Mary Jean Mabie

1918 - 2016  (97 years)

• Name	Mary Jean Mabie  [1]
  Birth	15 Jul 1918	Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Census	Jan 1920	262 Grand River Avenue, East Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan   [1]
  	Roy W. Mabie, Head, M, W, 27, M, New York, New York, New Jersey, Salesman, Oil Company Lucy S Mabie, Wife, F, W, 31, M, Michigan, Michigan, Michigan Mary Jean Mabie, Daughter, F, W, 1 yr 5 mo, S, Michigan, Michigan, New York
  Census	Jun 1930	121 North Chestnut Street, Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan   [3]
  	Lucy L, Mabie, Head, owns house worth $30,000, F, W, 41, D, Michigan, Michigan, Michigan, none Gertrude Longyear, Sister, F, W, 22, S, Michigan, Michigan, Michigan, secretary Mary J Mabie, Daughter, F, W, 11, S, Michigan, New Jersey, Michigan Barbara L Mabie, Daughter, F, W, 9, S, Michigan, New Jersey, Michigan and five lodgers
  Census	19 Apr 1940	121 North Chestnut Street, Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan   [4]
  	Gertrude Longyear, owns home worth $9400, Head, F, W, 52, S, completed 4 years high school, born in Michigan, Stenographer, Insurance Co, wages earned in 1939 - $2000 Lucy S Maybe, Sister, F, W, 51, Wd, completed 4 years high school, born in Michigan, unable to work Mary Jean Maybe, Niece, F, W, 21, S, attended school, completed 3 years college, born in Michigan Barbara Maybe, Niece, F, W, 19, S, attended school, completed 1 year college, born in Michigan
  Death	5 Jan 2016	Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan   [2]
  Obituary	10 Jan 2016	Lansing, Michigan   [2]
  	Mary Jean Mabie Munroe was born July 15, 1918 in Lansing, Michigan to Roy Mabie and Lucy Longyear Mabie. She died January 5, 2016. She is survived by her husband Peter. At the time of her birth, her father was a soldier in the US Army. Her mother and father were divorced while Mary Jean was an infant. According to bits of information acquired by Mary Jean as she was growing up, her father had been driven away by her maternal grandmother, the dominant matriarch of the family. Thereafter, Mary Jean and her sister (Barbara Lou), two years younger, were raised by her mother, and her mother's sister, Gertrude Longyear. Gertrude Longyear became the economic mainstay of the family. These two great and gracious ladies sacrificed all of their personal desires and dreams to raise and educate two beautiful girls. Both of the girls ultimately were graduated from Lansing Central High School and Michigan State University (then Michigan State College). While in college, the two girls lacked for nothing. Mary Jean majored in languages, and her younger sister studied music. Both became members of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. In Mary Jean's junior year, she met the man who was to become her husband. The romance began on one of Mary Jean's infrequent trips to the college library and culminated in marriage in October, 1940. The young couple began their married life living and working in Detroit. Mary Jean taught herself typing and shorthand and became expert in both. When her husband was commissioned in the US Navy in 1942, she returned briefly to Lansing and then obtained employment in New York where she worked in the personnel department of a major engineering firm. When the war ended, she went to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband. While her husband was a student at Harvard Law School, she worked in the public relations department of the Polaroid Corporation. While Mary Jean worked for Polaroid, the company developed the famous Land camera, and she modeled frequently for photographs during the camera's development. After her husband's graduation from law school, Mary Jean returned with him to Lansing where he began his la career. She became a secretary to the superintendent of the East Lansing Public Schools. For the next 43 years she worked for several superintendents. One of her duties was to take and transcribe minutes of the meetings of the Board of Education.... When her husband organized and opened his own law firm, Mary Jean became the paymaster for the firm. She prepared the payrolls and made all of the necessary federal and state filings....
  Reference Number	28825
  Person ID	I28618	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Roy Wallace Mabie,   b. 6 Sep 1892, Nyack, New York d. 29 Jun 1954, Dade County, Florida (Age 61 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Lucy Longyear,   b. 1888, Michigan d. 1952 (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Divorce	Y  [3]
  Family ID	F8973	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Peter Bruce Munroe,   b. 9 Jul 1918, Detroit, Michigan d. 5 Jan 2019, Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan (Age 100 years)
  Marriage	5 Oct 1940	Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan   [2, 5]
  Family ID	F14349	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S303] 1920 United States Census; Url: ancestry.com, East Lansing, Ingham, Michigan; Roll: T625_771; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 85; Image: 111. [S499] Research of Dan Burrows of Orange County, NY, obit in Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan), 10 Jan 2016, Sun, Page A16. [S302] 1930 United States Census; Url: ancestry.com, Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, Roll: 991, Page 11B, Enumeration District: 14, Image: 554. [S455] 1940 United States Census; Url: ancestry.com, Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, Roll T627-1760, Page 6A, ED 33-20A. [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952.