Mae Ring

Home Address:

70 Prospect Street

San Francisco, CA

My GrandmaMae seemed to me to be a belligerent alcoholic whom was told to quit drinking & smoking around 1975 and lived another decade, she died in 1985 @age , Sacramento, CA, she lived with Jerilyn & her kid’s at that time.

Before that time all I remember is her smoking Pall Malls & frequently drunk, fighting with Shirley~ physically & mentally~ she was a brawler , no doubt-for sure! It is rumored through old family stories that she cold cocked my mom when she answered the door at my Christening - for no apparent reason~ & mom was a scrapper too, but in those day’s as new wife & mother & being young she must have been shocked – this must have been part of her training grounds- Who knows for sure from those old stories remembered from the memory of a child, but what I do know is they were never disputed by any party so…

Apparently there was a close relationship between my Dad & his mother, she didn’t want him to marry, she didn’t want him to be with another woman? Would call him “Jackie”, all drunk…..later when she was sober she couldn’t tolerate that kind of stuff & frequently threw Dad out, but he always came back~ the relationship was as strange as it sounds- too much alcohol in that family! I never had any emotional attachments or banded with neither Grandma Mae nor does it seem did she with me .