Beatrice Patton
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Beatrice Patton knew after years of experience that the trick was “not to say goodbye at all” but to be “very casual about it.” The plan had been for the Pattons’ leave-taking to take place at Bolling Airfield just outside Washington, but when they stood on the tarmac on the afternoon of October 23, 1942,
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Beatrice Banning Ayer (left) was born in one of the upstairs bedrooms at the Ayer Mansion in Lowell on January 12, 1886. She had blue eyes, blonde hair, and a little dimple in her chin just like her mother. Ellie named her daughter Beatrice not because of a family connection, but because of its meaning.
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On December 21, 1945, General George Patton died from his injuries sustained in a car accident. His wife, Beatrice Ayer Patton, spent the last eleven days of his life by his bedside, strengthening and sustaining him.
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