Leon/Leona Borghardt was the first child, born May 21, 1913 to Joseph S and Lula Hickam Borghardt in Marion, MIssouri, on the Cole/Moniteau county line. She lived and worked in Jefferson City in the 1930s and early 1940s, and she married David Richard Finley on March 2, 1943 in Columbia MO. Together they had 3 children, born 1946-55.
Her siblings included Emma Arlene Borghardt Goff Schulzke, Martha Lucille (Susie/Sue) Borghardt Darter, Paul Borghardt, Mary Louise Borghardt Roberts, and Joseph Borghardt Jr killed during the liberation of France in 1944.
Leon/Leona grew up in Cole county, Missouri, moved to Callaway county with her parents, then Jefferson City with her sister Emma. After marriage, she moved with her husband briefly to El Paso TX, and then to Santa Maria CA, where she maintained penpals years afterward. After her husband and brothers were sent to Europe for military service during WW2, as eldest child, she returned to live with her parents and sisters, and remained in the Jefferson City MO metropolitan area for the rest of her life, close to her family of birth.
She worked for the J J Newberry company and then Schell & Ward clothiers in Jefferson City in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She and her husband and first 2 children lived with her mother and father on Middle River, near Fulton, as caregivers from 1954 to 1955. She taught Sunday School classes at Providence Church in New Bloomfield in the 1960s, and was caregiver again for her mother from 1962 to 1967 in her and her husband's home. She managed a summer-season 'Farkles' family fireworks retail business next to her and her husband's home on the south edge of New Bloomfield from 1971 until the year of her death, in 1989. She was an enthusiastic gardener of both flowers and vegetables that drew the admiration of passers-by on the old 2-lane Chicago-to-El Paso US Highway 54 that ran at the bottom of the hill on which their home sat.
The eternal optimist, she was buried next to her husband, mother and father, and some of her siblings, near Fulton MO and her parents' Callaway County home on Middle River.
Her siblings included Emma Arlene Borghardt Goff Schulzke, Martha Lucille (Susie/Sue) Borghardt Darter, Paul Borghardt, Mary Louise Borghardt Roberts, and Joseph Borghardt Jr killed during the liberation of France in 1944.
Leon/Leona grew up in Cole county, Missouri, moved to Callaway county with her parents, then Jefferson City with her sister Emma. After marriage, she moved with her husband briefly to El Paso TX, and then to Santa Maria CA, where she maintained penpals years afterward. After her husband and brothers were sent to Europe for military service during WW2, as eldest child, she returned to live with her parents and sisters, and remained in the Jefferson City MO metropolitan area for the rest of her life, close to her family of birth.
She worked for the J J Newberry company and then Schell & Ward clothiers in Jefferson City in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She and her husband and first 2 children lived with her mother and father on Middle River, near Fulton, as caregivers from 1954 to 1955. She taught Sunday School classes at Providence Church in New Bloomfield in the 1960s, and was caregiver again for her mother from 1962 to 1967 in her and her husband's home. She managed a summer-season 'Farkles' family fireworks retail business next to her and her husband's home on the south edge of New Bloomfield from 1971 until the year of her death, in 1989. She was an enthusiastic gardener of both flowers and vegetables that drew the admiration of passers-by on the old 2-lane Chicago-to-El Paso US Highway 54 that ran at the bottom of the hill on which their home sat.
The eternal optimist, she was buried next to her husband, mother and father, and some of her siblings, near Fulton MO and her parents' Callaway County home on Middle River.
Leon/Leona Borghardt was the first child, born May 21, 1913 to Joseph S and Lula Hickam Borghardt in Marion, MIssouri, on the Cole/Moniteau county line. She lived and worked in Jefferson City in the 1930s and early 1940s, and she married David Richard Finley on March 2, 1943 in Columbia MO. Together they had 3 children, born 1946-55.
Her siblings included Emma Arlene Borghardt Goff Schulzke, Martha Lucille (Susie/Sue) Borghardt Darter, Paul Borghardt, Mary Louise Borghardt Roberts, and Joseph Borghardt Jr killed during the liberation of France in 1944.
Leon/Leona grew up in Cole county, Missouri, moved to Callaway county with her parents, then Jefferson City with her sister Emma. After marriage, she moved with her husband briefly to El Paso TX, and then to Santa Maria CA, where she maintained penpals years afterward. After her husband and brothers were sent to Europe for military service during WW2, as eldest child, she returned to live with her parents and sisters, and remained in the Jefferson City MO metropolitan area for the rest of her life, close to her family of birth.
She worked for the J J Newberry company and then Schell & Ward clothiers in Jefferson City in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She and her husband and first 2 children lived with her mother and father on Middle River, near Fulton, as caregivers from 1954 to 1955. She taught Sunday School classes at Providence Church in New Bloomfield in the 1960s, and was caregiver again for her mother from 1962 to 1967 in her and her husband's home. She managed a summer-season 'Farkles' family fireworks retail business next to her and her husband's home on the south edge of New Bloomfield from 1971 until the year of her death, in 1989. She was an enthusiastic gardener of both flowers and vegetables that drew the admiration of passers-by on the old 2-lane Chicago-to-El Paso US Highway 54 that ran at the bottom of the hill on which their home sat.
The eternal optimist, she was buried next to her husband, mother and father, and some of her siblings, near Fulton MO and her parents' Callaway County home on Middle River.
Her siblings included Emma Arlene Borghardt Goff Schulzke, Martha Lucille (Susie/Sue) Borghardt Darter, Paul Borghardt, Mary Louise Borghardt Roberts, and Joseph Borghardt Jr killed during the liberation of France in 1944.
Leon/Leona grew up in Cole county, Missouri, moved to Callaway county with her parents, then Jefferson City with her sister Emma. After marriage, she moved with her husband briefly to El Paso TX, and then to Santa Maria CA, where she maintained penpals years afterward. After her husband and brothers were sent to Europe for military service during WW2, as eldest child, she returned to live with her parents and sisters, and remained in the Jefferson City MO metropolitan area for the rest of her life, close to her family of birth.
She worked for the J J Newberry company and then Schell & Ward clothiers in Jefferson City in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She and her husband and first 2 children lived with her mother and father on Middle River, near Fulton, as caregivers from 1954 to 1955. She taught Sunday School classes at Providence Church in New Bloomfield in the 1960s, and was caregiver again for her mother from 1962 to 1967 in her and her husband's home. She managed a summer-season 'Farkles' family fireworks retail business next to her and her husband's home on the south edge of New Bloomfield from 1971 until the year of her death, in 1989. She was an enthusiastic gardener of both flowers and vegetables that drew the admiration of passers-by on the old 2-lane Chicago-to-El Paso US Highway 54 that ran at the bottom of the hill on which their home sat.
The eternal optimist, she was buried next to her husband, mother and father, and some of her siblings, near Fulton MO and her parents' Callaway County home on Middle River.
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