Word: elivera
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flew on to Denver at week's end (for the funeral services of his beloved "Min," Mamie's mother Elivera Doud, 82-see MILESTONES). From a purely political point of view, Republicans could take comfort from the roar of the week's crowds wherever he went, particularly those he heard in New York. Clearly his eight-year honeymoon with the American voter had not lost its glow...
...Died. Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud, 82, mother of Mamie Eisenhower; of a stroke; in Denver. Daughter of Swedish immigrants, she was born in Boone, Iowa, at 16 married Meat Packer John Doud (who died in 1951). A witty woman with a tart tongue, she moved to Denver in 1904, lived and died in the same house the Douds bought then. To Ike she was "Min"-after Mrs. Andy Gump in the comic strip: she got the nickname from Ike and her two daughters, who would kiddingly chorus, "Oh, Min!" when John Doud, in search of missing apparel, called, "Oh, Mother...