Marjorie Lena Hundley Wootten


My maternal grandmother is Marjorie Wootten. Born on 9/4/1915 in the family home at 339 LaSalle Avenue in Hampton, she is the daughter of Robert Jeter Hundley and Selena Alice Jarvis Hundley.	Siblings: Emmett Grayson (10/27/1907-8/1985) Weldon R. (4/17/1908-12/1/1951)	Marjorie graduated from Hampton High School in 19 and from Mary Washington in 19.

The house is located on a corner, and Marjorie used to skate on the sidewalk that surrounded the house. She remembers that the yard was usually filled with kids. Parents would spend the evenings on porches in the neighborhood talking to each other while the kids played games like "Scatter, Sheep, Scatter", "Blind Man's Bluff," and "Hide-n-Seek."
Marjorie started her teaching career on the steps of the porch with her dolls and stuffed bears. Each step was a different grade. She also used the steps leading to the attic for a school.
On rainy days they played on a swing in the basement that hung from the rafters.

Porch of LaSalle Ave. home: Weldon, Lena Hundley, Sarah Jarvis, Josephine Jarvis Truss, & Marjorie (age 9)

Marjorie age 17 (1932)

For Christmas when she was 5 years old, Marjorie got a bisque doll with long curls named Pansey. She came with a trunk of clothes that her mother made and a wicker doll carriage. Marjorie put her in the china cabinet, but when the door was opened, Pansey fell out and broke. Another Christmas Marjorie received a Bylo doll.

Saturday nights the family would go to Newport News. Sometimes they went to the movies. Pop would carry a bag of candy in his pocket. (Sometimes Pop would put candy under Marjorie's pillow.) On one of these Saturday nights, Marjorie saw the Bylo doll that she liked in a store in Newport News.

As one of her chores, Marjorie would collect eggs from the chicken house. In order to get the eggs she would throw rocks at them to get them off the nests! Her mother had different kinds of chickens:
2 Buff Oppingtons, Dominickers, Rhode Island Reds. The Buff Oppingtons used to come sit on the kitchen windowsill to be hand carried to the hen house by her mother. The day her mother died Marjorie carried these to the hen house.

age 5, with Tiggie

Photos from Marjorie's college days

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Above: Stafford and Marjorie's pictures from Hampton High School

Stafford and Marjorie owned a cottage on Mobjack Bay in Gloucestor.

Marjorie taught school at ** from 19** to 19**. Above is a picture of her first school, Gloucestor Elementary. Here are a couple of her pictures as a teacher.

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