and warm.'' The family went home to Indiana, sold the house, and moved to Hawthorne, where they lived for 14 years before relocating to Lancaster in 1962. Paul Doyle
Helen Doyle also worked as a North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. electrician from 1951-57, installing wiring in planes. After her husband retired in 1965, they traveled for 13 years, spending a lot of time in Arizona. Paul died in 1978 after more than 51 years of marriage, and Helen returned to Lancaster. Doyle, who will turn 88 in June, maintains an active lifestyle. She plays pool every Monday at the senior center (a neighbor in the senior complex taught her how), performs with the Happy Singers group at rest homes, and crochets afghans for babies and weddings. She recently spent seven weeks in Indianapolis to help celebrate her oldest daughter's 50th wedding anniversary. Doyle had a hard time finding a card for the occasion. ``She told us, `I've been hunting everywhere for a card that says happy anniversary to daughter and husband,' '' Altieri said. ``We started laughing and said, Mother, how many cards could they sell? How many mothers are around for a 50th wedding anniversary?'' Since Doyle turned 70, the family has thrown her birthday bashes every five years. About two-thirds of the clan gathered for her 85th birthday party at a ranch on Lancaster's east side. ``I think it's great. I always get treated very nice with all the children and grandchildren,'' Doyle said. ``I love all my kids. I love being around them and being with them.'' CAPTION(S): PHOTO PHOTO Helen Doyle, a great-great-grandmother, displays a scrapbook A Macintosh disk file that holds frequently used text and graphics objects, such as a company letterhead. Contrast with "clipboard," which is reserved memory that holds data only for the current session. she received on her 85th birthday. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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