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- Niagara Gazette - 10/16/1965
TONAWANDA-"Just try
it," Capt. Joseph J. Musgrave
urged his wife. 10
years ago when camping
was first a topic of discussion.
She did, and now Mrs.
Doris Musgrave is a confirmed
outdoor enthusiast.'
"I've been to so many
places I never would have
seen," she said, listing trips
to Cape Cod, Maine, Vermont,
Canada and Washington,
D.C.
From a primitive start
with a large tent, the family
has progressed to a
travel trailer which sleeps
four.
They journeyed to the
nation's capital one Easter,
leaving the trailer at College
Park, Md., and joining
the scores of Girl Scouts
and school bands on their
yearly excursions.
°I'd like to go back, but
not at Easter," Mrs. Musgrave
said.
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VACATIONS during summer
holidays are rarities
for the Musgrave family.
That's when Capt. Musgrave,
who heads the Niagara
Frontier State Park
Police, is the busiest.
When the children were
small, they had a hard time
understanding why their father
could never take them
places on Sundays, she explained.
He always had to
work.
The girls are Barbara, 19,
a secretary with Prudential
Insurance Co. of America,
Town of Tonawanda, and
Beverly, 13, in the eighth
grade at Tonawanda Junior
High School.
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CAMPING is usually a
family affair. This year,
however, Barbara was working
and unable to join them
for a trip to the World's
Fair. A trailer park at
North Bergen, N.J. provided
a handy stop-over for the
sight-seers.
"We would love to go out
West or South, but those
are things we just talk
about," Mrs. Musgrave said.
She enjoys the out-ofdoors
and is happy putter-
ing in her flower and vegetable
garden, raking leaves
or shoveling snow in the
winter.
TONAWANDA has not
always been home to her.
Born on Grand Island, the
former Doris Yensan grew
up in the area which is now
Beaver Island State Park.
Her father worked for
the state and it was through
him that she met Joseph
Musgrave, then a park patrolman.
With World War
II intervening, it was five
years before the couple
married.
Prior to the wedding in
1943, Mrs. Musgrave. a
graduate of Riverside High
School, Buffalo, worked as
a te-lephone operator for
two years and in the office
of the traffic manager of
Remington Rand Co. for
seven years.
When Capt. Musgrave returned
from service overseas,
the newLyweds moved
to Ft. Jay, near New York
City, where he was stationed.
The young bride was
em/ployed doing office work
in a mortgage information
service.
A year and a haM later,
they returned to Grand Island,
to reside in the former
Yensan home, which
had become state property.
They occupied only the first
floor of the two-story structure.
"It was hard getting furniture
for just that floor,''
she recalled.
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FINDING THEMSELVES
too isolated on the island
and with most of Mrs. Musgrave's
family moving to
this corrvrminity, the couple
followed suit, buying their
first house in Broad Street.
They moved to their present
home, 35 Koch St., 13
years ago.
When her children were
born, Mrs. Musgrave gave
up her job and turned her
attention to domestic matters.
She learned to sew while
she was in New York and
has since enrolled in two
advanced sewing classes in
adult education. She prefers
to work on "basics,"
such as skirts which are
not so dependent on everchanging
styles.
* * *
NOW, with the years of
PTA and scout work behind,
?he is looking for
other means to occupy her
time. She has considered a
part-time job or volunteer
work.
"My husband isn't too
much in favor of it. He
thinks 1 have enough to
do," she said.
She found her typing ability
of some assistance for a
while when her husband
needed help with police reports.
An expanded staff
has eliminated that function
for her, though.
She did aid in typing his
speech of acceptance when
he was named "Man of the
Year" by the Niagara Falls
Chapter, Disabled American
Veterans, in May.
"Wh e n he g a v e the
speech, I could almost repeat
it word for word," she
said.
AT HOME, her constant
companion is "Pretty Baby."
the third in the line of family
parakeets. He perches
on her shoulder while she
performs household chores,
chatters in his cage, or
plays contentedly on the
floor with a collection of
small toys.
Mrs. Musgrave, one of
six children, is at no loss for
family ties. Five^_ of her
brothers and sisters reside
in Tonawanda. The annual
family Christmas gathering
grew, to such proportions
that they found it necessary
to rent a hall to accommodate
the grouip, she said.
Birthdays and picnics bring
the family together, too.
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