• I knew your Mother, Aunt Minnie, and she used to say that “Pasadena is God’s Country.”4356

• Sayings: “There's enough blue sky to make a Dutchman’s britches.”
Source: Florence Martin, January 1995

• HAWKINS - Minnie Fredericka Hawkins, South Pasadena, passed away August 31, 1963. A native of Michigan, she had been a resident of this area 41 years. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Hoyt Martin of South Pasadena; Mrs. Donald Gardner of San Diego; one son, Frederick Hawkins of Woodside, Calif.; three granddaughters, Mrs. John Schuehle of Los Angeles, Mrs. David Mills of New York, and Mrs. Maurice Shuvetter [sic] and one grandson, Charles Hawkins, both of Woodside. Private services were conducted at the chapel of Turner & Stevens Co., Pasadena.7426

• 1880 Census: Whitehall, Muskegon, Michigan. Age 5, b MI. Listed as Minnie Seller.1697
• 1900 Census: Evanston, Cook, Illinois. Age 25, b Oct 1874, MI. Parents b Germany.1736
• 1910 Census: Park Ridge, Cook, Illinois. Age 35, b MI. Parents b Germany.1771
• 1920 Census: Park Ridge, Cook, Illinois. Age 44, b MI. Parents b Germany.1787
• 1930 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 55, b MI. Parents b Germany. Age 21 at 1st marriage.3632
• 1940 Census: South Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 65, b MI. Mother-in-Law in household of Hoyt F. Martin.6716