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| 103 | Baptismal sponsers Angela Ann Conarchy & William C. Conarchy. --- Hosterman, Mary Patricia (nee O'Brien) was peacefully embraced by God's loving arms on December 7, 2016 at the age of 66. Loving wife and best friend of Earl for 44 years. Nuturing mother of Earl Jr. (Courtney) and David J. (Shannon). Adoring "Nama" to Sadie, Henry, Charlie, Josephine and Juliet. Dear sister of Jane Reilly, Margaret, Hamill, Katie O'Brien, Elizabeth Van Alstine, Daniel O'Brien, Eileen O'Brien, Sheila Yerman, Robert O'Brien, Kyran O'Brien, Louise Berg. Also survived by a sister-in-law, Cheryl Hosterman. Mary graduated in 1972 from Walter Reed Army Medical Center as a registered nurse. After 22 years of service to our country, Mary retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Following her graduation, she was stationed at Denver's Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center. Rotating through many disciplines, she found her calling in pediatrics and hemodialysis. Always the perfect host, she loved to entertain and be with friends and family but nothing compared to her love of being with her grandchildren. Dearly loved by all who knew her, she will be greatly missed. Special appreciation is extended to Aunt She She and Uncle Rick who remained by her side through her tough battle with pancreatic cancer. Funeral Mass will be at St. Mary's of Littleton Catholic Church on Thursday, December 15 @10AM. Military burial at Fort Logan National Cemetery at 12:00PM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation or Alzheimers Foundation of America. Love You More. Published in Denver Post from Dec. 11 to Dec. 14, 2016 Baptismal sponsers Angela Ann Conarchy & William C. Conarchy. --- Hosterman, Mary Patricia (nee O'Brien) was peacefully embraced by God's loving arms on December 7, 2016 at the age of 66. Loving wife and best friend of Earl for 44 years. Nuturing mother of Earl Jr. (Courtney) and David J. (Shannon). Adoring "Nama" to Sadie, Henry, Charlie, Josephine and Juliet. Dear sister of Jane Reilly, Margaret, Hamill, Katie O'Brien, Elizabeth Van Alstine, Daniel O'Brien, Eileen O'Brien, Sheila Yerman, Robert O'Brien, Kyran O'Brien, Louise Berg. Also survived by a sister-in-law, Cheryl Hosterman. Mary graduated in 1972 from Walter Reed Army Medical Center as a registered nurse. After 22 years of service to our country, Mary retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Following her graduation, she was stationed at Denver's Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center. Rotating through many disciplines, she found her calling in pediatrics and hemodialysis. Always the perfect host, she loved to entertain and be with friends and family but nothing compared to her love of being with her grandchildren. Dearly loved by all who knew her, she will be greatly missed. Special appreciation is extended to Aunt She She and Uncle Rick who remained by her side through her tough battle with pancreatic cancer. Funeral Mass will be at St. Mary's of Littleton Catholic Church on Thursday, December 15 @10AM. Military burial at Fort Logan National Cemetery at 12:00PM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation or Alzheimers Foundation of America. Love You More. Published in Denver Post from Dec. 11 to Dec. 14, 2016 Baptismal sponsers Angela Ann Conarchy & William C. Conarchy. --- Hosterman, Mary Patricia (nee O'Brien) was peacefully embraced by God's loving arms on December 7, 2016 at the age of 66. Loving wife and best friend of Earl for 44 years. Nuturing mother of Earl Jr. (Courtney) and David J. (Shannon). Adoring "Nama" to Sadie, Henry, Charlie, Josephine and Juliet. Dear sister of Jane Reilly, Margaret, Hamill, Katie O'Brien, Elizabeth Van Alstine, Daniel O'Brien, Eileen O'Brien, Sheila Yerman, Robert O'Brien, Kyran O'Brien, Louise Berg. Also survived by a sister-in-law, Cheryl Hosterman. Mary graduated in 1972 from Walter Reed Army Medical Center as a registered nurse. After 22 years of service to our country, Mary retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Following her graduation, she was stationed at Denver's Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center. Rotating through many disciplines, she found her calling in pediatrics and hemodialysis. Always the perfect host, she loved to entertain and be with friends and family but nothing compared to her love of being with her grandchildren. Dearly loved by all who knew her, she will be greatly missed. Special appreciation is extended to Aunt She She and Uncle Rick who remained by her side through her tough battle with pancreatic cancer. Funeral Mass will be at St. Mary's of Littleton Catholic Church on Thursday, December 15 @10AM. Military burial at Fort Logan National Cemetery at 12:00PM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation or Alzheimers Foundation of America. Love You More. Published in Denver Post from Dec. 11 to Dec. 14, 2016 Baptismal sponsers Angela Ann Conarchy & William C. Conarchy. --- Hosterman, Mary Patricia (nee O'Brien) was peacefully embraced by God's loving arms on December 7, 2016 at the age of 66. Loving wife and best friend of Earl for 44 years. Nuturing mother of Earl Jr. (Courtney) and David J. (Shannon). Adoring "Nama" to Sadie, Henry, Charlie, Josephine and Juliet. Dear sister of Jane Reilly, Margaret, Hamill, Katie O'Brien, Elizabeth Van Alstine, Daniel O'Brien, Eileen O'Brien, Sheila Yerman, Robert O'Brien, Kyran O'Brien, Louise Berg. Also survived by a sister-in-law, Cheryl Hosterman. Mary graduated in 1972 from Walter Reed Army Medical Center as a registered nurse. After 22 years of service to our country, Mary retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Following her graduation, she was stationed at Denver's Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center. Rotating through many disciplines, she found her calling in pediatrics and hemodialysis. Always the perfect host, she loved to entertain and be with friends and family but nothing compared to her love of being with her grandchildren. Dearly loved by all who knew her, she will be greatly missed. Special appreciation is extended to Aunt She She and Uncle Rick who remained by her side through her tough battle with pancreatic cancer. Funeral Mass will be at St. Mary's of Littleton Catholic Church on Thursday, December 15 @10AM. Military burial at Fort Logan National Cemetery at 12:00PM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation or Alzheimers Foundation of America. Love You More. Published in Denver Post from Dec. 11 to Dec. 14, 2016 | O'Brien, Lt. Col. US Army Nurse Mary Patricia (I9419)
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| 104 | Baptismal sponsers Audrey Zarnow & Kyran Patrick Conarchy. Buried from St. Sebastian's Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Baptismal sponsers Audrey Zarnow & Kyran Patrick Conarchy. Buried from St. Sebastian's Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Baptismal sponsers Audrey Zarnow & Kyran Patrick Conarchy. Buried from St. Sebastian's Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Baptismal sponsers Audrey Zarnow & Kyran Patrick Conarchy. Buried from St. Sebastian's Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Baptismal sponsers Audrey Zarnow & Kyran Patrick Conarchy. Buried from St. Sebastian's Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Baptismal sponsers Audrey Zarnow & Kyran Patrick Conarchy. Buried from St. Sebastian's Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Baptismal sponsers Audrey Zarnow & Kyran Patrick Conarchy. Buried from St. Sebastian's Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Baptismal sponsers Audrey Zarnow & Kyran Patrick Conarchy. Buried from St. Sebastian's Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | Weithofer, Richard Warren (I9551)
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| 111 | Baptismal sponsors James A. & Lilley E. Callahan. Never married. Robert Casey Lane states: Mother's brother Joe did not marry. He was around our house very often when we were young, but in later years we did not see very much of him. He seemed to like us a lot when we were kids, but liked us less as adolescents and adults. Uncle Joe had a reclusive nature. I suspect he suffered from depression for a good part of his life. Baptismal sponsors James A. & Lilley E. Callahan. Never married. Robert Casey Lane states: Mother's brother Joe did not marry. He was around our house very often when we were young, but in later years we did not see very much of him. He seemed to like us a lot when we were kids, but liked us less as adolescents and adults. Uncle Joe had a reclusive nature. I suspect he suffered from depression for a good part of his life. Baptismal sponsors James A. & Lilley E. Callahan. Never married. Robert Casey Lane states: Mother's brother Joe did not marry. He was around our house very often when we were young, but in later years we did not see very much of him. He seemed to like us a lot when we were kids, but liked us less as adolescents and adults. Uncle Joe had a reclusive nature. I suspect he suffered from depression for a good part of his life. Baptismal sponsors James A. & Lilley E. Callahan. Never married. Robert Casey Lane states: Mother's brother Joe did not marry. He was around our house very often when we were young, but in later years we did not see very much of him. He seemed to like us a lot when we were kids, but liked us less as adolescents and adults. Uncle Joe had a reclusive nature. I suspect he suffered from depression for a good part of his life. Baptismal sponsors James A. & Lilley E. Callahan. Never married. Robert Casey Lane states: Mother's brother Joe did not marry. He was around our house very often when we were young, but in later years we did not see very much of him. He seemed to like us a lot when we were kids, but liked us less as adolescents and adults. Uncle Joe had a reclusive nature. I suspect he suffered from depression for a good part of his life. Baptismal sponsors James A. & Lilley E. Callahan. Never married. Robert Casey Lane states: Mother's brother Joe did not marry. He was around our house very often when we were young, but in later years we did not see very much of him. He seemed to like us a lot when we were kids, but liked us less as adolescents and adults. Uncle Joe had a reclusive nature. I suspect he suffered from depression for a good part of his life. Baptismal sponsors James A. & Lilley E. Callahan. Never married. Robert Casey Lane states: Mother's brother Joe did not marry. He was around our house very often when we were young, but in later years we did not see very much of him. He seemed to like us a lot when we were kids, but liked us less as adolescents and adults. Uncle Joe had a reclusive nature. I suspect he suffered from depression for a good part of his life. Baptismal sponsors James A. & Lilley E. Callahan. Never married. Robert Casey Lane states: Mother's brother Joe did not marry. He was around our house very often when we were young, but in later years we did not see very much of him. He seemed to like us a lot when we were kids, but liked us less as adolescents and adults. Uncle Joe had a reclusive nature. I suspect he suffered from depression for a good part of his life. | Lavery, Joseph James (I8908)
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| 112 | Baptismal sponsors John Dumne & Margaret Sparsars. | Conarchy, John Joseph Aloysius (I9468)
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| 113 | Baptismal sponsors John Lavery & Rose McMahon. The church where she was baptized was destroyed by fire. Robert Casey Lane states: I do not know much about Mother's life as a young girl. She did not have an easy life. When she was about two years old, her father disappeared. He simply left home. So far as I know, James Lavery was never heard from. It bothered Mother very much. One day when Sheila and I were probably around 12 and 13 years old, maybe a little younger, she told us about her father's disappearance and a little bit about how she grew up. She said that she had not previously told us about her father because she did not want us to think that she had grown up any differently from us. She said that Aunt Sis believed Mother's father must have died because, Aunt Sis said, he had loved Roselia and his children too much to have simply abandoned them. After her father left, Mother lived with Aunt Sis (who had not married) for part of her childhood. I believe my mother's sister Jane stayed with Roselia. I do not know where Charley and Joe were, probably with Roselia or one of the Callahan or Lavery families. I do not know how long Mother lived with Aunt Sis. I don't think it was for too long. I think Mother lived with her mother, sister and brothers for most of her childhood, but the period when she had not lived with her mother had seared her memory. It was something she mentioned to me in the year before she died. Roselia and her children were poor. However, the Callahan and Lavery families rallied around Roselia and her family after James disappeared. Mother spoke often of her various aunts and uncles and was close to her Callahan and Lavery first cousins all her life. I think they all lived near each other in Chicago. Mother was especially close to the three daughters of Agnes Callahan and Pat Phelan. They were almost sisters to her. The youngest of the Phelan girl, who became Ann Manning, was Mother's maid of honor and the middle Phelan girls, who became Peggy Kearney, and Mother lived in the same retirement home in Milwaukee. The third girl was Marcella. We called all three of them "aunt" when we were children. Another Callahan cousin of Mother's was Franc (pronounced France) Callahan. He became a Chicago politician. He was an alderman for a while and was later the head of the Chicago airport. He and mother were close and he and Dad were friends. Mother was raised in St. Mel's parish, on the west side of Chicago. Jane Cochrane Lavery must have lived near Mother after Jane came to Chicago because Mother talked about Jane having been a very involved and active member of that parish. Mother was bright and I think she was a good student. She and Dad once told me that each of them had won a medal for excellence in Irish history when they were children. When Mother finished the eighth grade at St. Mel parish school, she did not go to high school. She signed up for a two year commercial course where I think she learned bookkeeping and clerical skills. By this time Roselia was ill. She had stomach cancer and died on December 15, 1911. At this point, Aunt Sis stepped in and basically became Mother's adopted mother. I believe she lived with Aunt Sis until she and Dad married. Mother worked in an office but I do not remember what she did or the nature of the business she worked for. Mother remained very close to her sister Jane and her brothers Charley and Joe. She was especially close to Jane. Jane married Kyran Conarchy. Uncle Kyran was one of the most delightful people I have ever known. Jane and Kyran had seven children, all of whom Mother, and for that matter my Dad as well, loved very much. We were very close to the Conarchys when we were growing up and have remained so as adults. Dad and his family were raised on the near south side of Chicago, in a neighborhood known as the front of the yards, the "yards" being the Chicago stockyards. At some point, probably after 1916, his family moved to the west side of Chicago. I think Mother and Dad met each other at a church dance. Mother had become acquainted with Dad's sister Loretta. Loretta introduced them. They were married on April 28, 1923. They were a skinny pair. Mother weighed something like 89 pounds and Dad was about twenty pounds heavier. Mother and Dad settled on the west side, living in a succession of apartments. This is where Rosemary, Clem, John and I were born. My Dad's parents had bought a two flat on the west side after they had sold their house on south Oakley Avenue. They apparently got caught up in enthusiasm for the real estate boom of the late 1920's and sold the two flat in order to buy a large apartment building with a large mortgage. The 1929 crash occurred and the Depression started. They could not rent their apartments so our parents and my Dad's brother Dan moved into their building to help pay the mortgage. This would have been in 1932 because I was born while my parents lived in Grandfather and Grandmother Lane's building. It was a two bedroom apartment, housing our parents, four children and a "hired girl", Bea Lucas. Most of the apartments in the building must have been empty because, even with our parents' and uncle Dan's rent, the Lanes were not able to pay the mortgage. Consequently, after I was born they encouraged Mother and Dad to move to larger quarters. Jane and Kyran Conarchy had moved to Evanston and in 1933 Mother and Dad decided to move there as well. Thus we ceased to be Westsiders and became Northsiders. Only people who grew up in Chicago at the same time we did will appreciate the significance of that move. It was not exactly like moving from Tacoma to Mars, but it was close. Our folks rented a house in central Evanston. I think it had four bedrooms. It is still standing and is about four blocks from the hotel where next summer's reunion will be. Shelia was born within a year of our moving in. We must still have been pretty crowded, with two parents, five children, Bea and later our dog Toby Topsy Bunnington Lane. Bea had come to work for Mother when John was born. The strapping lad that John became conceals the sickly infant that he was. He was a very sick baby. Bea came to help Mother with Rosemary and Clem so Mother could spend some extra time taking care of John. Bea was just a kid when she came, about 17 or 18. She was a farm girl from the upper peninsula of Michigan. I think she was hired for three months and stayed for eight or nine years. She was a nice woman. We stayed in Evanston until May 1939 when we moved back into Chicago. We moved into an apartment on Chicago's far north side. Mother and Dad had the opportunity to buy the hose in Evanston, but they never wanted to have a mortgage. They had seen Dad's parents lose everything they had accumulated in their lifetime when they lost the big apartment building to a foreclosure. Aunt Sis also lost her house during the Depression because she could not service the mortgage. Mother and Dad, particularly Dad, never wanted to run that risk. Consequently, they rented all their lives. Paradoxically, Dad always encouraged each of his children to become a homeowner. As was the norm in those days, Mother was a stay-at-home Mom. Bea left us when we moved into Chicago. She came out to Seattle to work in the war industry. Consequently, Mother had the full load of doing the shopping, laundry and housecleaning for the family. She was also the family budgeter and bill payer. This was of course in the days when there were no freezers, dishwashers, dryers, etc. Housewives did a tremendous amount of manual labor. They also shopped every day for meat and bread. In addition to these chores, Mother became the family chauffeur. My parents had never owned a car. The religious order to which Mother's cousin, Sister Huberta, belonged was raffling a 1937 Dodge. Sister Huberta sold my parents some raffle tickets. Mother put the raffle tickets in the name of each of the children. Clem's ticket won the car, but it didn't do him any good because he was only ten years old. Dad had driven when he was young, but refused to start driving again, so Mother learned to drive the car and spent a large part of the next twenty-one years driving my father various places. Mother was an assertive driver, perhaps because Dad was the most aggressive backseat driver I have ever encountered. Mother would pull herself up to her full five foot height and yell at the other motorists while Dad would launch into lengthy diatribes at the various lardheads who were inconsiderate enough to be driving on the same street as my parents. I have heard rumors that one or two of their children inherited their compassion towards other drivers. When Dad joined Alcoholics Anonymous, Mother might just as well have joined. AA was a large part of each of their lives. They spent almost every Tuesday and Saturday night at AA functions and Dad attended an AA meeting almost every Thursday night. Mother supported him totally in his AA work. She also participated with him in all his Catholic activities. They went to mass together every day until Dad got too sick to go. Dad had his first coronary on July 4, 1956. It was a serious heart attack. He had a stressful job, was overweight and had diabetes. All of this contributed to making his coronary life-threatening. Dad started to recover after a couple of months. They went to Florida for two or three months in early January 1957 (their first winter vacation and one of the few vacations they ever took) and when they returned to Chicago, Dad was well enough to go back to work. He was in good health for nine months but in January 1958, he had a stroke from which he never fully recovered. This was two or three weeks before John and Bess June were married. Mother virtually lived at the hospital with Dad. She spent every night in his hospital room. The only time I remember that she was away from Dad for more than an hour or two was when she went to John's and Bess June's wedding. Dad eventually became well enough to leave the hospital and even go back to work. However, the stroke had weakened him so much that he walked with a cane for the rest of his life. He had a series of heart failure attacks and finally had a massive coronary on October 25, 1958 from which he died on October 27, 1958. It is difficult for a child to assess the state of his parents' marriage. With that caveat, I believe Mother and Dad had a very good marriage. They spent a great deal of time together and appeared to enjoy being together. They gave every appearance of loving each other. Their treatment of each other demonstrated that they liked and respected each other. Mother mourned Dad. One memory that still pains me is the day that Mother moved from the last apartment in which she and Dad lived. The apartment was empty. Mother, being Mother, had spent hours cleaning it for the next tenant. She closed the door for the last time and started to cry, saying she felt like she was leaving something behind. When Dad died, his pension from the Daily News also died. Mother got nothing from the Daily News. After a lifetime of raising and educating five children, they had just started to save some money when Dad got sick. Mother had only some life insurance proceeds and some small savings. She was 61 when Dad died, too young to draw social security. She decided to go to work. Mother went to see Dan Ryan (the man for whom the expressway is named). Dan Ryan was the President of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County and, with Mayor Daley, was the all-powerful political boss of Cook County. He had been a friend of Dad. Mother asked him for a job. He made a phone call and Mother was employed in the Cook County welfare department. Asking Ryan for a job and then going to work in an office after a thirty-five year absence from the work place must have been very painful. She worked with people who had gone to school with Sheila. She was the oldest person in the Department by decades. She had to learn new procedures, acquire new skills and deal with situations that were foreign to her. She not only survived this; she grew from it. The young people in her office loved her and she loved them. Mother kept this job for eight or nine years. After Mother stopped working, she continued to live in a small apartment on Chicago's north side, a block or so from Joan and Bess June's first house. She stayed in that apartment until April 1980 when she moved to a retirement home in Milwaukee. I suspect she was sick when she moved there. She was diagnosed with bladder cancer in January 1981 and had surgery to remove the tumor. The cancer recurred two or so months after the surgery. Mother refused further surgery and died on November 30, 1981 at the Milwaukee Catholic Retirement Home. She had none of us in Milwaukee, but Jane Marie Conarchy O'Brien lived a mile or so from the Retirement Home and saw Mother constantly. Jane, who is Mother's eldest niece, was as good to Mother as any of us would have been. She was with Mother when she died. I described Mother as an assertive driver and indeed she was. That, however, was an aberration in her personality. She was ordinarily the most even-tempered person I knew. Her harshest epithet was to call someone a "big Gom". This was hurled at people who were unjust to others; for example, a bigger kid picking on a smaller one or any instance where someone was being unfair or cruel to someone else. The phrase always conjured in my mind the image of some ferociously hulking being. Mother is the only person I have ever heard use that phrase. I think it is derived from the word "gombee" which was use in Ireland to describe a man who preyed on the Irish poor. Mother lived to see her five children marry and to see the birth of all her grandchildren. She had a grandmother's bracelet that had a locket with each grandchild's name. I think she reveled in the name "Meema" that Bob gave her and that all the rest of the grandchildren adopted. Whenever a new baby was born, Mother hurried to see that baby as if to bless the child and welcome the baby into the family. She was fascinated by the grandchildren, especially as they got older. Like a good grandparent, she was much more tolerant of her grandchildrens' misadventures than their parents were. I could continue to write for pages about Mother. I admire her. I love her. Some of your grandchildren knew her well, particularly the Spoeries and the Purcells. Others of you were not so fortunate. All of you should know at least this much about her. Angela Lavery was a good, loving and strong person. However difficult her childhood may have been, she did not dwell on it. She was a happy person who knew how to give and receive love. She was inclusive and welcoming. She may not have graduated from high school, but you would not have known that from talking to her. She was articulate, had an extensive vocabulary, read a lot, had solid mathematical skills and wrote very well. She continued to educate herself all her life. She grew with the changes around her. She knew how to respect the past but to live in the present. She is a good model for anyone. (Source: Robert C. Lane) --------------------------------------------------------------- I had the pleasure of working with Angela Lane while we were both employed at the Welfare Rehabilitation Services Office of the Cook County Department of Public Aid. She and I started working there at about the same time in October of 1959, although I was hired just before she was. She would have been 62 years old when she started working there. I recall her saying how nervous she was on her first day of work. I tried to reassure her that she would do fine. I knew her daughter Sheila as a classmate at Loyola University, and knew of her son Robert, who was kind of a "big man on campus" at Loyola. This department had a fairly high employee turnover rate, with some people staying as little as two months, but Angela stuck it out. Within a short time, she learned all of the department's policies and practices and became a valued member of the training unit. In her position, she would work directly with welfare recipients who were candidates for job training. Although the counselors and not Angela, were the ones with the actual "caseload", she helped to oversee many of the counselors' caseloads. She also supervised the flow of people coming into the office and would assign "clients" to individual counselors. I recall an incident when Angela helped me to retain my job. Although everyone who worked in the department was supposed to (in theory) have taken the Civil Service Exam to be hired, the department didn't insist on this until four years after we were hired. So she and I and others took and passed the federal Civil Service Exam and we needed to go through an additional certification procedure. Shortly after we received the news that we had passed the test, I was struck by a taxicab in LaSalle, Illinois, near where the Spoeris lived for a time. This is not that easy to do considering there are only about five cabs in all of LaSalle. But I was laid up in the hospital in LaSalle and was in traction for five weeks. Attendance at the certification session was mandatory and one would be fired if he did not comply. Being in traction, I obviously could not attend. Angela, however, interceded on my behalf by getting my supervisor to allow me to obtain the certification at a later time. Angela especially enjoyed working with the young people in the department and many of them spoke of how much she had helped them in their work. Although the job didn't pay that well, I think it was $352.00 per month, it was honorable work. Angela worked there eight years, retiring in October of 1967 a little before her 71st birthday. (Source: John Geiger as told to John W. Spoeri) Baptismal sponsors John Lavery & Rose McMahon. The church where she was baptized was destroyed by fire. Robert Casey Lane states: I do not know much about Mother's life as a young girl. She did not have an easy life. When she was about two years old, her father disappeared. He simply left home. So far as I know, James Lavery was never heard from. It bothered Mother very much. One day when Sheila and I were probably around 12 and 13 years old, maybe a little younger, she told us about her father's disappearance and a little bit about how she grew up. She said that she had not previously told us about her father because she did not want us to think that she had grown up any differently from us. She said that Aunt Sis believed Mother's father must have died because, Aunt Sis said, he had loved Roselia and his children too much to have simply abandoned them. After her father left, Mother lived with Aunt Sis (who had not married) for part of her childhood. I believe my mother's sister Jane stayed with Roselia. I do not know where Charley and Joe were, probably with Roselia or one of the Callahan or Lavery families. I do not know how long Mother lived with Aunt Sis. I don't think it was for too long. I think Mother lived with her mother, sister and brothers for most of her childhood, but the period when she had not lived with her mother had seared her memory. It was something she mentioned to me in the year before she died. Roselia and her children were poor. However, the Callahan and Lavery families rallied around Roselia and her family after James disappeared. Mother spoke often of her various aunts and uncles and was close to her Callahan and Lavery first cousins all her life. I think they all lived near each other in Chicago. Mother was especially close to the three daughters of Agnes Callahan and Pat Phelan. They were almost sisters to her. The youngest of the Phelan girl, who became Ann Manning, was Mother's maid of honor and the middle Phelan girls, who became Peggy Kearney, and Mother lived in the same retirement home in Milwaukee. The third girl was Marcella. We called all three of them "aunt" when we were children. Another Callahan cousin of Mother's was Franc (pronounced France) Callahan. He became a Chicago politician. He was an alderman for a while and was later the head of the Chicago airport. He and mother were close and he and Dad were friends. Mother was raised in St. Mel's parish, on the west side of Chicago. Jane Cochrane Lavery must have lived near Mother after Jane came to Chicago because Mother talked about Jane having been a very involved and active member of that parish. Mother was bright and I think she was a good student. She and Dad once told me that each of them had won a medal for excellence in Irish history when they were children. When Mother finished the eighth grade at St. Mel parish school, she did not go to high school. She signed up for a two year commercial course where I think she learned bookkeeping and clerical skills. By this time Roselia was ill. She had stomach cancer and died on December 15, 1911. At this point, Aunt Sis stepped in and basically became Mother's adopted mother. I believe she lived with Aunt Sis until she and Dad married. Mother worked in an office but I do not remember what she did or the nature of the business she worked for. Mother remained very close to her sister Jane and her brothers Charley and Joe. She was especially close to Jane. Jane married Kyran Conarchy. Uncle Kyran was one of the most delightful people I have ever known. Jane and Kyran had seven children, all of whom Mother, and for that matter my Dad as well, loved very much. We were very close to the Conarchys when we were growing up and have remained so as adults. Dad and his family were raised on the near south side of Chicago, in a neighborhood known as the front of the yards, the "yards" being the Chicago stockyards. At some point, probably after 1916, his family moved to the west side of Chicago. I think Mother and Dad met each other at a church dance. Mother had become acquainted with Dad's sister Loretta. Loretta introduced them. They were married on April 28, 1923. They were a skinny pair. Mother weighed something like 89 pounds and Dad was about twenty pounds heavier. Mother and Dad settled on the west side, living in a succession of apartments. This is where Rosemary, Clem, John and I were born. My Dad's parents had bought a two flat on the west side after they had sold their house on south Oakley Avenue. They apparently got caught up in enthusiasm for the real estate boom of the late 1920's and sold the two flat in order to buy a large apartment building with a large mortgage. The 1929 crash occurred and the Depression started. They could not rent their apartments so our parents and my Dad's brother Dan moved into their building to help pay the mortgage. This would have been in 1932 because I was born while my parents lived in Grandfather and Grandmother Lane's building. It was a two bedroom apartment, housing our parents, four children and a "hired girl", Bea Lucas. Most of the apartments in the building must have been empty because, even with our parents' and uncle Dan's rent, the Lanes were not able to pay the mortgage. Consequently, after I was born they encouraged Mother and Dad to move to larger quarters. Jane and Kyran Conarchy had moved to Evanston and in 1933 Mother and Dad decided to move there as well. Thus we ceased to be Westsiders and became Northsiders. Only people who grew up in Chicago at the same time we did will appreciate the significance of that move. It was not exactly like moving from Tacoma to Mars, but it was close. Our folks rented a house in central Evanston. I think it had four bedrooms. It is still standing and is about four blocks from the hotel where next summer's reunion will be. Shelia was born within a year of our moving in. We must still have been pretty crowded, with two parents, five children, Bea and later our dog Toby Topsy Bunnington Lane. Bea had come to work for Mother when John was born. The strapping lad that John became conceals the sickly infant that he was. He was a very sick baby. Bea came to help Mother with Rosemary and Clem so Mother could spend some extra time taking care of John. Bea was just a kid when she came, about 17 or 18. She was a farm girl from the upper peninsula of Michigan. I think she was hired for three months and stayed for eight or nine years. She was a nice woman. We stayed in Evanston until May 1939 when we moved back into Chicago. We moved into an apartment on Chicago's far north side. Mother and Dad had the opportunity to buy the hose in Evanston, but they never wanted to have a mortgage. They had seen Dad's parents lose everything they had accumulated in their lifetime when they lost the big apartment building to a foreclosure. Aunt Sis also lost her house during the Depression because she could not service the mortgage. Mother and Dad, particularly Dad, never wanted to run that risk. Consequently, they rented all their lives. Paradoxically, Dad always encouraged each of his children to become a homeowner. As was the norm in those days, Mother was a stay-at-home Mom. Bea left us when we moved into Chicago. She came out to Seattle to work in the war industry. Consequently, Mother had the full load of doing the shopping, laundry and housecleaning for the family. She was also the family budgeter and bill payer. This was of course in the days when there were no freezers, dishwashers, dryers, etc. Housewives did a tremendous amount of manual labor. They also shopped every day for meat and bread. In addition to these chores, Mother became the family chauffeur. My parents had never owned a car. The religious order to which Mother's cousin, Sister Huberta, belonged was raffling a 1937 Dodge. Sister Huberta sold my parents some raffle tickets. Mother put the raffle tickets in the name of each of the children. Clem's ticket won the car, but it didn't do him any good because he was only ten years old. Dad had driven when he was young, but refused to start driving again, so Mother learned to drive the car and spent a large part of the next twenty-one years driving my father various places. Mother was an assertive driver, perhaps because Dad was the most aggressive backseat driver I have ever encountered. Mother would pull herself up to her full five foot height and yell at the other motorists while Dad would launch into lengthy diatribes at the various lardheads who were inconsiderate enough to be driving on the same street as my parents. I have heard rumors that one or two of their children inherited their compassion towards other drivers. When Dad joined Alcoholics Anonymous, Mother might just as well have joined. AA was a large part of each of their lives. They spent almost every Tuesday and Saturday night at AA functions and Dad attended an AA meeting almost every Thursday night. Mother supported him totally in his AA work. She also participated with him in all his Catholic activities. They went to mass together every day until Dad got too sick to go. Dad had his first coronary on July 4, 1956. It was a serious heart attack. He had a stressful job, was overweight and had diabetes. All of this contributed to making his coronary life-threatening. Dad started to recover after a couple of months. They went to Florida for two or three months in early January 1957 (their first winter vacation and one of the few vacations they ever took) and when they returned to Chicago, Dad was well enough to go back to work. He was in good health for nine months but in January 1958, he had a stroke from which he never fully recovered. This was two or three weeks before John and Bess June were married. Mother virtually lived at the hospital with Dad. She spent every night in his hospital room. The only time I remember that she was away from Dad for more than an hour or two was when she went to John's and Bess June's wedding. Dad eventually became well enough to leave the hospital and even go back to work. However, the stroke had weakened him so much that he walked with a cane for the rest of his life. He had a series of heart failure attacks and finally had a massive coronary on October 25, 1958 from which he died on October 27, 1958. It is difficult for a child to assess the state of his parents' marriage. With that caveat, I believe Mother and Dad had a very good marriage. They spent a great deal of time together and appeared to enjoy being together. They gave every appearance of loving each other. Their treatment of each other demonstrated that they liked and respected each other. Mother mourned Dad. One memory that still pains me is the day that Mother moved from the last apartment in which she and Dad lived. The apartment was empty. Mother, being Mother, had spent hours cleaning it for the next tenant. She closed the door for the last time and started to cry, saying she felt like she was leaving something behind. When Dad died, his pension from the Daily News also died. Mother got nothing from the Daily News. After a lifetime of raising and educating five children, they had just started to save some money when Dad got sick. Mother had only some life insurance proceeds and some small savings. She was 61 when Dad died, too young to draw social security. She decided to go to work. Mother went to see Dan Ryan (the man for whom the expressway is named). Dan Ryan was the President of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County and, with Mayor Daley, was the all-powerful political boss of Cook County. He had been a friend of Dad. Mother asked him for a job. He made a phone call and Mother was employed in the Cook County welfare department. Asking Ryan for a job and then going to work in an office after a thirty-five year absence from the work place must have been very painful. She worked with people who had gone to school with Sheila. She was the oldest person in the Department by decades. She had to learn new procedures, acquire new skills and deal with situations that were foreign to her. She not only survived this; she grew from it. The young people in her office loved her and she loved them. Mother kept this job for eight or nine years. After Mother stopped working, she continued to live in a small apartment on Chicago's north side, a block or so from Joan and Bess June's first house. She stayed in that apartment until April 1980 when she moved to a retirement home in Milwaukee. I suspect she was sick when she moved there. She was diagnosed with bladder cancer in January 1981 and had surgery to remove the tumor. The cancer recurred two or so months after the surgery. Mother refused further surgery and died on November 30, 1981 at the Milwaukee Catholic Retirement Home. She had none of us in Milwaukee, but Jane Marie Conarchy O'Brien lived a mile or so from the Retirement Home and saw Mother constantly. Jane, who is Mother's eldest niece, was as good to Mother as any of us would have been. She was with Mother when she died. I described Mother as an assertive driver and indeed she was. That, however, was an aberration in her personality. She was ordinarily the most even-tempered person I knew. Her harshest epithet was to call someone a "big Gom". This was hurled at people who were unjust to others; for example, a bigger kid picking on a smaller one or any instance where someone was being unfair or cruel to someone else. The phrase always conjured in my mind the image of some ferociously hulking being. Mother is the only person I have ever heard use that phrase. I think it is derived from the word "gombee" which was use in Ireland to describe a man who preyed on the Irish poor. Mother lived to see her five children marry and to see the birth of all her grandchildren. She had a grandmother's bracelet that had a locket with each grandchild's name. I think she reveled in the name "Meema" that Bob gave her and that all the rest of the grandchildren adopted. Whenever a new baby was born, Mother hurried to see that baby as if to bless the child and welcome the baby into the family. She was fascinated by the grandchildren, especially as they got older. Like a good grandparent, she was much more tolerant of her grandchildrens' misadventures than their parents were. I could continue to write for pages about Mother. I admire her. I love her. Some of your grandchildren knew her well, particularly the Spoeries and the Purcells. Others of you were not so fortunate. All of you should know at least this much about her. Angela Lavery was a good, loving and strong person. However difficult her childhood may have been, she did not dwell on it. She was a happy person who knew how to give and receive love. She was inclusive and welcoming. She may not have graduated from high school, but you would not have known that from talking to her. She was articulate, had an extensive vocabulary, read a lot, had solid mathematical skills and wrote very well. She continued to educate herself all her life. She grew with the changes around her. She knew how to respect the past but to live in the present. She is a good model for anyone. (Source: Robert C. Lane) --------------------------------------------------------------- I had the pleasure of working with Angela Lane while we were both employed at the Welfare Rehabilitation Services Office of the Cook County Department of Public Aid. She and I started working there at about the same time in October of 1959, although I was hired just before she was. She would have been 62 years old when she started working there. I recall her saying how nervous she was on her first day of work. I tried to reassure her that she would do fine. I knew her daughter Sheila as a classmate at Loyola University, and knew of her son Robert, who was kind of a "big man on campus" at Loyola. This department had a fairly high employee turnover rate, with some people staying as little as two months, but Angela stuck it out. Within a short time, she learned all of the department's policies and practices and became a valued member of the training unit. In her position, she would work directly with welfare recipients who were candidates for job training. Although the counselors and not Angela, were the ones with the actual "caseload", she helped to oversee many of the counselors' caseloads. She also supervised the flow of people coming into the office and would assign "clients" to individual counselors. I recall an incident when Angela helped me to retain my job. Although everyone who worked in the department was supposed to (in theory) have taken the Civil Service Exam to be hired, the department didn't insist on this until four years after we were hired. So she and I and others took and passed the federal Civil Service Exam and we needed to go through an additional certification procedure. Shortly after we received the news that we had passed the test, I was struck by a taxicab in LaSalle, Illinois, near where the Spoeris lived for a time. This is not that easy to do considering there are only about five cabs in all of LaSalle. But I was laid up in the hospital in LaSalle and was in traction for five weeks. Attendance at the certification session was mandatory and one would be fired if he did not comply. Being in traction, I obviously could not attend. Angela, however, interceded on my behalf by getting my supervisor to allow me to obtain the certification at a later time. Angela especially enjoyed working with the young people in the department and many of them spoke of how much she had helped them in their work. Although the job didn't pay that well, I think it was $352.00 per month, it was honorable work. Angela worked there eight years, retiring in October of 1967 a little before her 71st birthday. (Source: John Geiger as told to John W. Spoeri) Baptismal sponsors John Lavery & Rose McMahon. The church where she was baptized was destroyed by fire. Robert Casey Lane states: I do not know much about Mother's life as a young girl. She did not have an easy life. When she was about two years old, her father disappeared. He simply left home. So far as I know, James Lavery was never heard from. It bothered Mother very much. One day when Sheila and I were probably around 12 and 13 years old, maybe a little younger, she told us about her father's disappearance and a little bit about how she grew up. She said that she had not previously told us about her father because she did not want us to think that she had grown up any differently from us. She said that Aunt Sis believed Mother's father must have died because, Aunt Sis said, he had loved Roselia and his children too much to have simply abandoned them. After her father left, Mother lived with Aunt Sis (who had not married) for part of her childhood. I believe my mother's sister Jane stayed with Roselia. I do not know where Charley and Joe were, probably with Roselia or one of the Callahan or Lavery families. I do not know how long Mother lived with Aunt Sis. I don't think it was for too long. I think Mother lived with her mother, sister and brothers for most of her childhood, but the period when she had not lived with her mother had seared her memory. It was something she mentioned to me in the year before she died. Roselia and her children were poor. However, the Callahan and Lavery families rallied around Roselia and her family after James disappeared. Mother spoke often of her various aunts and uncles and was close to her Callahan and Lavery first cousins all her life. I think they all lived near each other in Chicago. Mother was especially close to the three daughters of Agnes Callahan and Pat Phelan. They were almost sisters to her. The youngest of the Phelan girl, who became Ann Manning, was Mother's maid of honor and the middle Phelan girls, who became Peggy Kearney, and Mother lived in the same retirement home in Milwaukee. The third girl was Marcella. We called all three of them "aunt" when we were children. Another Callahan cousin of Mother's was Franc (pronounced France) Callahan. He became a Chicago politician. He was an alderman for a while and was later the head of the Chicago airport. He and mother were close and he and Dad were friends. Mother was raised in St. Mel's parish, on the west side of Chicago. Jane Cochrane Lavery must have lived near Mother after Jane came to Chicago because Mother talked about Jane having been a very involved and active member of that parish. Mother was bright and I think she was a good student. She and Dad once told me that each of them had won a medal for excellence in Irish history when they were children. When Mother finished the eighth grade at St. Mel parish school, she did not go to high school. She signed up for a two year commercial course where I think she learned bookkeeping and clerical skills. By this time Roselia was ill. She had stomach cancer and died on December 15, 1911. At this point, Aunt Sis stepped in and basically became Mother's adopted mother. I believe she lived with Aunt Sis until she and Dad married. Mother worked in an office but I do not remember what she did or the nature of the business she worked for. Mother remained very close to her sister Jane and her brothers Charley and Joe. She was especially close to Jane. Jane married Kyran Conarchy. Uncle Kyran was one of the most delightful people I have ever known. Jane and Kyran had seven children, all of whom Mother, and for that matter my Dad as well, loved very much. We were very close to the Conarchys when we were growing up and have remained so as adults. Dad and his family were raised on the near south side of Chicago, in a neighborhood known as the front of the yards, the "yards" being the Chicago stockyards. At some point, probably after 1916, his family moved to the west side of Chicago. I think Mother and Dad met each other at a church dance. Mother had become acquainted with Dad's sister Loretta. Loretta introduced them. They were married on April 28, 1923. They were a skinny pair. Mother weighed something like 89 pounds and Dad was about twenty pounds heavier. Mother and Dad settled on the west side, living in a succession of apartments. This is where Rosemary, Clem, John and I were born. My Dad's parents had bought a two flat on the west side after they had sold their house on south Oakley Avenue. They apparently got caught up in enthusiasm for the real estate boom of the late 1920's and sold the two flat in order to buy a large apartment building with a large mortgage. The 1929 crash occurred and the Depression started. They could not rent their apartments so our parents and my Dad's brother Dan moved into their building to help pay the mortgage. This would have been in 1932 because I was born while my parents lived in Grandfather and Grandmother Lane's building. It was a two bedroom apartment, housing our parents, four children and a "hired girl", Bea Lucas. Most of the apartments in the building must have been empty because, even with our parents' and uncle Dan's rent, the Lanes were not able to pay the mortgage. Consequently, after I was born they encouraged Mother and Dad to move to larger quarters. Jane and Kyran Conarchy had moved to Evanston and in 1933 Mother and Dad decided to move there as well. Thus we ceased to be Westsiders and became Northsiders. Only people who grew up in Chicago at the same time we did will appreciate the significance of that move. It was not exactly like moving from Tacoma to Mars, but it was close. Our folks rented a house in central Evanston. I think it had four bedrooms. It is still standing and is about four blocks from the hotel where next summer's reunion will be. Shelia was born within a year of our moving in. We must still have been pretty crowded, with two parents, five children, Bea and later our dog Toby Topsy Bunnington Lane. Bea had come to work for Mother when John was born. The strapping lad that John became conceals the sickly infant that he was. He was a very sick baby. Bea came to help Mother with Rosemary and Clem so Mother could spend some extra time taking care of John. Bea was just a kid when she came, about 17 or 18. She was a farm girl from the upper peninsula of Michigan. I think she was hired for three months and stayed for eight or nine years. She was a nice woman. We stayed in Evanston until May 1939 when we moved back into Chicago. We moved into an apartment on Chicago's far north side. Mother and Dad had the opportunity to buy the hose in Evanston, but they never wanted to have a mortgage. They had seen Dad's parents lose everything they had accumulated in their lifetime when they lost the big apartment building to a foreclosure. Aunt Sis also lost her house during the Depression because she could not service the mortgage. Mother and Dad, particularly Dad, never wanted to run that risk. Consequently, they rented all their lives. Paradoxically, Dad always encouraged each of his children to become a homeowner. As was the norm in those days, Mother was a stay-at-home Mom. Bea left us when we moved into Chicago. She came out to Seattle to work in the war industry. Consequently, Mother had the full load of doing the shopping, laundry and housecleaning for the family. She was also the family budgeter and bill payer. This was of course in the days when there were no freezers, dishwashers, dryers, etc. Housewives did a tremendous amount of manual labor. They also shopped every day for meat and bread. In addition to these chores, Mother became the family chauffeur. My parents had never owned a car. The religious order to which Mother's cousin, Sister Huberta, belonged was raffling a 1937 Dodge. Sister Huberta sold my parents some raffle tickets. Mother put the raffle tickets in the name of each of the children. Clem's ticket won the car, but it didn't do him any good because he was only ten years old. Dad had driven when he was young, but refused to start driving again, so Mother learned to drive the car and spent a large part of the next twenty-one years driving my father various places. Mother was an assertive driver, perhaps because Dad was the most aggressive backseat driver I have ever encountered. Mother would pull herself up to her full five foot height and yell at the other motorists while Dad would launch into lengthy diatribes at the various lardheads who were inconsiderate enough to be driving on the same street as my parents. I have heard rumors that one or two of their children inherited their compassion towards other drivers. When Dad joined Alcoholics Anonymous, Mother might just as well have joined. AA was a large part of each of their lives. They spent almost every Tuesday and Saturday night at AA functions and Dad attended an AA meeting almost every Thursday night. Mother supported him totally in his AA work. She also participated with him in all his Catholic activities. They went to mass together every day until Dad got too sick to go. Dad had his first coronary on July 4, 1956. It was a serious heart attack. He had a stressful job, was overweight and had diabetes. All of this contributed to making his coronary life-threatening. Dad started to recover after a couple of months. They went to Florida for two or three months in early January 1957 (their first winter vacation and one of the few vacations they ever took) and when they returned to Chicago, Dad was well enough to go back to work. He was in good health for nine months but in January 1958, he had a stroke from which he never fully recovered. This was two or three weeks before John and Bess June were married. Mother virtually lived at the hospital with Dad. She spent every night in his hospital room. The only time I remember that she was away from Dad for more than an hour or two was when she went to John's and Bess June's wedding. Dad eventually became well enough to leave the hospital and even go back to work. However, the stroke had weakened him so much that he walked with a cane for the rest of his life. He had a series of heart failure attacks and finally had a massive coronary on October 25, 1958 from which he died on October 27, 1958. It is difficult for a child to assess the state of his parents' marriage. With that caveat, I believe Mother and Dad had a very good marriage. They spent a great deal of time together and appeared to enjoy being together. They gave every appearance of loving each other. Their treatment of each other demonstrated that they liked and respected each other. Mother mourned Dad. One memory that still pains me is the day that Mother moved from the last apartment in which she and Dad lived. The apartment was empty. Mother, being Mother, had spent hours cleaning it for the next tenant. She closed the door for the last time and started to cry, saying she felt like she was leaving something behind. When Dad died, his pension from the Daily News also died. Mother got nothing from the Daily News. After a lifetime of raising and educating five children, they had just started to save some money when Dad got sick. Mother had only some life insurance proceeds and some small savings. She was 61 when Dad died, too young to draw social security. She decided to go to work. Mother went to see Dan Ryan (the man for whom the expressway is named). Dan Ryan was the President of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County and, with Mayor Daley, was the all-powerful political boss of Cook County. He had been a friend of Dad. Mother asked him for a job. He made a phone call and Mother was employed in the Cook County welfare department. Asking Ryan for a job and then going to work in an office after a thirty-five year absence from the work place must have been very painful. She worked with people who had gone to school with Sheila. She was the oldest person in the Department by decades. She had to learn new procedures, acquire new skills and deal with situations that were foreign to her. She not only survived this; she grew from it. The young people in her office loved her and she loved them. Mother kept this job for eight or nine years. After Mother stopped working, she continued to live in a small apartment on Chicago's north side, a block or so from Joan and Bess June's first house. She stayed in that apartment until April 1980 when she moved to a retirement home in Milwaukee. I suspect she was sick when she moved there. She was diagnosed with bladder cancer in January 1981 and had surgery to remove the tumor. The cancer recurred two or so months after the surgery. Mother refused further surgery and died on November 30, 1981 at the Milwaukee Catholic Retirement Home. She had none of us in Milwaukee, but Jane Marie Conarchy O'Brien lived a mile or so from the Retirement Home and saw Mother constantly. Jane, who is Mother's eldest niece, was as good to Mother as any of us would have been. She was with Mother when she died. I described Mother as an assertive driver and indeed she was. That, however, was an aberration in her personality. She was ordinarily the most even-tempered person I knew. Her harshest epithet was to call someone a "big Gom". This was hurled at people who were unjust to others; for example, a bigger kid picking on a smaller one or any instance where someone was being unfair or cruel to someone else. The phrase always conjured in my mind the image of some ferociously hulking being. Mother is the only person I have ever heard use that phrase. I think it is derived from the word "gombee" which was use in Ireland to describe a man who preyed on the Irish poor. Mother lived to see her five children marry and to see the birth of all her grandchildren. She had a grandmother's bracelet that had a locket with each grandchild's name. I think she reveled in the name "Meema" that Bob gave her and that all the rest of the grandchildren adopted. Whenever a new baby was born, Mother hurried to see that baby as if to bless the child and welcome the baby into the family. She was fascinated by the grandchildren, especially as they got older. Like a good grandparent, she was much more tolerant of her grandchildrens' misadventures than their parents were. I could continue to write for pages about Mother. I admire her. I love her. Some of your grandchildren knew her well, particularly the Spoeries and the Purcells. Others of you were not so fortunate. All of you should know at least this much about her. Angela Lavery was a good, loving and strong person. However difficult her childhood may have been, she did not dwell on it. She was a happy person who knew how to give and receive love. She was inclusive and welcoming. She may not have graduated from high school, but you would not have known that from talking to her. She was articulate, had an extensive vocabulary, read a lot, had solid mathematical skills and wrote very well. She continued to educate herself all her life. She grew with the changes around her. She knew how to respect the past but to live in the present. She is a good model for anyone. (Source: Robert C. Lane) --------------------------------------------------------------- I had the pleasure of working with Angela Lane while we were both employed at the Welfare Rehabilitation Services Office of the Cook County Department of Public Aid. She and I started working there at about the same time in October of 1959, although I was hired just before she was. She would have been 62 years old when she started working there. I recall her saying how nervous she was on her first day of work. I tried to reassure her that she would do fine. I knew her daughter Sheila as a classmate at Loyola University, and knew of her son Robert, who was kind of a "big man on campus" at Loyola. This department had a fairly high employee turnover rate, with some people staying as little as two months, but Angela stuck it out. Within a short time, she learned all of the department's policies and practices and became a valued member of the training unit. In her position, she would work directly with welfare recipients who were candidates for job training. Although the counselors and not Angela, were the ones with the actual "caseload", she helped to oversee many of the counselors' caseloads. She also supervised the flow of people coming into the office and would assign "clients" to individual counselors. I recall an incident when Angela helped me to retain my job. Although everyone who worked in the department was supposed to (in theory) have taken the Civil Service Exam to be hired, the department didn't insist on this until four years after we were hired. So she and I and others took and passed the federal Civil Service Exam and we needed to go through an additional certification procedure. Shortly after we received the news that we had passed the test, I was struck by a taxicab in LaSalle, Illinois, near where the Spoeris lived for a time. This is not that easy to do considering there are only about five cabs in all of LaSalle. But I was laid up in the hospital in LaSalle and was in traction for five weeks. Attendance at the certification session was mandatory and one would be fired if he did not comply. Being in traction, I obviously could not attend. Angela, however, interceded on my behalf by getting my supervisor to allow me to obtain the certification at a later time. Angela especially enjoyed working with the young people in the department and many of them spoke of how much she had helped them in their work. Although the job didn't pay that well, I think it was $352.00 per month, it was honorable work. Angela worked there eight years, retiring in October of 1967 a little before her 71st birthday. (Source: John Geiger as told to John W. Spoeri) Baptismal sponsors John Lavery & Rose McMahon. The church where she was baptized was destroyed by fire. Robert Casey Lane states: I do not know much about Mother's life as a young girl. She did not have an easy life. When she was about two years old, her father disappeared. He simply left home. So far as I know, James Lavery was never heard from. It bothered Mother very much. One day when Sheila and I were probably around 12 and 13 years old, maybe a little younger, she told us about her father's disappearance and a little bit about how she grew up. She said that she had not previously told us about her father because she did not want us to think that she had grown up any differently from us. She said that Aunt Sis believed Mother's father must have died because, Aunt Sis said, he had loved Roselia and his children too much to have simply abandoned them. After her father left, Mother lived with Aunt Sis (who had not married) for part of her childhood. I believe my mother's sister Jane stayed with Roselia. I do not know where Charley and Joe were, probably with Roselia or one of the Callahan or Lavery families. I do not know how long Mother lived with Aunt Sis. I don't think it was for too long. I think Mother lived with her mother, sister and brothers for most of her childhood, but the period when she had not lived with her mother had seared her memory. It was something she mentioned to me in the year before she died. Roselia and her children were poor. However, the Callahan and Lavery families rallied around Roselia and her family after James disappeared. Mother spoke often of her various aunts and uncles and was close to her Callahan and Lavery first cousins all her life. I think they all lived near each other in Chicago. Mother was especially close to the three daughters of Agnes Callahan and Pat Phelan. They were almost sisters to her. The youngest of the Phelan girl, who became Ann Manning, was Mother's maid of honor and the middle Phelan girls, who became Peggy Kearney, and Mother lived in the same retirement home in Milwaukee. The third girl was Marcella. We called all three of them "aunt" when we were children. Another Callahan cousin of Mother's was Franc (pronounced France) Callahan. He became a Chicago politician. He was an alderman for a while and was later the head of the Chicago airport. He and mother were close and he and Dad were friends. Mother was raised in St. Mel's parish, on the west side of Chicago. Jane Cochrane Lavery must have lived near Mother after Jane came to Chicago because Mother talked about Jane having been a very involved and active member of that parish. Mother was bright and I think she was a good student. She and Dad once told me that each of them had won a medal for excellence in Irish history when they were children. When Mother finished the eighth grade at St. Mel parish school, she did not go to high school. She signed up for a two year commercial course where I think she learned bookkeeping and clerical skills. By this time Roselia was ill. She had stomach cancer and died on December 15, 1911. At this point, Aunt Sis stepped in and basically became Mother's adopted mother. I believe she lived with Aunt Sis until she and Dad married. Mother worked in an office but I do not remember what she did or the nature of the business she worked for. Mother remained very close to her sister Jane and her brothers Charley and Joe. She was especially close to Jane. Jane married Kyran Conarchy. Uncle Kyran was one of the most delightful people I have ever known. Jane and Kyran had seven children, all of whom Mother, and for that matter my Dad as well, loved very much. We were very close to the Conarchys when we were growing up and have remained so as adults. Dad and his family were raised on the near south side of Chicago, in a neighborhood known as the front of the yards, the "yards" being the Chicago stockyards. At some point, probably after 1916, his family moved to the west side of Chicago. I think Mother and Dad met each other at a church dance. Mother had become acquainted with Dad's sister Loretta. Loretta introduced them. They were married on April 28, 1923. They were a skinny pair. Mother weighed something like 89 pounds and Dad was about twenty pounds heavier. Mother and Dad settled on the west side, living in a succession of apartments. This is where Rosemary, Clem, John and I were born. My Dad's parents had bought a two flat on the west side after they had sold their house on south Oakley Avenue. They apparently got caught up in enthusiasm for the real estate boom of the late 1920's and sold the two flat in order to buy a large apartment building with a large mortgage. The 1929 crash occurred and the Depression started. They could not rent their apartments so our parents and my Dad's brother Dan moved into their building to help pay the mortgage. This would have been in 1932 because I was born while my parents lived in Grandfather and Grandmother Lane's building. It was a two bedroom apartment, housing our parents, four children and a "hired girl", Bea Lucas. Most of the apartments in the building must have been empty because, even with our parents' and uncle Dan's rent, the Lanes were not able to pay the mortgage. Consequently, after I was born they encouraged Mother and Dad to move to larger quarters. Jane and Kyran Conarchy had moved to Evanston and in 1933 Mother and Dad decided to move there as well. Thus we ceased to be Westsiders and became Northsiders. Only people who grew up in Chicago at the same time we did will appreciate the significance of that move. It was not exactly like moving from Tacoma to Mars, but it was close. Our folks rented a house in central Evanston. I think it had four bedrooms. It is still standing and is about four blocks from the hotel where next summer's reunion will be. Shelia was born within a year of our moving in. We must still have been pretty crowded, with two parents, five children, Bea and later our dog Toby Topsy Bunnington Lane. Bea had come to work for Mother when John was born. The strapping lad that John became conceals the sickly infant that he was. He was a very sick baby. Bea came to help Mother with Rosemary and Clem so Mother could spend some extra time taking care of John. Bea was just a kid when she came, about 17 or 18. She was a farm girl from the upper peninsula of Michigan. I think she was hired for three months and stayed for eight or nine years. She was a nice woman. We stayed in Evanston until May 1939 when we moved back into Chicago. We moved into an apartment on Chicago's far north side. Mother and Dad had the opportunity to buy the hose in Evanston, but they never wanted to have a mortgage. They had seen Dad's parents lose everything they had accumulated in their lifetime when they lost the big apartment building to a foreclosure. Aunt Sis also lost her house during the Depression because she could not service the mortgage. Mother and Dad, particularly Dad, never wanted to run that risk. Consequently, they rented all their lives. Paradoxically, Dad always encouraged each of his children to become a homeowner. As was the norm in those days, Mother was a stay-at-home Mom. Bea left us when we moved into Chicago. She came out to Seattle to work in the war industry. Consequently, Mother had the full load of doing the shopping, laundry and housecleaning for the family. She was also the family budgeter and bill payer. This was of course in the days when there were no freezers, dishwashers, dryers, etc. Housewives did a tremendous amount of manual labor. They also shopped every day for meat and bread. In addition to these chores, Mother became the family chauffeur. My parents had never owned a car. The religious order to which Mother's cousin, Sister Huberta, belonged was raffling a 1937 Dodge. Sister Huberta sold my parents some raffle tickets. Mother put the raffle tickets in the name of each of the children. Clem's ticket won the car, but it didn't do him any good because he was only ten years old. Dad had driven when he was young, but refused to start driving again, so Mother learned to drive the car and spent a large part of the next twenty-one years driving my father various places. Mother was an assertive driver, perhaps because Dad was the most aggressive backseat driver I have ever encountered. Mother would pull herself up to her full five foot height and yell at the other motorists while Dad would launch into lengthy diatribes at the various lardheads who were inconsiderate enough to be driving on the same street as my parents. I have heard rumors that one or two of their children inherited their compassion towards other drivers. When Dad joined Alcoholics Anonymous, Mother might just as well have joined. AA was a large part of each of their lives. They spent almost every Tuesday and Saturday night at AA functions and Dad attended an AA meeting almost every Thursday night. Mother supported him totally in his AA work. She also participated with him in all his Catholic activities. They went to mass together every day until Dad got too sick to go. Dad had his first coronary on July 4, 1956. It was a serious heart attack. He had a stressful job, was overweight and had diabetes. All of this contributed to making his coronary life-threatening. Dad started to recover after a couple of months. They went to Florida for two or three months in early January 1957 (their first winter vacation and one of the few vacations they ever took) and when they returned to Chicago, Dad was well enough to go back to work. He was in good health for nine months but in January 1958, he had a stroke from which he never fully recovered. This was two or three weeks before John and Bess June were married. Mother virtually lived at the hospital with Dad. She spent every night in his hospital room. The only time I remember that she was away from Dad for more than an hour or two was when she went to John's and Bess June's wedding. Dad eventually became well enough to leave the hospital and even go back to work. However, the stroke had weakened him so much that he walked with a cane for the rest of his life. He had a series of heart failure attacks and finally had a massive coronary on October 25, 1958 from which he died on October 27, 1958. It is difficult for a child to assess the state of his parents' marriage. With that caveat, I believe Mother and Dad had a very good marriage. They spent a great deal of time together and appeared to enjoy being together. They gave every appearance of loving each other. Their treatment of each other demonstrated that they liked and respected each other. Mother mourned Dad. One memory that still pains me is the day that Mother moved from the last apartment in which she and Dad lived. The apartment was empty. Mother, being Mother, had spent hours cleaning it for the next tenant. She closed the door for the last time and started to cry, saying she felt like she was leaving something behind. When Dad died, his pension from the Daily News also died. Mother got nothing from the Daily News. After a lifetime of raising and educating five children, they had just started to save some money when Dad got sick. Mother had only some life insurance proceeds and some small savings. She was 61 when Dad died, too young to draw social security. She decided to go to work. Mother went to see Dan Ryan (the man for whom the expressway is named). Dan Ryan was the President of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County and, with Mayor Daley, was the all-powerful political boss of Cook County. He had been a friend of Dad. Mother asked him for a job. He made a phone call and Mother was employed in the Cook County welfare department. Asking Ryan for a job and then going to work in an office after a thirty-five year absence from the work place must have been very painful. She worked with people who had gone to school with Sheila. She was the oldest person in the Department by dec | Lavery, Angela Ann (I9272)
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| 117 | Baptized at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. Baptismal sponsers Mary Linscott Conarchy & Dr. Jack End. Assistant Attorney General State of Wisconsin. Baptized at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. Baptismal sponsers Mary Linscott Conarchy & Dr. Jack End. Assistant Attorney General State of Wisconsin. Baptized at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. Baptismal sponsers Mary Linscott Conarchy & Dr. Jack End. Assistant Attorney General State of Wisconsin. Baptized at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. Baptismal sponsers Mary Linscott Conarchy & Dr. Jack End. Assistant Attorney General State of Wisconsin. Baptized at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. Baptismal sponsers Mary Linscott Conarchy & Dr. Jack End. Assistant Attorney General State of Wisconsin. Baptized at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. Baptismal sponsers Mary Linscott Conarchy & Dr. Jack End. Assistant Attorney General State of Wisconsin. Baptized at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. Baptismal sponsers Mary Linscott Conarchy & Dr. Jack End. Assistant Attorney General State of Wisconsin. Baptized at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. Baptismal sponsers Mary Linscott Conarchy & Dr. Jack End. Assistant Attorney General State of Wisconsin. Baptized at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. Baptismal sponsers Mary Linscott Conarchy & Dr. Jack End. Assistant Attorney General State of Wisconsin. Baptized at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Milwaukee, WIsconsin. Baptismal sponsers Mary Linscott Conarchy & Dr. Jack End. Assistant Attorney General State of Wisconsin. | O'Brien, Daniel Joseph (I9415)
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| 118 | Barbara Sue Miller Copfer (nee Alexander), 51, of Herndon, Virginia, passed away Thursday, July 21, 2011, following an illness. She was born June 2, 1960 in Elyria, where she attended Elyria High School. Barb was in the United States Army from 1979 to 1981 and was awarded the Marksman award early in her service time and left the military as a Sergeant. She enjoyed spending time with her son and her family; crocheting; listening, writing, playing and singing music; writing poetry, drawing and just enjoying life to its fullest. She is survived by her son, Zachary Amos Miller of Tennessee; companion, Dennis Copfer of Virginia; and two stepsons, Dennis Copfer, Jr. (Jennifer) of Avon Lake, and Jason Copfer (Amy) of Virginia; her father, Jack Alexander (Corinne) of Elyriaia; a sister, Jacqueline Beaty (Kenny) of Elyria; four brothers, Daniel G. Alexander of LaGrange, Richard Alexander (Maryann) of Lakewood, Allen Alexander of Elyria, John Scott Alexander (Stephanie) of Florida; nieces, Heather Snider (Joseph) and Jessica Beaty of Elyria, Katelynn Alexander of Florida, Holly Wilkins, USAF (Randy) of Texas, Ashley Alexander of Colorado; nephews, Daniel, Jr. of Lagrange, Eric Alexander of Rocky River, Matthew Alexander of Lakewood; two great-nieces; and two step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her mother, Leona Alexander-Short (nee Looney); and by both maternal and paternal grandparents. Friends and family are welcome for a Memorial Service beginning at 7 P.M. at Calvary Apostolic Church, 3222 North Ridge Rd., Sheffield. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations to help defray costs. Barbara Sue Miller Copfer (nee Alexander), 51, of Herndon, Virginia, passed away Thursday, July 21, 2011, following an illness. She was born June 2, 1960 in Elyria, where she attended Elyria High School. Barb was in the United States Army from 1979 to 1981 and was awarded the Marksman award early in her service time and left the military as a Sergeant. She enjoyed spending time with her son and her family; crocheting; listening, writing, playing and singing music; writing poetry, drawing and just enjoying life to its fullest. She is survived by her son, Zachary Amos Miller of Tennessee; companion, Dennis Copfer of Virginia; and two stepsons, Dennis Copfer, Jr. (Jennifer) of Avon Lake, and Jason Copfer (Amy) of Virginia; her father, Jack Alexander (Corinne) of Elyriaia; a sister, Jacqueline Beaty (Kenny) of Elyria; four brothers, Daniel G. Alexander of LaGrange, Richard Alexander (Maryann) of Lakewood, Allen Alexander of Elyria, John Scott Alexander (Stephanie) of Florida; nieces, Heather Snider (Joseph) and Jessica Beaty of Elyria, Katelynn Alexander of Florida, Holly Wilkins, USAF (Randy) of Texas, Ashley Alexander of Colorado; nephews, Daniel, Jr. of Lagrange, Eric Alexander of Rocky River, Matthew Alexander of Lakewood; two great-nieces; and two step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her mother, Leona Alexander-Short (nee Looney); and by both maternal and paternal grandparents. Friends and family are welcome for a Memorial Service beginning at 7 P.M. at Calvary Apostolic Church, 3222 North Ridge Rd., Sheffield. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations to help defray costs. Barbara Sue Miller Copfer (nee Alexander), 51, of Herndon, Virginia, passed away Thursday, July 21, 2011, following an illness. She was born June 2, 1960 in Elyria, where she attended Elyria High School. Barb was in the United States Army from 1979 to 1981 and was awarded the Marksman award early in her service time and left the military as a Sergeant. She enjoyed spending time with her son and her family; crocheting; listening, writing, playing and singing music; writing poetry, drawing and just enjoying life to its fullest. She is survived by her son, Zachary Amos Miller of Tennessee; companion, Dennis Copfer of Virginia; and two stepsons, Dennis Copfer, Jr. (Jennifer) of Avon Lake, and Jason Copfer (Amy) of Virginia; her father, Jack Alexander (Corinne) of Elyriaia; a sister, Jacqueline Beaty (Kenny) of Elyria; four brothers, Daniel G. Alexander of LaGrange, Richard Alexander (Maryann) of Lakewood, Allen Alexander of Elyria, John Scott Alexander (Stephanie) of Florida; nieces, Heather Snider (Joseph) and Jessica Beaty of Elyria, Katelynn Alexander of Florida, Holly Wilkins, USAF (Randy) of Texas, Ashley Alexander of Colorado; nephews, Daniel, Jr. of Lagrange, Eric Alexander of Rocky River, Matthew Alexander of Lakewood; two great-nieces; and two step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her mother, Leona Alexander-Short (nee Looney); and by both maternal and paternal grandparents. Friends and family are welcome for a Memorial Service beginning at 7 P.M. at Calvary Apostolic Church, 3222 North Ridge Rd., Sheffield. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations to help defray costs. Barbara Sue Miller Copfer (nee Alexander), 51, of Herndon, Virginia, passed away Thursday, July 21, 2011, following an illness. She was born June 2, 1960 in Elyria, where she attended Elyria High School. Barb was in the United States Army from 1979 to 1981 and was awarded the Marksman award early in her service time and left the military as a Sergeant. She enjoyed spending time with her son and her family; crocheting; listening, writing, playing and singing music; writing poetry, drawing and just enjoying life to its fullest. She is survived by her son, Zachary Amos Miller of Tennessee; companion, Dennis Copfer of Virginia; and two stepsons, Dennis Copfer, Jr. (Jennifer) of Avon Lake, and Jason Copfer (Amy) of Virginia; her father, Jack Alexander (Corinne) of Elyriaia; a sister, Jacqueline Beaty (Kenny) of Elyria; four brothers, Daniel G. Alexander of LaGrange, Richard Alexander (Maryann) of Lakewood, Allen Alexander of Elyria, John Scott Alexander (Stephanie) of Florida; nieces, Heather Snider (Joseph) and Jessica Beaty of Elyria, Katelynn Alexander of Florida, Holly Wilkins, USAF (Randy) of Texas, Ashley Alexander of Colorado; nephews, Daniel, Jr. of Lagrange, Eric Alexander of Rocky River, Matthew Alexander of Lakewood; two great-nieces; and two step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her mother, Leona Alexander-Short (nee Looney); and by both maternal and paternal grandparents. Friends and family are welcome for a Memorial Service beginning at 7 P.M. at Calvary Apostolic Church, 3222 North Ridge Rd., Sheffield. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations to help defray costs. | Alexander, Barbara Sue (I4999)
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| 119 | Bertha A. Baker Bostaph, age 99, of Erie, passed quietly at Millcreek Community Hospital on Thursday, April 23, 2015. She was born in North East, Pa. on June 11, 1915, the daughter of the late Vern W. and Lana P. Post Baker. Mrs. Bostaph was a member of Wayne Park Baptist Church. She taught Sunday School there and served as a deaconess for many years. She was also chairman of the Dorcas Missionary Circle and an R.S.V.P. and Oil Creek Women’s Association member. She was the matriarch of the family, giving guidance and comfort to all she touched. She excelled in gardening with her husband, enjoying bountiful harvests for canning and baking (especially her pies), sharing with family and friends. She was steadfast in her faith, and an avid reader, reading a book a day. She enjoyed crossword puzzles and knitting, making thousands of caps, scarfs and mittens for the City Mission for over a half century. She was preceded in death by her husband Patrick M. Bostaph, a daughter, Diane Myers, a granddaughter, Valery Szumigala, and her brother Vern Baker. She leaves a daughter, Lana Mattocks of Erie, two sons, Charles V. Hall and his wife, Dorothy, of Bidderford, ME, and James Bostaph and his wife, Barbara, of Newport News, VA; a half-brother, Marshall Baker and his wife, Judy, of Bear Lake, PA; a half-sister, Beverly Chamberlain and her husband Arwin, of Pleasantville, PA. Bertha also leaves nine grandchildren; Michael, Anthony (Stephanie) and Romeo Ghamo, Sandra (John) Taccone, James Szumigala, Susan (James) Shumway, Charles and Michelle Hall, Sarah and Emily Bostaph, and many great grandchildren. The family would like to thank the staff of LECOM for the kind and professional care provided during her stay. Friends may call at the Burton Funeral Home and Crematory Inc., 602 West Tenth Street, Erie, Pa. 16502 on Sunday from 2:00 pm till 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm till 8:00 pm and are invited to a service there on Monday at 11:00 am. Burial will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Wayne Park Baptist Temple, 923 East 6th Street, Erie, Pa. 16507. This obituary is protected by copyright by Burton Funeral Homes and Crematory, Inc.. Proudly Serving the Community of Erie in the state of Pennsylvania, United States Bertha A. Baker Bostaph, age 99, of Erie, passed quietly at Millcreek Community Hospital on Thursday, April 23, 2015. She was born in North East, Pa. on June 11, 1915, the daughter of the late Vern W. and Lana P. Post Baker. Mrs. Bostaph was a member of Wayne Park Baptist Church. She taught Sunday School there and served as a deaconess for many years. She was also chairman of the Dorcas Missionary Circle and an R.S.V.P. and Oil Creek Women’s Association member. She was the matriarch of the family, giving guidance and comfort to all she touched. She excelled in gardening with her husband, enjoying bountiful harvests for canning and baking (especially her pies), sharing with family and friends. She was steadfast in her faith, and an avid reader, reading a book a day. She enjoyed crossword puzzles and knitting, making thousands of caps, scarfs and mittens for the City Mission for over a half century. She was preceded in death by her husband Patrick M. Bostaph, a daughter, Diane Myers, a granddaughter, Valery Szumigala, and her brother Vern Baker. She leaves a daughter, Lana Mattocks of Erie, two sons, Charles V. Hall and his wife, Dorothy, of Bidderford, ME, and James Bostaph and his wife, Barbara, of Newport News, VA; a half-brother, Marshall Baker and his wife, Judy, of Bear Lake, PA; a half-sister, Beverly Chamberlain and her husband Arwin, of Pleasantville, PA. Bertha also leaves nine grandchildren; Michael, Anthony (Stephanie) and Romeo Ghamo, Sandra (John) Taccone, James Szumigala, Susan (James) Shumway, Charles and Michelle Hall, Sarah and Emily Bostaph, and many great grandchildren. The family would like to thank the staff of LECOM for the kind and professional care provided during her stay. Friends may call at the Burton Funeral Home and Crematory Inc., 602 West Tenth Street, Erie, Pa. 16502 on Sunday from 2:00 pm till 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm till 8:00 pm and are invited to a service there on Monday at 11:00 am. Burial will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Wayne Park Baptist Temple, 923 East 6th Street, Erie, Pa. 16507. This obituary is protected by copyright by Burton Funeral Homes and Crematory, Inc.. Proudly Serving the Community of Erie in the state of Pennsylvania, United States Bertha A. Baker Bostaph, age 99, of Erie, passed quietly at Millcreek Community Hospital on Thursday, April 23, 2015. She was born in North East, Pa. on June 11, 1915, the daughter of the late Vern W. and Lana P. Post Baker. Mrs. Bostaph was a member of Wayne Park Baptist Church. She taught Sunday School there and served as a deaconess for many years. She was also chairman of the Dorcas Missionary Circle and an R.S.V.P. and Oil Creek Women’s Association member. She was the matriarch of the family, giving guidance and comfort to all she touched. She excelled in gardening with her husband, enjoying bountiful harvests for canning and baking (especially her pies), sharing with family and friends. She was steadfast in her faith, and an avid reader, reading a book a day. She enjoyed crossword puzzles and knitting, making thousands of caps, scarfs and mittens for the City Mission for over a half century. She was preceded in death by her husband Patrick M. Bostaph, a daughter, Diane Myers, a granddaughter, Valery Szumigala, and her brother Vern Baker. She leaves a daughter, Lana Mattocks of Erie, two sons, Charles V. Hall and his wife, Dorothy, of Bidderford, ME, and James Bostaph and his wife, Barbara, of Newport News, VA; a half-brother, Marshall Baker and his wife, Judy, of Bear Lake, PA; a half-sister, Beverly Chamberlain and her husband Arwin, of Pleasantville, PA. Bertha also leaves nine grandchildren; Michael, Anthony (Stephanie) and Romeo Ghamo, Sandra (John) Taccone, James Szumigala, Susan (James) Shumway, Charles and Michelle Hall, Sarah and Emily Bostaph, and many great grandchildren. The family would like to thank the staff of LECOM for the kind and professional care provided during her stay. Friends may call at the Burton Funeral Home and Crematory Inc., 602 West Tenth Street, Erie, Pa. 16502 on Sunday from 2:00 pm till 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm till 8:00 pm and are invited to a service there on Monday at 11:00 am. Burial will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Wayne Park Baptist Temple, 923 East 6th Street, Erie, Pa. 16507. This obituary is protected by copyright by Burton Funeral Homes and Crematory, Inc.. Proudly Serving the Community of Erie in the state of Pennsylvania, United States Bertha A. Baker Bostaph, age 99, of Erie, passed quietly at Millcreek Community Hospital on Thursday, April 23, 2015. She was born in North East, Pa. on June 11, 1915, the daughter of the late Vern W. and Lana P. Post Baker. Mrs. Bostaph was a member of Wayne Park Baptist Church. She taught Sunday School there and served as a deaconess for many years. She was also chairman of the Dorcas Missionary Circle and an R.S.V.P. and Oil Creek Women’s Association member. She was the matriarch of the family, giving guidance and comfort to all she touched. She excelled in gardening with her husband, enjoying bountiful harvests for canning and baking (especially her pies), sharing with family and friends. She was steadfast in her faith, and an avid reader, reading a book a day. She enjoyed crossword puzzles and knitting, making thousands of caps, scarfs and mittens for the City Mission for over a half century. She was preceded in death by her husband Patrick M. Bostaph, a daughter, Diane Myers, a granddaughter, Valery Szumigala, and her brother Vern Baker. She leaves a daughter, Lana Mattocks of Erie, two sons, Charles V. Hall and his wife, Dorothy, of Bidderford, ME, and James Bostaph and his wife, Barbara, of Newport News, VA; a half-brother, Marshall Baker and his wife, Judy, of Bear Lake, PA; a half-sister, Beverly Chamberlain and her husband Arwin, of Pleasantville, PA. Bertha also leaves nine grandchildren; Michael, Anthony (Stephanie) and Romeo Ghamo, Sandra (John) Taccone, James Szumigala, Susan (James) Shumway, Charles and Michelle Hall, Sarah and Emily Bostaph, and many great grandchildren. The family would like to thank the staff of LECOM for the kind and professional care provided during her stay. Friends may call at the Burton Funeral Home and Crematory Inc., 602 West Tenth Street, Erie, Pa. 16502 on Sunday from 2:00 pm till 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm till 8:00 pm and are invited to a service there on Monday at 11:00 am. Burial will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Wayne Park Baptist Temple, 923 East 6th Street, Erie, Pa. 16507. This obituary is protected by copyright by Burton Funeral Homes and Crematory, Inc.. Proudly Serving the Community of Erie in the state of Pennsylvania, United States | Baker, Bertha A. (I3894)
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| 121 | Betty Ford (February 5, 1936 - February 9, 2013) Youngstown - There will be a Mass of Christian Burial held on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, St. Matthias Church, 915 Cornell St., Youngstown, with Rev. Msgr. Peter M. Polando officiating, preceded by a 9:30 a.m. prayer service held at the Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home, 4700 Market St., Boardman, for Betty Ford, 77, of Youngstown, who passed away early Saturday morning, February 9, 2013 with her loving family by her side. Betty was a 12 year cancer survivor. Betty will always be remembered and loved by her family and friends for her gift of listening, wonderful giving personality and the time that she had spent with her family. Elizabeth Jane “Betty” Mitchell was born on February 5, 1936 in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Daniel and Mabel (Schmiedel) Mitchell and moved to the Youngstown area in 1956. Betty was a member of St. Matthias Church, the 7th Ward Citizens Coalition and the Cochran Park Neighbors. She was a dog groomer, a member of the Kroger Price Patrol and enjoyed hauling with her husband. She loved antiques, having garage sales and sitting on her front porch with her husband Don and her cats. She leaves behind to hold on to her precious memories her husband of over 57 years Donald Ford whom she married on January 22, 1956, her children Janice (Tom) Rovnak of Youngstown, Cindy (Ron) Lovich of Edenburg, Pennsylvania, Don (Helen) Ford of Boardman, Cherie (Mark) Sefcik of Austintown, Robert (Mary) Ford of Boardman and David M. (Darla) Ford of Struthers, thirteen grandchildren Tommy (Melissa), Robert and Johnny Rovnak, Christine (Nick) Dean, Stephanie and Chas Kunovich, Robert Jr. and Joshua Ford, Nicole (Erik) Matson, Brooke Harris-Ford, Davia, Haley, and David Jr. Ford, eight step grandchildren, eight great grandchildren Thomas, Alex, Kaitlyn, Nathaniel Rovnak, twins Leah and Cora Dean just born on Betty’s birthday and Sophia and Benjamin Matson, seven step great grandchildren, her twin brother Jack Mitchell of Los Angeles and a special niece Kathy (Bill) Penfield of Ridgway, Pennsylvania. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by a son John Ford, a sister Marion Fannin and three brothers Paul, Everett, and Raymond Mitchell. Friends may call on Monday, February 11, 2013 from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home, 4700 Market St., Boardman. Burial will take place at Lake Park Cemetery, Youngstown. Family and friends may visit www.rossisantuccifh.com. to view this obituary, sign the guest book and send condolences to Betty’s family. Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home Dedicated To Your Loved Ones Betty Ford (February 5, 1936 - February 9, 2013) Youngstown - There will be a Mass of Christian Burial held on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, St. Matthias Church, 915 Cornell St., Youngstown, with Rev. Msgr. Peter M. Polando officiating, preceded by a 9:30 a.m. prayer service held at the Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home, 4700 Market St., Boardman, for Betty Ford, 77, of Youngstown, who passed away early Saturday morning, February 9, 2013 with her loving family by her side. Betty was a 12 year cancer survivor. Betty will always be remembered and loved by her family and friends for her gift of listening, wonderful giving personality and the time that she had spent with her family. Elizabeth Jane “Betty” Mitchell was born on February 5, 1936 in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Daniel and Mabel (Schmiedel) Mitchell and moved to the Youngstown area in 1956. Betty was a member of St. Matthias Church, the 7th Ward Citizens Coalition and the Cochran Park Neighbors. She was a dog groomer, a member of the Kroger Price Patrol and enjoyed hauling with her husband. She loved antiques, having garage sales and sitting on her front porch with her husband Don and her cats. She leaves behind to hold on to her precious memories her husband of over 57 years Donald Ford whom she married on January 22, 1956, her children Janice (Tom) Rovnak of Youngstown, Cindy (Ron) Lovich of Edenburg, Pennsylvania, Don (Helen) Ford of Boardman, Cherie (Mark) Sefcik of Austintown, Robert (Mary) Ford of Boardman and David M. (Darla) Ford of Struthers, thirteen grandchildren Tommy (Melissa), Robert and Johnny Rovnak, Christine (Nick) Dean, Stephanie and Chas Kunovich, Robert Jr. and Joshua Ford, Nicole (Erik) Matson, Brooke Harris-Ford, Davia, Haley, and David Jr. Ford, eight step grandchildren, eight great grandchildren Thomas, Alex, Kaitlyn, Nathaniel Rovnak, twins Leah and Cora Dean just born on Betty’s birthday and Sophia and Benjamin Matson, seven step great grandchildren, her twin brother Jack Mitchell of Los Angeles and a special niece Kathy (Bill) Penfield of Ridgway, Pennsylvania. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by a son John Ford, a sister Marion Fannin and three brothers Paul, Everett, and Raymond Mitchell. Friends may call on Monday, February 11, 2013 from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home, 4700 Market St., Boardman. Burial will take place at Lake Park Cemetery, Youngstown. Family and friends may visit www.rossisantuccifh.com. to view this obituary, sign the guest book and send condolences to Betty’s family. Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home Dedicated To Your Loved Ones Betty Ford (February 5, 1936 - February 9, 2013) Youngstown - There will be a Mass of Christian Burial held on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, St. Matthias Church, 915 Cornell St., Youngstown, with Rev. Msgr. Peter M. Polando officiating, preceded by a 9:30 a.m. prayer service held at the Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home, 4700 Market St., Boardman, for Betty Ford, 77, of Youngstown, who passed away early Saturday morning, February 9, 2013 with her loving family by her side. Betty was a 12 year cancer survivor. Betty will always be remembered and loved by her family and friends for her gift of listening, wonderful giving personality and the time that she had spent with her family. Elizabeth Jane “Betty” Mitchell was born on February 5, 1936 in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Daniel and Mabel (Schmiedel) Mitchell and moved to the Youngstown area in 1956. Betty was a member of St. Matthias Church, the 7th Ward Citizens Coalition and the Cochran Park Neighbors. She was a dog groomer, a member of the Kroger Price Patrol and enjoyed hauling with her husband. She loved antiques, having garage sales and sitting on her front porch with her husband Don and her cats. She leaves behind to hold on to her precious memories her husband of over 57 years Donald Ford whom she married on January 22, 1956, her children Janice (Tom) Rovnak of Youngstown, Cindy (Ron) Lovich of Edenburg, Pennsylvania, Don (Helen) Ford of Boardman, Cherie (Mark) Sefcik of Austintown, Robert (Mary) Ford of Boardman and David M. (Darla) Ford of Struthers, thirteen grandchildren Tommy (Melissa), Robert and Johnny Rovnak, Christine (Nick) Dean, Stephanie and Chas Kunovich, Robert Jr. and Joshua Ford, Nicole (Erik) Matson, Brooke Harris-Ford, Davia, Haley, and David Jr. Ford, eight step grandchildren, eight great grandchildren Thomas, Alex, Kaitlyn, Nathaniel Rovnak, twins Leah and Cora Dean just born on Betty’s birthday and Sophia and Benjamin Matson, seven step great grandchildren, her twin brother Jack Mitchell of Los Angeles and a special niece Kathy (Bill) Penfield of Ridgway, Pennsylvania. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by a son John Ford, a sister Marion Fannin and three brothers Paul, Everett, and Raymond Mitchell. Friends may call on Monday, February 11, 2013 from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home, 4700 Market St., Boardman. Burial will take place at Lake Park Cemetery, Youngstown. Family and friends may visit www.rossisantuccifh.com. to view this obituary, sign the guest book and send condolences to Betty’s family. Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home Dedicated To Your Loved Ones Betty Ford (February 5, 1936 - February 9, 2013) Youngstown - There will be a Mass of Christian Burial held on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, St. Matthias Church, 915 Cornell St., Youngstown, with Rev. Msgr. Peter M. Polando officiating, preceded by a 9:30 a.m. prayer service held at the Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home, 4700 Market St., Boardman, for Betty Ford, 77, of Youngstown, who passed away early Saturday morning, February 9, 2013 with her loving family by her side. Betty was a 12 year cancer survivor. Betty will always be remembered and loved by her family and friends for her gift of listening, wonderful giving personality and the time that she had spent with her family. Elizabeth Jane “Betty” Mitchell was born on February 5, 1936 in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Daniel and Mabel (Schmiedel) Mitchell and moved to the Youngstown area in 1956. Betty was a member of St. Matthias Church, the 7th Ward Citizens Coalition and the Cochran Park Neighbors. She was a dog groomer, a member of the Kroger Price Patrol and enjoyed hauling with her husband. She loved antiques, having garage sales and sitting on her front porch with her husband Don and her cats. She leaves behind to hold on to her precious memories her husband of over 57 years Donald Ford whom she married on January 22, 1956, her children Janice (Tom) Rovnak of Youngstown, Cindy (Ron) Lovich of Edenburg, Pennsylvania, Don (Helen) Ford of Boardman, Cherie (Mark) Sefcik of Austintown, Robert (Mary) Ford of Boardman and David M. (Darla) Ford of Struthers, thirteen grandchildren Tommy (Melissa), Robert and Johnny Rovnak, Christine (Nick) Dean, Stephanie and Chas Kunovich, Robert Jr. and Joshua Ford, Nicole (Erik) Matson, Brooke Harris-Ford, Davia, Haley, and David Jr. Ford, eight step grandchildren, eight great grandchildren Thomas, Alex, Kaitlyn, Nathaniel Rovnak, twins Leah and Cora Dean just born on Betty’s birthday and Sophia and Benjamin Matson, seven step great grandchildren, her twin brother Jack Mitchell of Los Angeles and a special niece Kathy (Bill) Penfield of Ridgway, Pennsylvania. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by a son John Ford, a sister Marion Fannin and three brothers Paul, Everett, and Raymond Mitchell. Friends may call on Monday, February 11, 2013 from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home, 4700 Market St., Boardman. Burial will take place at Lake Park Cemetery, Youngstown. Family and friends may visit www.rossisantuccifh.com. to view this obituary, sign the guest book and send condolences to Betty’s family. Rossi & Santucci Funeral Home Dedicated To Your Loved Ones | Mitchell, Elizabeth Jane (I4732)
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| 122 | Betty Jane Wurm, aged 5 years,3 months and 19 days, died at the home of her parents on Broad street on Sunday, January 3, 1926. Betty Jane Wurm was born September 24, 1920. She was the second daughter of Henry W. and Birdie Kohler Wurm. Little Betty Jane had been suffering since the middle of summer from Brights disease, and had been confined to her bed since the sixth of September. The first four weeks in bed were spent in the home of Mr. and Mrs.I.F. Weigle. She was then taken to the Logan Hospsital, Cambridge Springs, and after a six week's stay there she was brought to the home of her parents in New Bethlehem. Everything possible was done to relieve her suffering and to cure the disease. Betty Jane was a beautiful example of patience, for not once during her entire illness did she complain. She bore her suffering cheerfuly, displaying an extremely sweet disposition. Betty Jane Wurm is survived by her father and mother, one sister, Helen and one brother, Billy. Funeral services were conducted at the St. Charles Catholic church at this place Tuesday morning at 9:00 o'clock. An impressive feature of the service was the attendance of the Sunday School in a body and the presance of sixteen girls and sixteen boys, who acted as honorary pallbearers. High Mass of the Angles was offered and a very beautiful sermon was delivered by Rev. F. J. Graes, pastor of the church. New Bethlehem Vindicator Friday, January 8, 12926 Betty Jane Wurm, aged 5 years,3 months and 19 days, died at the home of her parents on Broad street on Sunday, January 3, 1926. Betty Jane Wurm was born September 24, 1920. She was the second daughter of Henry W. and Birdie Kohler Wurm. Little Betty Jane had been suffering since the middle of summer from Brights disease, and had been confined to her bed since the sixth of September. The first four weeks in bed were spent in the home of Mr. and Mrs.I.F. Weigle. She was then taken to the Logan Hospsital, Cambridge Springs, and after a six week's stay there she was brought to the home of her parents in New Bethlehem. Everything possible was done to relieve her suffering and to cure the disease. Betty Jane was a beautiful example of patience, for not once during her entire illness did she complain. She bore her suffering cheerfuly, displaying an extremely sweet disposition. Betty Jane Wurm is survived by her father and mother, one sister, Helen and one brother, Billy. Funeral services were conducted at the St. Charles Catholic church at this place Tuesday morning at 9:00 o'clock. An impressive feature of the service was the attendance of the Sunday School in a body and the presance of sixteen girls and sixteen boys, who acted as honorary pallbearers. High Mass of the Angles was offered and a very beautiful sermon was delivered by Rev. F. J. Graes, pastor of the church. New Bethlehem Vindicator Friday, January 8, 12926 Betty Jane Wurm, aged 5 years,3 months and 19 days, died at the home of her parents on Broad street on Sunday, January 3, 1926. Betty Jane Wurm was born September 24, 1920. She was the second daughter of Henry W. and Birdie Kohler Wurm. Little Betty Jane had been suffering since the middle of summer from Brights disease, and had been confined to her bed since the sixth of September. The first four weeks in bed were spent in the home of Mr. and Mrs.I.F. Weigle. She was then taken to the Logan Hospsital, Cambridge Springs, and after a six week's stay there she was brought to the home of her parents in New Bethlehem. Everything possible was done to relieve her suffering and to cure the disease. Betty Jane was a beautiful example of patience, for not once during her entire illness did she complain. She bore her suffering cheerfuly, displaying an extremely sweet disposition. Betty Jane Wurm is survived by her father and mother, one sister, Helen and one brother, Billy. Funeral services were conducted at the St. Charles Catholic church at this place Tuesday morning at 9:00 o'clock. An impressive feature of the service was the attendance of the Sunday School in a body and the presance of sixteen girls and sixteen boys, who acted as honorary pallbearers. High Mass of the Angles was offered and a very beautiful sermon was delivered by Rev. F. J. Graes, pastor of the church. New Bethlehem Vindicator Friday, January 8, 12926 Betty Jane Wurm, aged 5 years,3 months and 19 days, died at the home of her parents on Broad street on Sunday, January 3, 1926. Betty Jane Wurm was born September 24, 1920. She was the second daughter of Henry W. and Birdie Kohler Wurm. Little Betty Jane had been suffering since the middle of summer from Brights disease, and had been confined to her bed since the sixth of September. The first four weeks in bed were spent in the home of Mr. and Mrs.I.F. Weigle. She was then taken to the Logan Hospsital, Cambridge Springs, and after a six week's stay there she was brought to the home of her parents in New Bethlehem. Everything possible was done to relieve her suffering and to cure the disease. Betty Jane was a beautiful example of patience, for not once during her entire illness did she complain. She bore her suffering cheerfuly, displaying an extremely sweet disposition. Betty Jane Wurm is survived by her father and mother, one sister, Helen and one brother, Billy. Funeral services were conducted at the St. Charles Catholic church at this place Tuesday morning at 9:00 o'clock. An impressive feature of the service was the attendance of the Sunday School in a body and the presance of sixteen girls and sixteen boys, who acted as honorary pallbearers. High Mass of the Angles was offered and a very beautiful sermon was delivered by Rev. F. J. Graes, pastor of the church. New Bethlehem Vindicator Friday, January 8, 12926 | Wurm, Betty Jane (I1027)
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| 123 | Beverly "Betty" Rose Daniel December 17, 2001 - Petoskeynews.com Beverly "Betty" Rose Daniel, 61, of Petoskey, passed away Sunday, Dec. 16, 2001, at Northern Michigan Hospital. Funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, at St. Francis Xavier Church. Visitation will be 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. WWednesday, Dec. 19, at Stone Funeral Home in Petoskey, where a rosary will be held at 7 p.m. Burial will take place in St. Francis Cemetery. Betty was born Jan. 16, 1940, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Ralph and Loretta (Konwinski) Daniel. Her father preceded her in death in 1976. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Name: Beverly R. Daniel SSN: 349-32-3002 Last Residence: 49770 Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan, USA BORN: 16 Jan 1940 Died: 16 Dec 2001 State (Year) SSN issued: Illinois (1956-1957) Source Citation Number: 349-32-3002; Issue State: Illinois; Issue Date: 1956-1957 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Name: Beverly Rose Daniel [Beverly R Daniel] SSN: 349323002 Gender: Female Race: White Birth Date: 16 Jan 1940 Birth Place: Chicago Cook, Illinois Death Date: 16 Dec 2001 Father: Ralph C Daniel Mother: Lorretta Konwinski Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: May 1956: Name listed as BEVERLY ROSE DANIEL; 01 Jan 2002: Name listed as BEVERLY R DANIEL Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007. Beverly "Betty" Rose Daniel December 17, 2001 - Petoskeynews.com Beverly "Betty" Rose Daniel, 61, of Petoskey, passed away Sunday, Dec. 16, 2001, at Northern Michigan Hospital. Funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, at St. Francis Xavier Church. Visitation will be 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. WWednesday, Dec. 19, at Stone Funeral Home in Petoskey, where a rosary will be held at 7 p.m. Burial will take place in St. Francis Cemetery. Betty was born Jan. 16, 1940, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Ralph and Loretta (Konwinski) Daniel. Her father preceded her in death in 1976. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Name: Beverly R. Daniel SSN: 349-32-3002 Last Residence: 49770 Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan, USA BORN: 16 Jan 1940 Died: 16 Dec 2001 State (Year) SSN issued: Illinois (1956-1957) Source Citation Number: 349-32-3002; Issue State: Illinois; Issue Date: 1956-1957 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Name: Beverly Rose Daniel [Beverly R Daniel] SSN: 349323002 Gender: Female Race: White Birth Date: 16 Jan 1940 Birth Place: Chicago Cook, Illinois Death Date: 16 Dec 2001 Father: Ralph C Daniel Mother: Lorretta Konwinski Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: May 1956: Name listed as BEVERLY ROSE DANIEL; 01 Jan 2002: Name listed as BEVERLY R DANIEL Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007. Beverly "Betty" Rose Daniel December 17, 2001 - Petoskeynews.com Beverly "Betty" Rose Daniel, 61, of Petoskey, passed away Sunday, Dec. 16, 2001, at Northern Michigan Hospital. Funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, at St. Francis Xavier Church. Visitation will be 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. WWednesday, Dec. 19, at Stone Funeral Home in Petoskey, where a rosary will be held at 7 p.m. Burial will take place in St. Francis Cemetery. Betty was born Jan. 16, 1940, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Ralph and Loretta (Konwinski) Daniel. Her father preceded her in death in 1976. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Name: Beverly R. Daniel SSN: 349-32-3002 Last Residence: 49770 Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan, USA BORN: 16 Jan 1940 Died: 16 Dec 2001 State (Year) SSN issued: Illinois (1956-1957) Source Citation Number: 349-32-3002; Issue State: Illinois; Issue Date: 1956-1957 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Name: Beverly Rose Daniel [Beverly R Daniel] SSN: 349323002 Gender: Female Race: White Birth Date: 16 Jan 1940 Birth Place: Chicago Cook, Illinois Death Date: 16 Dec 2001 Father: Ralph C Daniel Mother: Lorretta Konwinski Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: May 1956: Name listed as BEVERLY ROSE DANIEL; 01 Jan 2002: Name listed as BEVERLY R DANIEL Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007. Beverly "Betty" Rose Daniel December 17, 2001 - Petoskeynews.com Beverly "Betty" Rose Daniel, 61, of Petoskey, passed away Sunday, Dec. 16, 2001, at Northern Michigan Hospital. Funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, at St. Francis Xavier Church. Visitation will be 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. WWednesday, Dec. 19, at Stone Funeral Home in Petoskey, where a rosary will be held at 7 p.m. Burial will take place in St. Francis Cemetery. Betty was born Jan. 16, 1940, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Ralph and Loretta (Konwinski) Daniel. Her father preceded her in death in 1976. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Name: Beverly R. Daniel SSN: 349-32-3002 Last Residence: 49770 Petoskey, Emmet, Michigan, USA BORN: 16 Jan 1940 Died: 16 Dec 2001 State (Year) SSN issued: Illinois (1956-1957) Source Citation Number: 349-32-3002; Issue State: Illinois; Issue Date: 1956-1957 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Name: Beverly Rose Daniel [Beverly R Daniel] SSN: 349323002 Gender: Female Race: White Birth Date: 16 Jan 1940 Birth Place: Chicago Cook, Illinois Death Date: 16 Dec 2001 Father: Ralph C Daniel Mother: Lorretta Konwinski Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: May 1956: Name listed as BEVERLY ROSE DANIEL; 01 Jan 2002: Name listed as BEVERLY R DANIEL Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007. | Daniel, Beverly Rose (I434)
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| 124 | Birth and Baptismal Certificate Diocese of Armagh Psrish of Kilsaran On examination of the Register of Baptisms of above Parish I certify thta according to it Anna Maria Conachy was born on 16th day of March 1894, and was baptized according to the Rites of the Catholic Church on 17th day of March 1894 in the Church of St. Mary's Kilsaran by the Rev. Bernard Donnelian Parents: John Conarchy & Anne Bell Sponsors: THomas Conachy & Mary Anne Hodges Signed John O'Nell Given this 11th day of January 1964 at Kilsaran (Provided by Jane Marie Conarchy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- An Appreciation Anna will long be remembered by her many friends mainly because of her honesty, directness and sincerity. A lady of strong ideals, she lived by a strict code to her own way of life, and set an example shich she expected of others. Dedicated entirely to her religion, she worked unceasingly in the advancement of the different causes that she espoused. In her time she collected over 2,000 pounds for the Foreign Missions, of which she held a certificate of perpetual membership. She also worked actively for many years for the Legion of Mary, of which she was a founder-member, and to crown her efforts she collected several thousand pound to help the Propogation of the Faith, all this, remember, in small sums. She had a strong sense of humor, and took great joy out of an incident many years ago in Kilsaran school. During a visit of the Religious Inspectors to the school he asked a pupil who was the visible head of the church and got the prompt reply, 'Anna Conarchy'. She had a keen mind and a vivid memory, and one could spend a pleasant hour listening to her accounts of the life and times of half a century ago. She has gone to a well earned reward in a much happier place. May her gentle soul rest in peasce. - Rose Connolly Birth and Baptismal Certificate Diocese of Armagh Psrish of Kilsaran On examination of the Register of Baptisms of above Parish I certify thta according to it Anna Maria Conachy was born on 16th day of March 1894, and was baptized according to the Rites of the Catholic Church on 17th day of March 1894 in the Church of St. Mary's Kilsaran by the Rev. Bernard Donnelian Parents: John Conarchy & Anne Bell Sponsors: THomas Conachy & Mary Anne Hodges Signed John O'Nell Given this 11th day of January 1964 at Kilsaran (Provided by Jane Marie Conarchy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An Appreciation Anna will long be remembered by her many friends mainly because of her honesty, directness and sincerity. A lady of strong ideals, she lived by a strict code to her own way of life, and set an example shich she expected of others. Dedicated entirely to her religion, she worked unceasingly in the advancement of the different causes that she espoused. In her time she collected over 2,000 pounds for the Foreign Missions, of which she held a certificate of perpetual membership. She also worked actively for many years for the Legion of Mary, of which she was a founder-member, and to crown her efforts she collected several thousand pound to help the Propogation of the Faith, all this, remember, in small sums. She had a strong sense of humor, and took great joy out of an incident many years ago in Kilsaran school. During a visit of the Religious Inspectors to the school he asked a pupil who was the visible head of the church and got the prompt reply, 'Anna Conarchy'. She had a keen mind and a vivid memory, and one could spend a pleasant hour listening to her accounts of the life and times of half a century ago. She has gone to a well earned reward in a much happier place. May her gentle soul rest in peasce. - Rose Connolly Birth and Baptismal Certificate Diocese of Armagh Psrish of Kilsaran On examination of the Register of Baptisms of above Parish I certify thta according to it Anna Maria Conachy was born on 16th day of March 1894, and was baptized according to the Rites of the Catholic Church on 17th day of March 1894 in the Church of St. Mary's Kilsaran by the Rev. Bernard Donnelian Parents: John Conarchy & Anne Bell Sponsors: THomas Conachy & Mary Anne Hodges Signed John O'Nell Given this 11th day of January 1964 at Kilsaran (Provided by Jane Marie Conarchy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- An Appreciation Anna will long be remembered by her many friends mainly because of her honesty, directness and sincerity. A lady of strong ideals, she lived by a strict code to her own way of life, and set an example shich she expected of others. Dedicated entirely to her religion, she worked unceasingly in the advancement of the different causes that she espoused. In her time she collected over 2,000 pounds for the Foreign Missions, of which she held a certificate of perpetual membership. She also worked actively for many years for the Legion of Mary, of which she was a founder-member, and to crown her efforts she collected several thousand pound to help the Propogation of the Faith, all this, remember, in small sums. She had a strong sense of humor, and took great joy out of an incident many years ago in Kilsaran school. During a visit of the Religious Inspectors to the school he asked a pupil who was the visible head of the church and got the prompt reply, 'Anna Conarchy'. She had a keen mind and a vivid memory, and one could spend a pleasant hour listening to her accounts of the life and times of half a century ago. She has gone to a well earned reward in a much happier place. May her gentle soul rest in peasce. - Rose Connolly Birth and Baptismal Certificate Diocese of Armagh Psrish of Kilsaran On examination of the Register of Baptisms of above Parish I certify thta according to it Anna Maria Conachy was born on 16th day of March 1894, and was baptized according to the Rites of the Catholic Church on 17th day of March 1894 in the Church of St. Mary's Kilsaran by the Rev. Bernard Donnelian Parents: John Conarchy & Anne Bell Sponsors: THomas Conachy & Mary Anne Hodges Signed John O'Nell Given this 11th day of January 1964 at Kilsaran (Provided by Jane Marie Conarchy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An Appreciation Anna will long be remembered by her many friends mainly because of her honesty, directness and sincerity. A lady of strong ideals, she lived by a strict code to her own way of life, and set an example shich she expected of others. Dedicated entirely to her religion, she worked unceasingly in the advancement of the different causes that she espoused. In her time she collected over 2,000 pounds for the Foreign Missions, of which she held a certificate of perpetual membership. She also worked actively for many years for the Legion of Mary, of which she was a founder-member, and to crown her efforts she collected several thousand pound to help the Propogation of the Faith, all this, remember, in small sums. She had a strong sense of humor, and took great joy out of an incident many years ago in Kilsaran school. During a visit of the Religious Inspectors to the school he asked a pupil who was the visible head of the church and got the prompt reply, 'Anna Conarchy'. She had a keen mind and a vivid memory, and one could spend a pleasant hour listening to her accounts of the life and times of half a century ago. She has gone to a well earned reward in a much happier place. May her gentle soul rest in peasce. - Rose Connolly Birth and Baptismal Certificate Diocese of Armagh Psrish of Kilsaran On examination of the Register of Baptisms of above Parish I certify thta according to it Anna Maria Conachy was born on 16th day of March 1894, and was baptized according to the Rites of the Catholic Church on 17th day of March 1894 in the Church of St. Mary's Kilsaran by the Rev. Bernard Donnelian Parents: John Conarchy & Anne Bell Sponsors: THomas Conachy & Mary Anne Hodges Signed John O'Nell Given this 11th day of January 1964 at Kilsaran (Provided by Jane Marie Conarchy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- An Appreciation Anna will long be remembered by her many friends mainly because of her honesty, directness and sincerity. A lady of strong ideals, she lived by a strict code to her own way of life, and set an example shich she expected of others. Dedicated entirely to her religion, she worked unceasingly in the advancement of the different causes that she espoused. In her time she collected over 2,000 pounds for the Foreign Missions, of which she held a certificate of perpetual membership. She also worked actively for many years for the Legion of Mary, of which she was a founder-member, and to crown her efforts she collected several thousand pound to help the Propogation of the Faith, all this, remember, in small sums. She had a strong sense of humor, and took great joy out of an incident many years ago in Kilsaran school. During a visit of the Religious Inspectors to the school he asked a pupil who was the visible head of the church and got the prompt reply, 'Anna Conarchy'. She had a keen mind and a vivid memory, and one could spend a pleasant hour listening to her accounts of the life and times of half a century ago. She has gone to a well earned reward in a much happier place. May her gentle soul rest in peasce. - Rose Connolly Birth and Baptismal Certificate Diocese of Armagh Psrish of Kilsaran On examination of the Register of Baptisms of above Parish I certify thta according to it Anna Maria Conachy was born on 16th day of March 1894, and was baptized according to the Rites of the Catholic Church on 17th day of March 1894 in the Church of St. Mary's Kilsaran by the Rev. Bernard Donnelian Parents: John Conarchy & Anne Bell Sponsors: THomas Conachy & Mary Anne Hodges Signed John O'Nell Given this 11th day of January 1964 at Kilsaran (Provided by Jane Marie Conarchy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An Appreciation Anna will long be remembered by her many friends mainly because of her honesty, directness and sincerity. A lady of strong ideals, she lived by a strict code to her own way of life, and set an example shich she expected of others. Dedicated entirely to her religion, she worked unceasingly in the advancement of the different causes that she espoused. In her time she collected over 2,000 pounds for the Foreign Missions, of which she held a certificate of perpetual membership. She also worked actively for many years for the Legion of Mary, of which she was a founder-member, and to crown her efforts she collected several thousand pound to help the Propogation of the Faith, all this, remember, in small sums. She had a strong sense of humor, and took great joy out of an incident many years ago in Kilsaran school. During a visit of the Religious Inspectors to the school he asked a pupil who was the visible head of the church and got the prompt reply, 'Anna Conarchy'. She had a keen mind and a vivid memory, and one could spend a pleasant hour listening to her accounts of the life and times of half a century ago. She has gone to a well earned reward in a much happier place. May her gentle soul rest in peasce. - Rose Connolly Birth and Baptismal Certificate Diocese of Armagh Psrish of Kilsaran On examination of the Register of Baptisms of above Parish I certify thta according to it Anna Maria Conachy was born on 16th day of March 1894, and was baptized according to the Rites of the Catholic Church on 17th day of March 1894 in the Church of St. Mary's Kilsaran by the Rev. Bernard Donnelian Parents: John Conarchy & Anne Bell Sponsors: THomas Conachy & Mary Anne Hodges Signed John O'Nell Given this 11th day of January 1964 at Kilsaran (Provided by Jane Marie Conarchy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- An Appreciation Anna will long be remembered by her many friends mainly because of her honesty, directness and sincerity. A lady of strong ideals, she lived by a strict code to her own way of life, and set an example shich she expected of others. Dedicated entirely to her religion, she worked unceasingly in the advancement of the different causes that she espoused. In her time she collected over 2,000 pounds for the Foreign Missions, of which she held a certificate of perpetual membership. She also worked actively for many years for the Legion of Mary, of which she was a founder-member, and to crown her efforts she collected several thousand pound to help the Propogation of the Faith, all this, remember, in small sums. She had a strong sense of humor, and took great joy out of an incident many years ago in Kilsaran school. During a visit of the Religious Inspectors to the school he asked a pupil who was the visible head of the church and got the prompt reply, 'Anna Conarchy'. She had a keen mind and a vivid memory, and one could spend a pleasant hour listening to her accounts of the life and times of half a century ago. She has gone to a well earned reward in a much happier place. May her gentle soul rest in peasce. - Rose Connolly Birth and Baptismal Certificate Diocese of Armagh Psrish of Kilsaran On examination of the Register of Baptisms of above Parish I certify thta according to it Anna Maria Conachy was born on 16th day of March 1894, and was baptized according to the Rites of the Catholic Church on 17th day of March 1894 in the Church of St. Mary's Kilsaran by the Rev. Bernard Donnelian Parents: John Conarchy & Anne Bell Sponsors: THomas Conachy & Mary Anne Hodges Signed John O'Nell Given this 11th day of January 1964 at Kilsaran (Provided by Jane Marie Conarchy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An Appreciation Anna will long be remembered by her many friends mainly because of her honesty, directness and sincerity. A lady of strong ideals, she lived by a strict code to her own way of life, and set an example shich she expected of others. Dedicated entirely to her religion, she worked unceasingly in the advancement of the different causes that she espoused. In her time she collected over 2,000 pounds for the Foreign Missions, of which she held a certificate of perpetual membership. She also worked actively for many years for the Legion of Mary, of which she was a founder-member, and to crown her efforts she collected several thousand pound to help the Propogation of the Faith, all this, remember, in small sums. She had a strong sense of humor, and took great joy out of an incident many years ago in Kilsaran school. During a visit of the Religious Inspectors to the school he asked a pupil who was the visible head of the church and got the prompt reply, 'Anna Conarchy'. She had a keen mind and a vivid memory, and one could spend a pleasant hour listening to her accounts of the life and times of half a century ago. She has gone to a well earned reward in a much happier place. May her gentle soul rest in peasce. - Rose Connolly | Conachy, Anna Marie (I10244)
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| 125 | Birth date may have been May 18, 1868. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson She sewed practically all the girls' clothes including the multiple petticoats they wore under their dresses. In 1941, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. It was quite the affair. It was held at the Washington Pines Hotel and again there was much Irish laughter, singing and dancing. The golden objects which the couple received were placed in a special curio cabinet in the Phelan living room. Her large sewing chair was at the fornt of the living room near the windows that looked out on the bustling street below. They still had a pay phone in the dining room in 1942. During the war years, they lived with Marcella's family on Harvey Ave. in Oak Park. The Phelans were a loving couple. At the dinner table, Grandpa would gently rest his arm on the back of Grandma's chair. She continued to live with Marcella after his death. the family remebers tht diminutive figure sitting in the large living room. She read teh bible and told about the farm and how they drove teir horse-drawn sleighs over the snowy fields. She attended daily Mass, weather permitting, at St. Lucy's Church at Austin Blvd. and Lake St. just over the border from Oak Park. On many days, she would stop at a very good bakery and bring home delicious sweet rolls for the family. Birth date may have been May 18, 1868. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson She sewed practically all the girls' clothes including the multiple petticoats they wore under their dresses. In 1941, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. It was quite the affair. It was held at the Washington Pines Hotel and again there was much Irish laughter, singing and dancing. The golden objects which the couple received were placed in a special curio cabinet in the Phelan living room. Her large sewing chair was at the fornt of the living room near the windows that looked out on the bustling street below. They still had a pay phone in the dining room in 1942. During the war years, they lived with Marcella's family on Harvey Ave. in Oak Park. The Phelans were a loving couple. At the dinner table, Grandpa would gently rest his arm on the back of Grandma's chair. She continued to live with Marcella after his death. the family remebers tht diminutive figure sitting in the large living room. She read teh bible and told about the farm and how they drove teir horse-drawn sleighs over the snowy fields. She attended daily Mass, weather permitting, at St. Lucy's Church at Austin Blvd. and Lake St. just over the border from Oak Park. On many days, she would stop at a very good bakery and bring home delicious sweet rolls for the family. Birth date may have been May 18, 1868. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson She sewed practically all the girls' clothes including the multiple petticoats they wore under their dresses. In 1941, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. It was quite the affair. It was held at the Washington Pines Hotel and again there was much Irish laughter, singing and dancing. The golden objects which the couple received were placed in a special curio cabinet in the Phelan living room. Her large sewing chair was at the fornt of the living room near the windows that looked out on the bustling street below. They still had a pay phone in the dining room in 1942. During the war years, they lived with Marcella's family on Harvey Ave. in Oak Park. The Phelans were a loving couple. At the dinner table, Grandpa would gently rest his arm on the back of Grandma's chair. She continued to live with Marcella after his death. the family remebers tht diminutive figure sitting in the large living room. She read teh bible and told about the farm and how they drove teir horse-drawn sleighs over the snowy fields. She attended daily Mass, weather permitting, at St. Lucy's Church at Austin Blvd. and Lake St. just over the border from Oak Park. On many days, she would stop at a very good bakery and bring home delicious sweet rolls for the family. Birth date may have been May 18, 1868. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson She sewed practically all the girls' clothes including the multiple petticoats they wore under their dresses. In 1941, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. It was quite the affair. It was held at the Washington Pines Hotel and again there was much Irish laughter, singing and dancing. The golden objects which the couple received were placed in a special curio cabinet in the Phelan living room. Her large sewing chair was at the fornt of the living room near the windows that looked out on the bustling street below. They still had a pay phone in the dining room in 1942. During the war years, they lived with Marcella's family on Harvey Ave. in Oak Park. The Phelans were a loving couple. At the dinner table, Grandpa would gently rest his arm on the back of Grandma's chair. She continued to live with Marcella after his death. the family remebers tht diminutive figure sitting in the large living room. She read teh bible and told about the farm and how they drove teir horse-drawn sleighs over the snowy fields. She attended daily Mass, weather permitting, at St. Lucy's Church at Austin Blvd. and Lake St. just over the border from Oak Park. On many days, she would stop at a very good bakery and bring home delicious sweet rolls for the family. Birth date may have been May 18, 1868. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson She sewed practically all the girls' clothes including the multiple petticoats they wore under their dresses. In 1941, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. It was quite the affair. It was held at the Washington Pines Hotel and again there was much Irish laughter, singing and dancing. The golden objects which the couple received were placed in a special curio cabinet in the Phelan living room. Her large sewing chair was at the fornt of the living room near the windows that looked out on the bustling street below. They still had a pay phone in the dining room in 1942. During the war years, they lived with Marcella's family on Harvey Ave. in Oak Park. The Phelans were a loving couple. At the dinner table, Grandpa would gently rest his arm on the back of Grandma's chair. She continued to live with Marcella after his death. the family remebers tht diminutive figure sitting in the large living room. She read teh bible and told about the farm and how they drove teir horse-drawn sleighs over the snowy fields. She attended daily Mass, weather permitting, at St. Lucy's Church at Austin Blvd. and Lake St. just over the border from Oak Park. On many days, she would stop at a very good bakery and bring home delicious sweet rolls for the family. Birth date may have been May 18, 1868. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson She sewed practically all the girls' clothes including the multiple petticoats they wore under their dresses. In 1941, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. It was quite the affair. It was held at the Washington Pines Hotel and again there was much Irish laughter, singing and dancing. The golden objects which the couple received were placed in a special curio cabinet in the Phelan living room. Her large sewing chair was at the fornt of the living room near the windows that looked out on the bustling street below. They still had a pay phone in the dining room in 1942. During the war years, they lived with Marcella's family on Harvey Ave. in Oak Park. The Phelans were a loving couple. At the dinner table, Grandpa would gently rest his arm on the back of Grandma's chair. She continued to live with Marcella after his death. the family remebers tht diminutive figure sitting in the large living room. She read teh bible and told about the farm and how they drove teir horse-drawn sleighs over the snowy fields. She attended daily Mass, weather permitting, at St. Lucy's Church at Austin Blvd. and Lake St. just over the border from Oak Park. On many days, she would stop at a very good bakery and bring home delicious sweet rolls for the family. Birth date may have been May 18, 1868. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson She sewed practically all the girls' clothes including the multiple petticoats they wore under their dresses. In 1941, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. It was quite the affair. It was held at the Washington Pines Hotel and again there was much Irish laughter, singing and dancing. The golden objects which the couple received were placed in a special curio cabinet in the Phelan living room. Her large sewing chair was at the fornt of the living room near the windows that looked out on the bustling street below. They still had a pay phone in the dining room in 1942. During the war years, they lived with Marcella's family on Harvey Ave. in Oak Park. The Phelans were a loving couple. At the dinner table, Grandpa would gently rest his arm on the back of Grandma's chair. She continued to live with Marcella after his death. the family remebers tht diminutive figure sitting in the large living room. She read teh bible and told about the farm and how they drove teir horse-drawn sleighs over the snowy fields. She attended daily Mass, weather permitting, at St. Lucy's Church at Austin Blvd. and Lake St. just over the border from Oak Park. On many days, she would stop at a very good bakery and bring home delicious sweet rolls for the family. Birth date may have been May 18, 1868. -------------------------------------- Excerpts from Historical Outline of the Phelan Family by Joan Jacobson She sewed practically all the girls' clothes including the multiple petticoats they wore under their dresses. In 1941, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. It was quite the affair. It was held at the Washington Pines Hotel and again there was much Irish laughter, singing and dancing. The golden objects which the couple received were placed in a special curio cabinet in the Phelan living room. Her large sewing chair was at the fornt of the living room near the windows that looked out on the bustling street below. They still had a pay phone in the dining room in 1942. During the war years, they lived with Marcella's family on Harvey Ave. in Oak Park. The Phelans were a loving couple. At the dinner table, Grandpa would gently rest his arm on the back of Grandma's chair. She continued to live with Marcella after his death. the family remebers tht diminutive figure sitting in the large living room. She read teh bible and told about the farm and how they drove teir horse-drawn sleighs over the snowy fields. She attended daily Mass, weather permitting, at St. Lucy's Church at Austin Blvd. and Lake St. just over the border from Oak Park. On many days, she would stop at a very good bakery and bring home delicious sweet rolls for the family. | O'Callaghan, Agnes Eleanor (I9271)
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| 126 | Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) July 16, 1997 Author/Byline: 09A NAPOLEON -- Hertha Hunkler , 82, Napoleon, died July 13, 1997, in her home. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Napoleon, with Bishop James Sullivan, the Rev. James Lauerman and local area priests and deacons officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Jim Olig will serve as organist for the service. Pallbearers will be her children, grandchildren and her great-grandchild. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and after 9 a.m. Thursday at Dahlstrom Funeral Home, Napoleon, where rosaries will be said at 2 and 7 tonight. Hertha was born May 2, 1915, in Napoleon, the daughter of Dr. Gustav A. and Marie L. (Kuhlmann) Mathews. She grew up in Napoleon and attended Napoleon Public Schools, graduating from Napoleon High School in 1931. Hertha then attended North Dakota State University for one year and Concordia Teacher's College in Seward, Neb., for one year. Before her marriage, Hertha taught school for four years in Kroeber and Glendale school districts near Napoleon. Hertha married Howard Hunkler , Nov. 27, 1941, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Devils Lake. They returned to establish their home on Howard's parents' farm 14 miles east of Napoleon, which they purchased in 1941, and began a farming and cattle operation. Hertha was a member of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church and St. Philip Neri Christian Mothers. She served as treasurer for three years and as the church CCD youth teacher for a number of years. Hertha was a member of the Highland School Districict School Board for one term. Hertha was a devoted mother and grandmother who was known for her letter writing skills and keeping in contact with her family and friends. She loved to visit with her family and talk on the telephone. Hertha's hobbies included reading, gardening and tending to house plants and flowers. Since Howard's ordination in 1983, Hertha has assisted her husband in his ministry as Deacon throughout the area. She is survived by her husband, Howard; four daughters and two sons-in-law, Madeline and Pius Gross, Phoenix, Angela Hunkler , Berkeley, Calif., Sister Marie Hunkler , Dickinson, and Cecelia and Rod Reetz, Bismarck; six sons and three daughters-s-in-law, Joseph and Doreen, Oroville, Calif., the Rev. Cyril, Plains, Mont., Francis, Moorhead, Minn., John and Kristi, Cape Coral, Fla., Bernard and Yvonne, Harvey, La., and the Rev. Jerome, New Rockford; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and one sister, Adele Thiel, Billings, Mont. She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother; and two sisters. Record: 0F224A97D49A0C7DCopyright: Copyright, 1997, The Bismarck Tribune Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) July 16, 1997 Author/Byline: 09A NAPOLEON -- Hertha Hunkler , 82, Napoleon, died July 13, 1997, in her home. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Napoleon, with Bishop James Sullivan, the Rev. James Lauerman and local area priests and deacons officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Jim Olig will serve as organist for the service. Pallbearers will be her children, grandchildren and her great-grandchild. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and after 9 a.m. Thursday at Dahlstrom Funeral Home, Napoleon, where rosaries will be said at 2 and 7 tonight. Hertha was born May 2, 1915, in Napoleon, the daughter of Dr. Gustav A. and Marie L. (Kuhlmann) Mathews. She grew up in Napoleon and attended Napoleon Public Schools, graduating from Napoleon High School in 1931. Hertha then attended North Dakota State University for one year and Concordia Teacher's College in Seward, Neb., for one year. Before her marriage, Hertha taught school for four years in Kroeber and Glendale school districts near Napoleon. Hertha married Howard Hunkler , Nov. 27, 1941, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Devils Lake. They returned to establish their home on Howard's parents' farm 14 miles east of Napoleon, which they purchased in 1941, and began a farming and cattle operation. Hertha was a member of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church and St. Philip Neri Christian Mothers. She served as treasurer for three years and as the church CCD youth teacher for a number of years. Hertha was a member of the Highland School Districict School Board for one term. Hertha was a devoted mother and grandmother who was known for her letter writing skills and keeping in contact with her family and friends. She loved to visit with her family and talk on the telephone. Hertha's hobbies included reading, gardening and tending to house plants and flowers. Since Howard's ordination in 1983, Hertha has assisted her husband in his ministry as Deacon throughout the area. She is survived by her husband, Howard; four daughters and two sons-in-law, Madeline and Pius Gross, Phoenix, Angela Hunkler , Berkeley, Calif., Sister Marie Hunkler , Dickinson, and Cecelia and Rod Reetz, Bismarck; six sons and three daughters-s-in-law, Joseph and Doreen, Oroville, Calif., the Rev. Cyril, Plains, Mont., Francis, Moorhead, Minn., John and Kristi, Cape Coral, Fla., Bernard and Yvonne, Harvey, La., and the Rev. Jerome, New Rockford; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and one sister, Adele Thiel, Billings, Mont. She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother; and two sisters. Record: 0F224A97D49A0C7DCopyright: Copyright, 1997, The Bismarck Tribune Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) July 16, 1997 Author/Byline: 09A NAPOLEON -- Hertha Hunkler , 82, Napoleon, died July 13, 1997, in her home. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Napoleon, with Bishop James Sullivan, the Rev. James Lauerman and local area priests and deacons officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Jim Olig will serve as organist for the service. Pallbearers will be her children, grandchildren and her great-grandchild. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and after 9 a.m. Thursday at Dahlstrom Funeral Home, Napoleon, where rosaries will be said at 2 and 7 tonight. Hertha was born May 2, 1915, in Napoleon, the daughter of Dr. Gustav A. and Marie L. (Kuhlmann) Mathews. She grew up in Napoleon and attended Napoleon Public Schools, graduating from Napoleon High School in 1931. Hertha then attended North Dakota State University for one year and Concordia Teacher's College in Seward, Neb., for one year. Before her marriage, Hertha taught school for four years in Kroeber and Glendale school districts near Napoleon. Hertha married Howard Hunkler , Nov. 27, 1941, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Devils Lake. They returned to establish their home on Howard's parents' farm 14 miles east of Napoleon, which they purchased in 1941, and began a farming and cattle operation. Hertha was a member of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church and St. Philip Neri Christian Mothers. She served as treasurer for three years and as the church CCD youth teacher for a number of years. Hertha was a member of the Highland School Districict School Board for one term. Hertha was a devoted mother and grandmother who was known for her letter writing skills and keeping in contact with her family and friends. She loved to visit with her family and talk on the telephone. Hertha's hobbies included reading, gardening and tending to house plants and flowers. Since Howard's ordination in 1983, Hertha has assisted her husband in his ministry as Deacon throughout the area. She is survived by her husband, Howard; four daughters and two sons-in-law, Madeline and Pius Gross, Phoenix, Angela Hunkler , Berkeley, Calif., Sister Marie Hunkler , Dickinson, and Cecelia and Rod Reetz, Bismarck; six sons and three daughters-s-in-law, Joseph and Doreen, Oroville, Calif., the Rev. Cyril, Plains, Mont., Francis, Moorhead, Minn., John and Kristi, Cape Coral, Fla., Bernard and Yvonne, Harvey, La., and the Rev. Jerome, New Rockford; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and one sister, Adele Thiel, Billings, Mont. She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother; and two sisters. Record: 0F224A97D49A0C7DCopyright: Copyright, 1997, The Bismarck Tribune Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) July 16, 1997 Author/Byline: 09A NAPOLEON -- Hertha Hunkler , 82, Napoleon, died July 13, 1997, in her home. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Napoleon, with Bishop James Sullivan, the Rev. James Lauerman and local area priests and deacons officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Jim Olig will serve as organist for the service. Pallbearers will be her children, grandchildren and her great-grandchild. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and after 9 a.m. Thursday at Dahlstrom Funeral Home, Napoleon, where rosaries will be said at 2 and 7 tonight. Hertha was born May 2, 1915, in Napoleon, the daughter of Dr. Gustav A. and Marie L. (Kuhlmann) Mathews. She grew up in Napoleon and attended Napoleon Public Schools, graduating from Napoleon High School in 1931. Hertha then attended North Dakota State University for one year and Concordia Teacher's College in Seward, Neb., for one year. Before her marriage, Hertha taught school for four years in Kroeber and Glendale school districts near Napoleon. Hertha married Howard Hunkler , Nov. 27, 1941, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Devils Lake. They returned to establish their home on Howard's parents' farm 14 miles east of Napoleon, which they purchased in 1941, and began a farming and cattle operation. Hertha was a member of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church and St. Philip Neri Christian Mothers. She served as treasurer for three years and as the church CCD youth teacher for a number of years. Hertha was a member of the Highland School Districict School Board for one term. Hertha was a devoted mother and grandmother who was known for her letter writing skills and keeping in contact with her family and friends. She loved to visit with her family and talk on the telephone. Hertha's hobbies included reading, gardening and tending to house plants and flowers. Since Howard's ordination in 1983, Hertha has assisted her husband in his ministry as Deacon throughout the area. She is survived by her husband, Howard; four daughters and two sons-in-law, Madeline and Pius Gross, Phoenix, Angela Hunkler , Berkeley, Calif., Sister Marie Hunkler , Dickinson, and Cecelia and Rod Reetz, Bismarck; six sons and three daughters-s-in-law, Joseph and Doreen, Oroville, Calif., the Rev. Cyril, Plains, Mont., Francis, Moorhead, Minn., John and Kristi, Cape Coral, Fla., Bernard and Yvonne, Harvey, La., and the Rev. Jerome, New Rockford; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and one sister, Adele Thiel, Billings, Mont. She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother; and two sisters. Record: 0F224A97D49A0C7DCopyright: Copyright, 1997, The Bismarck Tribune | Mathews, Hertha Matilda (I5823)
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| 127 | Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) June 10, 2007 Section: MoneyPage: 8C Helen ( Hunkler ) Harris , 102, Bismarck, died June 6, 2007, at a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 14, at Marillac Manor Chapel, Bismarck, with the Rev. Ed Wehner officiating. Burial will be held at 1:30 p.m. in St. Philip Neri Catholic Cemetery, Napoleon. Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at Marillac Manor, where prayer services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Helen Hunkler was born April 29, 1905, on a farm approximately 14 miles east of Napoleon, the daughter of John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler . Helen was the second of nine children, consisting of five girls and four boys. Her parents operated a combined grain and livestock operation. Helen attended a rural Highland District school, where she completed eighth grade. When she was in about the fifth grade, Miss Marie Teders from Minnesota was hired to teach at the school, following the recommendation of the county superintendennt and acceptance by the school board. Miss Teders taught at the school for three years. She boarded with the Hunklers, who were not Catholic. Miss Teders was a staunch Catholic and brought Helen 's older brother Roy into the Catholic faith. He later became Father Adam, a Catholic priest. Through his determination and love of the faith, the entire Hunkler family was baptized and became Catholics, in 1922. From this conversion came two priests, a sister, and a permanent deacon. As a student, Helen loved mathematics and grammar. She graduated from Bismarck High School in 1924. Then she attended Ellendale Normal School, where she was awarded a teacher's certificate. For three years, she taught in a country school neear her home. Next she moved to Bismarck, where she worked at Montgomery Wards store. Helen soon met a young man who also worked at Montgomery Wards, Lloyd B. Harris , who had been sent out from St. Paul to do electronic work. Soon their meetingngs were more frequent, as they became better acquainted. Helen accepted his proposal of marriage and became Mrs. Lloyd B. Harris on Jan. 15, 1930. After the wedding, the couple moved to Minneapolis, where Helen worked for Dayton's and Lloyd operated an electronics shop. They lived there for over 10 years. This was during the depression of the '30s. Helen and Lloyd next decided to purchase a 1935 Dodge sedan, and they started out for California, by way of Bismarck. In Bismarck, Helen and Lloyd were met by Helen 's sister and her five small children, who were about to leave for San Jose, Calif., to join her husband, who worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. Helen 's brother was also going along. Insteead of going by train as they had planned, the group accompanied Helen and Lloyd, all five children and four adults, riding in their four-door car. On Sept. 6, 1941, they crossed Cody Pass, Wyo. When they exited on the other side, they found thahat they were very lucky, since they were just ahead of a heavy snowfall and blizzard that blocked the road they had only recently driven over. They had a narrow escape. What might have happened if the car had stalled and been covered by snow? In those days, a storm like this would have blocked the road until after the spring thaw. The roads weren't what they are today. On Dec. 7, 1941, Helen and Lloyd drove to the top of Mt. Hamilton to visit the world famous Lick Observatory, which has a 120-inch reflector. On the way down the mountain, they learned from the car radio that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Returnning home, they found the city populace very excited and anxious, fearing that they might soon be under attack by the Japanese. Lloyd then joined the Signal Corps. He was transferred to Fort Lewis and later to Bremerton, both in Washington. Helen worked as the Post Exchange and for the armed forces in downtown Seattle. After World War II, Lloyd was transferred to the Naval Air Base at Alameda, Calif. He had spent 19 years in the Navy when the couple returned to Bismarck, where they managed the Gold Bond store for six years and then the Colonial Motel, until 1975, when they retired and moved to Napoleon. Helen and Lloyd lived there for about 10 years. On April 11, 1986, Lloyd died. Helen and Lloyd had been married for over 56 years. Helen had many happy memories of their years together. In August 1988, she moved to Marillac Manor. Helen and Lloyd had taught C.C.D. for some 24 years, and they helped out in various areas of parish work. For many years, Helen was an active member of the Immaculate Conception Court of the Catholic Daughters, in Bismarck. When asked what she liked about Marillac Manor, Helen quickly responded: "I like the people; they are absolutely beautiful. I just can't show them enough appreciation for what they mean to me." Helen appreciated having the opportuunity to pray and attend Mass in the chapel. Helen also loved her volunteer work at St. Vincent's Care Center. She said: "The staff is great, and it gives me joy to work with the residents." She also was one of the readers who read Scripture during daily Masses, both at Marillac Manor and at St. Vincent's. Helen cared for many people, including her nephew, Dennis Hunkler , when burned; took care of her mother the last few years of her life; and cared for her sister, Mae, for many years, while a resident of St. Vincent's. Helen was always there for any member of her family who needed some loving care. She is survived by her sisters, Sisterr Mary Jane Hunkler , OSB, and Frances Roehrich; her local nieces, Susan Roehrich, Cecilia Reetz and Sister Marie Hunkler ; her local nephew, the Rev. Jerome Hunkler ; and many other nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler ; her husband, Lloyd B. Harris ; her brothers, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , OSB, Deacon Howard Hunkler , Lawrence Hunkler and the Rev. Ignatius Hunkler , OSB; and her sisters, Alice Ruffner and Mae Hunkler . (Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck) Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Record: MERLIN_343486Copyright: Copyright, 2007, The Bismarck Tribune Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) June 10, 2007 Section: MoneyPage: 8C Helen ( Hunkler ) Harris , 102, Bismarck, died June 6, 2007, at a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 14, at Marillac Manor Chapel, Bismarck, with the Rev. Ed Wehner officiating. Burial will be held at 1:30 p.m. in St. Philip Neri Catholic Cemetery, Napoleon. Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at Marillac Manor, where prayer services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Helen Hunkler was born April 29, 1905, on a farm approximately 14 miles east of Napoleon, the daughter of John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler . Helen was the second of nine children, consisting of five girls and four boys. Her parents operated a combined grain and livestock operation. Helen attended a rural Highland District school, where she completed eighth grade. When she was in about the fifth grade, Miss Marie Teders from Minnesota was hired to teach at the school, following the recommendation of the county superintendennt and acceptance by the school board. Miss Teders taught at the school for three years. She boarded with the Hunklers, who were not Catholic. Miss Teders was a staunch Catholic and brought Helen 's older brother Roy into the Catholic faith. He later became Father Adam, a Catholic priest. Through his determination and love of the faith, the entire Hunkler family was baptized and became Catholics, in 1922. From this conversion came two priests, a sister, and a permanent deacon. As a student, Helen loved mathematics and grammar. She graduated from Bismarck High School in 1924. Then she attended Ellendale Normal School, where she was awarded a teacher's certificate. For three years, she taught in a country school neear her home. Next she moved to Bismarck, where she worked at Montgomery Wards store. Helen soon met a young man who also worked at Montgomery Wards, Lloyd B. Harris , who had been sent out from St. Paul to do electronic work. Soon their meetingngs were more frequent, as they became better acquainted. Helen accepted his proposal of marriage and became Mrs. Lloyd B. Harris on Jan. 15, 1930. After the wedding, the couple moved to Minneapolis, where Helen worked for Dayton's and Lloyd operated an electronics shop. They lived there for over 10 years. This was during the depression of the '30s. Helen and Lloyd next decided to purchase a 1935 Dodge sedan, and they started out for California, by way of Bismarck. In Bismarck, Helen and Lloyd were met by Helen 's sister and her five small children, who were about to leave for San Jose, Calif., to join her husband, who worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. Helen 's brother was also going along. Insteead of going by train as they had planned, the group accompanied Helen and Lloyd, all five children and four adults, riding in their four-door car. On Sept. 6, 1941, they crossed Cody Pass, Wyo. When they exited on the other side, they found thahat they were very lucky, since they were just ahead of a heavy snowfall and blizzard that blocked the road they had only recently driven over. They had a narrow escape. What might have happened if the car had stalled and been covered by snow? In those days, a storm like this would have blocked the road until after the spring thaw. The roads weren't what they are today. On Dec. 7, 1941, Helen and Lloyd drove to the top of Mt. Hamilton to visit the world famous Lick Observatory, which has a 120-inch reflector. On the way down the mountain, they learned from the car radio that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Returnning home, they found the city populace very excited and anxious, fearing that they might soon be under attack by the Japanese. Lloyd then joined the Signal Corps. He was transferred to Fort Lewis and later to Bremerton, both in Washington. Helen worked as the Post Exchange and for the armed forces in downtown Seattle. After World War II, Lloyd was transferred to the Naval Air Base at Alameda, Calif. He had spent 19 years in the Navy when the couple returned to Bismarck, where they managed the Gold Bond store for six years and then the Colonial Motel, until 1975, when they retired and moved to Napoleon. Helen and Lloyd lived there for about 10 years. On April 11, 1986, Lloyd died. Helen and Lloyd had been married for over 56 years. Helen had many happy memories of their years together. In August 1988, she moved to Marillac Manor. Helen and Lloyd had taught C.C.D. for some 24 years, and they helped out in various areas of parish work. For many years, Helen was an active member of the Immaculate Conception Court of the Catholic Daughters, in Bismarck. When asked what she liked about Marillac Manor, Helen quickly responded: "I like the people; they are absolutely beautiful. I just can't show them enough appreciation for what they mean to me." Helen appreciated having the opportuunity to pray and attend Mass in the chapel. Helen also loved her volunteer work at St. Vincent's Care Center. She said: "The staff is great, and it gives me joy to work with the residents." She also was one of the readers who read Scripture during daily Masses, both at Marillac Manor and at St. Vincent's. Helen cared for many people, including her nephew, Dennis Hunkler , when burned; took care of her mother the last few years of her life; and cared for her sister, Mae, for many years, while a resident of St. Vincent's. Helen was always there for any member of her family who needed some loving care. She is survived by her sisters, Sisterr Mary Jane Hunkler , OSB, and Frances Roehrich; her local nieces, Susan Roehrich, Cecilia Reetz and Sister Marie Hunkler ; her local nephew, the Rev. Jerome Hunkler ; and many other nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler ; her husband, Lloyd B. Harris ; her brothers, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , OSB, Deacon Howard Hunkler , Lawrence Hunkler and the Rev. Ignatius Hunkler , OSB; and her sisters, Alice Ruffner and Mae Hunkler . (Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck) Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Record: MERLIN_343486Copyright: Copyright, 2007, The Bismarck Tribune Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) June 10, 2007 Section: MoneyPage: 8C Helen ( Hunkler ) Harris , 102, Bismarck, died June 6, 2007, at a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 14, at Marillac Manor Chapel, Bismarck, with the Rev. Ed Wehner officiating. Burial will be held at 1:30 p.m. in St. Philip Neri Catholic Cemetery, Napoleon. Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at Marillac Manor, where prayer services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Helen Hunkler was born April 29, 1905, on a farm approximately 14 miles east of Napoleon, the daughter of John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler . Helen was the second of nine children, consisting of five girls and four boys. Her parents operated a combined grain and livestock operation. Helen attended a rural Highland District school, where she completed eighth grade. When she was in about the fifth grade, Miss Marie Teders from Minnesota was hired to teach at the school, following the recommendation of the county superintendennt and acceptance by the school board. Miss Teders taught at the school for three years. She boarded with the Hunklers, who were not Catholic. Miss Teders was a staunch Catholic and brought Helen 's older brother Roy into the Catholic faith. He later became Father Adam, a Catholic priest. Through his determination and love of the faith, the entire Hunkler family was baptized and became Catholics, in 1922. From this conversion came two priests, a sister, and a permanent deacon. As a student, Helen loved mathematics and grammar. She graduated from Bismarck High School in 1924. Then she attended Ellendale Normal School, where she was awarded a teacher's certificate. For three years, she taught in a country school neear her home. Next she moved to Bismarck, where she worked at Montgomery Wards store. Helen soon met a young man who also worked at Montgomery Wards, Lloyd B. Harris , who had been sent out from St. Paul to do electronic work. Soon their meetingngs were more frequent, as they became better acquainted. Helen accepted his proposal of marriage and became Mrs. Lloyd B. Harris on Jan. 15, 1930. After the wedding, the couple moved to Minneapolis, where Helen worked for Dayton's and Lloyd operated an electronics shop. They lived there for over 10 years. This was during the depression of the '30s. Helen and Lloyd next decided to purchase a 1935 Dodge sedan, and they started out for California, by way of Bismarck. In Bismarck, Helen and Lloyd were met by Helen 's sister and her five small children, who were about to leave for San Jose, Calif., to join her husband, who worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. Helen 's brother was also going along. Insteead of going by train as they had planned, the group accompanied Helen and Lloyd, all five children and four adults, riding in their four-door car. On Sept. 6, 1941, they crossed Cody Pass, Wyo. When they exited on the other side, they found thahat they were very lucky, since they were just ahead of a heavy snowfall and blizzard that blocked the road they had only recently driven over. They had a narrow escape. What might have happened if the car had stalled and been covered by snow? In those days, a storm like this would have blocked the road until after the spring thaw. The roads weren't what they are today. On Dec. 7, 1941, Helen and Lloyd drove to the top of Mt. Hamilton to visit the world famous Lick Observatory, which has a 120-inch reflector. On the way down the mountain, they learned from the car radio that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Returnning home, they found the city populace very excited and anxious, fearing that they might soon be under attack by the Japanese. Lloyd then joined the Signal Corps. He was transferred to Fort Lewis and later to Bremerton, both in Washington. Helen worked as the Post Exchange and for the armed forces in downtown Seattle. After World War II, Lloyd was transferred to the Naval Air Base at Alameda, Calif. He had spent 19 years in the Navy when the couple returned to Bismarck, where they managed the Gold Bond store for six years and then the Colonial Motel, until 1975, when they retired and moved to Napoleon. Helen and Lloyd lived there for about 10 years. On April 11, 1986, Lloyd died. Helen and Lloyd had been married for over 56 years. Helen had many happy memories of their years together. In August 1988, she moved to Marillac Manor. Helen and Lloyd had taught C.C.D. for some 24 years, and they helped out in various areas of parish work. For many years, Helen was an active member of the Immaculate Conception Court of the Catholic Daughters, in Bismarck. When asked what she liked about Marillac Manor, Helen quickly responded: "I like the people; they are absolutely beautiful. I just can't show them enough appreciation for what they mean to me." Helen appreciated having the opportuunity to pray and attend Mass in the chapel. Helen also loved her volunteer work at St. Vincent's Care Center. She said: "The staff is great, and it gives me joy to work with the residents." She also was one of the readers who read Scripture during daily Masses, both at Marillac Manor and at St. Vincent's. Helen cared for many people, including her nephew, Dennis Hunkler , when burned; took care of her mother the last few years of her life; and cared for her sister, Mae, for many years, while a resident of St. Vincent's. Helen was always there for any member of her family who needed some loving care. She is survived by her sisters, Sisterr Mary Jane Hunkler , OSB, and Frances Roehrich; her local nieces, Susan Roehrich, Cecilia Reetz and Sister Marie Hunkler ; her local nephew, the Rev. Jerome Hunkler ; and many other nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler ; her husband, Lloyd B. Harris ; her brothers, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , OSB, Deacon Howard Hunkler , Lawrence Hunkler and the Rev. Ignatius Hunkler , OSB; and her sisters, Alice Ruffner and Mae Hunkler . (Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck) Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Record: MERLIN_343486Copyright: Copyright, 2007, The Bismarck Tribune Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) June 10, 2007 Section: MoneyPage: 8C Helen ( Hunkler ) Harris , 102, Bismarck, died June 6, 2007, at a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 14, at Marillac Manor Chapel, Bismarck, with the Rev. Ed Wehner officiating. Burial will be held at 1:30 p.m. in St. Philip Neri Catholic Cemetery, Napoleon. Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at Marillac Manor, where prayer services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Helen Hunkler was born April 29, 1905, on a farm approximately 14 miles east of Napoleon, the daughter of John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler . Helen was the second of nine children, consisting of five girls and four boys. Her parents operated a combined grain and livestock operation. Helen attended a rural Highland District school, where she completed eighth grade. When she was in about the fifth grade, Miss Marie Teders from Minnesota was hired to teach at the school, following the recommendation of the county superintendennt and acceptance by the school board. Miss Teders taught at the school for three years. She boarded with the Hunklers, who were not Catholic. Miss Teders was a staunch Catholic and brought Helen 's older brother Roy into the Catholic faith. He later became Father Adam, a Catholic priest. Through his determination and love of the faith, the entire Hunkler family was baptized and became Catholics, in 1922. From this conversion came two priests, a sister, and a permanent deacon. As a student, Helen loved mathematics and grammar. She graduated from Bismarck High School in 1924. Then she attended Ellendale Normal School, where she was awarded a teacher's certificate. For three years, she taught in a country school neear her home. Next she moved to Bismarck, where she worked at Montgomery Wards store. Helen soon met a young man who also worked at Montgomery Wards, Lloyd B. Harris , who had been sent out from St. Paul to do electronic work. Soon their meetingngs were more frequent, as they became better acquainted. Helen accepted his proposal of marriage and became Mrs. Lloyd B. Harris on Jan. 15, 1930. After the wedding, the couple moved to Minneapolis, where Helen worked for Dayton's and Lloyd operated an electronics shop. They lived there for over 10 years. This was during the depression of the '30s. Helen and Lloyd next decided to purchase a 1935 Dodge sedan, and they started out for California, by way of Bismarck. In Bismarck, Helen and Lloyd were met by Helen 's sister and her five small children, who were about to leave for San Jose, Calif., to join her husband, who worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. Helen 's brother was also going along. Insteead of going by train as they had planned, the group accompanied Helen and Lloyd, all five children and four adults, riding in their four-door car. On Sept. 6, 1941, they crossed Cody Pass, Wyo. When they exited on the other side, they found thahat they were very lucky, since they were just ahead of a heavy snowfall and blizzard that blocked the road they had only recently driven over. They had a narrow escape. What might have happened if the car had stalled and been covered by snow? In those days, a storm like this would have blocked the road until after the spring thaw. The roads weren't what they are today. On Dec. 7, 1941, Helen and Lloyd drove to the top of Mt. Hamilton to visit the world famous Lick Observatory, which has a 120-inch reflector. On the way down the mountain, they learned from the car radio that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Returnning home, they found the city populace very excited and anxious, fearing that they might soon be under attack by the Japanese. Lloyd then joined the Signal Corps. He was transferred to Fort Lewis and later to Bremerton, both in Washington. Helen worked as the Post Exchange and for the armed forces in downtown Seattle. After World War II, Lloyd was transferred to the Naval Air Base at Alameda, Calif. He had spent 19 years in the Navy when the couple returned to Bismarck, where they managed the Gold Bond store for six years and then the Colonial Motel, until 1975, when they retired and moved to Napoleon. Helen and Lloyd lived there for about 10 years. On April 11, 1986, Lloyd died. Helen and Lloyd had been married for over 56 years. Helen had many happy memories of their years together. In August 1988, she moved to Marillac Manor. Helen and Lloyd had taught C.C.D. for some 24 years, and they helped out in various areas of parish work. For many years, Helen was an active member of the Immaculate Conception Court of the Catholic Daughters, in Bismarck. When asked what she liked about Marillac Manor, Helen quickly responded: "I like the people; they are absolutely beautiful. I just can't show them enough appreciation for what they mean to me." Helen appreciated having the opportuunity to pray and attend Mass in the chapel. Helen also loved her volunteer work at St. Vincent's Care Center. She said: "The staff is great, and it gives me joy to work with the residents." She also was one of the readers who read Scripture during daily Masses, both at Marillac Manor and at St. Vincent's. Helen cared for many people, including her nephew, Dennis Hunkler , when burned; took care of her mother the last few years of her life; and cared for her sister, Mae, for many years, while a resident of St. Vincent's. Helen was always there for any member of her family who needed some loving care. She is survived by her sisters, Sisterr Mary Jane Hunkler , OSB, and Frances Roehrich; her local nieces, Susan Roehrich, Cecilia Reetz and Sister Marie Hunkler ; her local nephew, the Rev. Jerome Hunkler ; and many other nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler ; her husband, Lloyd B. Harris ; her brothers, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , OSB, Deacon Howard Hunkler , Lawrence Hunkler and the Rev. Ignatius Hunkler , OSB; and her sisters, Alice Ruffner and Mae Hunkler . (Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck) Visit the guest book at bismarcktribune.com Record: MERLIN_343486Copyright: Copyright, 2007, The Bismarck Tribune | Hunkler, Helen (I5840)
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| 128 | Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) September 23, 2000 Page: 11A NAPOLEON--Ê Deacon Howard J. Hunkler , 91, Napoleon, died Sept. 21, 2000, in a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Napoleon, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Dahlstrom Funeral Home, Napoleon. A rosary will be said at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. A Knights of Columbus rosary will be said at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, followed by a prayer service at 7, at the funeral home. Howard Joseph Hunkler was born on the original homestead of his parents, John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler on July 5, 1909. Along with three brothers and five sisters, he grew up on the homestead farm that he would eventually build into a very successful farming and ranching operation. Howard attended a one-room country school two miles west of the farm until the eighth grade. This concluded his formal education. Howard always said the rest of his education was in the "school of life." His whole life he was an avid reader and was very learned in many areas, but was most interested in his Catholic faith and was a convert to Catholicism as a young adult. His whole family eventually converted to Catholicism, as did his future wife, Hertha Matilda Mathews, who he married on Nov. 27, 1941, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Devils Lake. His brother, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , who was the pastor there, officiated. Of this union, 12 children were born; 10 children are still living, two children died in infancy. Along with the hard work of farming and ranching, after having lost everything during the depression years, Howard and Hertha built a very successful Hereford ranch and also did some farming. Howard was very active in the local Highland School Board, township boards and Right to Life action groups. He was a lifetime member of the Napoleon Knights of Columbus. He also led or was part of church study groups, was chairman of the building committee when St. Philip built its new church in the late 1960s, and served on the parish council at St. Philip. Howard's attitude of service to his church led him to be ordained as a permanent deacon for St. Philip in July 1983 at St. Mary's Cathedral with Bishop Justin Driscoll officiating. His diaconate duties at St. Philip over the years inclluded liturgical roles at Mass, baptisms, funerals, being coordinator of CCD, eucharistic visits to the sick in homes, hospitals and care centers for the aged, and preaching at Napoleon, Burnstad, Wishek and surrounding areas, evangelism work and counseling. His wife, Hertha, died July 13, 1997. Over their lives, Howard and Hertha lived simple lives of service and self-sacrifice and tried to be Christlike in their compassion for the poor and underprivileged. Howard was preceded in death by his parents, John and Frederica Hunkler ; two brothers, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , O.S.B., and Abbot Ignatius Hunkler , O.S.B.; one sister, Alice Ruffner; and two infant children. Howard's living family members include six sons, Joe, Rogue River, Ore., Cyril, Fargo, Francis, Moorhead, Minn., John, Cape Coral, Fla., Bernard, Harvey, La., and the Rev. Jerome, New Rockford; four daughters, Madeline Gross, Buckeye, Ariz., Angela, Berkeley, Calif., Sister Marie (O.S.B.), Dickinson, and Cecilia Reetz, Bismarck; four sisters, Helen Harris, Bismarck, Mae Hunkler , Bismarck, Sister Mary Jane Hunkler , O.S.B., St. Cloud, Minn., and Fran Roehrich, Bismarck; and one brother, Lawrence Hunkler , Hayward, Calif. In lieu of flowers, Howard's family would appreciate Mass requests or memorials to St. Philip Neri Church of Napoleon. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Name: Howard Hunkler SSN: 501-40-7767 Last Residence: 58561 Napoleon, Logan, North Dakota, USA BORN: 5 Jul 1909 Died: 21 Sep 2000 State (Year) SSN issued: North Dakota (1955) Source Citation Number: 501-40-7767; Issue State: North Dakota; Issue Date: 1955 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. Description The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence. Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) September 23, 2000 Page: 11A NAPOLEON--Ê Deacon Howard J. Hunkler , 91, Napoleon, died Sept. 21, 2000, in a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Napoleon, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Dahlstrom Funeral Home, Napoleon. A rosary will be said at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. A Knights of Columbus rosary will be said at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, followed by a prayer service at 7, at the funeral home. Howard Joseph Hunkler was born on the original homestead of his parents, John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler on July 5, 1909. Along with three brothers and five sisters, he grew up on the homestead farm that he would eventually build into a very successful farming and ranching operation. Howard attended a one-room country school two miles west of the farm until the eighth grade. This concluded his formal education. Howard always said the rest of his education was in the "school of life." His whole life he was an avid reader and was very learned in many areas, but was most interested in his Catholic faith and was a convert to Catholicism as a young adult. His whole family eventually converted to Catholicism, as did his future wife, Hertha Matilda Mathews, who he married on Nov. 27, 1941, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Devils Lake. His brother, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , who was the pastor there, officiated. Of this union, 12 children were born; 10 children are still living, two children died in infancy. Along with the hard work of farming and ranching, after having lost everything during the depression years, Howard and Hertha built a very successful Hereford ranch and also did some farming. Howard was very active in the local Highland School Board, township boards and Right to Life action groups. He was a lifetime member of the Napoleon Knights of Columbus. He also led or was part of church study groups, was chairman of the building committee when St. Philip built its new church in the late 1960s, and served on the parish council at St. Philip. Howard's attitude of service to his church led him to be ordained as a permanent deacon for St. Philip in July 1983 at St. Mary's Cathedral with Bishop Justin Driscoll officiating. His diaconate duties at St. Philip over the years inclluded liturgical roles at Mass, baptisms, funerals, being coordinator of CCD, eucharistic visits to the sick in homes, hospitals and care centers for the aged, and preaching at Napoleon, Burnstad, Wishek and surrounding areas, evangelism work and counseling. His wife, Hertha, died July 13, 1997. Over their lives, Howard and Hertha lived simple lives of service and self-sacrifice and tried to be Christlike in their compassion for the poor and underprivileged. Howard was preceded in death by his parents, John and Frederica Hunkler ; two brothers, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , O.S.B., and Abbot Ignatius Hunkler , O.S.B.; one sister, Alice Ruffner; and two infant children. Howard's living family members include six sons, Joe, Rogue River, Ore., Cyril, Fargo, Francis, Moorhead, Minn., John, Cape Coral, Fla., Bernard, Harvey, La., and the Rev. Jerome, New Rockford; four daughters, Madeline Gross, Buckeye, Ariz., Angela, Berkeley, Calif., Sister Marie (O.S.B.), Dickinson, and Cecilia Reetz, Bismarck; four sisters, Helen Harris, Bismarck, Mae Hunkler , Bismarck, Sister Mary Jane Hunkler , O.S.B., St. Cloud, Minn., and Fran Roehrich, Bismarck; and one brother, Lawrence Hunkler , Hayward, Calif. In lieu of flowers, Howard's family would appreciate Mass requests or memorials to St. Philip Neri Church of Napoleon. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Name: Howard Hunkler SSN: 501-40-7767 Last Residence: 58561 Napoleon, Logan, North Dakota, USA BORN: 5 Jul 1909 Died: 21 Sep 2000 State (Year) SSN issued: North Dakota (1955) Source Citation Number: 501-40-7767; Issue State: North Dakota; Issue Date: 1955 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. Description The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence. Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) September 23, 2000 Page: 11A NAPOLEON--Ê Deacon Howard J. Hunkler , 91, Napoleon, died Sept. 21, 2000, in a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Napoleon, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Dahlstrom Funeral Home, Napoleon. A rosary will be said at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. A Knights of Columbus rosary will be said at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, followed by a prayer service at 7, at the funeral home. Howard Joseph Hunkler was born on the original homestead of his parents, John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler on July 5, 1909. Along with three brothers and five sisters, he grew up on the homestead farm that he would eventually build into a very successful farming and ranching operation. Howard attended a one-room country school two miles west of the farm until the eighth grade. This concluded his formal education. Howard always said the rest of his education was in the "school of life." His whole life he was an avid reader and was very learned in many areas, but was most interested in his Catholic faith and was a convert to Catholicism as a young adult. His whole family eventually converted to Catholicism, as did his future wife, Hertha Matilda Mathews, who he married on Nov. 27, 1941, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Devils Lake. His brother, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , who was the pastor there, officiated. Of this union, 12 children were born; 10 children are still living, two children died in infancy. Along with the hard work of farming and ranching, after having lost everything during the depression years, Howard and Hertha built a very successful Hereford ranch and also did some farming. Howard was very active in the local Highland School Board, township boards and Right to Life action groups. He was a lifetime member of the Napoleon Knights of Columbus. He also led or was part of church study groups, was chairman of the building committee when St. Philip built its new church in the late 1960s, and served on the parish council at St. Philip. Howard's attitude of service to his church led him to be ordained as a permanent deacon for St. Philip in July 1983 at St. Mary's Cathedral with Bishop Justin Driscoll officiating. His diaconate duties at St. Philip over the years inclluded liturgical roles at Mass, baptisms, funerals, being coordinator of CCD, eucharistic visits to the sick in homes, hospitals and care centers for the aged, and preaching at Napoleon, Burnstad, Wishek and surrounding areas, evangelism work and counseling. His wife, Hertha, died July 13, 1997. Over their lives, Howard and Hertha lived simple lives of service and self-sacrifice and tried to be Christlike in their compassion for the poor and underprivileged. Howard was preceded in death by his parents, John and Frederica Hunkler ; two brothers, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , O.S.B., and Abbot Ignatius Hunkler , O.S.B.; one sister, Alice Ruffner; and two infant children. Howard's living family members include six sons, Joe, Rogue River, Ore., Cyril, Fargo, Francis, Moorhead, Minn., John, Cape Coral, Fla., Bernard, Harvey, La., and the Rev. Jerome, New Rockford; four daughters, Madeline Gross, Buckeye, Ariz., Angela, Berkeley, Calif., Sister Marie (O.S.B.), Dickinson, and Cecilia Reetz, Bismarck; four sisters, Helen Harris, Bismarck, Mae Hunkler , Bismarck, Sister Mary Jane Hunkler , O.S.B., St. Cloud, Minn., and Fran Roehrich, Bismarck; and one brother, Lawrence Hunkler , Hayward, Calif. In lieu of flowers, Howard's family would appreciate Mass requests or memorials to St. Philip Neri Church of Napoleon. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Name: Howard Hunkler SSN: 501-40-7767 Last Residence: 58561 Napoleon, Logan, North Dakota, USA BORN: 5 Jul 1909 Died: 21 Sep 2000 State (Year) SSN issued: North Dakota (1955) Source Citation Number: 501-40-7767; Issue State: North Dakota; Issue Date: 1955 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. Description The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence. Bismarck Tribune, The (ND) September 23, 2000 Page: 11A NAPOLEON--Ê Deacon Howard J. Hunkler , 91, Napoleon, died Sept. 21, 2000, in a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Napoleon, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Dahlstrom Funeral Home, Napoleon. A rosary will be said at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. A Knights of Columbus rosary will be said at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, followed by a prayer service at 7, at the funeral home. Howard Joseph Hunkler was born on the original homestead of his parents, John and Frederica (Buck) Hunkler on July 5, 1909. Along with three brothers and five sisters, he grew up on the homestead farm that he would eventually build into a very successful farming and ranching operation. Howard attended a one-room country school two miles west of the farm until the eighth grade. This concluded his formal education. Howard always said the rest of his education was in the "school of life." His whole life he was an avid reader and was very learned in many areas, but was most interested in his Catholic faith and was a convert to Catholicism as a young adult. His whole family eventually converted to Catholicism, as did his future wife, Hertha Matilda Mathews, who he married on Nov. 27, 1941, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Devils Lake. His brother, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , who was the pastor there, officiated. Of this union, 12 children were born; 10 children are still living, two children died in infancy. Along with the hard work of farming and ranching, after having lost everything during the depression years, Howard and Hertha built a very successful Hereford ranch and also did some farming. Howard was very active in the local Highland School Board, township boards and Right to Life action groups. He was a lifetime member of the Napoleon Knights of Columbus. He also led or was part of church study groups, was chairman of the building committee when St. Philip built its new church in the late 1960s, and served on the parish council at St. Philip. Howard's attitude of service to his church led him to be ordained as a permanent deacon for St. Philip in July 1983 at St. Mary's Cathedral with Bishop Justin Driscoll officiating. His diaconate duties at St. Philip over the years inclluded liturgical roles at Mass, baptisms, funerals, being coordinator of CCD, eucharistic visits to the sick in homes, hospitals and care centers for the aged, and preaching at Napoleon, Burnstad, Wishek and surrounding areas, evangelism work and counseling. His wife, Hertha, died July 13, 1997. Over their lives, Howard and Hertha lived simple lives of service and self-sacrifice and tried to be Christlike in their compassion for the poor and underprivileged. Howard was preceded in death by his parents, John and Frederica Hunkler ; two brothers, the Rev. Adam Hunkler , O.S.B., and Abbot Ignatius Hunkler , O.S.B.; one sister, Alice Ruffner; and two infant children. Howard's living family members include six sons, Joe, Rogue River, Ore., Cyril, Fargo, Francis, Moorhead, Minn., John, Cape Coral, Fla., Bernard, Harvey, La., and the Rev. Jerome, New Rockford; four daughters, Madeline Gross, Buckeye, Ariz., Angela, Berkeley, Calif., Sister Marie (O.S.B.), Dickinson, and Cecilia Reetz, Bismarck; four sisters, Helen Harris, Bismarck, Mae Hunkler , Bismarck, Sister Mary Jane Hunkler , O.S.B., St. Cloud, Minn., and Fran Roehrich, Bismarck; and one brother, Lawrence Hunkler , Hayward, Calif. In lieu of flowers, Howard's family would appreciate Mass requests or memorials to St. Philip Neri Church of Napoleon. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Name: Howard Hunkler SSN: 501-40-7767 Last Residence: 58561 Napoleon, Logan, North Dakota, USA BORN: 5 Jul 1909 Died: 21 Sep 2000 State (Year) SSN issued: North Dakota (1955) Source Citation Number: 501-40-7767; Issue State: North Dakota; Issue Date: 1955 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. Description The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence. | Hunkler, Howard Joseph (I5812)
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| 145 | Born at St. Mary's Hospital at 12:33 A.M. Birth certificate City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Volume 714 page 395 No. 12074. He was baptised at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Milwauke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on October 6, 1918. The Godparents were Ernest and Marion Nuss. Worked for Allis Chalmers & General Electric. ------------------------------------------------- June 17, 2000 I was just sitting here thinking that Father's Day is tomorrow and remembering my Dad. He was always known as Warren. My earliest recollection of him is his singing us to sleep with a lullaby in the house in New England. I remember that he sang in the church choir but I regret that he didn't pass on his musical abilities to his children. Although I love music and have an eclectic collection, I cannot play or sing. Fortunately, there are plenty of people around that will continue to remind me of this when I occasional slip and try to sing. I remember that he was one that volunteered his time to functions involving the family and his church. He was active in Scouting and assisted me to rise to the Star rank. The first to do so in our parish troop. He wasn't much for sports but did play with us on occasion. He always encouraged us with our schooling. He was the first in our family to graduate from college and encouraged us to do the same. He worked for General Electric for most of his life. I remember the move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts for a job in the small jet engine design section for General Electric. Of course, Dad had gone ahead to make arrangements and start work. I don t know how Mom managed with all of us on that plane. There was a time when he was laid off from General Electric for a long period and worked for Pullman in Connecticut. We remained in Massachusetts and he commuted. I remember that he was forced to use all of the money he had saved for retirement to keep the house and feed us during these times. We didn't experience too much disruption in our lives. The problems were kept between him and Mom. He was later able to replace the funds and thus got credit for those early years when he retired. Later, he returned to General Electric and we had to move to Cincinnati. He worked on military jet engine design but he couldn't and didn't talk about his projects. Even after retirement, he refused to talk about these projects. Now that I live in southern California and frequently see military jets flying over head, I wish I knew more about what he worked on. I frequently think of him contributing to these conglomerates of engineering excellence and wish that I knew it was his handy work. We frequently attended summer camps. I think more so that Mom and Dad could get a little bit of a break from having all of us around than for our own good. We also went camping. Including one time when we were stranded for two days by a snow storm. Dad did have a bit of a temper which he passed on to most of his children. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. He also passed on an understanding of right and wrong and a belief that you had to do what was right despite the consequences. He was a bit of a handyman. He added a half bath and remodeled a bath in the house in New England. Much needed improvements given the size of our family. He also added a family room with a ¾ bath to the Ohio home. Some of these skills, he also passed on but none of us are as adept as he was. In later years, he became a Kentucky Colonel which he was very proud of. He enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Parks although he didn't camp any more but stayed in the lodges. Dad died unexpectedly. I never really got a chance to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for all of us and that I was sorry for all the problems I created for him and Mom over the years. I find my life frequently following the path that he laid down and I am grateful for all that he did for us. I miss you, Dad. Bob Weithofer Mom has reminded me that Bridget has inherited her father's voice and Jim his musical ability. Bridget sang in the Choir at Finneytown High School. Jim played in the percussion section of St. Xavier's band. Warren was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. Born at St. Mary's Hospital at 12:33 A.M. Birth certificate City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Volume 714 page 395 No. 12074. He was baptised at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Milwauke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on October 6, 1918. The Godparents were Ernest and Marion Nuss. Worked for Allis Chalmers & General Electric. ------------------------------------------------- June 17, 2000 I was just sitting here thinking that Father's Day is tomorrow and remembering my Dad. He was always known as Warren. My earliest recollection of him is his singing us to sleep with a lullaby in the house in New England. I remember that he sang in the church choir but I regret that he didn't pass on his musical abilities to his children. Although I love music and have an eclectic collection, I cannot play or sing. Fortunately, there are plenty of people around that will continue to remind me of this when I occasional slip and try to sing. I remember that he was one that volunteered his time to functions involving the family and his church. He was active in Scouting and assisted me to rise to the Star rank. The first to do so in our parish troop. He wasn't much for sports but did play with us on occasion. He always encouraged us with our schooling. He was the first in our family to graduate from college and encouraged us to do the same. He worked for General Electric for most of his life. I remember the move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts for a job in the small jet engine design section for General Electric. Of course, Dad had gone ahead to make arrangements and start work. I dont know how Mom managed with all of us on that plane. There was a time when he was laid off from General Electric for a long period and worked for Pullman in Connecticut. We remained in Massachusetts and he commuted. I remember that he was forced to use all of the money he had saved for retirement to keep the house and feed us during these times. We didn't experience too much disruption in our lives. The problems were kept between him and Mom. He was later able to replace the funds and thus got credit for those early years when he retired. Later, he returned to General Electric and we had to move to Cincinnati. He worked on military jet engine design but he couldn't and didn't talk about his projects. Even after retirement, he refused to talk about these projects. Now that I live in southern California and frequently see military jets flying over head, I wish I knew more about what he worked on. I frequently think of him contributing to these conglomerates of engineering excellence and wish that I knew it was his handy work. We frequently attended summer camps. I think more so that Mom and Dad could get a little bit of a break from having all of us around than for our own good. We also went camping. Including one time when we were stranded for two days by a snow storm. Dad did have a bit of a temper which he passed on to most of his children. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. He also passed on an understanding of right and wrong and a belief that you had to do what was right despite the consequences. He was a bit of a handyman. He added a half bath and remodeled a bath in the house in New England. Much needed improvements given the size of our family. He also added a family room with a ¾ bath to the Ohio home. Some of these skills, he also passed on but none of us are as adept as he was. In later years, he became a Kentucky Colonel which he was very proud of. He enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Parks although he didn't camp any more but stayed in the lodges. Dad died unexpectedly. I never really got a chance to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for all of us and that I was sorry for all the problems I created for him and Mom over the years. I find my life frequently following the path that he laid down and I am grateful for all that he did for us. I miss you, Dad. Bob Weithofer Mom has reminded me that Bridget has inherited her father's voice and Jim his musical ability. Bridget sang in the Choir at Finneytown High School. Jim played in the percussion section of St. Xavier's band. Warren was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. Born at St. Mary's Hospital at 12:33 A.M. Birth certificate City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Volume 714 page 395 No. 12074. He was baptised at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Milwauke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on October 6, 1918. The Godparents were Ernest and Marion Nuss. Worked for Allis Chalmers & General Electric. ------------------------------------------------- June 17, 2000 I was just sitting here thinking that Father's Day is tomorrow and remembering my Dad. He was always known as Warren. My earliest recollection of him is his singing us to sleep with a lullaby in the house in New England. I remember that he sang in the church choir but I regret that he didn't pass on his musical abilities to his children. Although I love music and have an eclectic collection, I cannot play or sing. Fortunately, there are plenty of people around that will continue to remind me of this when I occasional slip and try to sing. I remember that he was one that volunteered his time to functions involving the family and his church. He was active in Scouting and assisted me to rise to the Star rank. The first to do so in our parish troop. He wasn't much for sports but did play with us on occasion. He always encouraged us with our schooling. He was the first in our family to graduate from college and encouraged us to do the same. He worked for General Electric for most of his life. I remember the move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts for a job in the small jet engine design section for General Electric. Of course, Dad had gone ahead to make arrangements and start work. I don t know how Mom managed with all of us on that plane. There was a time when he was laid off from General Electric for a long period and worked for Pullman in Connecticut. We remained in Massachusetts and he commuted. I remember that he was forced to use all of the money he had saved for retirement to keep the house and feed us during these times. We didn't experience too much disruption in our lives. The problems were kept between him and Mom. He was later able to replace the funds and thus got credit for those early years when he retired. Later, he returned to General Electric and we had to move to Cincinnati. He worked on military jet engine design but he couldn't and didn't talk about his projects. Even after retirement, he refused to talk about these projects. Now that I live in southern California and frequently see military jets flying over head, I wish I knew more about what he worked on. I frequently think of him contributing to these conglomerates of engineering excellence and wish that I knew it was his handy work. We frequently attended summer camps. I think more so that Mom and Dad could get a little bit of a break from having all of us around than for our own good. We also went camping. Including one time when we were stranded for two days by a snow storm. Dad did have a bit of a temper which he passed on to most of his children. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. He also passed on an understanding of right and wrong and a belief that you had to do what was right despite the consequences. He was a bit of a handyman. He added a half bath and remodeled a bath in the house in New England. Much needed improvements given the size of our family. He also added a family room with a ¾ bath to the Ohio home. Some of these skills, he also passed on but none of us are as adept as he was. In later years, he became a Kentucky Colonel which he was very proud of. He enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Parks although he didn't camp any more but stayed in the lodges. Dad died unexpectedly. I never really got a chance to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for all of us and that I was sorry for all the problems I created for him and Mom over the years. I find my life frequently following the path that he laid down and I am grateful for all that he did for us. I miss you, Dad. Bob Weithofer Mom has reminded me that Bridget has inherited her father's voice and Jim his musical ability. Bridget sang in the Choir at Finneytown High School. Jim played in the percussion section of St. Xavier's band. Warren was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. Born at St. Mary's Hospital at 12:33 A.M. Birth certificate City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Volume 714 page 395 No. 12074. He was baptised at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Milwauke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on October 6, 1918. The Godparents were Ernest and Marion Nuss. Worked for Allis Chalmers & General Electric. ------------------------------------------------- June 17, 2000 I was just sitting here thinking that Father's Day is tomorrow and remembering my Dad. He was always known as Warren. My earliest recollection of him is his singing us to sleep with a lullaby in the house in New England. I remember that he sang in the church choir but I regret that he didn't pass on his musical abilities to his children. Although I love music and have an eclectic collection, I cannot play or sing. Fortunately, there are plenty of people around that will continue to remind me of this when I occasional slip and try to sing. I remember that he was one that volunteered his time to functions involving the family and his church. He was active in Scouting and assisted me to rise to the Star rank. The first to do so in our parish troop. He wasn't much for sports but did play with us on occasion. He always encouraged us with our schooling. He was the first in our family to graduate from college and encouraged us to do the same. He worked for General Electric for most of his life. I remember the move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts for a job in the small jet engine design section for General Electric. Of course, Dad had gone ahead to make arrangements and start work. I dont know how Mom managed with all of us on that plane. There was a time when he was laid off from General Electric for a long period and worked for Pullman in Connecticut. We remained in Massachusetts and he commuted. I remember that he was forced to use all of the money he had saved for retirement to keep the house and feed us during these times. We didn't experience too much disruption in our lives. The problems were kept between him and Mom. He was later able to replace the funds and thus got credit for those early years when he retired. Later, he returned to General Electric and we had to move to Cincinnati. He worked on military jet engine design but he couldn't and didn't talk about his projects. Even after retirement, he refused to talk about these projects. Now that I live in southern California and frequently see military jets flying over head, I wish I knew more about what he worked on. I frequently think of him contributing to these conglomerates of engineering excellence and wish that I knew it was his handy work. We frequently attended summer camps. I think more so that Mom and Dad could get a little bit of a break from having all of us around than for our own good. We also went camping. Including one time when we were stranded for two days by a snow storm. Dad did have a bit of a temper which he passed on to most of his children. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. He also passed on an understanding of right and wrong and a belief that you had to do what was right despite the consequences. He was a bit of a handyman. He added a half bath and remodeled a bath in the house in New England. Much needed improvements given the size of our family. He also added a family room with a ¾ bath to the Ohio home. Some of these skills, he also passed on but none of us are as adept as he was. In later years, he became a Kentucky Colonel which he was very proud of. He enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Parks although he didn't camp any more but stayed in the lodges. Dad died unexpectedly. I never really got a chance to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for all of us and that I was sorry for all the problems I created for him and Mom over the years. I find my life frequently following the path that he laid down and I am grateful for all that he did for us. I miss you, Dad. Bob Weithofer Mom has reminded me that Bridget has inherited her father's voice and Jim his musical ability. Bridget sang in the Choir at Finneytown High School. Jim played in the percussion section of St. Xavier's band. Warren was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. Born at St. Mary's Hospital at 12:33 A.M. Birth certificate City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Volume 714 page 395 No. 12074. He was baptised at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Milwauke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on October 6, 1918. The Godparents were Ernest and Marion Nuss. Worked for Allis Chalmers & General Electric. ------------------------------------------------- June 17, 2000 I was just sitting here thinking that Father's Day is tomorrow and remembering my Dad. He was always known as Warren. My earliest recollection of him is his singing us to sleep with a lullaby in the house in New England. I remember that he sang in the church choir but I regret that he didn't pass on his musical abilities to his children. Although I love music and have an eclectic collection, I cannot play or sing. Fortunately, there are plenty of people around that will continue to remind me of this when I occasional slip and try to sing. I remember that he was one that volunteered his time to functions involving the family and his church. He was active in Scouting and assisted me to rise to the Star rank. The first to do so in our parish troop. He wasn't much for sports but did play with us on occasion. He always encouraged us with our schooling. He was the first in our family to graduate from college and encouraged us to do the same. He worked for General Electric for most of his life. I remember the move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts for a job in the small jet engine design section for General Electric. Of course, Dad had gone ahead to make arrangements and start work. I don t know how Mom managed with all of us on that plane. There was a time when he was laid off from General Electric for a long period and worked for Pullman in Connecticut. We remained in Massachusetts and he commuted. I remember that he was forced to use all of the money he had saved for retirement to keep the house and feed us during these times. We didn't experience too much disruption in our lives. The problems were kept between him and Mom. He was later able to replace the funds and thus got credit for those early years when he retired. Later, he returned to General Electric and we had to move to Cincinnati. He worked on military jet engine design but he couldn't and didn't talk about his projects. Even after retirement, he refused to talk about these projects. Now that I live in southern California and frequently see military jets flying over head, I wish I knew more about what he worked on. I frequently think of him contributing to these conglomerates of engineering excellence and wish that I knew it was his handy work. We frequently attended summer camps. I think more so that Mom and Dad could get a little bit of a break from having all of us around than for our own good. We also went camping. Including one time when we were stranded for two days by a snow storm. Dad did have a bit of a temper which he passed on to most of his children. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. He also passed on an understanding of right and wrong and a belief that you had to do what was right despite the consequences. He was a bit of a handyman. He added a half bath and remodeled a bath in the house in New England. Much needed improvements given the size of our family. He also added a family room with a ¾ bath to the Ohio home. Some of these skills, he also passed on but none of us are as adept as he was. In later years, he became a Kentucky Colonel which he was very proud of. He enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Parks although he didn't camp any more but stayed in the lodges. Dad died unexpectedly. I never really got a chance to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for all of us and that I was sorry for all the problems I created for him and Mom over the years. I find my life frequently following the path that he laid down and I am grateful for all that he did for us. I miss you, Dad. Bob Weithofer Mom has reminded me that Bridget has inherited her father's voice and Jim his musical ability. Bridget sang in the Choir at Finneytown High School. Jim played in the percussion section of St. Xavier's band. Warren was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. Born at St. Mary's Hospital at 12:33 A.M. Birth certificate City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Volume 714 page 395 No. 12074. He was baptised at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Milwauke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on October 6, 1918. The Godparents were Ernest and Marion Nuss. Worked for Allis Chalmers & General Electric. ------------------------------------------------- June 17, 2000 I was just sitting here thinking that Father's Day is tomorrow and remembering my Dad. He was always known as Warren. My earliest recollection of him is his singing us to sleep with a lullaby in the house in New England. I remember that he sang in the church choir but I regret that he didn't pass on his musical abilities to his children. Although I love music and have an eclectic collection, I cannot play or sing. Fortunately, there are plenty of people around that will continue to remind me of this when I occasional slip and try to sing. I remember that he was one that volunteered his time to functions involving the family and his church. He was active in Scouting and assisted me to rise to the Star rank. The first to do so in our parish troop. He wasn't much for sports but did play with us on occasion. He always encouraged us with our schooling. He was the first in our family to graduate from college and encouraged us to do the same. He worked for General Electric for most of his life. I remember the move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts for a job in the small jet engine design section for General Electric. Of course, Dad had gone ahead to make arrangements and start work. I don t know how Mom managed with all of us on that plane. There was a time when he was laid off from General Electric for a long period and worked for Pullman in Connecticut. We remained in Massachusetts and he commuted. I remember that he was forced to use all of the money he had saved for retirement to keep the house and feed us during these times. We didn't experience too much disruption in our lives. The problems were kept between him and Mom. He was later able to replace the funds and thus got credit for those early years when he retired. Later, he returned to General Electric and we had to move to Cincinnati. He worked on military jet engine design but he couldn't and didn't talk about his projects. Even after retirement, he refused to talk about these projects. Now that I live in southern California and frequently see military jets flying over head, I wish I knew more about what he worked on. I frequently think of him contributing to these conglomerates of engineering excellence and wish that I knew it was his handy work. We frequently attended summer camps. I think more so that Mom and Dad could get a little bit of a break from having all of us around than for our own good. We also went camping. Including one time when we were stranded for two days by a snow storm. Dad did have a bit of a temper which he passed on to most of his children. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. He also passed on an understanding of right and wrong and a belief that you had to do what was right despite the consequences. He was a bit of a handyman. He added a half bath and remodeled a bath in the house in New England. Much needed improvements given the size of our family. He also added a family room with a ¾ bath to the Ohio home. Some of these skills, he also passed on but none of us are as adept as he was. In later years, he became a Kentucky Colonel which he was very proud of. He enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Parks although he didn't camp any more but stayed in the lodges. Dad died unexpectedly. I never really got a chance to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for all of us and that I was sorry for all the problems I created for him and Mom over the years. I find my life frequently following the path that he laid down and I am grateful for all that he did for us. I miss you, Dad. Bob Weithofer Mom has reminded me that Bridget has inherited her father's voice and Jim his musical ability. Bridget sang in the Choir at Finneytown High School. Jim played in the percussion section of St. Xavier's band. Warren was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. Born at St. Mary's Hospital at 12:33 A.M. Birth certificate City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Volume 714 page 395 No. 12074. He was baptised at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Milwauke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on October 6, 1918. The Godparents were Ernest and Marion Nuss. Worked for Allis Chalmers & General Electric. ------------------------------------------------- June 17, 2000 I was just sitting here thinking that Father's Day is tomorrow and remembering my Dad. He was always known as Warren. My earliest recollection of him is his singing us to sleep with a lullaby in the house in New England. I remember that he sang in the church choir but I regret that he didn't pass on his musical abilities to his children. Although I love music and have an eclectic collection, I cannot play or sing. Fortunately, there are plenty of people around that will continue to remind me of this when I occasional slip and try to sing. I remember that he was one that volunteered his time to functions involving the family and his church. He was active in Scouting and assisted me to rise to the Star rank. The first to do so in our parish troop. He wasn't much for sports but did play with us on occasion. He always encouraged us with our schooling. He was the first in our family to graduate from college and encouraged us to do the same. He worked for General Electric for most of his life. I remember the move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts for a job in the small jet engine design section for General Electric. Of course, Dad had gone ahead to make arrangements and start work. I dont know how Mom managed with all of us on that plane. There was a time when he was laid off from General Electric for a long period and worked for Pullman in Connecticut. We remained in Massachusetts and he commuted. I remember that he was forced to use all of the money he had saved for retirement to keep the house and feed us during these times. We didn't experience too much disruption in our lives. The problems were kept between him and Mom. He was later able to replace the funds and thus got credit for those early years when he retired. Later, he returned to General Electric and we had to move to Cincinnati. He worked on military jet engine design but he couldn't and didn't talk about his projects. Even after retirement, he refused to talk about these projects. Now that I live in southern California and frequently see military jets flying over head, I wish I knew more about what he worked on. I frequently think of him contributing to these conglomerates of engineering excellence and wish that I knew it was his handy work. We frequently attended summer camps. I think more so that Mom and Dad could get a little bit of a break from having all of us around than for our own good. We also went camping. Including one time when we were stranded for two days by a snow storm. Dad did have a bit of a temper which he passed on to most of his children. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. He also passed on an understanding of right and wrong and a belief that you had to do what was right despite the consequences. He was a bit of a handyman. He added a half bath and remodeled a bath in the house in New England. Much needed improvements given the size of our family. He also added a family room with a ¾ bath to the Ohio home. Some of these skills, he also passed on but none of us are as adept as he was. In later years, he became a Kentucky Colonel which he was very proud of. He enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Parks although he didn't camp any more but stayed in the lodges. Dad died unexpectedly. I never really got a chance to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for all of us and that I was sorry for all the problems I created for him and Mom over the years. I find my life frequently following the path that he laid down and I am grateful for all that he did for us. I miss you, Dad. Bob Weithofer Mom has reminded me that Bridget has inherited her father's voice and Jim his musical ability. Bridget sang in the Choir at Finneytown High School. Jim played in the percussion section of St. Xavier's band. Warren was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. Born at St. Mary's Hospital at 12:33 A.M. Birth certificate City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Volume 714 page 395 No. 12074. He was baptised at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Milwauke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on October 6, 1918. The Godparents were Ernest and Marion Nuss. Worked for Allis Chalmers & General Electric. ------------------------------------------------- June 17, 2000 I was just sitting here thinking that Father's Day is tomorrow and remembering my Dad. He was always known as Warren. My earliest recollection of him is his singing us to sleep with a lullaby in the house in New England. I remember that he sang in the church choir but I regret that he didn't pass on his musical abilities to his children. Although I love music and have an eclectic collection, I cannot play or sing. Fortunately, there are plenty of people around that will continue to remind me of this when I occasional slip and try to sing. I remember that he was one that volunteered his time to functions involving the family and his church. He was active in Scouting and assisted me to rise to the Star rank. The first to do so in our parish troop. He wasn't much for sports but did play with us on occasion. He always encouraged us with our schooling. He was the first in our family to graduate from college and encouraged us to do the same. He worked for General Electric for most of his life. I remember the move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts for a job in the small jet engine design section for General Electric. Of course, Dad had gone ahead to make arrangements and start work. I don t know how Mom managed with all of us on that plane. There was a time when he was laid off from General Electric for a long period and worked for Pullman in Connecticut. We remained in Massachusetts and he commuted. I remember that he was forced to use all of the money he had saved for retirement to keep the house and feed us during these times. We didn't experience too much disruption in our lives. The problems were kept between him and Mom. He was later able to replace the funds and thus got credit for those early years when he retired. Later, he returned to General Electric and we had to move to Cincinnati. He worked on military jet engine design but he couldn't and didn't talk about his projects. Even after retirement, he refused to talk about these projects. Now that I live in southern California and frequently see military jets flying over head, I wish I knew more about what he worked on. I frequently think of him contributing to these conglomerates of engineering excellence and wish that I knew it was his handy work. We frequently attended summer camps. I think more so that Mom and Dad could get a little bit of a break from having all of us around than for our own good. We also went camping. Including one time when we were stranded for two days by a snow storm. Dad did have a bit of a temper which he passed on to most of his children. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. He also passed on an understanding of right and wrong and a belief that you had to do what was right despite the consequences. He was a bit of a handyman. He added a half bath and remodeled a bath in the house in New England. Much needed improvements given the size of our family. He also added a family room with a ¾ bath to the Ohio home. Some of these skills, he also passed on but none of us are as adept as he was. In later years, he became a Kentucky Colonel which he was very proud of. He enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Parks although he didn't camp any more but stayed in the lodges. Dad died unexpectedly. I never really got a chance to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for all of us and that I was sorry for all the problems I created for him and Mom over the years. I find my life frequently following the path that he laid down and I am grateful for all that he did for us. I miss you, Dad. Bob Weithofer Mom has reminded me that Bridget has inherited her father's voice and Jim his musical ability. Bridget sang in the Choir at Finneytown High School. Jim played in the percussion section of St. Xavier's band. Warren was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. Born at St. Mary's Hospital at 12:33 A.M. Birth certificate City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Volume 714 page 395 No. 12074. He was baptised at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Milwauke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on October 6, 1918. The Godparents were Ernest and Marion Nuss. Worked for Allis Chalmers & General Electric. ------------------------------------------------- June 17, 2000 I was just sitting here thinking that Father's Day is tomorrow and remembering my Dad. He was always known as Warren. My earliest recollection of him is his singing us to sleep with a lullaby in the house in New England. I remember that he sang in the church choir but I regret that he didn't pass on his musical abilities to his children. Although I love music and have an eclectic collection, I cannot play or sing. Fortunately, there are plenty of people around that will continue to remind me of this when I occasional slip and try to sing. I remember that he was one that volunteered his time to functions involving the family and his church. He was active in Scouting and assisted me to rise to the Star rank. The first to do so in our parish troop. He wasn't much for sports but did play with us on occasion. He always encouraged us with our schooling. He was the first in our family to graduate from college and encouraged us to do the same. He worked for General Electric for most of his life. I remember the move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts for a job in the small jet engine design section for General Electric. Of course, Dad had gone ahead to make arrangements and start work. I dont know how Mom managed with all of us on that plane. There was a time when he was laid off from General Electric for a long period and worked for Pullman in Connecticut. We remained in Massachusetts and he commuted. I remember that he was forced to use all of the money he had saved for retirement to keep the house and feed us during these times. We didn't experience too much disruption in our lives. The problems were kept between him and Mom. He was later able to replace the funds and thus got credit for those early years when he retired. Later, he returned to General Electric and we had to move to Cincinnati. He worked on military jet engine design but he couldn't and didn't talk about his projects. Even after retirement, he refused to talk about these projects. Now that I live in southern California and frequently see military jets flying over head, I wish I knew more about what he worked on. I frequently think of him contributing to these conglomerates of engineering excellence and wish that I knew it was his handy work. We frequently attended summer camps. I think more so that Mom and Dad could get a little bit of a break from having all of us around than for our own good. We also went camping. Including one time when we were stranded for two days by a snow storm. Dad did have a bit of a temper which he passed on to most of his children. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. He also passed on an understanding of right and wrong and a belief that you had to do what was right despite the consequences. He was a bit of a handyman. He added a half bath and remodeled a bath in the house in New England. Much needed improvements given the size of our family. He also added a family room with a ¾ bath to the Ohio home. Some of these skills, he also passed on but none of us are as adept as he was. In later years, he became a Kentucky Colonel which he was very proud of. He enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Parks although he didn't camp any more but stayed in the lodges. Dad died unexpectedly. I never really got a chance to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for all of us and that I was sorry for all the problems I created for him and Mom over the years. I find my life frequently following the path that he laid down and I am grateful for all that he did for us. I miss you, Dad. Bob Weithofer Mom has reminded me that Bridget has inherited her father's voice and Jim his musical ability. Bridget sang in the Choir at Finneytown High School. Jim played in the percussion section of St. Xavier's band. Warren was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon. Born at St. Mary's Hospital at 12:33 A.M. Birth certificate City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Volume 714 page 395 No. 12074. He was baptised at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Milwauke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on October 6, 1918. The Godparents were Ernest and Marion Nuss. Worked for Allis Chalmers & General Electric. ------------------------------------------------- June 17, 2000 I was just sitting here thinking that Father's Day is tomorrow and remembering my Dad. He was always known as Warren. My earliest recollection of him is his singing us to sleep with a lullaby in the house in New England. I remember that he sang in the church choir but I regret that he didn't pass on his musical abilities to his children. Although I love music and have an eclectic collection, I cannot play or sing. Fortunately, there are plenty of people around that will continue to remind me of this when I occasional slip and try to sing. I remember that he was one that volunteered his time to functions involving the family and his church. He was active in Scouting and assisted me to rise to the Star rank. The first to do so in our parish troop. He wasn't much for sports but did play with us on occasion. He always encouraged us with our schooling. He was the first in our family to graduate from college and encouraged us to do the same. He worked for General Electric for most of his life. I remember the move from Wisconsin to Massachusetts for a job in the small jet engine design section for General Electric. Of course, Dad had gone ahead to make arrangements and start work. I don t know how Mom managed with all of us on that plane. There was a time when he was laid off from General Electric for a long period and worked for Pullman in Connecticut. We remained in Massachusetts and he commuted. I remember that he was forced to use all of the money he had saved for retirement to keep the house and feed us during these times. We didn't experience too much disruption in our lives. The problems were kept between him and Mom. He was later able to replace the funds and thus got credit for those early years when he retired. Later, he returned to General Electric and we had to move to Cincinnati. He worked on military jet engine design but he couldn't and didn't talk about his projects. Even after retirement, he refused to talk about these projects. Now that I live in southern California and frequently see military jets flying over head, I wish I knew more about what he worked on. I frequently think of him contributing to these conglomerates of engineering excellence and wish that I knew it was his handy work. We frequently attended summer camps. I think more so that Mom and Dad could get a little bit of a break from having all of us around than for our own good. We also went camping. Including one time when we were stranded for two days by a snow storm. Dad did have a bit of a temper which he passed on to most of his children. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. He also passed on an understanding of right and wrong and a belief that you had to do what was right despite the consequences. He was a bit of a handyman. He added a half bath and remodeled a bath in the house in New England. Much needed improvements given the size of our family. He also added a family room with a ¾ bath to the Ohio home. Some of these skills, he also passed on but none of us are as adept as he was. In later years, he became a Kentucky Colonel which he was very proud of. He enjoyed visits to the Kentucky Parks although he didn't camp any more but stayed in the lodges. Dad died unexpectedly. I never really got a chance to tell him how much I appreciated what he did for all of us and that I was sorry for all the problems I created for him and Mom over the years. I find my life frequently following the path that he laid down and I am grateful for all that he did for us. I miss you, Dad. Bob Weithofer Mom has reminded me that Bridget has inherited her father's voice and Jim his musical ability. Bridget sang in the Choir at Finneytown High School. Jim played in the percussion section of St. Xavier's band. 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