Person:Mildred Brock (2)

My grandmother, Mildred Brock, was born in 1910 in Warnerton, Washington Parish, Louisiana, where her father Fleet Brock was a medical doctor. She was born "Mildred Thelma Brock" but, not liking that name, changed it in later life to "Mildred Louise Brock." Not long after her birth, the family removed to Hackley and, from thence, to Bogalusa, where her father joined the staff of Elizabeth Sullivan Memorial Hospital. Her mother's death in 1920, and her father's death in an automobile accident in 1923, left her an orphan at the age of 13. Her father had remarried to Mattie Hale after the death of her mother, but when Fleet Brock died in 1923 Mattie, being a young woman with work responsibilities, could not raise the children by herself. A quarrel arose among the paternal and maternal kin and the children of Fleet Brock were "split up," Leslie Brock and Freddie Brock being sent to live with uncle Walter Brock, and Mildred being sent to her life with her maternal great-aunt, Dollie Wilson McElveen. I remember hearing my grandmother and her sister Freddie speaking with unveiled contempt for Wiltz Cutrer, the Pike County, Mississippi judge who "split them up." When she was high school age, she was sent to boarding school at Hillman Insitute, next door to Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. She attended college at Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, and spoke fondly of her experiences at both of those institutions. She met my grandfather John Magee at an evening soiree in Walthall County, Mississippi, and they were married in 1932. Upon marriage, they removed to Kentwood, where Grandpa John worked for a bank. However, the onset of the Great Depression, along with the advancement in age of John's parents Albert and Mary Magee, required the removal back to the old Magee homeplace at Clifton, Washington, Parish, Louisiana, where they took care of Albert and Mary until their respective deaths in 1950 and 1955. After the removal back to Clifton, Mildred first taught in a one room school house at Warnerton, before she accepted a job with the Social Security Administration in Bogalusa. She commuted there and back on a daily basis. Grandma loved flowers and kept a greenhouse next door to the family home. She was also a longtime organist for the Clifton Baptist Church at Clifton.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Louisiana, United States. Certificate of Death. (Louisiana Department of Health, Vital Records Office).

   Death Cert #3703873