Mary's Memoirs

For you that have been reading Mary's Memoirs for the past 19½ years, I received several emails last week when they ended. Mary Theler was killed July 27, 1950, in an auto accident in which she was burned alive.

It all started 20 years ago when we had a hard winter with snow. It snowed March 7 and people who lived in Belfair had said it never snowed that late in the year.

I was working on restoring Theler's 16mm home movies for an independent study to get my degree at The Evergreen State College. I had been asked by the Genealogy Society to show the home movies and one of the members sa...