`beware Of Dog' Was Not An Empty Warning 
Concerning The Article About An Edwardsville Police Officer Shooting A Dog 
(may 18), It Appears That This Officer Was Not Properly Trained In The Correct 
Procedures.

Anna Tribendis 
May 31, 1996 
Anna B. Tribendis Of Walnut Street, Luzerne, Died Friday At Kingston Health 
Care Center.

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105-year-old woman showed basics are best &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 In a way, Margia ``Bonnie'' Lamoreaux lives onLamoreaux was 105, and
believed to be the oldest resident of Luzerne County, when she died May 20. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Within 12 hours of her death, her brain was removed and shipped to the
University of Miami. There the Brain Endowment Bank is studying the brains of
people who lived a long time without developing diseases such as Alzheimer's.
"There are not too many people who had a brain like my mother did," says
Lamoreaux's daughter, Evelyn Rodman, who heard about the study two days before
her mother died. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "Her mind was sharp as a dollar. We were fortunate," Evelyn says. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Over the course of her life, Lamoreaux witnessed the advent of electricity,
automobiles, telephones, computers. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "She went from horse-and-buggy to people going up in space," says Evelyn,
who has a theory for her mother's long life. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "My mother never mentioned the word diet in her life. She never took
medicine. She did not go to a doctor," says Evelyn. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Lamoreaux lived with Evelyn and her husband in Cambra at the far western
end of Luzerne County for 24 years, before she moved to the Bonham Nursing
Home in Stillwater in March 1995. She was healthy to the end and died of old
age. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "She was raised on pure foods right out of the garden," says Evelyn, who
will be 77 next month. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Born in Huntington Mills in 1891, Lamoreaux was the daughter of a farmer
prosperous enough to have farm hands. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "A big date in her time was to get in the sled Saturday night and go to
Benton to a big hotel for square dancing," Evelyn recalls of the family
stories she heard growing up. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Married in 1914 at age 23, she and her husband, Corey F. Lamoreaux, settled
in Kingston. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 After Lamoreaux had her girls -- Ermah and Evelyn -- the family moved to
New Jersey. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 After her own marriage, Evelyn joined her serviceman husband in numerous
moves, finally settling in Cambra in 1971. Her sister, Ermah Dolan, lives in
Florida now, but every June she comes north to continue a family tradition --
summers spent at the Patterson Grove Camp Ground just a short drive from
Cambra. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "No matter where we lived, we came back to the grove every summer," Evelyn
says. Her grandchildren are the sixth generation to enjoy the sugar maple
grove encampment, which is actually a cluster of 134 cottages. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Many of the two-story wood frame homes were built by relatives back in the
1800s. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 After Margia Lamoreaux's death, her daughters found an old stationary box
filled with mementos of her life. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 There was a business card, printed after her marriage in 1914, announcing
in lovely script "Mr. and Mrs. Corey F. Lamoreaux. At home after the 1st of
September." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Also included was her husband's obituary, now yellowed and stiff with age,
and a picture of the only male in the Huntington Mills High School Class of
1908. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 And there was a diary written by Lamoreaux's mother in the 1930s. One of
her first entries concerned the Flood of '36: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "The flood they had it was awful," Emma Rood wrote. "Laura had 4 feet of
water in her house. Laura and the girls are cleaning the stairs. I am
knitting." Her daughters laugh when they read the handwritten last will and
testament that Lamoreaux also left in her box. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "Stick together and be good to each other," she wrote to her daughters. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Lamoreaux was living with her sister in Shickshinny in '72. The high waters
took everything, so her possessions were few at the end. But she wanted to
make sure her granddaughter received her little gold locket, which contained
faded pictures of her own parents. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Family was important to Lamoreaux. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Thankfully, they gathered together on Mother's Day, a few weeks before
Lamoreaux's death. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "She told stories. We talked and talked," Evelyn recalls. "It was kind of
like we were saying our goodbyes and she had decided to go. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "She willed it." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 TIMES LEADER/LEWIS GEYER &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Evelyn Rodman, left, and sister Ermah Dolan, hold the picture of their
mother, Marjorie Lamoreaux, who died recently at the age of 105. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Up Close &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Dawn Shurmaitis &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

105-year-old Woman Showed Basics Are Best In A Way, Margia ``bonnie'' Lamoreaux Lives On.