Corinne Riley Buzbee
Corinne Riley Buzbee Thompson (Connie)
Connie grew up between Maryland, Delaware and Florida. Her parents owned restaurants and later ran an inn in Maryland. After College, Connie joined the Red Cross during WWII and was stationed in Hawaii right after the bombing or Pearl Harbor. Apparently, she had quite an affair with a soldier while there but, they were sent elsewhere and had to break up. After Hawaii she got a job with the Foreign Service and was stationed in French West Africa where she met Hubert Hudson Buzbee II. They married in 1947. As was the custom in those days, sh, the woman, had to drop out of the foreign service when she got married. (This fact, in the 1980s, allowed exforeign service women to sue the government for part of their their husband’s retirement because most of them were also divorced by their husbands to married a new young thing and were left with nothing. In those days, the service officer’s wives had toi not just take care of the household and children, etc. But they had to do the attend the official parties with their husbands, put on teas and parties at their homes, and deal with everything else the government needed their husbands to take care of. So, it was like having a job they didn’t get paid for.) After their wedding they went all over the world in places such as Australia, France, Italy. Bermudas, Nicaragua to name a few. . Hudson Buzbee III, their first child was born in 1948. She flew home to Easton for his and Tommy’s births. Couldn’t imagine having a child in Australia.
Connie was teacher while the family lived in Nicaragua. She had also taught in Easton after school. Was quite a great
Corinne Riley Buzbee Thompson
Born 1921, Easton, Maryland
Father: Carson Riley, (B: November 20, 1891)
Mother: Marie Dodd Marshall (B: 1992)
Husband: Hubert Hudson Buzbee Parsons
Children:
Hubert Hudson Buzbee Riley
Thompson Riley Buzbee (Tommy or Buz)
Gioia Maria Buzbee Riley
