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OBITUARY
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, Mach 11, 2007
Mary Catherine Houser, 98, of Lancaster, passed away Friday, March 9, 2007, at Rockmill Rehabilitation Centre.
She was born on May 5, 1908, to the late Patrick H. and Ida Mae Roshon Powers. She retired as a manager from the F.W. Woolworth Co. Mary was a member of the St. Bernadette Church.
She is survived by sisters Pauline Brown of Lancaster, Roseann Hoffman of California, Martha Hammond of Youngstown; and several nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her husband Melvin Houser; parents; sisters Ruth Shaw, Dorothy Schleich, Josephine Figley, Helen Powers, and Margaret McGee; and brothers Patrick and Paul Powers.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Bernadette School.
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Aunt Katie was my husband's aunt, and one of the kindest people I have ever known. When I was very "upset" after Bill's death, Aunt Katie called me from her bed in a nursing home and told me to come over because she had something to tell me. She couldn't sit up and had to lie in her bed 24 hours a day and even getting to the phone was very difficult for her. Anyway, she said, "You are going all over town saying you are going to kill yourself, and I am here to tell you you are going to get over it sooner or later, so get over it now!"
In addition to be very practical and outspoken (like my mother), she was like my mother in another way: she always dressed well. She dressed up for picnics and always looked like a great, gracious lady.
According to family lore, Aunt Katie moved to Cleveland for a job (very unusual in those days). She met a very nice guy and was engaged to him, but he died of cancer. Then she met another man, also very nice, and they married. He bought a new Oldsmobile or Pontiac (I forget which) every year.
------------- Rev. Carol Alspaugh Schleich
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OBITUARY
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, Mach 11, 2007
Mary Catherine Houser, 98, of Lancaster, passed away Friday, March 9, 2007, at Rockmill Rehabilitation Centre.
She was born on May 5, 1908, to the late Patrick H. and Ida Mae Roshon Powers. She retired as a manager from the F.W. Woolworth Co. Mary was a member of the St. Bernadette Church.
She is survived by sisters Pauline Brown of Lancaster, Roseann Hoffman of California, Martha Hammond of Youngstown; and several nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her husband Melvin Houser; parents; sisters Ruth Shaw, Dorothy Schleich, Josephine Figley, Helen Powers, and Margaret McGee; and brothers Patrick and Paul Powers.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Bernadette School.
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Aunt Katie was my husband's aunt, and one of the kindest people I have ever known. When I was very "upset" after Bill's death, Aunt Katie called me from her bed in a nursing home and told me to come over because she had something to tell me. She couldn't sit up and had to lie in her bed 24 hours a day and even getting to the phone was very difficult for her. Anyway, she said, "You are going all over town saying you are going to kill yourself, and I am here to tell you you are going to get over it sooner or later, so get over it now!"
In addition to be very practical and outspoken (like my mother), she was like my mother in another way: she always dressed well. She dressed up for picnics and always looked like a great, gracious lady.
According to family lore, Aunt Katie moved to Cleveland for a job (very unusual in those days). She met a very nice guy and was engaged to him, but he died of cancer. Then she met another man, also very nice, and they married. He bought a new Oldsmobile or Pontiac (I forget which) every year.
------------- Rev. Carol Alspaugh Schleich
Family Members
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Ruth Elizabeth Powers Shaw
1906–1943
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Patrick James Powers
1910–1996
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Helen Marie Powers
1914–2000
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Dorothy Louise Powers Schleich
1917–1999
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Josephine Clara "Jo" Powers Figley
1918–1992
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Pauline Virginia "Dutch" Powers Brown
1920–2018
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Roseanne "Rosie" Powers Hoffman
1922–2014
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Paul Thomas Powers
1923–1990
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Margaret Isabelle "Maggie" Powers McGee
1926–2006
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Martha Jane Powers Hammond
1930–2020
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