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Note: DEATH: August 9, 1989 at Christian Science Nursing Facility on Beacon St. in Beacon Hill, MA. She had suffered from breast cancer for abt. 4 or 5 yrs and finally agreed to go the C.S. for nursing care on Sunday, Aug. 6, 1989 the day after son Evan's marriage/wedding to Maria on Aug. 5. Bessie was at peace and passed away on Tuesday, August 9. BURIAL: There is a gravestone for Bessie at Mountain View cemetery on No. 6 Rd. in Weld, ME where husband Don has part of his ashes - no ashes of hers are there. Directions for MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY :WELD, ME. From Wilton take Rt 156 to Weld. When you get to the town of Weld go straight across on Rt. 142 North for 2.3 miles. Then take a left onto West Side Road and go until you come to a dirt road going straight ahead. Go for 1.8 miles and you will see the cemetery on the right. The cemetery has been well taken care of.
Cremated in Boston. Husband Donald and 3 daughters drove to Boston on Saturday to pick up her ashes and personal belongings. I believe it was on Bessie's birthday later that month on Aug. 24 that the family, spouses, grandchildren, etc. drove up a long bumpy, dirt road, eventually took a left on another dirt logging road up to Houghton Mt (or Hill?) in Weld, Maine. They buried Bessie's ashes there so that she would be close to where Bessie had buried her twin brother Bernard's ashes on Houghton Hill a couple of years before. Bessie had always, always closely looked out for her twin from toddler age on til Bernard's death. Bessie Bernard's mother died from complications of pregancy with the twins. It was said that their mother was already seriously ill when the twins were born. Their mother (Bessie Adelia Tash Plaisted) died 4 days following their birth). Bessie excelled in school but decided to stay back one year with her twin Bernard (in early elementary school grade) in Weld to watch out and help Bernard in classroom.
NOTES FROM youngest half-sister Gladys: Morning Dan......Yes, Bessie was our Family Angel. Over her years, she took care of a lot of us. Ernie always said she was an Angel!! During WWII when Carl was in the Navy, she stayed with Shirley and babysat the kids so Shirley could work in the Auburn Shoe Shop. Later on, she took in or stayed with not only Dad, but Ethel, and later Bev and you guys, and of course me. Maybe, even with Aunt Adelaide, at one time. I know they, Unc. Del, looked after Ruth & Esther some, also.....and paid for your Dad, I think, to do his stint in college, in Penn. He was there when Bessie had Evan and had her labor pains, calling them before they called him about the baby. That's twins for you! I'm not sure if he finished and graduated. Do you know? She took Carl Jr. & me for a month's visit one summer with Ruth, in Buffalo, N.Y. We went by bus. Jr. & I were only about 10 or 11, I think. That same summer, my Grandmother visited her sister, in Weld, coming from Oklahoma City and I wasn't there to meet her. I never did meet her and only corresponded a short time with her. She'd left my Grandfather and my Mother to run off with a traveling salesman....and had another family out there. Earland went to look her up when he was stationed in Texas, in the Air Force, in the mid 40's. She never did bother much with he, Bev or I. I guess all families have their strange quirks, hey?!! My Mother died when I was 2-yrs old, of Hodgkins Disease. She was 30....a lot younger than my Dad. I don't remember him being anything BUT old, with no teeth!! ha ha
I was at Bessie & Don's during my Freshman & Sophmore Years at Weld High School. Then they needed the space, with Nancy coming along, and he moved me to strangers in Greenville, dropped me and left!! My Dad wasn't the best provider for ANY of his kids, and my Bruce is just like him! After I graduated, Bessie, Don, Earland, Lee, Bev & Ernie brought me back to Don's to live, the next day. They'd been up for my grad. - not my Dad!! But I wasn't there long, before I moved to Pelham, N.Y. and a job in the office with the Cornwall Co. Bev had been with Cornwall's before she married and they needed an office worker. Guess they figured if Bev had been a good worker, I would be, too! And I was!! Plaisted's are ALL good hard workers. I lived with them and worked in the office days and helped with their kids nights & weekends, as did Bev. After a couple of years, they sent me to night school for bookkeeping and I worked with his Office Bookkeeper until he closed that office and moved the business to South Paris, Maine. Then I did the bookkeeping there, till I married my 1st husband. I was with that Co. for about 5-yrs. Some vacations I always returned to Bessie's or Bev's. I sure do miss them both.
Enuf for now....Love, Aunty Glad (AG Ruthie calls me!!)
MEMORIES from niece Heidi Howard, dau. of Esther (Plaisted) Howard: Hi Gladys, THANK YOU FOR THIS ! My earliest memory of you "girls" was at Bessie's with a lot of people there. You two were glamorous young adults talking about dates etc. I was memorized. You were both so beautiful. I always loved going to Bessie's for supper and sitting around the big table listening to the ladies talking. I stayed with Bessie & family once when the rest of the family went to Buffalo. I slept on the couch and listened to the cookoo clock sounding out the quarter hours. I went to school at the Weld School and had the best time. That experience held life-long influence on me. I've always loved the old fashioned multi-grade schools and was lucky enough to work in a couple of them when I was in St. Johnsbury VT. Thank you for sending along all the pictures and comments. Love ya, Heidi
MEMORIES from nephew Dan Plaisted, son of Bernard Plaisted (twin to Bessie): I also have always felt close to Aunt Bessie. She was ever more of a mother to me and Diane than our own. We spent so munch time and Xmas' in Maine, we even spent so much time in Weld, we had to attend school with their kids. Take care, Dan
MEMORIES from niece Heidi: Hi Gladys, I never knew about Bessie tipping tables. The supernatural or metaphysical abilities are strong in this family of ours. I always thought Mom, grandparents were the accepting influence which allows these abilities to thrive and using them makes them grow stronger. Experiencing these things makes one a believer! I've had a rich and interesting life full of "strange" accurances. I LOVE IT....never get tired of it....each time something happens I am thrilled by it. Most recently, Mom spoke to me in my "twilight zone". She spoke my name from down the hall...I woke up enough to sit up and say "What?" Nothing more that night. The next night she spoke my name again in a disgusted tone (as if to say, didn't you get this last night?) and showed me a tire on my car. Sure enough, one tire was ready to blow out with a broken tread!
Back in June a friend called me to say she had a message for me from my father. He saw me sitting at the table with a mound of paperwork and being very worried and upset. He said, "It's OK....you can do this...don't worry...it'll be OK" I had no idea what he was talking about so I just said OK, thank you, and "filed" it away for future reference. Within a couple weeks, Kevin was fired from his good-paying job without warning. So then I knew what Dad was talking about. Because I'd had that warning I was able to not panic and to help Kevin get thru the shock of this change. It has been intense, but I got busy making changes we should have done long ago, getting health insurance elsewhere etc, making modifications to the spending habits etc. So...once again...THANK YOU TO THE POWERS THAT BE for the personal connection !!
I have many, many such stories that go back many, many years. Maybe this summer we can share some. Love to all, Heidi
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