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 1903 - 1974 (70 years)
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| Name |
Elizabeth Romayne ("Pearl") Tambo |
| Born |
19 Jul 1903 |
Olyphant, PA  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
24 May 1974 |
Dearborn, MI (burial: St. hedwig, Dearborn, MI) |
| Person ID |
I04150 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2007 |
| Father |
William Tambo Tombow, b. 12 Apr 1866, Olyphant, PA , d. 18 Dec 1929, Olyphant, PA (Age 63 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, b. 5 May 1876, Gilosgate Moor, Co. Durham, England , d. 13 Apr 1932, Olypant, PA (Age 55 years) |
| Married |
8 Jun 1899 |
Scranton, PA |
| Family ID |
F0129 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Lewis Smith, b. 19 Apr 1902, Olyphant, PA , d. 4 Jan 1976, Ocala, FL (Age 73 years) |
| Married |
26 Jul 1922 |
Olyphant, PA, St. Patrick's Church |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F1548 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Photos
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 | Elizabeth "Pearl" Tambo Smith Popowski
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 | Pearl Tambo Smith and her daughter Ruth
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 | Pearl Tambo with her friend Essie
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 | Children of William and Elizabeth Tambo: Eddie, Peggy, Willie, Leo, Jack, and Pearl
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 | Pearl Tambo, Catherine, Ethel, and Jane Dunnigan, Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, and Mary "Polly" Fitzsimmons Dunnigan
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 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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| Notes |
- Elizabeth Romayne ("Pearl") Tambo, the third child of William Tambo and Elizabeth Fitzsimmons was born l9 July l903 in Olyphant and baptized at St. Patrick's Church. It is in her home that her parents spent their final years in Scranton, PA.
Following her younger brother, Leo, to Michigan in l936, she lived in many homes before settling at l344 Mayburn, Dearborn. She subsequently sold this home to her daughter, Ruth, and moved to Mason St. in west Dearborn.
Pearl married twice. She married for the first time to Lewis Smith in St. Patrick's Church, Olyphant, on 26 July l922. Lewis Smith was born l9 April l902 in Olyphant, PA., the son of Holis Smith and Jane Harris. He died 4 January l976 in Ocala, Florida. His remains were cremated. This marriage ended in divorce. There were three children of this marriage.
Pearl married a second time to Raymond Popowski in the Dearborn (MI) City Hall on 20 December l947. There were no children of this marriage.
Pearl Tambeau Popowski died 24 May l974 of several strokes and heart attacks, spending the last seversal months comatose, a fate so many of her maternal grandmother Anna Joyce Fitzsimmons' descendants shared, including Pearl's three brothers. She is buried in St. Hedwig Cemetery, Dearborn Heights, MI, in Section 3D, six graves from her brother Leo Tambeau's grave, who had suffered a similar death, l6 months before. She was 7l years old at the time of her death.
Pearl Tambeau and Lewis Smith had three children: Ruth Smith, Lois Smith and a still born, noted in the Family Bible only as "Baby Smith".
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