PAULINE
CHRISTINE TAYLOR
AKA
PENNY,
born Pauline Christine Cunningham on October 7,
1924 in Somerville, Massachusetts to Ethel Christine (Martel) Cunningham
& McKinley Hobart Cunningham. She was the youngest of four children.
She had three brothers, McKinley Hobart (Mac), Absolom Marion (Bill) and
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Her family moved to Brooklyn, NY where her mother died in April of 1930.
She and her brothers were placed in an orphanage because her Dad just
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In September of 1930, her Dad married Bertie Cunningham (Mama) and one
by one they were able to bring the family back together. From that point
on Pauline lived predominantly in the Boston area and graduated the
eighth grade from Prince Grammar School. She went on to complete high
school and business college. She majored in commercial art.
She moved to Washington, D.C. during the war years (WWII) and worked for the San Mateo Co, CA,
recorder. She married and gave birth to two
children, Donna Bertie and Ronald Eugene.
After moving to New Jersey, she gave birth to two more children, David
Bruce and Scott Alexander. She was to become a single parent long before
the term was even coined. She worked many different types of jobs. She worked at the Newark, NJ
airport, and spent years as a Travel Consultant and Travel Escort.
Penny traveled to Mexico and throughout the Caribbean -
Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas. She organized and escorted a trip thru British Columbia and inside passage of
Alaska. She served as a Travel Escort for Hawaii and all islands (several trips).
In Seal Beach, CA, she was Manager of American World Tours travel office.
Her expertise was in ships, for passenger travel (freighters, cargo ships and passenger lines).
| In 1963, Penny moved
to California where she met and married Arthur Taylor on March
29, 1968. After several years of living in Southern California, they
decided they wanted to live in the Northwest. So they packed up a moving
van with no particular destination in mind and headed out. After quite
awhile on the road and after visiting several towns, they found
themselves camping just outside of Moscow, Idaho one night. That's when
Pauline (long since called Penny) saw the bear. That was the end of
camping out and the beginning of their new life in Moscow, Idaho. She
went to work at the University of Idaho as the Secretary to the Dean of Veterinary Medicine, for ten
years before retiring. |
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When she and Art retired, they moved to Elk River, Idaho and
subsequently to Washington, NC. They now
live in New Port Richey, Florida.
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