Closing out the story on Mary

After the death of William Irvine, Mary Cox Irvine remained in St. Joseph, Missouri for several years. She remarried in 1951, to widower Charles H. Martin. She retained her love of travel. A news article below describes a vacation that she and Charles took in late July 1964 to the Seattle area to go deep sea fishing. They made an earlier trip to the Pacific Northwest, attending the 1962 Worlds Fair in Seattle, with its landmark building, the Space Needle.

St. Joseph News-Press, 7 Aug 1964

Charles passed away in 1966. As posted previously, Mary eventually returned to Dandridge, Tennessee. There's quite the gap between the obituary for Charles in 1966 and her own obituary in 1996. Perhaps more will surface at a later date.

It has been interesting looking back at Mary's travels - luxury liners to Hawaii, around the world twice for months at a time during a gilded age of travel before the common use of intercontinental flights. In this day of COVID restricted stay-at-home orders and travel bans, I've been a little envious of how she managed to see the world. Here's to Mary and her many adventures.

Huntington Library. SS Malolo, 1928.