Her Irish immigrant grandmother died in childbirth in 1865 in San Francisco, and her Irish father died a few days before Christmas when she was only three. Edna Mary Cullinane Nugent (1890-1986) was educated in an orphanage and began working at age 11 as a "cash girl" in the Emporium in downtown San Francisco. She married soldier Raymond Nugent who was about to be shipped to France in WWI. Raising six beautiful children in Oakland, California after...