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A Legacy, Mosch- Otto and Mabel

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April 13 2016 at 7:02pm
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My grandfather's story: Aunt Lyn Howell left a great elision between this chapter, The Legacy, and my grandfather's fulfillment of that immigrant's idyll, and that gap begins with the death of his father in 1894, at age 35, when Otto himself was only 7. Aunt Lyn may have filled that gap with stories of Otto's work in the timber, the camps, the hotel, his apprenticeship and schooling, but I don't have her account of those years. (My mother also wrote about his childhood travails in her own memoir, The Way I Remember It. I'll post those separately.) Evelyn's rendition of Papa's memoirs picks up again years later, when he had bought his uncle Chris's store in Galeton, with his courtship and marriage to Mabel Burrous in 1910.

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Paul Lynn Gardner
Paul Lynn Gardner These stories are true treasures. Once again, thanks Doug, for this wonderful posting.
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Doug Vaughan
Doug Vaughan Thanks go to my aunt Lyn Howell, a/k/a Evelyn Mosch (Colcord) on her birthday. Of the 8 children of Otto Carl and Mabel Burrous Mosch -- Herman, Verna, John, George, Evelyn, Louetta, Donavieve (my mom a/k/a Donnie) and Paul -- only Lyn and Paul remain, along with John's widow Terry, George's wife Doris, Paul's Dorothy ("Dottie") and my dad, Donnie's first husband. When I get home, I'll have more photos and memories to share, including Mom's memoirs. I hope Lyn and Paul's kids, John, Scott Colcord, Christine Kellerman, Phillip, and Tom, David Mosch, Debra Mosch Hunkele, respectively, will post more of their parents' first-person recollections. That goes for John's Patty and Woody Mosch; Herman's Evelyn ("Lynnie"), Carolyn Busch, Jeanie Satterwhite, George, Margaret ("Peggy"); George's Steve, Amy Boardman, Sally, Luke Mosch; Louetta's Leslee Mauz Masolotte, Wendy Guinta, and other cousins for whom I have no FB connection.
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