Mabel Florence Twigg's Obituary
Mabel Hedrick Twigg passed away on June 12, 2012 in Manteca, California, with her family at her bedside. Mabel was born on December 16, 1916, in Kline, West Virginia, and had a life that only a true 20th century woman of the Greatest Generation could have. And she lived it on her terms. She was the oldest of four sisters and the youngest of five half brothers who moved from West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware during the Depression. When her father died early in her life, Mabel quit school so she could work to help raise the family. She married George Twigg in Keyser, West Virginia, before he entered World War II and landed at Normandy. She stayed home and worked in the factories to help support the war. After the war, they moved to California to raise their three sons, George Michael, Joe, and David. Three good men, she would always say. George Twigg, her husband, preceded her in death in 1976. Mabel had a great smile, laugh and sense of humor. Once when her grandson, Curtis, was doing a class project on covered wagons, his father told him Mabel came to California in one. Curtis called his Grandmother for the class project and Mabel played along. Told him about the whole trip from West Virginia to California in 1948 in a covered wagon. Mabel also had her son David believing for years that he was found under a rock. As David grew older, it was years of fun between them.Mabel finally did get her high school degree when she retired from work. She was a proud FDR Democrat and never missed voting in an election. She lived in the same house she and George bought in 1952 in Hayward, California, until she died.Mabel is survived by her three sons, three daughters-in-law, eight grandchildren, and 10 great grandchildren. She also has two brothers-in-law in West Virginia. Family and friends are invited to a visitation on Friday, June 22, 2012 from 5pm-9pm and a funeral Service will be on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 10 a.m. at Chapel of the Chimes, 32992 Mission Blvd, Hayward, CA. You may send floral tributes to Chapel of the Chimes Funeral Home for Mabel.
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