"Good Wishes Birthday
Book"
by my grandmother, Eva HEITMAN
LUSS
Submitted by Sandra Luss
slluss_AT_msn.com
Notes written by Eva HEITMAN LUSS (my paternal
grandmother and lifelong resident of South Wales),
from approximately 1914 -1957 in a "Good Wishes Birthday Book".
Most items are handwritten, but some are newspaper clippings.
If there is no year after the date it either means that there was no
date listed or that the person was born after 1930.
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- Handwritten Notes
- Fred KRATT moved on their farm
Feb. 28-March 1st, 1900
- Mr. & Mrs. John PICKETT
married March 20, 1901
- May H. HEITMAN & John N.
HOLMES, married March 31, 1928 4:30
P.M. Saturday @ 28 Washington St. Bradford, Pa. by
Alderman Foley. (Justice of peace)
- Timmy & David GOW married
June 25, 1947
- Vesta & Norm HOWARD June 26,
1937
- Oscar & Florence (VOLPE)
married April 4, 1934 Wednesday (Note: Eva's brother Oscar HEITMAN)
- Harry & Zelda married June 28, 1922 (Note: Eva's brother
Harry HEITMAN)
- Floyd's baby died Sept. 6, 1918 Buried Sept. 9, 1918 - aged 2
mos. 3 days Born July 3rd 1918 (Note: Floyd was another HEITMAN brother)
- Eugene HOLMES died March 21, 1919
- Hebert CARPENTER was found killed
on the R.R. Sunday A.M. June 12, 1921 and was buried Tues. June
14, 1921 Age 32
- Carrie & Clyde TROUST married
Nov. 16, 1909
- Mr. & Mrs. Henry TROUST
married June 29, 1872
- Florence (SUTTELL) &
Clifford MERLAU married Nov. 17, 1934
- Janet FARMS & Buddy HOWARD married May 1956
- David FARMS Feb. 28, 1956
- Louise (HEITMAN) & Ray (PRENTICE) married Feb. 18, 1956
- Mrs. Chas. E. CLEARY married June
26, 1920
- Jeanette HALL married Sat. A.M.
Aug. 26, 1933
- Mr. & Mrs. Peter GOW married
Sept. 15, 1908
- Minnie (LUSS) & Fred MERLAU married Nov. 12, 1902
- Fredy KRATT & Hazel KRAFT married Nov. 28, 1930
- Mr. & Mrs. Fred KRATT married
Aug. 6, 1899
- Mr. & Mrs. Wilmont CORNELL
Aug. 4, 1898
- Norma & Ralph WHITING married
Dec. 6, 1922
- Lucy & Wellman TIFFANY
married Oct. 10, 1921
- Kathryn & Chester STUMPF
married March 23, 1922
- Mae & Fred WUEST married June
10, 1916
- Mrs. TROUST died Friday A.M. 4:45
Jan 29, 1937
- South Wales (from newspaper)
- Miss May HEITMAN is spending two
weeks with her sister, Mrs. Merrill A. LUSS.
- Buffalo Specialists, Dr. POTTER
and JOHNSON were called to South
Wales, February 13th, to care for Mrs. Merrill LUSS, who has been very ill.
- Born-To Mr. and Mrs. Merrill
LUSS, February 13th, 1924, a son, Merrill Robert. (Note:
his name was really Robert Merrill)
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- Newspaper Article - May 17,
1931
Java-Marriages: Miss Eva BAYER,
Holland, and Arthur BRODBECK, South
Wales; Mrs. O'LEARY, Carrolton, and
Milo MADISON, Delevan
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- Freddie KRATT born January 1,
1907
- Mabel BALTZ BRABOW born January
1, 1895
- Billie CORNELL born January 2,
1930
- Dora ACKLEY RICKITTSON born
January 3, 1891
- Kenneth MERLAU born January 3,
1929
- Ralph WHITING born January 3,
1897
- Emma HEITMAN BOLDT born January
6, 1877
- Dante GREEN born January 7, 1900
- Marie EVANS born January 7, ?
- Alice MAJOR born January 9, ?
- Myrtle B. ACKLEY born January 13,
1881
- Loren KILGOUR born January 13,
1907
- Harriet Louise HOLMES born
January 13, 1935
- Alexander NOVEN? born January 16,
1915
- Albert & Carl LUSS (twins)
born January 18, 1950
- Sandy BOWARSOX born January 19,
1893
- Beatrice HILBERG born January 19,
1897
- Genevieve HOLMES born January 20,
1910
- Esther CORNWALL born January 21,
?
- Alson DUSTIN born January 21,
1889
- Julia RINGUEL? born January 21, ?
- Cornelia FUNK born January 22,
1908
- Nozel KRATT born January 22, 1912
- Irwin WEINHEIMER born January 22,
1930
- Kathyrn STUMPF born January 23, ?
- Norman JESTER born January 24,
1925
- Alonzo WHITE born January 25,
1883
- Lester BRAGG, Jr. born January
25, 1934
- Nellie WHITE born January 27,
1884
- Clyde BRIGNALL born January 28, ?
- William "Billie" LUSS born
January 28, 1917
- Roger DEAN born January 30, 1927
- Gertie JESTER born January 31,
1902
- Grace HALL MEYERS born January
31, 1892
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- Janet BROADBACK born February 1,
1932
- Henry HINAMAN born February 1,
1894
- Kirkland Downing WHITE born
February 1, 1910
- Wilma KLOCK born February 1, 1906
- H.R. SERGEL born February 6, 1875
- Jean Marie KRATT born Tuesday
night, February 7, 1933
- George Kenneth CORNELL Jr. born
February 8, 1932
- Eleanor JONES born February 8,
1918
- Bobby OLHEISER born February 10,
1928
- Lorretta TIFFANY born February
10, 1924
- Robert MARTIN born February 10,
1923
- Harry HEITMAN born February 11,
1885
- Albert SERGEL born February 12,
1866
- Nora MOORE born February 12, 1890
- Bobby LUSS born Wednesday,
February 13, 1924 at 1:30 P.M.
- Minnie LUSS MERLAU born February
13, 1881
- Doris BRAYTON born February 14,
1923
- Ada ACKLEY born February 15,
1895; died March 1950
- Robinson BUTLER born February 15,
?
- Dward DUSTIN born February 16,
1912
- Ella HILBERG born February 16,
1900
- Florence Elizabeth (Betty) HEITMAN born at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo,
NY on Friday, February 18, 1938
- Alice ACKLEY NELSON born February
19, 1894
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- From newspaper clipping
taped in book:
- Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. REIMERS
of East Emery road, South Wales,
announce the birth of a daughter, Barbara Lynn, Tuesday, Feb. 23,
in the Millard Fillmore Hospital, Buffalo. (1954)
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- Madeline ROBINSON born February
22, 1919
- Florence TROUST born February 22,
1911
- Clyde TROUST born February 23, ?
- Barbara Lynn REIMERS born
February 23, 1954
- Edward GILBERT born February 24,
1924
- Ray WEEKS born February 28, 1890
- Mrs. Fred KRATT born February 29,
1873
- Louisa Alice HEITMAN born
Saturday A.M., February 29, 1936
- Johnny MacDERMID born March 1,
1933
- Clarence BRAGG born March 3, 1877
- Louise CARBERRY born March 4,
1932
- Donald MERLAU born March 4, 1935
- Esther SMITH born March 7
- Frankie ROBINSON born March 7,
1923
- Gordon FERM, Sr. born March 7,
1917
- Brayton SERALL born March 8, 1906
- David Charles HAWLEY born March
8, 1941
- Gloria TIFFANY born March 8, 1932
- Raymond ZITTLE born March 8, 1941
- Bill LUSS born March 8, 1891
- Winifred HOLMES born March 11,
1928
- Evelyn OLHEISER born March 13,
1916
- Donald SUGNET born March 14
- Joyce ZITTLE born March 14, 1931
- Freda BOLDT born March 14, 1945
- Charles BUNNELL born March 15,
1875
- Wilmont CORNELL born March 16,
1872; died December 13, 1934
- Helen ROBINSON born March 16,
1922
- Joan ZITTLE born March 17, 1946
- Ellen SUTTON born March 18, 1897
- Seth Holmes BRAGG born March 19,
1891
- Florence LINK born March 20, 1912
- Blossom BRIGNALL born March 23,
1899
- Wm. BUNNELL born March 24, 1881
- Barbara Jean LUSS born Thursday,
March 24, 1949 at 7 P.M.
- Walter E. HOLMES born March 25,
1896, taken sick July 23, 1932, hospital, Friday, August 12, 1932,
died August 16, 1932,
- burial August 19, 1932
- Larry Jack WHITING born March 28,
1924
- Jean GABRIEL born March 30, 1927
- Margaret DOWNING born March 30,
1899
- Lincoln BRAGG born March 31, 1936
- Herbert DuBOIS born April 1
- Mable BUNNELL born April 1, 1882
- Ernest BOLDT, Jr. born April 2,
1897
- Doris BUTCHER born April 5, 1915
- Howard SUGNET born April 6
- Florence EVANS born April 7,
1933, married April 27, 1957
- Henrietta JONES born April 8,
1895
- Edna ELDERMAYER (EVENDEN) born
April 8, 1895
- David NELSON born April 9, 1933
- Merton HOWES born April 10
- Clarence L. HEITMAN born April
10, 1934
- Larry SCHEIKLER born April 10,
1940
- Earl MERLAU born April 11, 1904
- Peter GOW II born April 11, 1950
- Debbie HOLMES born April 11, 1953
- Elizabeth NOWALL born April 13,
1897
- Elmer JONES born April 13, 1921
- Eunice(?) MARALA born April 13,
1932
- Myrtra HOWES born April 14
- Mrs. L. SERGEL born April 15,
1836
- Carol OLHEISER born April 15,
1930
- Helen KLOCK born April 16, 1910
- Josephine FISHER born April 17,
1902
- Florence VOLPE HEITMAN born April
17, 1913
- Wallis MOREY born April 17, 1884
- (Tom) Wm. J. MILLER born April
18, 1854
- Normah BARBER born April 18, 1937
- Jerry TRANSKI born April 18, 1930
- Sueann KESSLER born April 20,
1953
- Edna MOREY born April 24, 1883
- Morris TIFFANY born April 24,
1899
- Violet MARSHALL born April 24,
1900
- Fred MERLAU born April 25, 1881
- Richard HEITMAN born April 25,
1889, went to hospital March 1, 1925, operated on March 2, 1925,
died March 4, 1925, buried March 6, 1925
- Arthur BOLAND born April 25
- Ralph N. SMITH born April 27,
1920
- Johny ROSTEN born Saturday, April
27 at 2:30 P.M.
- Nelson BARTON born April 30,
1910, died February 3, 1932 Wednesday, A.M. 4 o'clock
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- Harry ARMADING born May 1, 1902
- Gertrude ACKLEY born May 4, 1900
- Clara RYAN born May 7
- Grace WARNER born May 7, 1890
- Dorothy Ruth DUSTIN born May 13,
1914
- Myrtia HOWES born May 14
- Edith Ann EHRENBERG born May 14,
1933
- Bruce HOLMES born May 14, 1939
- Normah KRATT born May 15, 1902
- Marylen HOLMES HEITMAN born May
15, 1936
- Fred HEITMAN born May 16, 1880,
died September 4, 1945
- Sophia M. McNEAL born May 17
- Mammie McNEAL born May 17
- Carlton COLBY born May 18, 1924
- Jerome ARMADING born May 19, 1900
- Ruth DUSTIN born May 20, 1891
- Wendy HOWARD born May 20, 1943
- Wayne WEEKS born May 21, 1921
- James CHALMERS born May 22, 1831
- John N. HOLMES born May 22, 1912
- Clarence GERSTING born May 23
- J.H. McNEAL born May 23
- Edith CAVELLE HOLMES born May 23,
1920
- Queen CHALMERS born May 24, 1884
- Effie CURTIS born May 26, 1891
- Hillery CORNWALL born May 26,
1935
- Florence LaRUE MILLER born May
28, 1917
- May HEITMAN born May 29, 1898
- Helen CHURCHILL born May 30, 1892
- Leland BRIGNALL born June 1, 1895
- Maude SERGEL born June 1, 1889
- Mabel DuBOIS born June 4
- Marg TIFFANY born June 7, 1904
- Linda Carol FERM born June 7,
1947
- Freeman FISHER born June 8, 1909
- Sherm BRIGNALL born June 8, 1904
- Rose HOCHDELL born June 8, 1933
- Frankie HOCKADELL born June 8,
1934
- Mrs. G.A. JAMESON born June 10,
1858
- Julia SUTTON TIFFANY born June 11
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- Obit clipped from newspaper and
slipped between pages:
- BUSH-Mabel HEISLEY BUSH, in
Orchard Park, N.Y., June 11, 1954, wife of Archie E. BUSH;
mother of Pierce D. PISLE of Orchard
Park, Russell I. PISLE of Chicago
and
Mrs. G. Kenneth CORNELL of South
Wales, N.Y.; stepmother of Marvin R. BUSH, Orchard Park, N.Y.,
- and Merlin G. BUSH of Green Bay,
Wis.; sister of Mrs. Margaret Lee McKINNON of Columbus O.
- Funeral from the family residence, 376 South Buffalo St.,
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends are invited .
Mrs. BUSH was a member of Orchard Park Presbyterian Church, Zion
Chapter, O.E.S.,
and Priscilla Rebekah Lodge I.O.O.F. Member of Ladies Auxiliary
Orchard Park Post American Legion.
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- Jim ADAMS born June 12, 1877
- LaMar EHRENBERG born June 14,
1926
- Floyd FISHER born June 15, 1910
- Barbara MOREY born June 15, 1948
- Alton TIFFANY born June 20, 1904
- Elmer GERSTING born June 21
- Eleanor STUMPF PARTRIDGE born
June 21, 1900
- David CLEMENT born June 22
- Nellie JONES born June 22
- Thelma PICKET born June 22, 1906
- Margaret MERLAU ZITTLE born June
24, 1907
- C. HILBERG born June 25
- Milton TROUST born June 25, 1912
- Beverly EHRENBERG born June 25,
1928
- Mildred SERGEL born June 27,
1904, died October 11, 1918
- Fred WUEST born June 27, 1894
- Floyd HEITMAN born June 30, 1888
- Clara HILBERG born June 30, 1898
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- Arthur SCHUSTER born July 1
- Jean TIFFANY born July 2, 1922
- William Richard HEITMAN (Floyd's
son) born July 3, 1918
- Helen May HOLMES born July 6
- Fred GREEN born July 6, 1873
- Russell David HOLMES born July 7
- Nancy BRAYTON born July 8, 1916
- Paul TRANSKI born July 10
- A.D. POTTER born July 11, 1874
- Junior ZITTLE born July 12, 1926
- Frank MILLER born July 12, 1894
- David Henry SCHWAB born July 15
- Marjorie DuBOIS born July 16
- Esther LOUNSBERRY HOLMES born
July 16
- Geo. DAVIS born July 18
- Peggy Lou BUSH born July 19
- Mrs. Jessie CORNELL born July 21,
1878
- Lizzie NICHOLAS born July 21,
1880
- Louise DAVIS born July 22, 1910
- George LUSS born July 24, 1904
- Kenneth CORNELL born July 26,
1899
- C.C. FIELD born July 27, 1879
- Virgil BARRON born July 27, 1890
- Clarence MOHR born July 29, 1898
- Victoria TRANSKI born July 30,
1916
- Wayne ROBINSON born July 31, 1925
- Irene KOHSMANN born July 31, 1925
- Anna WIEDER born August 1
- Bertha SELLECK born August 1,
1885
- Tommy BARBER born August 4
- Leah WARNER born August 5, 1932
- Eva HEITMAN LUSS born August 5,
1892
- Dorothy BRIGGS born August 5,
1911
- Leonard SERGEL born August 5,
1908
- Patsy BRODBACK born August 5
- Robert ARMADING born August 6
- Weldon BRAGG born August 7
- George K. CORNELL, Jr. born
August 8
- Alffaretta SCHUSTER born August
10
- Thomas LANGENDORFER born August
10, 1928
- Pres. Herbert HOOVER born August
10, 1874
- Jessie ROBINSON GOLLER born
August 11, 1916
- Alice