Marguerite Sperry Walker Denner

Marguerite Elizabeth Sperry was born Oct. 6, 1903, in New Haven, CT. She was the second child of Burton E. and May. The name she preferred was "Rite"...pronounced "Reet". Other names attributed to her were: AKA "the Pistol", "Firecracker" and "Leader of the Gang"!

Older sister Pauline was refined and demure like May. Rite was a ball of fire like her Dad! She was moody, quick to act, very social, a flirt and instigator. She also possessed her Dad's ability to manage finances, bookkeeping and stenography. She was quick and eager to learn new things. My motto of, "I'll try anything once, must have come from her genes!

Rite's first job was working for the Department of Motor Vehicles. She had the personality for working with the public and the clerical skills.

Marguerite Elizabeth Sperry, you can see the fire in her eyes! She preferred being called Rite...pronounced "REET". Other names she was called were: "The Pistol", "Little Spitfire". "Leader of the Gang", and "Red".

Her hair was red and curly and downright unruly! It suited her feisty personality perfectly! She grew to be all of 4' 11" with a personality 6 ft tall!

Rite is the little girl giving the scowl to the gal crying. This was a favorite look of disapproval. She used it often as she grew! If you got that look, you knew you were in trouble!

Susie Baldwin Norton and Rite. I believe the Norton house was down the street next to and behind the Blacksmith house on the corner of Graves and Boston Post Rd. In the 1960's, I think Merriam Norton lived there.

Rite's Fourth Grade Class 1911.
I have most of the names of the front row. Lft to rt: Maude Briggs, Robert Landon, Marguerite Sperry, Jane Conway, Alice Hibbard, Ruth Bartlett, ?, Frank Brown, ?, Percy Howarth,, Ernest Howarth, ?, Herbert Dudley.

There are over 40 kids, so I expect two grades were combined.

Rite's Gang, Lft to rt: Edith Ashman +Robert Norton, Charles Ives +Pearl Putney, Ernest Howarth + Rite,, and Merle Jillson +Margaret Rolf another photo from the Mulberry Point Picnic. Photo is not dated. Ray Rolf in previous photo was in Navy hat, which puts it about 1918

Rite only wore cheek rouge, powder and light lipstick. I can remember a mirror that hung in the corner by the sink, On the porcelain drainboard was her hair curling iron. She always used it to tame her hair, most of her life!

Now she is in the 1920's