Happy 80th Birthday Arlene Dorothy Schuessler-Klecka ~ In Heaven!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Wow! Today would have been my

Mom's 80th Birthday!

She's been gone twelve years now, and

there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of her

and wish she was still here!

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Arlene Dorothy Schuessler-Klecka

Born:  March 1, 1935

Arlene Dorothy Schuessler
9 Mos. Old
Chicago, Illinois

Original Back of Photo
Written by Alma Helena Pedersen-Schuessler-Spear
"Arlene - 9 months old
on Carmelia Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
where you were born."
{Born in the Schuessler Family House}

A Wagner "Find" ~ Exactly 86 Years To The Date!

And these are the "things" that happen to me!

I just found an old newspaper clipping on Newspapers.com

on my Paternal Great Grandparents

Mr. & Mrs. J. S. Wagner

that was published on October 29, 1927

86 Years Ago ~ to the date! 

Freeport Journal-Standard
(Freeport, Illinois)29 October 1927 • Page 2

Edward Siwinski Passed Away 87 Years Ago Today

Edward Siwinski Passed Away 87 Years Ago Today

And Was Only Seven Years Old

Edward Siwinski

Born:  18 December 1917

Cook County, Chicago, Illinois

Death:  15 September 1925

Cook County, Chicago, Illinois

Parents:  Joseph & Martha Siwinski

While Frances & Adeline were walking to school,

they were unaware that their brother, Edward, snuck out

and followed them, he was hit by a truck.

Frances and Adeline didn't talk about it much,

as it was very painful.  After Edward passed away,

Martha & Joseph had another son, Joseph "Jack", 

so he then became the baby of the family.

{As told to me by my Cousin, Betsy Grocke - Britt}

Edward Siwinski

{This is one of the only photos we believe we have of Edward at this time.}

102 Years Ago Today ~

If my Grandfather Edward J. Wagner were alive today . . .

He would have turned 102 Years Old!

His name was Edward Joseph Wagner, born on 30 June 1910

In Chicago, Illinois.

He passes away on 09 February 1976, in Santa Barbara, California.

He married my Grandmother Frances Elinore Siwinski.

Marriage date unknown, assuming between 1930 & 1934

in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois.

Father's name is Joseph, born in Germany

& Mother's name is Helen Radlow, born in Illinois.

(Info. from Death Certificate).

He was also married to Margaret Aileen Sullivan

in Davenport, Scott, Iowa in August 1940 and

was married to Stella Hall-Wagner at the time of his death.

This is pretty much all I know of him.

How sad is it that he lived only 3 hours from his grandchildren,

five of us, and we never met him!

I'm hoping that maybe - someone will read this and see a

connection and I can get answers for my family tree.

Or possibly, find some cousins!

Edward Joseph Wagner
1910 - 1976