Mary Angell, your mother's older sister, commonly called Mamie. After your grandmother Angell died, when Mamie was about twenty and your mother only seven, she became the "mother" of the family and made them "stand around."

She followed her brother Ed to Philadelphia, where she studied nursing under Dr. Mitchell.

She married Edward M. Olmstead, who had grown up on a farm near Waverly, graduated from Cornell where he was a member of the crew, studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, but couldn't bring himself to practice for fear he might make a wrong diagnosis, so established a drug store in Binghamton where they lived the rest of their lives.

They had one child, a daughter, Marion.