Tenth Generation

135. Dolores KELLS was born on 6 April 1912 in Cranston, Providence Co., RI. She died on 17 November 1961 at the age of 49 in North Scituate, RI. She was buried. Colonial Garden, Lot #50, Grave 2, Highland Memorial Park, 1 Rhode Island Ave., Johnston, R.I. 02919-2120 Funeral: Juhlin-Pearson Funeral Home . Birth recorded in Cranston records, book no. 6, page 80.

Her baby book records her birth as Saturday, April 6, 1912, at 11:47 p.m. The doctor was H. G. Partridge and the nurse, her grandmother, F. Lodema Kells. She weighed 8 1/2 lbs. She grew up in the Eden Park section of Cranston, RI, at 71 Hawthorne Avenue and attended public schools there. She played the piano. After graduating from high school, she worked as a stenographer.

Cause of death was a pulmonary embolus, according to Dr. Robert Spencer. She was living at Rockland Road, North Scituate, R.I., at the time of her death. She died around 8 a.m. in the morning. She called me the night before she died (I was in graduate school at Syracuse University) and was having difficulty breathing, but she said not to worry about her. She had had phlebitus and had been under a doctor's care for losing weight. She was taking several prescription medications. My father's theory was that there was a conflict between the prescriptions that caused her death.

She was a member of North Scituate Baptist Church, the Sadie R. Potter Friendly Circle, and the Ladies Aid Society.

Dolores KELLS and Charles Bradford LEONARD were married on 12 October 1933 in Cranston, Providence Co., RI. Charles Bradford LEONARD, son of Walter Bradford LEONARD and Edith Annie REGESTER, was born on 25 February 1906 in Providence, RI. He died Cardiopulmonary arrest, artherosclerotic heart disease on 25 June 1998 at the age of 92 in Englewood, FL. He was cremated on 27 June 1998 in Southeastern Crematory, Punta Gorda, FL. Charles was buried in July 1998 in Colonial Garden, Lot #50, Grave 1, Highland Memorial Park, 1 Rhode Island Avenue, Johston, R.I.. He was described as 5'7". His body just plain gave out at age 92. He fell and broke his hip (second time). Hospital repaired hip, but he never recovered and died within a month. He couldn't swallow, eat, or take fluids. He was educated in Brown University, Ph.B, 1929. He graduated from Brown University, 1929. He took additional course work at Rhode Island College and Harvard University.

He worked for Brown and Sharp Manufacturing Co. in the accounting department, 1930-32, then became a teacher and Assistant Principal, Valentine Almy School, Cranston, R.I., 1932-38, Superintendent of Schools, Little Compton, RI, 1938-48, and Superintendent of Schools, Scituate, RI, 1948-63. He retired at the relatively young age of 58 because, he said, "longevity doesn't run in the Leonard family" and he wanted to enjoy a few years in the sun. At Valentine Almy and J.F. Wilbur schools, he concentrated on building up the athletic programs and later developed expertise in building schools. While Union Superintentdent of Scituate and Foster, he led the construction of the first consolidated elementary school in Foster, the Isaac Paine School (Foster had one-room schools scattered around town until that time). While in Scituate, he led the building of the town's first high school.

He married (2) Etta Anthony, a neighbor, a few years after his first wife, Dolores, died unexpectedly. He and Etta moved to Florida in 1966, buying a small cottage in Grove City (Englewood) for $11,000. Etta died unexpectedly of cancer in 1981. He did not remarry, although had a constant companion, Mae Malcomsen, who predeceased him in 1996 at age 96. That seemed to take the will to live out of him, and he died two years later after a broken hip operation.

Resided: 84 Summer Street, Cranston, RI, 1934-36; 61 Waldron Ave., Cranston, RI, 1936-38, South of Commons, Little Compton, RI, 1938-48, Westcott Road, North Scituate, RI, 1949-50, Rockland Road, North Scituate, RI, 1950-65, Grove City, Florida, 1966-98.

Birth Certificate: Book 18, page 297. Shows father, Walter B., born in Bristol, R.I., age 19, occupation: travelling salesman; mother, Edith A., born in East Providence, age 17, residing at 135 Reservoir Avenue, Providence, R.I.

Dolores KELLS and Charles Bradford LEONARD had the following children: