Doris Laura Wooley

     Doris Laura Wooley was born on 25 August 1896, in Springfield, MA. Doris had dated Lloyd del Castilio (her brother-in-law) before she married Ed, her husband.¹ She married Edmund Stanley Male, son of John Male and Zipporah Elizabeth Bird, on Saturday, 2 March 1918 in Chicopee Falls, MA.² Doris lived in Hamden, CT.² Doris was a musician. She taught piano, sang in choirs and gave singing lessons. When Doris and Ed married they lived in Davenport, IO and then moved to Chicopee Falls until 1920 (when daughter Barbara was born - they probably lived with her parents).Next they moved to West Haven, 6 blocks from the water where Doris took her children to the beach in the wagon. Then they moved in West Haven to Washington St and then to Elm Street between First and Second when Jani was a baby.Next, Treadwell St second house from the cemetery, on the second floor - they moved downstairs to the first floor after Ed had his accident. and lost his arm. Mather Street was next, and then Skiff Street, which was the favorite house. Eventually, after the two older girls married they moved to Filbert Street.¹ Doris was always looking to better her daughters, she was bound that they would have a better life than she. She always aspired to better houses, spoke well in the house, etc.¹ She died on 7 August 1968 in New Haven, CT, at age 71.² The cause of her death was bone cancer.²