It's a Pug Life

 

 

trinkets my mom inherited from Doris Maxine Perry

Quick Bio 

    Doris Maxine Perry, daughter of Elmer Wasson Perry and Ethel Maria Lease, was born on March 8, 1921 in Fortescue, Holt County, Missouri. She married Maurice Lee Gould in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 8, 1940. They had one son, Gregory Gould, and adopted a daughter named Maureen Gould. After Maurice died, Doris remarried Charles Dwight Tritle in Los Angeles, California on November 17, 1973. After their divorce in 1977, she later married Joseph John Kook in 1985. Doris died on December 22, 2011 in Riverside, California. 

A Story of Pugs

    Great grandma Doris Maxine Perry loved pugs. Her house was full of pug nick-nacks or, as she used to call them, bric-a-brac. When she died, my mom inherited many of her pug trinkets. The pug chef has a place of honor above the stove in my mother's kitchen, and the other nick-nacks adorn the shelves in her bedroom. The pug all the way on the right now sits on my ancestor altar. And not only have we kept the love of pugs alive in the family through cherished heirlooms, but we have also had real life pug dogs over the generations. 

 

Pandy the pug, my grandpa Gregory Gould, & Maureen Gould 

 

Otis the pug & my mom Summer Gould

 

And finally, meet my snuggle bugs Percy "the lightning" Pugson & Ally "little grandma" Pugson 

With love, 

Autumn Rose Surratt 

The Ancestor Witch 

Sources 

• U.S. Find a Grave Index memorial ID # 82487367 
• U.S. California Marriage Index 1960-1985 on Ancestry 
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL4G-F65M 
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPBH-ZWP