1906
Veda
2010
Veda Draper
May 16, 1906 — February 20, 2010
"Mam-ma" or Veda C. Draper was our last grandparent to pass on to the next life. She was 103 years and nine months old! She lived the last decade of her life at Sacred Heart Home in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Mam-ma had been born on 16 May 1906 in Mineral, Virginia, a town developed and named by her father -- Walter Leonard Bishop (c. 1850 -1914), who was from Petersburg, Virginia. Her much younger mother, Evelyn Caroline Clark (c. 1892 - 1938), had come from Hickory, North Carolina.
Mam-ma learned to be tough and independent early in life. She was sent away at about 8 years old, upon her father's death, to be a foster child in Florida. She did make it back to Virginia to attend and graduate from John Marshall High School in Richmond at the age of 16.
Soon thereafter, she met and married an engineer from Society Hill, South Carolina, Emmilio Campernaro. They married in Washington, DC on 22 November 1923; however, he died suddenly on 1 November 1924. None of us knew about Emmilio (or that her middle initial "C" represented Campernaro) until I started to doing genealogical research on our family history!
Mam-ma then married our grandfather, who we called "Pap-pap," on 22 February 1928. John P. Draper passed away in 1976, at the age of 71.
Veda Draper is survived by her daughter, Evelyn Mae Pometto; granddaughters Penny Pometto, Pamela Gaball, Pala Wattay, and Petrina Pometto; grandsons Paul Pometto and Phillip Pometto; and great-granddaughters Jennifer Manley, Jessica Gaball, Sheena Gaball, Malia Wattay, Mel Gaball, Danielle Wattay, Jacqui Gaball, Michaela Pometto, and Presley Pometto.
Mam-ma had been born on 16 May 1906 in Mineral, Virginia, a town developed and named by her father -- Walter Leonard Bishop (c. 1850 -1914), who was from Petersburg, Virginia. Her much younger mother, Evelyn Caroline Clark (c. 1892 - 1938), had come from Hickory, North Carolina.
Mam-ma learned to be tough and independent early in life. She was sent away at about 8 years old, upon her father's death, to be a foster child in Florida. She did make it back to Virginia to attend and graduate from John Marshall High School in Richmond at the age of 16.
Soon thereafter, she met and married an engineer from Society Hill, South Carolina, Emmilio Campernaro. They married in Washington, DC on 22 November 1923; however, he died suddenly on 1 November 1924. None of us knew about Emmilio (or that her middle initial "C" represented Campernaro) until I started to doing genealogical research on our family history!
Mam-ma then married our grandfather, who we called "Pap-pap," on 22 February 1928. John P. Draper passed away in 1976, at the age of 71.
Veda Draper is survived by her daughter, Evelyn Mae Pometto; granddaughters Penny Pometto, Pamela Gaball, Pala Wattay, and Petrina Pometto; grandsons Paul Pometto and Phillip Pometto; and great-granddaughters Jennifer Manley, Jessica Gaball, Sheena Gaball, Malia Wattay, Mel Gaball, Danielle Wattay, Jacqui Gaball, Michaela Pometto, and Presley Pometto.
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