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According to W. Thomas Hall, P.O. Box395, Kailua Hawaii 96734,
pali@hgea.org., Ann was a grandaughter of the founder of General Motors. | Ann WILSON
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The following death notice was published in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from March 12 to March 13, 2011:
LEHNER BOBBIE
Of Pittsburgh, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Beloved mother of Bryan Lehner of New York, NY and Brad (Carla) Lehner of Chicago, IL; loving grandmother of Elena and Julia; sister of Janet Wilson. Funeral arrangements by BEINHAUERS, 724-941-3211. Friends welcome at 2828 Washington Road, McMurray, 15317, Monday 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. A Blessing Service will be held at the Funeral Home Tuesday 11 a.m. Interment in Queen of Heaven Cemetery.
| Bobbie WILSON
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Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Queens University, Belfast.
The following obituary was published in the Proceedings of the Society for Analytical Chemistry (1974), v. 11, pp. 185-186:
CECIL LEEBURN WILSON
Cecil Wilson, Professor of Analytical Chemistry in The Queen's University of Belfast, died on Tuesday, March 19th, 1974, of a cerebral haemorrhage following some years of failing health.
He was born in Maghera, Co. Londonderry, in 1912 and received his early education at Rainey Endowed School, Magherafelt. In 1929 he entered Queen’s University to study chemistry, achieving a First Class Honours B.Sc. in 1932 and an M.Sc. in 1933. A Musgrave Research Scholarship allowed him to study for a Ph.D. at Glasgow University and on attaining this goal he returned to Queen's in 1936 as an Assistant Lecturer. Here he was able to pursue what proved to be his lifelong interest in microchemistry. ln 1939 he was appointed to an assistant lectureship at the Sir John Cass College in London, from which he was released for war service from 1940 to 1944 with the Armaments Research Department of the Ministry of Supply. He would recall, with characteristic humour, how much he valued his micro-chemical skill in the exercise of his task of analysing enemy detonators. After a brief retum to the Cass, he was appointed to a Lectureship in Chemistry at Queen's in 1946 and became a Reader in 1950. In 1953 he obtained his D.Sc. and in 1958 was appointed to a personal Chair in Analytical Chemistry, the first of these ever created in the UK. This was converted into an established Chair of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry in 1963, which, in 1968, was split into separate Chairs, Cecil Wilson retaining the Chair of Analytical Chemistry until his death.
Cecil Wilson's main interest lay in the field of inorganic microanalysis. He was a skilled microscopist and was largely responsible for the development of the torsion-fibre sub-micro balance. His first book, "An Introduction to Microchemical Methods,” was published in 1938 and, following the war, he published two editions, in co-authorship with Professor Belcher, of a book on inorganic microanalysis. Similar co-operation produced various editions of the well known “New Methods of Analytical Chemistry." He was a chemist of wide interests and, although these were principally concerned with analytical chemistry, he found time and energy to keep up with inorganic and physical chemistry. With Professor Stewart at Queen's he published the seventh edition of “Recent Advances in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry" and with Bamett at the Cass he produced the well established inorganic chemistry text. In his undergraduate lectures, he took pleasure in teaching fundamental inorganic chemistry to first-year students.
During his Professorship, he developed a research school of diverse interests which offered postgraduate experience to students from an equally varied range of countries. Sorne thirty students passed under his care with the production of one hundred or so papers.
Professor Wilson's taste for the English language led him into many analytical literary endeavours. He was elected to the Editorial Board of Microchimica Acta in 1949 and served on it to the time of his death; between 1955 and 1962 he also acted as regional editor for papers written in English. When Talanta was established in 1958, he became its first Editor in Chief, acting as such up to 1964 and since then acting as consulting editor. In 1959, in conjunction with his brother David, he became Editor of the series “Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry" and, since its foundation in 1967, he served on the editorial board of Analytical Letters.
Cecil Wilson gave generously of his time and energy to the activities of scientific bodies and the administration of his university. He served on the Council of the SAC three times since 1951. He was a founder member of the Microchemical Group and acted as Chairman in 1951-52. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and acted for many years as chairman of the Northern Ireland Section. His growing intemational reputation led to honorary membership of the Austrian Microchemical Society in 1955 and he was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 1966. He served for three years as Dean in the Faculty of Science; he was a member of the University Senate, of Boards of Curators and of committees innumerable.
His work in microanalytical chemistry and his rare spirit of enquiry led him to an active interest the authenticity of written and printed documents. He became an acknowledged expert and from 1953 was Document Examiner to the Ministry of Home Affairs of Northern Ireland. He frequently appeared as an expert witness in court proceedings and, as many of us will know from experience, was in great demand to instruct and entertain audiences of all descriptions in this field.
Let us remember how Cecil Wilson's liveliness of mind, sagacity, integrity and warm humanity brought pleasure to gatherings of analytical chemists, not only in the UK but throughout the world. His great charm, sincerity and humour turned many colleagues rapidly into personal friends. Nor were these superficial impressions, for he applied with consistency the same courtesy and kindness to porters, secretaries, raw young lecturers and senior university staff alike. As a superior he was ever helpful yet never interfering or unjustly critical. Cecil Wilson was a true gentleman. The loss which we as a Chemistry Department here at Queen's now feel will he repeated in the larger rentext of the Society for Analytical Chemistry.
He is survived by his wife Grace, a daughter and a son. M. A. LEONARD.
| Cecil Leeburn Wilson, M.Sc., Ph.D
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David was the author and editor of numerous chemistry books, including several with his brother Cecil. | David Woodburn Wilson
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Based on names and dates, assumed to be the unmarried sister of Mattie
Wilson. Need to confirm. | Elizabeth WILSON
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According to the 1860 census, Ellen lived with Hugh and Martha Young in the 7th Ward of Pittsburgh and was milliner. Based on names and dates, assumed to be Martha Wilson Young's unmarried sister. This needs to be confirmed. | Ellen WILSON
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| Emma A. Wilson
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He was the town's rate collector. He retired about April 1968 | Ernest McKinney WILSON
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Helen was a graduate of the Pennsylvania College for Women.
The following obituary was published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on January 12, 2004:
HOUSTON
HELEN WILSON
On Sunday, January 11, 2004 Helen Wilson Houston, Beloved wife of the late James Moore Houston; mother of William A. Houston, John D. Houston, II, Jean H. Encinosa of Brandon, FL and Roberta H. Houston; sister of Mary Perkins Brown; also survived by six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. A life-long resident of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Houston was a past President and long-time member of the Board of the Children's Institute of Pittsburgh (formerly the Home for Crippled Children). In 1968 Mrs. Houston was appointed to the State Board of Vocational Rehabilitation by Governor Raymond Schafer and served on the Board for a number of years. Prior to moving to Sherwood Oaks, Mrs. Houston had been a long-time member of the Twentieth Century Club of Pgh. Friends will be received JOHN A. FREYVOGEL SONS, INC. 4900 Centre Ave. At Devonshire Street, Fri. 3-6 pm. Funeral and Interment private. Remembrances may be made to the Children's Institute of Pittsburgh, 6301 Northumberland St, Pgh, PA 15217 or Sherwood Oaks Residents Assoc, 100 Norman Dr., Cranberry, 16066. | Helen WILSON
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According to Janet Houston Rhein, 3010 Dick Wilson Drive, Sarasota, FL 34240, Isabella is the sister of Martha Wilson Young based on several letters in her possession from Isabella's son, James Wilson Houston, which refer to "Uncle Hugh" and "Aunt Mattie". On April 5, 1876, Isabella took two of her children, Ellen Jane and William John, to Garvagh, County Derry, Ireland, for a visit. | Isabella WILSON
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According to Janet Houston Rhein, James was a farmer in Ballyagan. | James WILSON
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Much of the information in this database on the Wilsons and Youngs was obtained from Janet Houston Rhein, who has rigorously researched these lines. Her work is much appreciated. This source will not be repeated.
A good portion of the information on the first four generations of Wilson is taken from the original letters written by various members of the family, relatives and friends between 1850 and 1920 and some brief notes in a few remaining pages of a dairy written by Isabella Wilson Huston in the 1870's. The original letters (1) to the family in Ireland and (2) to James W. Dunlap in Ireland, were brought back to the United States by Isabella Wilson Huston and her daughter, Ellen Jane Huston Dunlap, who visited Garvagh, County Londonderry, Ireland in 1876. This information was supplemented and further documented, principally through examination of records of the First and Second Garvagh Presbyterian Churches in County Londonderry, Ireland, civil records, and other sources as noted for the individual family members.
The first known member of the family is James Wilson, born between 1770 and 1780, who is believed to have resided in the Townland of Ballyagan, Parish of Desertoghill, Barony of Coleraine, County Londonderry, Province of Ulster. The Townland of Ballyagan (523 acres) is located about one mile northwest of the Townland of Garvagh (786 acres), Parish of Errigal, Barony of Coleraine.
The 1796 Flax Growers Bounty List contains the name of a John Wilson in the Civil Parish of Desertoghill, County Derry. Assuming that the traditional naming pattern of the Scotch-Irish was followed, that is the first son was named after his paternal grandfather, then it is possible that this John is the father of James and the grandfather of John Wilson married to Mary Woodburn. On the other hand the names John and James were very common names in the Presbyterian community, in the North of Ireland, at that time.
When the family first came to Ireland from Scotland is not known. There were three Muster Rolls for the Province of Ulster in the year 1630 (a) County of Donnagall (Donegal) which contained the name of nine Wilsons (b) The Mercers Company which contained the name of one Wilson, and (c) The British on the Ironmonger's Estate which contained the name of one Wilson. It may be that one of the two Wilsons in (b) or (c) above is the ancestor of James Wilson.
According to Janet Houston Rhein, John Huston refers to "old grandfather James Wilson" in a letter to his mother dated March 28, 1857. James and his wife may have had a fourth child, whose name is unknown. | James WILSON
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Jeannie was a teacher in Portstewart Primary School. | Jane Elizabeth WILSON
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According to David Woodburn (CIS: 100554,526), John was married to Mary Woodburn and they lived in Ballyagan, Garvagh, N. Ireland. According to Janet Houston Rhein, 3010 Dick Wilson Drive, Sarasota, FL 34240; email: janrhein@worldnet.att.net, John and Mary were the parents of at least three sons (Willaim, James and John) and six daughters (Isabella (who married John Huston), Jane, Martha (who married Hugh Young), Nancy and "E" (who emigrated to America in 1852) and "B"(who in 1852 lived with a family named Laughlin)). If this is correct, then the daughter of Martha Wilson and Hugh Young--Martha Young--married Mary Woodburn's grandnephew, Robert Riley Woodburn, meaning that Robert Riley Woodburn married his second cousin.
Janet Houston Rhein concludes that Isabella, Martha and Nancy Wilson are the children of Mary Woodburn, born January 11, 1791, married to John Wilson and the brothers of James, Matthew, John and William based on corresponce in her possession and work done by a professional genealogist in Ireland. The genealogist stated "I found that William Huston married Hanna Woodburn in 1809 and John Wilson married Mary Woodburn in 1810. Although there are no addresses I am certain that these are your ancestors". The 1831 census for County Londonderry gives only the name of the head of the household and the number of males and females in the family. The genealogist goes on to say "John Wilson of Ballyagan had possible 4 sons and 9 daughter". Confirmation of this fact is being sought.
According to information supplied to Janet Houston Rhein by Linda Gilmore, the following tombstone inscription is found at the Desertoghill Parish Burying Ground: "Sacred to the memory of John Wilson late of Ballyagan who died on the 6th August 1851 aged 73? years. His wife Mary died on the 2nd April 1865 aged 74 years. And his daughter-in-law Nancy on the 14the Feby. 1854 aged 33 years. Also his son William who died 10th march 1875 aged 62 years. Also his daughter-in-law Jane who died 3rd? March 1892 aged 65 years. Also his daughter Margt Ann died 27th August 1893 aged 68 years."
The 1831 Census for County Londonderry lists a John Wilson of Ballyagan wih five males and 10 females, a total of 15 individuals. This database accounts for all five males and nine out of the 10 females. | John WILSON
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Lavinia was the daughter of prominent Brazoria Co., Texas residents Joseph E. and Theresa A. (McGreal) Wilson. | Lavinia Wilson
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According to the marriage records of the First Garvagh Presbyterian Church, Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, N. Ireland, obtained from The Genealogy Centre, Heritage Library, 14 Bishop Street, Derry, N. Ireland, BT4869W, in 1850, Martha was a "spinster" living in Ballyagan, Co. Londonderry, N. Ireland. Ballyagan is located in the civil parish of Desertoghill, about one mile to the northeast of the town of Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, N. Ireland.
According to Janet Houston Rhein, based correspondence in her possession, and supplemented to a degree by the information contained in the material on the William Rathbone, she is almost 100% certain that Martha Wilson, born June 16, 1830, is a sister of Isabella Wilson, born 1815. While there is a purported difference of 15 years in their dates of birth, this would not be unusual for a family with 12 children. Further, she is almost 100% certain that Nancy Wilson, married to Hugh Dunlap, mother of James Wilson Dunlap, is also a sister of Martha and Isabella.
According to the 1880 census, Martha was born in Ireland (as were her parents) and she kept the house in 1880. According to the obituary in the April 26, 1904 edition of the Pittsburgh Gazette, her funeral was at the residence of her daughter, Martha Young Woodburn, at 912 Florence Ave., Avalon, PA.
The following obituary was published in the April 26, 1904 edition of the Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania):
Mrs. Martha W. Young.
Mrs. Martha Wilson Young, 74 years old, widow of Hugh Young, died yesterday evening at the home of her son-in-law, Robert R. Woodburn, of 912 Florence avenue, Avalon. Mrs. Young was born in Ballyagan, Ireland, in June 1830. She married Mr. Young in 1849 and they came to the United States and to Pittsburg. They reached this city by the old canal across this end of the State. For many years Mrs. Young resided at 119 South Thirteenth street, Southside, but for the past few years she had lived with her daughter in Avalon. Mrs. Young was a member of the Grant Street Reformed Presbyterian Church. She is survived by two daughters and four sons as follows: Mrs. C. M. Webb, Mrs. Woodburn, Hugh, Jr., James, John and Henry Young. | Martha J. Wilson
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Matthew was the minister of Strand Presbyterian Church in Derry, N. Ireland. All information regarding this person was obtained from David Woodburn (CIS: 100554,526) and needs to be confirmed. | Matthew WILSON
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Sarah lived in Portrush, N. Ireland and never married. | Sarah WILSON
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According to her website, http://www.susieashcom.com/aboutus.php, (2008), Susie's parents had her on a pony at the age of 4, jumping at 7, and foxhunting with the Farmington Hunt in Charlottesville, VA at age 9. She attended Sweet Briar College and graduated from the University of Missouri.
Susie owned a real estate office in Charlottesville where she specialized in horse farms and estates. She earned her G.R.I. designation from the Realtor's Institute at the University of Virginia in 1975. In 1983, when Bob's career change took them to Tryon, N.C., she joined Coldwell Banker and quickly became one of the top farm & land agents in the area. That led to a Broker-in-Charge position with a newly forming RE/MAX in Tryon in 1993. After a year the RE/MAX office was #1 in Dollar Volume of listings sold and contracts written in their MLS. During the Tryon years, she whipped-in to her MFH/huntsman/husband with the Tryon Hounds.
A return to teaching took Bob to Lord Fairfax Community College and Susie to RE/MAX Regency in Warrenton where she has reached the TOP FIVE designation for achievement in sales over a 5 county region of northern Virginia, and earns the prestigious Platinum Award from RE/MAX Internationaleach year and in 2004 reached the RE/MAX Hall of Fame level of performance. She is a member of the Greater Piedmont Area Association of Realtors, Virginia Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors & Howard Britton's "StarPower" Club.
To this point in her career she has been instrumental in moving more than 650 families. Sellers and Buyers continue to send her referral business as testimony to their continued comfort with her professionalism. Most of these past customers own horses.
In the fall of 2007 she teamed up with an outstandingly successful "boutique" real estate firm in Middleburg, VA called Thomas & Talbot Real Estate. They are staunch advocates of land easements where the owners donate their farm's development rights to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. The owners receive substantial Tax Credits for their gift & and large areas are formed with thousands of acres owned by people who welcome the local Fox Hunt and are actively riding with it.
Like Susie, foxhunting keeps them in balance for the demands of their lives.
The majority of Thomas & Talbot Real Estate listings are horse farms and most have historical or substantial houses on them.
| Susan Wilson
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Thomas Bamford Millar Wilson who was born about 1900 and died of appendicitis on the 30 April 1922 in the Royal Victoria Hospital,Belfast. | Thomas Bamford Millar WILSON
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The dates of birth and death are according to Janet Houston Rhein, 3010
Dick Wilson Drive, Sarasota, FL 34240; email: janrhein@worldnet.att.net.
William was a farmer. | William WILSON
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William was a farmer in Co. Londonderry, N. Ireland. | William WILSON
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In 1959, lived in Dundalk. | William James WILSON
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According to her obituary in the Oil City Derrick, Kathryn died on March 4, 1953. | Kathryn Wilton
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Diana's three daughters from her prior marriage--Melissa, Tami and Sharon--to Robert Lemanowich were legally adopted by her second husband, Bruce Williams, so their legal surname is Williams.
The following is an excerpt from an article published on September 16, 2005 in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review regarding the Latrobe Art League Intra Club Show:
Diana Williams, of New Florence, has been painting since 2000, and only recently began entering shows. She won first place for "Ricordare Roma," a portrait of her daughter, Linda, based on a photo that she took when the family was at a restaurant in Rome.
Williams used oil paints to achieve the dark background and light techniques of the Old World masters, and captured a dreamy and mysterious expression on her daughter's glowing face.
"I wanted to make people wonder what she was thinking," she said.
Williams always had a casual interest in art, but she raised five daughters before she had time to take it seriously.
"I did some pencil sketching, a lot of portraits, and I painted a bit, but it would be 15 years in between what I'd do," she said. "After the kids grew up, I decided that if I was going to paint, it had to be better than what I had done before."
Williams is completely self taught in a variety of media, and found her inspiration in studying musuem art. In this show, she also has a large watercolor still life of three crystal vases filled with white bleeding hearts, jack-in-the pulpit, Lenten roses, and red and white trillium, all from her gardens. The white with white and clear glass create an airy space with the foliage, with the effect pulled together with green matting. | Diana Lee WINEBRENNER
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The following information was taken from Matthew's LinkedIn profile in 2013:
Matt Wineman is a real estate attorney in Baltimore with Rosenberg | Martin | Greenberg, LLP, one of the pre-eminent business law firms in the Maryland region. Matt joined RMG in June 2004, and concentrates his practice on residential and commercial real estate and business transactions. His background includes years of experience as corporate counsel to K. Hovnanian Homes, a national home building company, which gives him a uniquely qualified understanding of the home building and development industry.
Matt represents national, regional and local home builders and regional and local developers in a variety of complex residential and commercial transactions. Utilizing his familiarity with the development process, he represents lenders in various acquisition and construction loans and related financing issues. In addition, Matt frequently advises home building companies, real estate developers and other real estate related businesses in general corporate and transactional matters.
Partner, Rosenberg Martin Greenberg, LLP, June 2004 – Present (9 years)
Law Clerk; Attorney, K. Hovnanian Homes, 1999 – 2004 (5 years)
University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D., 1997 – 2001
Marymount University, M.A., 1994 – 1996
Mount Saint Mary's College, B.S., 1990 – 1994
Mount Saint Joseph High School, 1986 – 1990 | Matthew Wineman
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The following sentiments were expressed by U.S. Senator Harry Reid on September 5, 2005 regarding the retirement of Timothy as Financial Clerk of the U.S. Senate:
Mr. President, Timothy Wineman has worked for the Senate for 35 years. On September 28, the Senate noted the outstanding service of Tim by adopting S. Res. 258. He has spent his entire 35 years of Senate service working in the Disbursing Office. That in itself is a commendable feat.
In 1970, Tim began his career as a payroll clerk and was promoted to payroll supervisor 6 years later. He continued to receive promotions and in 1998 became the Senate's financial clerk. Tim's career in the Disbursing Office has been stellar. You could always count on Tim and his staff for topnotch service and to accommodate Members and staff.
Tim and his wife Pat met in high school, got married, and have two children, Matthew and Lory. Matt and Lory have provided Tim and Pat with four grandchildren--two boys and two girls.
Tim plans to spend the first 6 months trying to get his sea legs, enjoying some ``downtime'' with his family and playing a little golf. He and Pat then plan to do some traveling. They want to go to Alaska to see what is happening there.
I salute Tim on his service to the Senate and congratulate him on a job well done. He certainly was part of the Senate family and always will be. I hope he enjoys his retirement.
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A resolution to commend Timothy for his service to the Senate was adopted by the Senate on September 28, 2005 (S. Res. 258, 109th Congress, 1st Session). | Timothy Scott Wineman
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The following profile of Clair was posted on Memoriam.org by his son, Richard, and was available in 2013:
My Old Man never let me call him that. He thought it was a sign of disrespect. I felt it was a term of endearment.
Clair Andrew Wingerson was born in Lawrenceville in 1907. He was named Clair after his mother's ancestral home, County Clare, Ireland. He was named Andrew after his father's brother Andy, who shortened the family name from "Wingertszahn" to Wingerson because it was too long to fit over the stoop above his bakery shop at 235 Beaver Avenue.
When my Dad was a teenager, his Mom and Pop and six of their seven kids moved from Lawrenceville to what was then "the country" in Shaler Township on Anderson Road. They called the place "Hell's Half Acre," in honor of my feisty grandmother. It was once a halfway house for alcoholic priests. Today it's a centennial home in a subdivision.
Before they moved, Dad's oldest sister, my Aunt Marie, married P.K. Donahoe, an heir to the Donahoe's chain of grocery stores. So all the Wingerson boys got summer jobs as butchers. Unfortunately, they also got used to grownup pay and some of them never went back to high school, including my Dad, who started Peabody High, but never finished.
My Dad always regretted that decision. He said he was a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks. Later, when he was passed over for promotion by lesser men with degrees, he vowed his kids would go to college. As a result, all three of us have our Masters.
My Dad and Mother went together for 11 years before they were married. Almost as long as Dick Tracy and Tess Trueheart. Those were Depression years. But that never kept my parents down. They sang a lot in the car in those days. Their favorite song was: "Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money, maybe we're ragged and funny, but we'll travel along, singin' a song, side by side."
We never even had a car radio until Dad got his 1957 company Pontiac. Until then, he'd keep us entertained with his repetoire of obscure songs such as: "It ain't gonna rain no more, no more, it ain't gonna rain no more. How in the heck can you wash your neck if it ain't gonna rain no more?"
And this World War I ditty: "Goodbye Ma, Goodbye Pa, Good bye mule with your old hee haw. I may not know what the war's about, but you bet, by gosh, I'll soon find out."
And one of my Grandfather's favorites: "Down went McGinty to the bottom of the sea, he must be awfully wet, cause they haven't found him yet, dressed in his best suit of clothes."
Or a little duet he'd do with my little brother. Dad would sing: "Oh, Mahtunyatsa..." Then Bobby would chime in with: "Peedalinka boom ya ya."
My Dad was a live-wire, take-charge character with a lust for living. He loved good times and loved to tell jokes, play jokes and laugh. In fact, he was known for his laugh. An ongoing anecdote told how friends would track down parties by listening for Clair Wingerson's gut-rumbling belly laughter.
"Ahh haah aha hah hahhaaah ho ho ho!" People would laugh just hearing it.
He was also known for his love of people, especially children. He thought the saddest thing was for a kid to spend Christmas in the hospital. His niece and my cousin, Katherine Donahoe, worked on the children's floor at Pittsburgh Mercy Hospital. So he became the self-appointed Santa Claus at their annual childrens' Christmas party during the early fifties.
"Ahh haah aha hah hah hahhaaah Ho! Ho! Ho!"
When he was president of the Pittsburgh Radio and Television Club, he moved their Christmas party to the Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind and started a tradition.
He read me the Pittsburgh Press comics on Sundays and taught me to swim the Australian crawl at the North Park Pool. He also taught me to love fireworks in Aspinwall, the Highland Park Zoo, the Police Circus at Forbes Field, the roller coasters at Kennywood, stock car racing at Heidelberg Raceway and South Park Speedway, Lionel electric trains from Conklin's on Lincoln Avenue and all kinds of antique cars.
He loved funny stories and dialects and sound effects. He could fly! (With the use of a mirror.) He could catch an invisible ball in a paper bag. He took the unsuspecting on elaborate "snipe hunts." But he always laughed with and never laughed at. He loved to send people up. But he never put them down.
He was as generous with himself as he was with his laughter and his love. My cousin, Mary Lou Schnuth Curry, lost her mother when she was born. So my Dad always included her in our family vacations to North East and Wildwood Crest, as well as our North Park swimming trips, Highland Park Zoo excursions and everybody's birthday parties.
My sister's best friend, Barbara Ashton, was also left motherless. So she was also included in my Dad's plans. So was my best friend, Richie Hughes, whose dad had died. Two of my aunts, Betty and Rita McLaughlin, never married. They used to say: "When your Dad married your Mother, he married all three of us."
My middle name is Eugene. I was named after Father Eugene McGuigan, fomer coach of the Duquesne University Basketball Team. During the Depression, Father Mac ran a soup kitchen for his Saint Anne's parish in Millvale. Every business night, he'd back his borrowed truck up to the back door of the Donohue's my Dad managed. "Any spoiled food tonight?" Father Mac would ask. "A lot of this stuff looks okay now, but it'll probably go bad by tomorrow. Take what you need," my Dad would reply. Together, they managed to keep body and soul together for many of the flock.
Dad was an adventurer. During his Donahoe's days, he'd fly with a friend in a biplane to Erie, Pa. to pick up fresh lake pike for sale at the store. Donahoe's newspaper ads in the Press and Sun Telly that night headlined: "Fish So Fresh They Swam In Lake Erie This Morning." One weekend, Dad convinced my Mother to take a ride in the friend's biplane. She prayed the rosary the whole trip. But Dad was happy he convinced Mother that flying was safe...For a couple of days. Next week the the biplane was on the front page of the papers. Dad's buddy had crash landed it into a tree. My Mother never flew again until their silver wedding anniversary.
Dad was also a traveler. Before they were married, my Dad and Mother and her friend, Jerry Grafelter, their "chaperone," drove his '36 jade green Dodge convertible out to California to visit his poet Uncle Joe and ambitious Aunt Annie, who left the family's Beaver Avenue bakery to make some dough in Golden State real estate. On the way, my parents watched workers sculpting Mount Rushmore and building Boulder (now Hoover) Dam. They drove across the desert with the top down and Dad got sunstroke and a bad sunburn he always blamed for his bald spot.
As a sales manager for Westinghouse Appliance Sales, he'd win Westinghouse sales award trips and go to New Orleans (twice), pre-Castro Havana (twice) and the Kentucky Derby (twice). But he didn't just win trips. He won every appliance that Westinghouse ever made, and doubles and triples on some of them. In fact, our whole house became a Westinghouse.
He was a real people watcher. Especially when he'd travel. Occasionally, he'd take the train to New York on business. He called himself "The Lone Wolf" and loved to wander Greenwich Village and look at what he called "the characters." Once he made a "talking record" post card from the observation deck of the Empire State Building and mailed it home to us on Morningside Avenue. His last words: "I'll be home...I'll be home...I'll be home..." got stuck in the groove and kept repeating over and over.
Dad and Mother followed the Pittsburgh Steelers since they really were steelworkers who played Sundays under the Bloomfield Bridge and passed the hat at halftime for their pay. During the late forties and early fifties, my parents always had Steelers season tickets with my Uncle Fred. So I often got to go to Forbes Field to watch the Steelers lose when somebody else couldn't.
He was a big boxing fan and watched the Pabst Blue Ribbon Wednesday Night Fights, the Gillette Blue Blade Friday Night Fights and the Mennen Saturday Night Fights. He sat ringside with my Mother at Golden Gloves bouts. She once got blood on her dress and got miffed. In Lawrenceville, he showed us fighting Fritzie Zivic's Bar on Butler Street. In Morningside, he showed us the house where former world middleweight champion, Harry "The Pittsburgh Windmill" Greb once lived. (On Jancey Street, near the Saint Raphael's Convent.)
My Dad's big boxing claim to fame was that he once witnessed the shortest bout in history... 11 seconds...at the old Motor Square Gardens in East Liberty. We never believed the story, so he wrote a letter to True Magazine and had it verified.
But he wasn't just a spectator sportsman. Besides teaching us swimming at North Park every summer weekend, he'd take us sled riding there in the winter. We used to pile on and go "bellygutsing" down hills so long, he'd use the Plymouth to drive us back to the top.
Ice skating was also a big kick for him. He and my Mother would skate together, arm in arm, on the Highland Park Pond and the North Park Lake. But what he really loved was being anchorman on "crack-the-whip." He'd lead the line of skaters at breakneck speed, then go into a power skid and let centrifugal force whip the skaters. The last one in line usually went airborne.
He played golf, too. But my Mother was "Queen of the Links," Pittsburgh's Public Golf Course Women's Champion at Schenley Park in 1938 and '39, and she usually beat him. So he excelled at everything else.
During summer vacations at the Jersey shore, he was a manic volleyball player and a killer spiker. Every night after dinner he'd string up a net from our cottage to the one across the way and almost every man, woman, teenager and kid in the court got in on the action.
Bowling was a big athletic and social deal, too. Ten couples had a league called "The Friday Nights And Their Ladies." They'd compete every season at East Liberty's Enright Bowling Alleys, just up Penn Avenue from the Enright Theatre where Garfield's Gene Kelly got his start. The best parts of this bowling league for us kids were the picnics at Kernan's Allegheny River cottage in Oakmont and the Friday Knighters' Halloween parties with all their creative costumes.
My Dad loved those original Halloween costumes. One time he was Mammy Yokum with a live chicken. One time he was a huge wallflower, wrapped like a mummy in wallpaper and blending right in. One time he dressed up like a man on one side and a woman on the other, and spent the entire evening dancing with himself. My favorite costume was when he went as a big Westinghouse console television set. He sat inside it in a corner for an hour with hand puppets and rubber masks and did the news, sports, weather and an entire Punch and Judy show.
After Westinghouse transferred him from Pittsburgh to Michigan, my Dad started a neighborhood trradition that's still going on after over 30 years-the annual Fort Dearborn Avenue Memorial Day Parade, Ball Game, Tug of War and Family Picnic. He wanted to bring back and keep alive a piece of his Pittsburgh past that he fondly rememberred - the neighborhood block party.
After my Dad died, the neighbors petitioned the city to rename the picnic ground "Wingerson Park" and every Memorial Day, they erect a sign proclaiming it. Grownup ex-neighborhood kids now bring their kids back to the annual Wing Ding.
Dad would have liked that. He always said: "If I die tomorrow, I'll have no regrets. I've done everything I've ever wanted to do." At 57, he had a mild heart attack. Then he had another major one in the hospital as the doctor examined him. He went into cardiac arrest and died for 10 or 20 minutes, but they jump-started him and he lived another year.
At 58, he cut a long-stemmed rose for my Mother and put it in a pilsener glass in her kitchen. Then he went back outside to his garden and died for the last time. He was such a doer, he even had to die twice. At his funeral, more than one person said to me: "He may have only been 58, but he lived 85 years." Dad's mouth opened right before they closed the casket. My Mother said: "He never could keep it shut."
A few years ago, my Pittsburgh cousin Mary Lou visited me in Florida. I asked her to tell my two sons about the Grandpa they never knew. She thought for a moment, then said softly: "What can you say about the most wonderful man in the world?" I just say I'm glad he was my Dad . . . My Old Man. | Clair Andrew Wingerson
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| Richard Eugene Wingerson
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Cris is an on-air personality on WSHH (WISH) 99.7 in Pittsburgh (soft rock) from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in 2009. The following profile was taken from www.wshh.com in 2009:
PROFILE:
Born and raised in Pittsburgh...I bleed black and gold
Graduate of Baldwin High School and California University of PA
I have been in Pittsburgh radio for 24 years….
I am a huge animal lover…I own 2 dogs and an Umbrella Cockatoo
If I wasn’t in radio…I would have been a veterinarian (couldn’t you tell?)
Favorite Movie: “Fast Times At Ridgemont High”
Favorite Actor: Sean Penn
What you might not know: For 6 years, I was the voice of cartoon character “Thundergirl” …on Nickelodeon’s “Action League Now”…no, I really can’t fly
Favorite vacation spot: anywhere there is a beach
Dream Vacation: Bora Bora in the South Pacific (keep dreaming!)
Dream Car: a 1968 Mustang Fastback just like the one Steve McQueen drove in the movie “Bullitt”…any color will do!
Hobbies: volunteering at Animal Friends, shopping, traveling, furniture shopping, interior decorating, golfing, attending concerts, Steelers, Pirates and Penguins games and NASCAR races…and did I mention shopping?
My secret vice: shoes and boots, I own at least 140 pairs
One thing I would love to learn how to do: to surf!
I currently sit on the advisory board for Animal Friends, a companion animal resource center in Ohio Township.
Cris was an original disc jockey on WXXP in Pittsburgh, which moved to an alternative rock format in 1986 and developed a cult-like following. The following are Cris' memories of WXXP and her career in Pittsburgh radio (taken from http://www.ear.fm/cris_winter.htm in 2009):
What a long strange trip it has been ...I was on a family vacation when Double X went off the air. I remember going to the INXS show at the Civic Arena as soon as I got back into town and seeing the banners saying "Bring Double X Back" and the bummed out faces on our many listeners. It was then that I realized that we were all a part of something very special and unique. The last 20 years have been very good to me as far as a radio career. I have truly been blessed. The day I was fired from Double X, I got a call from the rock station in town WDVE. I was out of a job for all of 6 hours. Low and behold, I called DVE home for 15 years! While at DVE I did a part-time fill in. I was also DVE's Music Director for 12 years.
In 1995, I was asked to be the Program Director of a new alternative station "The X". It was a blast to be instrumental in the beginnings of a station that I am proud to say is still on the air. In 1996, I was asked to join the "Paulsen & Krenn Morning Show", one of the most successful rock radio morning shows in the country. I handled the news duties. I would be on that show for nearly 6 years.
In 2002, I was asked to join the oldies station's morning show ("3WS - Greatest Hits of the 60's and 70's"), once again handling the news duties. I became the co-host of the morning show (The Merkel & Cris Morning Show). Who would have thunk it?! I was also the NASCAR correspondent for Clear Channel - Pittsburgh. It is nice to have a hobby that I have loved for 18 years turn into a radio gig.
Animals have always been my passion and I do a lot of volunteer work with various animal organizations and I am proud to say that I sit on the advisory board for Animal Friends, a no-kill animal shelter in Pittsburgh. | Cris WINTER
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The following obituary was published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Thursday, December 21, 2000:
WINTER, HOWARD W.
Age 76, on Monday, December 18, 2000, of Whitehall; husband of Cecella Fogarty Winter; father of Dan (Sue) Winter of Tampa, FL, Jeff (Judy) Winter of Brentwood, Jan (Walt) Patsilevas of Cranberry, Randy (Chris) Winter of Whitehall, and Cris (Ron) Ramsey of the South Hills; grandfather of Shawn, Scott & Sandy Winter, Justin, Shaine & Amber Patsilevas, and Leah Winter; brother of Evelyn Gruntz, Theodore Winter and Kate Tischler. Friends received at the JOHN F. SLATER FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4201 Brownsville Road, Brentwood, Wednesday and Thursday 2-4 and 7-9PM. Funeral Prayer on Friday afternoon at 12:30. Mass of Christian Burial in St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin Church at 1PM. If desired, family suggests contributions to St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin School. Mr. Winter served proudly in the US Navy on the USS Half-Moon during WWII.
| Howard WINTER
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The following obituary was published in the March 30, 1993 edition of the News Record (North Hills, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania):
Patricia W. Henkel
Hampton
Patricia W. Henkel, 69, died Monday, March 29, 1993 at her home.
Mrs. Henkel was retired from North Hills Passavant Hospital, where she worked as a medical secretary. She also was a member of St. Ursula Church, Hampton.
Survivors include her husband, John G. Henkel; one daughter, Barbara Fritz of Verona; one son, Robert J. Henkel of St. Louis; one brother, Joseph Wittman of Etna; and three grandchildren.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today and Wednesday at Neely Funeral Home, 2208 Mount Royal Blvd., Shaler. | Patricia Wittman
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The following obituary was published on Feburary 20, 2000 in the ABQ (Albequerque, New Mexico) Journal:
Woodard -- Donald Duncan Woodard, 86, of Atascadero, CA, formerly of Albuquerque, died Monday, February 7, 2000. Mr. Woodard was born April 8, 1913 in Durango, CO. He had celebrated nearly 51 years of sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous and was a member of the National Council on Alcoholism. For 17 years, he served as the executive director of the New Mexico State Commission on Alcoholism. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Helen Woodard; daughters, Laurie Bross and Claudia Dignan; sons, Don and Jim Woodard; 16 grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren. | Donald Duncan Woodard
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The name Woodburn is apparently of Scottish origin. It may come from the Scottish term for a small stream--"burn"; hence, wooded burn or tree-lined stream. Woodburn, then, would have been the name given to people living in such an area. The main connection appears to be with the Ayrshire and Dumfries areas of Scotland. There, a George Woodburn was shot for being a Covenanter (Scottish Presbyterians in the 17th cen. who subscribed to various conservative covenants) in 1685. It was not unusual, however, for people from Scotland, in times of religious persecution, to flee to Ireland and England. Thus, for example, there are a number of Woodburns in Pennington Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria Co., England. There, a Robert Woodburne, in 1654, served as the attorney for George Fox, founder of ther Quakers, in acquiring land for the first Quaker cemetery. In Ireland, Carrickfergus Co. in Northern Ireland has an area and a police station bearing the Woodburn name. Despite these connections to England and Ireland, the original Scottish connection seems indisputable.
A Woodburn family lived in Ballintemple, N. Ireland before the seige of Londonderry in 1689 and it is this family with which we are concerned here. Ballintemple is located in County Derry, two miles southwest of Garvagh. The townland occupies 759 acres in the parish of Errigal, Barony of Coleraine.
How the Woodburns came to N. Ireland is a matter of speculation. In the early 1600's, British King James I, who was protestant, attempted once and for all to subjugate the recalcitrant Ulster Catholics. He coloninized the area with English and Scottish loyalists (perhaps including the Woodburns?), who were largely Protestant, resulting in the Protestant majority that exists today in N. Ireland. These so-called Plantations of Ulster included the rebuilding of the city of Derry. The city was renamed Londonderry. In the 1630's, the city had only 2000 inhabitants, but it was the largest city in Ulster.
The Seige of Derry began on April 18, 1689, when deposed British King James II, who was Catholic, and French and Irish forces loyal to him, attempted to secure a base in Ireland from which he could attempt to regain the British throne. The Protestants in Ulster supported King George and Queen Mary and they barricaded themselves in the city and refused to surrender. The seige lasted 105 days and was broken when a relief ship made its way to the city, but the seige left a mark on the city that survives to this day.
The majority of the Scots plantation settlers were from Galloway and Ayrshire in west Scotland. That is probably where the Woodburns of N. Ireland would have come from .The area around Garvagh is predominately Presbyterian and with strong ties still to Scottish culture. | WOODBURN
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According to the birth record obtained by The Genealogy Centre, Derry, NI, from the town of Coleraine, Agnes Wilson was born to Matthew and Isabella on August 30,1867 on North Brook Street, Colerine, NI.
In the 1901 Irish Census Agnes is listed as a 30-year-old unmarried housekeeper (Presbyterian, born in County Derry) living in house #5, Railway Place, Coleraine, County Londonderry, with her father.
On November 8, 1921, Agnes (age 44) traveled to the United States, arriving in New York aboard the ship the "Scythia" from Liverpool. According to the ship's manifest, she intended to travel to see her brother--Alexander Woodburn, 108 Willard Courts, Washington, D.C. She states that she is married, but she is traveling by herself and her husband is shown as her nearest relative living at Railway Place, Coleraine, N.Ireland. | Agnes Wilson WOODBURN
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According to the birth record obtained by The Genealogy Centre, Derry, NI, from the town of Coleraine, NI, Alexander was born to Matthew and Isabella on May 30, 1873 on Railway Place, Colerine, NI.
In the 1901 Irish Census, Alexander is listed as a 27-year-old unmarried grocer (Presbyterian, born in County Derry) living in house #5, Railway Place, Coleraine, County Londonderry, with his father.
A ship manifest for the S.S. Cameronia, sailing from Londerry on June 6, 1925 and arriving in New York on June 15, 1925 shows Alexander returning to his home at 203 Wardman Park Annex, Washington, DC, having lived in the United States from 1902 to 1922. He is shown to be a drama teacher. | Alexander WOODBURN
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Alexander left Ballintemple, N. Ireland and bought a farm in County Antrim, near Macfin, N. Ireland. He died there but is buried in Ballintemple Graveyard in Ballintemple, N. Ireland. All of his children apparently immigrated to America.
Christopher Earls Brennen's website shows Alexendar's date of death as 1771.
Some information regarding this person was obtained from David Woodburn (CIS: 100554,526) and needs to be confirmed. | Alexander WOODBURN
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Agnes died at age three months. All information regarding this person was
obtained from David Woodburn (CIS: 100554,526) and needs to be confirmed. | Alice WOODBURN
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All information regarding this person was obtained from David Woodburn (CIS: 100554,526) and needs to be confirmed. | Ann WOODBURN
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Anne married a Wilson from Aghadowey. They had 14 children.All information regarding this person was obtained from David Woodburn (CIS: 100554,526) and needs to be confirmed. | Anne Woodburn
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Annie married a Mr. Johnson and emigrated to South Africa. All information regarding this person was obtained from David Woodburn (CIS: 100554,526) and needs to be confirmed. | Annie Barkley WOODBURN
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Annie is mentioned in her father's will. According to the 1911 Irish Census, Annie is living in Ballyvelton Upper, Knockantern, County Londonderry. Nothing more is known about her. | Annie Jane WOODBURN
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Information regarding Barbara's birth and death was obtained from Ilinois Death Records available on Ancestry.com. Information regarding her marriage was obtained from Cook Co., Illinois Marriage Records, also available on Ancestry.com.
The following death notice was published in the October 6, 1940 edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune:
McCullough--Barbara Woodburn McCullough, beloved wife of Floyd E. McCullough, daughter of Catherine Woodburn Brittain. Funeral at St. Mark's Episcopla church, Geneva, Ill., at 2 p.m. Monday, October 7. | Barbara Jean WOODBURN
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According to a marriage record obtained by The Genealogy Centre, Derry, NI, from Terrace Row Presbyterian Church, a Barbara Wylie Woodburn was married on June 24, 1889 in Terrace Row Presbyterian Church. Her father was a Matthew Woodburn, a grocer. There is no independent record of Barbara's birth. Barbara is shown to be a teacher. | Barbara Wylie WOODBURN
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