My Mother and her siblings

The date that I have on this picture is an estimate. I know that my mother was born in 1913 and I guessed that she is about 10 in the picture. Perhaps she is as old as 13 or 14...I really don't know. At any rate if my guess is correct it would be the reason why Lucille and Milly are not there. Milly was the youngest and Lucille was a bit younger than Ruth.

So assuming the date is somewhere near correct...Then what can I tell you about the people.

I just went back an again got a message that there were errors in the uploading so the picture is not there. I am going to try again.

John is on the left. Of Ma's brother's I knew John least. He was in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War (WWII). He was enlisted. He worked for a while doing something in an engineering capacity for Spencer Lens corporation in Buffalo after he got out of the navy. Then he moved to Rochester. We visited there a few times but I don't remember much about it. He was married and had two daughters, but sometime later moved to North or South Carolina. Seems that he ran his own company of some sort in Rochester but again I can't say for sure. Dick's Schoedel backgrounder may have more. I think I gave you a copy.

Carl is next on the list. I knew him a bit better because he came home to live with Grandma Schoedel after the war. He bought the big (5 in. with a magnifying glass) TV for Grandma Schoedel and I used to take the bus over to Grandma's on sunday afternoons to watch football games on the TV. She had wicker furniture in the living room and I am sure that I did more sleeping than watching football. To get to Grandma Schoedel's I took the Grant Street bus to downtown Buffalo, transfered at Shelton Square which was the downtown crossing point for the busses and got the William Street bus and then the Lovejoy street bus, so it was a double transfer.

Once again I got a message saying that there were errors during upload and asked if I want to return to my post. GRRRRR.

Carl also served in WWII in Europe somewhere I think...Dick (My brother) insists that he was in the pacific theatre. I know that Harvey was in the Pacific for most of the war. He enlisted when he was eighteen and spent at least three years in the infantry in the pacific campaign. So Grandma's three sons served the whole war and all three returned intact and uninjured.

Harvey, the little guy, was my favorite. He and I used to play ball together after he got home. I remember in 1953 he was a Dodgers fan and that was the year that the NY Giants won the pennant with a home run hit in the last of the 11th inning. We had been out playing two man and I remember dropping a fly ball to let in a run and he said that that was the reason the Dodgers lost... He gave me my first real baseball glove which was a first baseman's mitt. I often used to visit him and his wife Delores because they lived nearby after we moved to Grandma Schoedel's house. She moved into an upstairs apartment with Lucille and Eddy Petras after Grandpa Schoedel died and all the children went off on their own. Then my mother and dad bought her house and moved out of the lower flat at Grandpa Wall's house.

The little girl in the front is Ruth who married Hunk Miller. Back in those days Hunk was a nickname (sometimes derogatory) for Hungarian. He also served and returned to marry Ruth after the war. John Braid who married Milly when he got back suffered severe mental disorder after the war and died a street person in downtown Buffalo.

Hey, I'm all over the lot here and this is only the surface of what I can recall as a result of this picture but but I get finger sore typing and frustrated that my pictures won't come up.