August 13, 1928-March 12, 2021
STUART, FL â Elizabeth Mitchell Montgomery was born August 13, 1928 in Topsfield, Massachusetts, the fourth child of Ulster-Scots parents from Northern Ireland and the farms of County Armagh. Sarah Mitchell had left for Belfast to work in the linen factories before boarding an immigrant ship to Boston from the port of Londonderry. Joseph Montgomery had done the same â sailing from Londonderry to the port of New York. Sheâd made her way to Wellesley, he to Brookline. She as a domestic and a dressmaker; he as a groom and then a chauffeur and a gardener.
Born at home in the chauffeurâs cottage on the Cummings estate, Elizabeth spent treasured summers in Topsfield; her father planted a Victory Garden, yearly they attended the Topsfield Fair. In the remainder of the year she was a Boston girl from the all-Irish triple-decker-householder neighborhood of Allston.
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STUART, Fla. – Donald Henry Blyn was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Aug. 7, 1929, to Martha Geyer and Morris Blyn, and passed away on Jan. 12, 2021.
Often he told stories of his days trolley car-jumping with boyhood friends from the neighborhood, Bay Ridge, back to Coney Island where he had spent his earliest days in childhood. Donald’s first memory was that of the Coney Island boardwalk fire of 1932, as he stood on a roof as a small boy of two years and 11 months, viewing the flames as they burned their way toward the family’s apartment building near Surf Avenue.
When asked how he was capable of memory at such an early age, he answered that it was a sight he could never forget.