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- Doris Goldner Gregory's written history - Leavittsburg, Ohio
When Mom got mad, her neck would get red. Dad worked as a mechanic for Studebaker Motors, Cottle and then in 1950, Sohio and drove truck delivering fuel oil to homes and businesses. Dad was a quiet man- Mom was the boss.
Dad worked as a mechanic , also at Studebaker garage. In 1950, he bought his own truck and delivered fuel oil for Sohio. The best money he ever made. His brother, Albert, worked for the company and helped him get the job.
My mom had a stepfather, Charles [Eugene] Bowen (Frances' and Bud's father), which she did not like or get along with. One thing I remember, he made her clean her plate at the table. Believe why her and Wallace ended up not getting along is because Wallace became [step]father to Terry and tried to make him mind.
Grandma Bowen lived on a farm on Elm Road where the Murphy Mart is built now. After the death of her husband, Charles, [she] sold a little bit of land at a time.
We did not have an inside bathroom until after 1950 and I had graduated from school. We had a coal stove in the living room when I was young. [We had] one bedroomuntil the boys got older and Dad put a floor in the attic and they slept up there and I had the bedroom. Mother and Dad slept on a full size bed that pulled out of the closet and folded down into the living room.
The two bedroom and the bathroom were added on after 1950.
When Dad was young, he was a member of the Canoe Club at Leavittsburg. Believe that is where my mom met him.
My dad liked westerns. He had and read most of the Zane Gray books. When the cowboys were fighting on tv, he would be fighting with them with his fists doubled up and his arms flying. Same way with wrestling, he wasright in there with them. More interesting to watch Dad than the tv screen.
Mom worked at Ravenna Arsenal during War II loading bombs with powder and developed a cough that when I would lose her in a store, I would stop to hear her cough and could find her then. She never lost that cough. She had to qquit and then went to work for Mullins Mfg. until time for Ronnie.
We use to all three have to do the dishes. Roy used to tease me by snapping the dishtowel at me. Roy moved to Phoenix, Arizona with Aunt Florence in the 50s when he was having trouble with his first wife, Louise. Then he met Prebble with her four children. They then moved to California.
- Warren Tribune May 13, 1958 Mrs. A. Dittmar Dies; Husband Is Ex-Councilman Mrs. Andrew (Emily Bowen) Dittmar, 67, 2744 Elm NE, a lifelong resident of the Warren area, died at 2:25 p.m. Monday in Trumbull Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient for two days. Death resulted from a cerebral hemorrhage. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Roberts Memorial Home where friends may call between 7 and 9 Wednesday evening. Burial will be in Windsor Cemetery, Windsor, O. Mrs. Dittmar was born Jan. 14, 1891 in Mecca, the daughter of John and Shoyer Griffith Taylor. She was a member of the Morgandale Nazarene Church and the Townsend Club No. 5. Her husband was a former member of Warren City Council. Besides her husband, Andrew, she leaves two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Goldner, Leavittsburg, and Mrs. Frances Burkholder, Warren; one son, Charles A. Bowen, Warren; four sisters, Mrs. Diana Taylor, Los Angeles, Calif., Mrs. Florence Graff, Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Jean Ryman, Belvedere, Ill., and Mrs. Helen Isner, Warren; one brother, Lawrence Taylor, Cortland; six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
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