She had been made an honorary member of the Frank Bartlett Post No. 6 of the G.A.R. Davis died on July 7, 1885. Second marriage Mamie Perry Davis was married on June 3, 1890, to Charles Modini Wood of Springfield, Illinois, in her parental residence at 1315 Mount Pleasant Street, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. The house is now in the Heritage Square Museum in Montecito Heights, Los Angeles. Daughter Elizabeth (later Mrs. James Langford Stack) was born the same year. A son, W. Perry Wood, was born to the "charming ex-queen of La Fiesta" on March 30, 1896. There were two other daughters, Mona (Mrs. George Pearson) and Mrs. Kenneth C. Beaton. In 1890, she organized and was president of a "musically inclined" social group called the Tamale Club. It held its last quarterly meeting on December 6, 1890. Under the name Modini-Wood (she used the hyphen), she was queen of the Los Angeles Fiesta in 1896. A grandson (through daughter Elizabeth), the Hollywood film actor Robert Stack, told a reporter in 1981 that his grandfather had turned the name Wood "upside down and it became Mood, added an ini, and it became Carlos Modini." Charles Modini Wood died of inflammatory rheumatism, complicated by pneumonia, at the age of 73 on February 28, 1928. Death Mamie Perry Wood, as she was called then, died at the age of 88 on November 23, 1949, in her home in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles. She was noted as "for half a century one of the leaders of the city's social and musical circles." Services were at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), where her ashes were inurned. Her will left an income to her children from trusts as well as a life income of $120 a month to "Miss Romilda Corsetto," an employee who was age seven when she went to live in the Wood home fifty-three years previously. References External links "H.M.S. Pinafore," Los Angeles Herald, August 15, 1879, image 3 Review: "[C]onquered a very severe ordeal. . . . An arch, coquettish and difficult character." 1862 births 1949 deaths 19th-century American women opera singers Singers from Los Angeles 20th-century American women opera singers