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Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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After graduating from Flint (Mich.) Central High School in 1930, Al went West looking for work. In a biography he prepared for his family he writes he "left Flint on a car-haul away loaded with Buicks for Kansas City. Hitching my way west, I came to Lawton, Oklahoma which at that time was about 9000 people." His wife MayBelle wrote that he lived with an Aunt and Uncle and worked at Montgomery Wards. The position he was given was reserved for students, so he enrolled in Cameron State Agricultural College the next day. He received an Associate in Science degree from Cameron in May, 1932.

He was a longtime employee of Dupont, working on and off depending on the economy, from 1927 through 1949. He later worked for Acme Paint, Williams Gun Shop, Knoblock's Hardware, and as a custodian at Mott Community College. After he retired in 1976, Al and MayBelle travelled, and spent each winter at The Tip O' Texas RV Resort in Pharr, Texas, returning home to Michigan each summer.

Alfred married MayBelle Mildred Beznoska on 5 Aug 1933 in La Porte County, Indiana. MayBelle (daughter of Louis Beznoska and Mildred Schere) was born on 25 Apr 1914 in Junction City, Comanche County, Oklahoma; died on 2 Apr 2007 in Houghton Lake, Roscommon County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In a biography she wrote for her children and grandchildren, MayBelle said that she started school in Nebraska, where they were temporarily living to help care for her ailing grandmother Schere. After she completed the fourth grade, they returned to Oklahoma and for her fifth and sixth grade year she and her sister walked to school in Junction City. She lived with "distant relatives Harry and Lilly" to help them care for their three year old daughter when she was seventh grade, while attending Cameron College. The next year she retured home and attended eighth grade in Walters. At the start of High School, she returned to Cameron College, where she was a boarding student for one year, until Geronimo opened a new High School. There were seven students in her 1931 graduating class: Harold Lee Walker, Edna Jo Watson, Golda Mae Northcutt, James Donald Stewart, Willie E. Walker, James Donivan Outenreath and MayBelle herself. MayBelle was class president, with James Donald Stewart serving as secretary.

From the time her mother lost her eye, MayBelle had to do all the families sewing, and she also worked side by side with her father on the farm, cuting wheat and oats with a horse drawn thrasher.


Obituary

MayBelle M. Hutchins, 93, Houghton Lake, died April 2, 2007, at West Branch Regional Medical Center. A memorial service at the family home is planned April 15. Burial will be in Sunset Hills Memorial Park, Flint. Mrs. Hutchins was born in Junction City, OK, April 25, 1914, to Louis and Mildred (Boulier) Beznoska. She married Alfred T. Hutchins in Indiana Aug. 5, 1933. Mrs. Hutchins was a custodian at Mott Community College and a florist for Anthony's, both in Flint. The couple moved to Houghton Lake from Flint in 1976. Mr. Hutchins died in 1992. Mrs. Hutchins was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents and in 1947 by a baby son. Mrs. Hutchins is survived by a daughter, Barbara and her husband Charles Sherbenaut of Houghton Lake; a son, Wayne B. Hutchins Sr. of Arizona; a sister, Mazella Thomason of Oklahoma; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren. Christler Funeral Home-Houghton Lake Chapel handled arrangements.

http://www.houghtonlakeresorter.com/news/2007-04-05/front_page/12288.html

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Married:
In the biography she prepared for her children and grandchildren, MayBelle writes that she and Al met when he was living with an Aunt and Uncle in Lawton. In 1932, she went on a blind date with Al's roomate, and her friend with Al. Before the evening was over, they "switched" dates, and continued to date over the next three months until his college graduation, when he returned to Flint, Michigan. They corresponded for the next 18 months, until Al found a job and asked her to come to Michigan. Her parents, who approved of him, sold a cow and bought her a bus ticket. The following weekend the young couple drove to Indiana and eloped in a ceremony officiated by Rev. Frohm, taking the train into Chicago the next day for the 1933 World's Fair. In Al's biography he called it a "fast wild ride and believe it or not we did not see the fair." When they returned to Flint, they were greeted with a Shiveree, and the newleyweds ended up at the corner beer garden treating friends to drinks until their money was exhausted. Two months after their weddding, Al was laid off. They moved in with his parents, where the lived for the next 12 years.

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Listed as Isack? on the 1900 census.

Louis B. Beznoska

Funeral arrangements for Louis B. Beznoska, 70, of Rt. 2 Walters, who died Tuesday, will be announced by the Ritter Funeral Home.

Beznoska, a retired farmer, died at 8 p.m. in a local hospital after a long illness.

A native of Nebraska, Beznoska came to the Walters-Lawton area in 1905. He returned to Nebraska in 1913 where he married Mildred Schere, who survives him, and then returned to Oklahoma.

Surviving besides his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Mable Hutchins, Flint, Michigan and Mrs. Eugene Thomason, 1413 Bell, Lawton; three brothers, Joe of Rt. 2, Walters, Adolph of Geronimo, and Jim of Healdton; five sisters, Mrs. Anna Lorentz, Morehead, Minn.; Mrs. Albie Kucera, Mrs. Lillie Tomasek, Mrs. Millie Arthur, and Mrs. Agnes Muckendorpher all of North Bend, Nebraska; six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

(Undated, unreferenced newspaper clipping: 11 Nov 1958 handwritten on it, courtesy of Caroline Mastny of Schuyler, Nebraska)

(Research):Census Information

1920 Census
Nebraska, Saunders County, Douglas, ED 151
Enumerated 13 Jan 1920 by Charles Zigka
SD 4 ED 151 Sheet 2B
FM 36-36
Beznoska, Louis Hd W M 31 M Neb Boh Boh Farmer
Beznoska, Mildred M Wf F W 23 M Neb Neb Ill
Beznoska, Mozela O Dtr F W 5 S Ok Neb Neb
Beznoska, Mable M Dtr F W 2 3/12 S Ok Neb Neb

1930 Census
Oklahoma, Cotton County, Strauss Twp, Ed 10
Enumerated April 17, 1930 by Georgia R. Moore
ED 17-10 SD 8 Sheet 12B
234-238
Beznoska, Louis Hd M W 42 M 25 Neb Czech Czech
Farmer
Beznoska, Mildred Wf F W 33 M 16 Neb Neb Ill
Beznoska, Mable Dtr F W 15 S Ok Neb Neb
Beznoska, Mozella Dtr F W 12 S Ok Neb Neb
235-239
Beznoska, Joe Hd M W 40 M 27 Neb Czech Czech
Farmer
Beznoska, Irene Wf F W 32 M 19 Miss Miss Miss
Beznoska, Melvin Son M w 11 S Ok Neb Miss
Beznoska, Zelma Dtr F W 2 7/12 S Ok Neb Miss

Louis married Mildred Schere on 4 Nov 1913 in Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska. Mildred was born on 24 Dec 1896 in Nebraska; died on 26 Dec 1989 in Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to her daughter Maybelle, she was the daughter of Louis J. SCHERE and Josephine BOULIER. Louis was German, and Josephine French, being a descendant of Rene "Henry" Boulier of Department of La Muehrt a' Musson, France. Henry immigrated at the age of 23 to Woodford county, Illinois in 1837. He lived there until his death in 1871.

Louis and Josephine Schere had eight children but lost one at a very young age. Their sons wedre Louie, Frederick and Gilbert. The girls were Florence, Mildred, Marie and Pauline---and Catherine who died young. Louis ran a general store in Cedar Bluff, Nebraska. She learned to cook and farm after her marriage. The well was a block away from their farm home and had to be hauled by bucket to the house. There was no electricity so they had kerosene lamps and a stove. The family farm was 12 miles from Lawton, 8 miles from Walters, and 5 miles from Geronimo.In 1919, the family moved back to Nebraska to help care for Mildred'a ailing mother where they lived for several years. Mildred lost one eye after catching pneumonia.

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Millie Beznoska witnessed their wedding.