• General Notes

  When Russell was about eight years old he had a dog named "Bruce." Even at age 92 he remembered his dog! "He was a loving dog." Edgar, Russell and Bruce were photographed together while sitting on a rug on a porch in Indiana. Edgar about age two, was dressed as a girl with a lace dress and a bow in his hair.
  Also Russell remembered that Grandman Emma Gorham Bailey smoked a clay pipe. He took his daughter, Dorothy, to visit her in Indiana in about 1930. She was living in a little shack. Dottie said they slept across the road from Grandma in a big white farmhouse, out near Greencastle. The people there took care of Grandma.
  There was another story about a relative in Indiana who shot himself on a farm outside of Greencastle.
  Russell worked for the K. T. Railroad in St. Louis. Lorraine Guchon McConnell, the Bishop neighbor of 5537 Devonshire, was his secretary.
  Russell lived his last few years in Arizona with his daughter, Dottie. Before that he lived alone in Crestwood, still driving about and playing bridge up into his nineties. After his wife's death he moved to Arizona, and after a few months in a nursing home, October to December 1995, he passed quietly on 19 December 1995. His ashes will be buried i n St. Louis Co. beside his spouse, Dorothy.

Details of Russell Robert's family with Dorothy Faye CALVIN