Akron beacon journal obituary index3/18/2024 Below are some photos from the special day. I’m going to guess it is her 65th birthday that Grandpa Jim had a surprise party for her. I enjoyed the get togethers as it was the one time of the year when the whole family would get together and I’d get to see my cousins. She still had her Christmas Eve party each year and normally had a celebration on the 4th of July for her oldest son’s birthday. My sister just commented the other day about how Grandma could make an amazing sandwich and she was unable to do so after cancer.īut the big C didn’t get my Grandma down for long. The radiation treatments and chemotherapy got rid of the cancer, but they destroyed her salivary glands, and she had a difficult time eating after that. Her and Grandpa Jim had moved up to Ohio the year before and began managing apartments in Bedford (a suburb of Cleveland). I remember the year from when I was driving up with my sister to visit her at University Hospital in Cleveland. In 1988 Alberta was diagnosed with throat cancer. It was something that my mom eluded too but I didn’t really know how bad it seemed to be. It was this same trip that I learned how abusive my Grandfather, Harold Fairhurst, was to her and her kids. When I was about 3 or 4 they moved to Florida to do their thing in the Sarasota area. Their (Alberta’s and Jim’s) time together seemed like it was filled with joy, they managed apartments and condominiums together, she worked in the office while he was the handy man for the complexes. Jim was the complete opposite of Harold Fairhurst, he would talk in a funny voice to get a laugh and was a much happier guy than the grumpy, silent man that I knew Harold to be. I know Alberta as Grandma Metzger, as she married Jim about a month after I was born. She divorced him on 16 March 1973 and married James Edward Metzger on 31 March 1973 (Grandpa Jim often eluded to how he paid for that divorce). This marriage didn’t last very long as according to my uncle he was an “old school man of the house”. Less than a year later she married Bernard Szemplenski on 2 September 1969. Harold and Alberta were divorced on 14 November 1968. She is mentioned in the “Other High finishers” paragraph. And in other documents I’ve found, be it when he joined the military or when he died, it always said “no kids”).įrom the 9 December 1974 edition of the Akron Beacon Journal found on. I think he knew that she was not his daughter but never said anything. (Don’t feel sad at all for Albert, he chose not to see my grandmother growing up, and when my grandfather made my grandmother visit him as an adult, he didn’t say a word the entire visit. He was the man who raised my grandmother along with the two boys that he and my great-grandmother had. The marriage to Albert Nank was over by 1933 as that is when Mildred got her second divorce and married her third and final husband, Howard Fleming. No one alive now seems to know how premature she was as I have asked. The story goes that my great-grandmother was sent home with her little girl and a hot water bottle, and that if she somehow made it through the night to feed her the next day. The name listed on her birth certificate for her father was Albert Nank, her namesake, as he and my great-grandmother had gotten married just 3 days before on 29 September 1929 (I have since determined her biological father was actually my great-grandmother’s first husband, Paul Geer, whom she filed for divorce in January 1929 and it was finalized on 5 September 1929). My grandmother was born on 2 October 1929, a preemie, to Mildred Laura Dunbar.
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