Grandma told me the day her mother died she got a call to come New Waterford ASAP, so she took Richard to the neighbors and took Peg and they went on the train from Alliance to New Waterford. She got there just in time to see her mother before she passed away. She remembered her father wrote 5:10 on the calender. I asked her why he did that and she said she does not know why but that's what he did.
Grandma Mary Metze
When I asked grandma Bertha what her mother was like she said she was very nice and worked very hard her whole life and was just worn out. She never cared for this picture of her but said she treasured it because that was all she had.
If you look at the list of Mary's siblings there were eight of them. Bertha Fenton is Grandma's namesake was the oldest of the sisters. Grandma told me her favorite aunt was Jeanie Grommosky from Cleveland. She would stay with her in the summer and said she always made her feel important as Bertha and was interested in what she had to say (Having all those brothers and sisters it was probably hard to be noticed as an individual). She said Aunt Jeanie was fun to be around. I have a feeling that she must of been a lot like Bertha.
Postcard sent to Mary Metze from Almeda Shetlock Mary's sister postmarked Transfer, PA (Sept. 24, 1912). Bertha would have been only 8 months old.
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