Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jo Peck writes that her father, Russell, was the youngest of the Bossert children, weighing in at 12 pounds. He attended Cassville schools, Bethel Academy and Union College in Nebraska. Russ and Eleanor met in Hinsdale, where she was taking her nurses training. He was working in Chicago at the time. Both had black hair, she with blue eyes and he with green, and they looked a bit alike. He stood five feet, eleven inches tall, with a medium build. Russ was an electrician, and a long lineman for Consumers Power Company in Battle Creek. The fram was still in him, though, because when he retired he always had a garden plot on one of his friend's land outside of town. He grew enough vegetables to feed his family and many friends. He and some friends would make sauerkraut each fall from an old German recipe, and sell it for miles around to finance his trips to California to visit his daughters. Although Russell was raised as a Adventist, he did not practice his religion as an adult.

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Census Listings:

1920 Census
Wisconsin, Grant County, Waterloo Twp
12, 13, and 14 of January 1920
SD 3 ED 126 Sheet 3A Stamped 243
49-49
Bossert, Harry A Head m W 25 M Wisc Wisc Iowa
Bossert, Clara J Wf F W 25 M Wisc Wisc Wisc
Bossert, Joseph A Father M W 47 Wd Wisc Germany German Germany German
Bossert, Russell L brother M W 21 S Wisc Wisc Iowa Farm Laborer


1930 Census
Michigan, Calhoun County, Battle Creek Twp, Springfield Place
Enumerated 23-23 Apr 1930
34 Street
70-72
Bossert, Russell L Head O $5000 M W 31 M 29 Wisc Wisc Wisc Attendant Oil Station
Bossert, Eleanor Wf F W 24 M 23 Mich Mich Mich
Bossert, Lila J Dtr F W 5/12 S Mich Wisc Mich

Russell married Eleanor Ione Lewis on 13 Oct 1928 in Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Michigan. Eleanor was born on 28 Apr 1905 in Omer, Arenac County, Michigan; died on 31 Jan 1996 in Moreno Valley, Riverside County, California; was buried on 3 Feb 1996 in Olivewood Cemetery, Riverside County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The daughter of Theodore Gardner LEWIS and Erie BURT. Eleanor was named for her paternal grandmother, Eleanor WORDEN, but shared a special relationship with her maternal grandmother, Eliza Maria PATTISON. They took a special trip together when she was 5, and she remembered it fondly as an adult. Eleanor was a packrat, and saved all the family memorabilia from all sides of the family, enabling her daughter Jo to use identifiable pictures to illustrate her genealogical work. Jo now has 50+ notebooks filed with family information, much of it saved by her mother.