Martha Ann (Dillion) McRorie (1932 - 2016)

Born 20 Oct 1932 in Middletown, Montgomery, Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Daughter of John Edward Dillion and Cora Isabelle (Holt) Dillion

Descendants

Died 23 Aug 2016 at age 83 in Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington, United States

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Biography

Martha (Dillion) McRorie is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.

Martha was born in 1932 in Middletown, Missouri to John E. Dillion and Cora I. (Holt) Dillion.

The 1940 Census is the first to include Martha. She is shown as a seven year old girl in the household of her parents on the farm in Hartford Township, Pike County, Missouri,^[1] a small farming community just outside of Middletown, Missouri, which is just over the county line, in Montgomery County.

Martha Ann and Fern Wortman (Thomas) who was born in the same month, were close friends in addition to being second cousins. They attended school together all the way up through High School in Wellsville, Missouri.

The 1950 Census^[2] shows her at age 17 in the home of her parents in Hartford Township, Pike County, Missouri.

"Marty" met Chester E. McRorie in the summer of 1951 while he was visiting his sister who lived on the farm next door. He gave her his Naval Academy Class Pin. Marty & Chet married on 21 June 1953, in Middletown, a marriage that lasted until her death, over 63 years later.

In 1960 she completed her Bachelor of Science in Education at the University of Missouri.^[3] She earned her Masters Degree in Education from the University of Denver and she received the WAETAG (Washington Association of Educators of the Talented and Gifted) 1998 Outstanding Teacher Award.^[4]

She and Chet raised three children, of whom she was quite proud and pleased. When they did something she was pleased with, she would often look at them and say "Your mother raised you right!"^[5]

She died in 2016 in Bremerton, Washington.^{[6] [7]}

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K775-S4K : 28 July 2019), John E Dillion, Hartford Township, Pike, Pike, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 82-17, sheet 7A, line 14, family 142, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2140.
2. ↑ "United States 1950 Census"
   citing Page: 72; Line: 18;
   FamilySearch Record: 6FMY-DR82 (accessed 23 December 2022)
   FamilySearch Image: 3QHK-SQHW-VPV7
   Martha Ann Dillion (17), single daughter, in household of John E. Dillion (56 years) in Hartford Township, Pike, Missouri, United States. Born in Missouri.
3. ↑ On Degree List At Missouri U.; The Kansas City Times, Kansas City, Missouri, Saturday, 6 Aug 1960, page 5, found on Newspapers.com
4. ↑ McRorie goes to the head of the class; Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, Washington, Friday, 4 Dec 1998, page 3, found on Newspapers.com
   Full text also available here.
5. ↑ Personal recollection of events told to or witnessed by Bartley McRorie, as remembered 26 May 2019.
6. ↑ Obituary For Martha Ann Dillion McRorie; Tuell-McKee Funeral & Cremation Services, found on TuellMcKee.com
   Full text also available here.
7. ↑ Obituary for Martha Dillion McRorie, 83; Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, Washington, 30 Aug 2016, found on KitsapSun.com
   Full text also available here.

• FamilySearch profile for Martha Ann Dillion (1932–2016), accessed 28 Feb 2021.

• Marshall, Maudie Marie (Holt), 1908-. The Descendants of Michael Holt. Houston, Texas, 1967, page 518.

• Maternal relationship confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Bartley McRorie and Rex Harmon, his 2nd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are William Holt and Malinda Maupin, the great grandparents of both Bartley McRorie and Rex Harmon. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd-3rd Cousin, based on sharing 219 cM across 9 segments.

• Paternal relationship confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Bartley McRorie and his First Cousin Once Removed Ronald Dillion who share 384 cm across 19 segments with a predicted relationship of 1st-2nd Cousin. Their Most Recent Common Ancestors are James Bartley Dillion (1858-1948) and Lenora Belle Moore (1866-1931).

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