w Wilson High School in 1933 and Long Beach Junior College in 1935. Mimi comes from strong stock. Many of her ancestors arrived in America in the early 1600's settling in the northeastern United States. She had seven distant grandfathers who served in the Revolutionary and French and Indian Wars. One revolutionary grandfather, Henry Seeber, lived to be 104 having survived the Battle of Oriskany in Germantown, New York. In March of1933 when she was 18years old, the Long Beach Earthquake interrupted her life. The Newport-Inglewood fault had ruptured causing extensive damage throughout the city of Long Beach and surrounding communities. Within 10 seconds 120 schools were damaged with 70 being destroyed. Fortunately it took place in the evening when school was out. Mimi, her family and the community had to live in large tents in Bixby Park for many months while the city was re¬built and cleaned up. Her cousin Don Folsom of Livonia, Michigan (95) still remembers the event. Mimi met Russell Henry Stubbings in October of1937 at the "Fireman's Dance" in the Cinderella Ballroom in Long Beach, California. Her Aunt Mabel Folsom Larsen was the pianist in the orchestra playing that evening. After a six month courtship, Russell Stubbings, a young petroleum engineer from Chicago, Illinois, and Mabel Louise Green were married in Lyons, Illinois on March 28,1938. Their first son, Russell Edwin, was born in December of1939 in Long Beach, California. Marilyn Lucretia followed in February 1946 in Whittier, California, and then James Henry was born in May of1950 in Whittier California. Mimi and Russell traveled extensively throughout their married life due to his work as a petroleum engineer developing high octane fuel for aircraft and designing refineries. Altogether they lived in California for over 50 years, briefly in Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, then 12 years in London, England, Brussels, Belgium, and finally 10 years in Seattle, Washington. They adored each other and enjoyed their lives together. Russell passed away in June of 2011 after they had been married 73 years. Mimi was quite artistic. One of her major accomplishments was designing, painting, and completely furnishing a miniature Victorian home fashioned after an Eastlake house in San Francisco. She gathered most of the delicate furniture from her travels around Europe. She loved putting together scenes that reflected the Victorian age. She named this special place, "Villa Louise". Throughout her life she enjoyed needlepoint, writing, and keeping many years of journals that reflect her life and travels. She had wonderful friends that she kept in touch with throughout their lives. She recently said that the difficult thing about getting so old was that she didn't have any of her friends left, but she did love having her children and grandchildren around! In 2007 Mimi and Russell moved from Valencia, California to Seattle, to live with their daughter Marilyn and son in law, Joe Herst. After Russell passed away Mimi continued to live with her daughter until September of 2015, when she moved to Richmond Beach to live in a loving adult home, Angelina's Place, where she enjoyed the last few years of her life. Mimi's youngest son, James Henry Stubbings passed away in 2007 at 57 years of age. Mimi is survived by her son, Russell Edwin and wife Lucja Stubbings (North Carolina), daughter Marilyn and husband Joseph Herst (Seattle, Washington), and grand-children; Jeff and Sandi Stubbings Cook (Dallas, Texas) Michelle and Deming G. Maclise IV (Seattle, Washington) Lucas and Hilary C Maclise-Benet (Marbella, Spain), Jason Stubbings (Denver Colorado), Elena and Michael Stubbings (Wilmington, North Carolina), and eight great grand-children. Mimi has left sweet memories and a masterpiece life of joy and kindness. Words of comfort may be expressed for Mabel Stubbings' family by clicking on the Tributes tab just below their name.