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Grandmother Catherine Donnelly, Maurine's new nieces & nephews.
1st Year of Marriage. Bohemian love birds!
Maurine working at the Library.
Maurine & Patrice
Maurine, Patrice, & Eric
Eric
Patrice
Carroll Gerard's Birthday
Visit with Maurine's parents in Calistoga, California
Patrice & Maurine visit the foal.
Patrice relaxing by the fireplace Maurine's father built.
Patrice's birthday party (Top Left: Lydia, Leila, Patrice, Donna. Bottom Left: Patrice, Donna, Lydia, Eric, & Leila.
Eric's birthday party (above: Eric, Patrice, & Scott)
Maurine, Eric & Patrice.
Carroll Gerard & Eric
Christmas Spirit
Aunt Rose, Cousin Irene & family. Pittsburgh, c. 1970.
Eric & Patrice with Carroll Gerard catching a few sun rays. (Maurine snapped the photo)
Maurine & Carroll Gerard
Patrice, Maurine, & Kathryn
Bob & Kathryn
Kathryn & Maurine
JFK airport. Patrice en route to college in California.
Maurine on a visit to a gallery.
Maurine at a library event.
Carroll Gerard & Maurine
30th Anniversary
Carroll Gerard Donnelly passed away suddenly in February, 1990. Maurine moved through her grief by travelling, compiling the poetry of Carroll into a booklet alongside her sketches, collecting Carroll's piano tapes, then on reel-to-reel, and transferring them onto cassettes and CDs with Eric's help, and providing copies of all of these works to family and friends.
In addition, Maurine continued caring for her own mother who was critically ill. Her mother died two years after Carroll Gerard. Maurine's love of family kept her engaged in her extended and immediate family throughout her lifetime, including two new step-great-grandchildren, adopted great-grandchildren, cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Maurine's career moved forward during her late years at the Center Moriches Free Public Library (CMFPL). She wrote a booklet on the history of the library; participated in the national movement to interview and record the oral histories of Veterans' of all wars; developed bibliographies on a wide variety of topics; developed and directed a monthly poetry group; and wrote a column expanding on her bibliographies for the CMFPL newsletter. Maurine also grew artistically, during her later years, writing poetry and engaging in a variety of crafting and artistic pursuits.
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