Her younger brother, Willis Carradine Fitkin, named in honor of holiness evangelist Beverly Carradine, was born on October 10, 1908 in Hollis, Queens[REF] By April 1910 the Fitkins lived in their own home on Wallis Avenue, Queens, New York [REF].
In December, 1919, Mary-Louise Fitkin organized the Do for Others Club, a boys' and girls' group for the Church of the Nazarene, whose purpose was to do whatever possible for the famine sufferers of India [REF].