Obituary for Mildred Alice Hart (Moon)
Mildred Alice Hart was born July 10, 1925 in a tiny 2-story house her father had built in the Bronx, New York to parents, John & Alice Moon. Her father, son of a farmer, left Blackpool after the war for Massachusetts in 1921 and her mother arrived on Ellis Island the next year. They married 2 days later and settled in the Bronx, NY where they raised Mildred and her brother, John. Mildred was a serious student and was proud of her 100% attendance award ribbon at her high school graduation. She met her future husband, Lee, in history class in her senior year at Christopher Columbus High School. Edwin “Lee” Hart joined the US Navy Seabees in 1943 and Millie waited for him to return. They married July 26, 1947. She graduated from Pratt Insutute in 1944 with a degree in teenage fashion design and worked at Spool Cotton in NYC from 1945 until 1949.
As was the custom of the times, Millie stayed home when her 2 children were born and the family eventually left the city for the suburbs in Thornwood, New York where she lived until Lee died in 2018. Every evening, dinner was served at 6:30 as Lee's train commute from his CBS Engineer job in NYC was predictable. The table was always set with juice glasses, napkins and a full place setting. She sewed Linda's dresses, regularly made chocolate cake with chocolate icing and loved embroidery and gardening. Her children remember an occasional cream cheese & grape jelly or honey-butter sandwich in their lunch boxes and Oreo cookie snacks for everyone on snow days. Mildred was especially proud of her braided wood rug; a 10 year project that is still in the family. She took on her husband's Colonial period docent sewing needs. Mildred and Lee were each others best friend.
As was the custom of the times, Millie stayed home when her 2 children were born and the family eventually left the city for the suburbs in Thornwood, New York where she lived until Lee died in 2018. Every evening, dinner was served at 6:30 as Lee's train commute from his CBS Engineer job in NYC was predictable. The table was always set with juice glasses, napkins and a full place setting. She sewed Linda's dresses, regularly made chocolate cake with chocolate icing and loved embroidery and gardening. Her children remember an occasional cream cheese & grape jelly or honey-butter sandwich in their lunch boxes and Oreo cookie snacks for everyone on snow days. Mildred was especially proud of her braided wood rug; a 10 year project that is still in the family. She took on her husband's Colonial period docent sewing needs. Mildred and Lee were each others best friend.