Standing: Robert Bordua
Seated, left to right: Dorothy, Lillian, Alexis and James Bordua with cat
Circa 1936
| Parents: Marriage: |
Alexis George Bordua Lillian Mary Henrietta Augustus Legge Roy Miller DeVeau |
| Children: | Idelle Lillian | Jan. 19, 1950 | |
| Notes: | At the time of the April 15, 1930 federal census, Dorothy M. was 3-10/12 years old and living |
| with her parents and eight siblings at
67 Spring Street, Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut. Her father was
working as a machinist in a woolen mill.
Dorothy remembers that her father worked three jobs. He was a full time mills mechanic and also worked as a carpenter, plumber, elecrician and farmhand during his life. He had two trained Irish Setter hunting dogs. The children weren't allowed to pet or play with them. He built a runway where the two dogs were kept. In the winter her father would put boards together to make a sled using strips of metal for the runners, which they would wax. Someone would watch for traffic and when the coast was clear they would sled down the hill across the road. Her father was always doing something to help them. There was quite a bit of land around their house. They had a chicken shed and raised their own eggs. It was a "nice young life." Dorothy lived in Ellington, Connecticut for over 41 years. Prior to her retirement, she worked 40 years for Hamilton Standard (Sunstrand) in Windsor Locks. Dorothy died at Rockville General Hospital on Sunday, April 25, 2010, ten days before her 84th birthday, of complications from her third stroke. |
| Ancestry: | The Bordua Line |
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