Busy Bee Club meets at Mrs. Heath's Heathcote

Photograph

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Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

a123.jpg 2.4MB: "Heathcote" was the home of May Francis Heath (back row, center), the village historian, who wrote a history of Saugatuck titled Early Memories of Saugatuck (1930). The Commercial Record reported that at the June 16, 1950 meeting the dessert served was "ginger bread with prune sauce, Jell-O, and coffee." The club was a quilting group and chapter of the Rebekah Lodge.
a123.jpg 2.4MB

"Heathcote" was the home of May Francis Heath (back row, center), the village historian, who wrote a history of Saugatuck titled Early Memories of Saugatuck (1930). The Commercial Record reported that at the June 16, 1950 meeting the dessert served was "ginger bread with prune sauce, Jell-O, and coffee." The club was a quilting group and chapter of the Rebekah Lodge.

Name/Title

Busy Bee Club meets at Mrs. Heath's Heathcote

Entry/Object ID

2022.21.123

Description

Simmons negative number 123 Busy Bee Club meets at May Heath's home named Heathcote, 525 Butler Street. An orange note identifies the women as (back row, l to r) Jeanette Walker, Helen Everette, May Heath, Sophia Pfaff, Estelle Berg (front row) Bessie Samuelson, Dude Coates, Lizzie Weed, Hattie Babcock and Hattie Veits. Index text: 123 0/3 Saugatuck - Clubs Busy Bee Club From photographic negatives created by William R. Simmons, editor of the Commercial Record newspaper between 1941 and 1961. More information may be in the 2001 SDHS book "Off the Record"

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Heath, May (Francis) 1873-1961, Busy Bee Club, Barr, Jeanette (Walker) 1902-1979, Everett, Helen, Pfaff, Sophia (Hirner) 1870-1854, Samuelson, Bessie 1868-1951, Coates, Julia Laura "Dude" (Shriver) 1886-1975, Weed, Elizabeth E. (Foley) 1862-1952, Babcock, Harriet Lavinia "Hattie" (Williams) 1865-1955, Veits, Hattie (Smalley) 1863-1948, 525 Butler/Heathcote 2nd/First Congregational Parsonage

Collection

William (Bill) Simmons, Clubs and social organizations

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2022.21

Location

Box

194 Simmons Negatives

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Simmons, William "Bill" R. 1890/1-1966

Create Date

March 8, 2022

Update Date

May 28, 2025