First of all, I loved Gram Rose so much! She was so upbeat and kind to us grandchildren. She always made me feel special, for example one time I had on an old shirt and she told me how nice I looked and I told mom on the way home that it was one of my stained up old shirts and mom said Gram just liked to make her grandchildren feel special and good about themselves no matter what they were wearing.
When I got older and wrote a poem, she couldn't stop complimenting me on it. We all should have such a Gram!
Every summer we went to Kennywood Park during Uncle Jimmy's USS picnics where Gram would go and play Fascination, mom would play Skee ball and Dave, Jeff and I rode the rides. Aunt Sue loved going on the roller coasters with us :) LOL!
Hope you all enjoy mom's memories as much as I have enjoyed typing them. These are the last pages:
SCHURY
John (also Jan), born in Presburg, Austria on 2/20/1874 and died in the 1950's. Married Antonia (also Antoinette) Yadernick, born on 7/7/74 and died at age 60 in early April 1934.
Name has been spelled: Sury, Suri, Shury, Surij.
John and Antonia came to America from Vienna, Austria via Bremen, Germany in late 1906. He came first and sent for them and Frank, who was 1 or 2. They settled on the South Side of Pittsburgh. John worked in a mill which was on Carson Street near Smithfield Street Bridge on the West End Side.
ROSEe was born on 1/16/1901 in Vienna, Austria, Married Louis J. Hurbanek in November 14, 1923. Lived awhile on Gearing Avenue, 2nd Floor.
The landlady was trying to seduce Louis so they moved.
Lived at 89 Lafferty Avenue, Beltzhoover from 1926 to 1946.
Moved to 1463 Dormont Avenue, Dormont. Phone Lehigh 1-4608.
In 1966, Rose moved fo 747 Artvue Avenue, Scott Township.
Then she bought a condominium at the Pines in Clearwater, Florida and moved in June 1980.
In 1985, she bought a house at 203 Magnolia Drive, CLearwater, FL.
In 1986, she sold the house and moved to Nob Hill Apts, Swallow Hill Road, Scott Township.
In Sept 1989, she moved into Rolling Hills Manor, Baldwin Township.
Rose's siblings:
Frank Schury: Born Feb 21, 1905 in Austria-Hungary. Married Elizabeth prior to August 1930. Divorced prior to 1946. Died in the 1950's or 1960's. No children. Waiter at William Penn.
Anna Mae Meister: Born Feb 1910 in Pittsburgh. Married th Charles Meister. Had 2 daughters, Shirley and Janet. Both married. Charles worked for Westinghouse
Agnes C. Wilhelm: Born 2/16/12. Married to George Wilhelm. Had daughter Lois born 10/31/1931 and son George orn 2/1933. Husband George died in 1933 of diabetes before son was born. Married Louis Adams around 1950
Pauline V. Wacker: Born 4/1/1914. Married Fred Wacker. Had daughter Paula and son David who died as a child.
Stephen Schury: Born 4/14/15. Married Nellie? No children. Divorced 1970's. Waiter. Nellie was a beautician.
Charles Schury: Born 12/24/191?. Married ? Divorced. Married Libby and had two sons and a daughter. Died in 198
Elizabeth Kelly: Born 191? Married Samuel Kelly. Had daughter Patricia. Betty died in 1986? Married a second time after Samuel died. Name of John? Lived near South Park.
Rose started first grade at Monongahela School on West Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA. Then the family moved to 142 Brownsville Avenue and she went to Knox School through eighth grade at which time she had to go to work to help support the famiuly. She started washing glasses at _______ Hotel. Then she was a food checker, then a food checker at Donahue's. She worked as a waitress at the William Penn Hotel, several country clubs such as Shanapin.
When widowed in 1952, she worked in St. Bernard school cafeteria for a year. She worked as a dietician in Dormont Hich Schol cafeteria until 1966 retirement.
She also worked as a caterer after she widowed.
Children:
Frances Louise: Born 3/2/1925. Married Stephen Grden 5/21/1945. Two children, Nancy and Thomas. Steve died in Feb 1966. Married to Jay Steele in 1970. Divorced. Married Joseph Driscoll and divorced in 198?
Louis J. Jr.: Born 7/1/1927. Married Florence Bruner. Three Children: Kathleen, Carol and Gary
Marilyn: Born March 1932. Married Robert Albitz on 6/20/1953. Three children: Dave, Linda and Jeff.
Albert: Born 3/1935. Unmarried
James: Born June 1941. Married Susan Wachtler 6/17/1972. Two children: Jason and Shana
Rose Schury childhood:
Her Godmother was Cecilia Flinta who was a Godmother for either birth or confirmation for most all of the Schury children.
They had school picnics back then too. The children had to line up and walk to the park not too far away (I don't remember the name of the park). They also went by streetcar to school picnics. On several occasions, a neighbor lady gave Rose a dollar once in awhile for the picnic.
When Rose was a chilld they had to go to confession every Saturday and they weren't allowed to talk until after church the next day. Her mother took her to town when she was working to Frank and Seders and bought her one outfit every spring. It was always of good quality.
Frank was bought a suit also on occasion after he became of working age. Rose and Frank were made to help support the family.
I don't know when the Schury family moved to 904 Montooth Street in Beltzhoover, but I know they lived there around 1930. Also, Aunt Annie went to Beltzhoover School becasue she told me several years ago that they made her change the spelling of Schury to Shury when in school there.
Rose was very popular after she started work. She loved to dance and was very good at the Tango. Some of her friends were Greek and took her to expensive restaurants to eat. One Greek man was very taken with her and wanted to marry her, but she told me she didn't love him and couldn't marry just for money.
One of her dance partners went to New York City to be a professional dancer and wanted her to go, but she declined. Her friends had to promise her parents that they would have her home at a certain time. Sometimes she was given permission to stay out a little later.
I forget who introduced Rose and Lou. It was a mutual friend. Rose's parents were against her marrying Lou because he didn't have any money. They refused to buy her wedding gown so her Godmother paid for it. Her parents also didn't want her marrying because they wanted her wages.
Rose's father was very strict. He drank and played pinochle at the local saloon on the corner near our house (Montooth and Lafferty).
He beat the wife and children frequently.
His family in Austria considered him a "black sheep". becasue he came to America.
He was a playboy.
My mother told me that Grama Schury had 16 babies! 8 lived.
She said she had a brother MIchael buried in Ohio (Bellaire I think). He was only a few years old. A few of the dead girlls were baptized Mary.
Aunt Aggie said some were miscarriages
Antonia died of uterine cancer. John died of throat cancer.
Frank died of an aneurysm. Don't know the cause of Pauline's death. Both Charlie and Betty died of cancer of digestive tract (stomach and colon I think). Betty had cancerous thyroid when I was small.
When Rose worked before her marriage, She sewed most of her clothes. She would look in the store windows downtown and go buy material and make her copies. She was always well dressed.
When I was real young, she worked to supplement the family income. I remember her going to work on Fridays at the William Penn Hotel as a waitress for lunch.
She always worked the Shriner's lunch. There was a store downtown called Donahue's and she brought slabs of butter home and the best Jewish rye bread.
She always brought us leftover filet mignon steaks (untouched) and little French rolls wrapped in napkins. What a treat! Fran said that she her Lou had to miss school often on Fridays to watch the kids. Sometimes Aunt Rosie watched Jimmy.
I remember going to kindergarten both morning and afternoon for awhile. Before Jim was born, Rose was bedridden with neuritis for about a year one time and a lesser period another time. On both occasions, we had a black lady come during the day to help. Her name was Hattie. She was short and fat and jolly.
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