A letter from the first baby born at Tobey Hospital

Alice Tobey Rigazio Wilson was the first baby born at Tobey hospital and she still lives in the South Coast to this day.

Wareham resident and Tobey Hospital employee James Devereaux was reading up on the history of the hospital when he got the idea to try and find the first baby born there.

After contacting Bourne Town Hall to see if anyone by the name of Alice Tobey Rigazio lived there, he got an address for an Alice T. Wilson.
He reached out to Wilson in hopes she was the first baby born at Tobey and he received the following letter from her.

I was born on June 2nd 1940 in Tobey Hospital to the parents of Mario and Margaret Rigazio of North Sagamore. I was named Alice Tobey after the benefactor of the hospital  “Alice Tobey Jones” My parents received all free care for naming me Alice Tobey after Alice Tobey Jones.

I attended Ella Hoxie elementary school and graduated from there in 1954. I attended Bourne High School and graduated from there in 1958.

After graduating I worked at the New England Telephone Company in Cataumet for a couple of years and got transferred to the Sagamore telephone office. I got married in 1963 to Charles “Chuck” Wilson from Pittsburgh, Pa., who was in the air force stationed at Otis. He is now retired from the 102nd ANG from Otis AFB.

We met at the Knotty Pine in Wareham and which now is called “BB’s Bar and Grille”. We reminisce every time we go by there, The good old days.

We have 2 boys. Our oldest Brian works in Kingston Ma. and David our youngest retired a few years ago from the Bourne Police dept.

I have a sister who lives in Monument Beach and a brother that lives in E. Falmouth. I also have four grandchildren.

When my children were old enough to stay home by themselves, I went back to work. At Sears Roebuck in the Hyannis at the catalog dept. When catalog dept closed I left. I was there for 20 years.

A friend of mine who owned a Beauty salon in Sandwich asked me to work for her, which I did as a receptionist. What was supposed to be just a few years turned out to be 20 years.

I am finally retired and enjoying life with my family and friends.

“That’s my life.”